skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The behavior and culture of a company is often a direct reflection of the character of the people who founded it. Unfortunately, very few 24 year olds are mature enough to handle the responsibility and decisions that come with a large corporation - even though the corporation may be successful, other problems become evident. Take Etsy, for instance, another company founded by a 24 year old. While they have been successful overall, the company culture is atrocious. It's not just youth that is the problem, of course.
Battery life is probably impossible to solve, but a startup could potentially make a durable Android-based tablet at a price that reduces the attractiveness of theft. And this may be stretching it, but you could also go with a Pixel Qi screen to combat the eyestrain. Not mention all the other objections can be solved with Android and you are never going to have a prefect machine.
I was kind of thinking the same thing. I would have figured the number would have been more like 10:1 or 20:1 (in favor of bittorrent).
This gives me an idea; perhaps PG could deliver some sort of anonymized hash of poster IPs to us so that a user can choose to ignore everyone from the anonymized IP.

I'm reminded of old-time slashdot -- I banned jonkatz from showing up anywhere on my slashdot pages. It was bliss.
My favorite part? The mystery chef actually appears in the comments herself.

Overall, though, the article is rather light on actual content.
You doubt that based on what?
Psst, want to buy 50% of Bebo for $200 million? At 2008 prices, this is a steal!
Raise your hand if you've used VRBO.com, brainstomed on how you could build-a-better-version, and promptly chucked it into the pile of other projects collecting dust on your hard drive.
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Actually, that's a great idea - making a version of this at sex.com, with ads, could be amazingly lucrative.
I don't know if you have stats or if you're just making numbers up, but in all seriousness if you have the conversion rates for some popular sites I'd love to see them. Just for curiosity's sake.
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Sex.com doesn't seem to be that lucrative of a domain name(not 13mm lucrative)...if it was, more companies would try to rank for the term sex.

right now it's

1. Wikipedia Article
2. FBI Sex Offender Registry
3. Psychology article
4. Porn Tube Site
5. HIV charity
6. Virginia State Police Sex Offender Registry
7. Music Review Blog
8. Sex Pistols music site
9. Georgia Sex Offender Registry
10. Center for Sex Offender Registry

I'd bet there is a ton of traffic because people just want to see what kind of site is hosted on sex.com, so its a lookie loo situation, where you'll have a crappy conversion rate. So a traditional porn site won't work that well.

A better option would be to open a casual encounters type site(basically adult friend finder), and charge $5-10-20 bucks a month under the guise of making sure that there are no fake profiles.
> or tunnel through existing infrastructure

This would certainly be how any new network started. If/when it got bigger, it could outgrow the existing infrastructure.

> the FCC tends to take a dim view of encryption

Are they not aware that it is routinely used on the net, then?

> you would have to embed your subversive internet within benign ordinary traffic

Datastreams with lots of bits are best for hiding things. So I'd expect steganography over video VoIP to be one mthod used.
Krulwich's NPR Science pieces has some of the best verbal delivery, storytelling form, and production values - it's worth listening to the audio version of them.

Highly recommended if you're thinking about making a podcast.
They make money for three reasons:

1. Their music is excellent and consistent. Dave Matthews is one of the best songwriters of this generation.

2. They constantly make concerts exciting by playing completely different versions of their songs live, with emphasis on improvisation. People go to DMB concerts two nights in row because they never know what they're going to get. They won't get a repeat show- they'll get something completely different, often times. I don't know many other bands who have fans that would go to a concert two nights in a row.

3. They also seem to genuinely love touring / performing. They give up a lot to be on the road that often, and I don't think its money or fame they're chasing.
Building Tron: peeling off the digital layers
Absolutely. All food is made up of component chemicals. Still, I think people need to be more aware of the food they are eating.

Have you ever had a look at the ingredients in non-dairy creamer: http://foodconstrued.com/2011/01/cream-in-my-coffee/
I love the MIT OpenCourseware. But, Most courses don't have videos yet.

Also, I like Kahn,s approach more. You don't need to see the lecturer, but you need to be able to clearly read the blackboard. Also, colors are nice.
But the reason they are so popular and have a large die-hard fan base is that they've done it this way since the beginning. The band recently announced that 2011 will be the first year in their history that no major tour is scheduled. Sure, they started out at smaller venues (primarily playing at colleges around the country), but they have always been devoted to touring and making every live show different.
How can you possibly go bankrupt with a domain name like that?

You would have to hire a very expensive team and completely mismanage your funds.

It's a goldmine. You're pretty much guaranteed to get traffic.
What about them?

Is Intel supposed to just implement it for them or something?

Or are they supposed to get to their own terms with them studios?
> Also, what non-free internet? Pirate bay is still up (despite many attempts), wikileaks is still up (!), etc. Wikileaks isn't even blocked by the search engines.

This is a good point. But I don't think we should be complacent: if the USA and EU got serious about blocking these, they would be able to shut down both, with the current network infrastructure.
But how did they become popular? Is the way they did it now blocked for other musicians, or is it now easier than before to reach potential fans?
My Mom is a Fob [lands book deal]
You consider you'd get 125K new daily visitors, while in reality it's probably (mostly) the same people visiting the site.
Hijacking Links in Trending Topics within Twitter
Up to you, I suppose. It's not a point I'd ever raise in trying to sell Facebook stock, though.
FYI, there is "Refresh POP accounts" in Labs. It works manually, though.
What is the main performance difference between Vista SP1 and Windows 7? Hardware accelerated UI.
Bill Gates was another person who didn't want to do an IPO. He almost cancelled it a number of times during the process as he felt it would just be a distraction to actually getting real business done. Mark Zuckerberg could have similar concerns.
You might be right. Checking now, every page I have at that top-level directory is either not ranked (effectively 0) or also a 4.

Edit: just found one that is a 3, but it has a trailing slash while the others don't (so it might be considered a directory and computed seperately.)

It also just occurred to me that my xml sitemap assigns a priority to each page, and the ones with a PR of 4 are the ones with a 0.8 priority or higher. There's another top-level page with a 0.5, but it has a trailing slash, and it's a wordpress blog so it has it's own sitemap. So I think that 4 might be independently calculated.
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Can you explain further about Etsy? Is this documented somewhere?
Why not work on both political and technological solutions to the problem? The more ways the problem is attacked, the more likely one attack will succeed.
He raised the price of phish tickets to $70 a pop this tour. He's a maniac and IS the reason they make so much money.
I didn't include proof by exhaustion because it wasn't going to come up in the course. But in principle it is the same as any other technique, but the trick is figuring out which cases to break it into. There is an art to that which varies by topic, and I don't feel up to trying to explain it in general. :-)

On how to read proofs, my hope was that I wouldn't be presenting any proofs that are hard to read. And given their level of skill, I didn't want them trying such shortcuts either. That said, the trick is to recognize weasel words where the author's laziness makes the reader do work, and then do that work.

When someone says "clearly" what they mean is "the proof is routine, and I don't want to clutter my line of reasoning digressing into a proof of it." If you don't find it clear, then you have to produce that proof (or at least an outline of it). Filling in these details is often one of the hardest parts of reading someone else's proofs.

"Without loss of generality" means, "I'm about to set up a bunch of stuff that looks like it could be a special case, but it really isn't." As a reader it is then your job to figure out why it isn't a special case. Once you are convinced that it really isn't a special case, then you can accept the specific setup that just got made.

And "similarly" means "the proof for this piece is pretty much the same as what you just saw, and I don't feel inclined to write it all out again." In that case you need to convince yourself that this is true.
MySpace is probably only worth about $500 million. It generated about $500 million in revenue for 2009, but operated at a lost.

On the other hand, Facebook revenue is around $1-2 billion but valued now at around $50 billion.

In other words, Facebook commands a huge premium, largely based on its expectation for growth and future revenue.

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-myspace-worth-z...

http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/facebook-2-billion-revenue/
See http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Wag... ("Why Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Their Data: The Case of Psi".) It demolishes the study referred to in the npr article.
The author seems to make the weird assumption that DMB is somehow not as "big" as Bon Jovi and so they must be doing something clever to be making as much money.

That's simply the delusions of an out-of-touch 50 year old. DMB was the most consistently popular musician of my generation. How to make money in the music industry? Make music that hundreds of millions of people want to listen to.
You're missing the point.

Aaron doesn't work on the off-chance that someone will accept his work.

There aren't multiple people doing exactly the same thing as Aaron - completing for a single chance.
Have a large amount of coke (regular or diet). Hell, have a large amount of sea salt. Same effect!

You being thirsty is just because your cells are dehydrated when there is a large-ish concentration of salt on your blood. The headache you are feeling? Dehydration.
Have you taken a look at what he actually wants designed? It's a single page that lists the committers. It's not a full site design, he's not looking for the world's best designer. I think he's offering a very fair price and the time commitment is low compared to true spec work.

I'm a designer. I'm against spec work. I don't consider this to be spec work.
"And any advertiser who is trying to target me on the social network is wasting their money."

He ruined a perfectly objective point with this subjective generalization.

That being said, I'm with him for on most points, and I agree on the bigger picture.
How about the "PlayStation 3 Slim"?
From: http://supreme.justia.com/us/414/218/index.html

(a) A search incident to a valid arrest is not limited to a frisk of the suspect's outer clothing and removal of such weapons [...]

(b) A custodial arrest of a suspect based on probable cause is a reasonable intrusion under the Fourth Amendment and, a search incident to the arrest requires no additional justification, such as the probability in a particular arrest situation that weapons •••or evidence••• would, in fact, be found upon the suspect's person [..., em mine]

Also, since part of the overtly stated purpose of searches incident to arrest is to protect evidence from destruction, how much more compelling a case can you get than "stuff that is sitting on the guy's cellphone that anyone could erase with the touch of a button should they get their hands on it before the warrant arrived"?

From the same opinion (quoted but also affirmed):

"In addition, it is entirely reasonable for the arresting officer to search for and seize any evidence on the arrestee's person in order to prevent its concealment or destruction."

And later, directly:

We do not think the long line of authorities of this Court dating back to Weeks, or what we can glean from the history of practice in this country and in England, requires such a case-by-case adjudication. A police officer's determination as to how and where to search the person of a suspect whom he has arrested is necessarily a quick ad hoc judgment which the Fourth Amendment does not require to be broken down in each instance into an analysis of each step in the search. The authority to search the person incident to a lawful custodial arrest, while based upon the need to disarm •••and to discover evidence•••, does not depend on what a court may later decide was the probability in a particular arrest situation that weapons or evidence would, in fact, be found upon the person of the suspect. A custodial arrest of a suspect based on probable cause is a reasonable intrusion under the Fourth Amendment; that intrusion being lawful, a search incident to the arrest requires no additional justification. It is the fact of the lawful arrest which establishes the authority to search, and we hold that, in the case of a lawful custodial arrest, a full search of the person is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, but is also a "reasonable" search under that Amendment. [em mine]
Like with backup, the problem isn't how you store the data, but how you retrieve it.

I'd flip the problem - think about how you're going to want to use the data in the future, then work to a solution that meets that goal.
It's Khan.
The reason that most of these mini clusters made of ps3's came up is because Sony was subsidizing a good percentage of the cost.
The article (like many of its style) draws strong comparisons to the grateful dead. They serve as a cautionary tale as well - the road, especially when defined as year in year out tours, can take a heavy toll. They lost three keyboardists to drug and alcohol abuse (two directly and one had to leave), their last one had serious drug problems and their bassist struggled with hep C and needed a kidney transplant.

Garcia was of course the most famous casualty - he died in rehab due to the complications of long term abuse. He struggled with addiction for ~20 years and according to some reports often longed to quit the road entirely in part because of its effects on his health. In the end the band simply made too much money - and provided for too many peoples livelihood through their touring regime - and when met with resistance to stop he simply felt he needed to soldier on for other's benefit.

It's not all drugs and alcohol either - many musicians find the road punishing sooner or later for reasons ranging from diet and exercise to alienation and homesickness. I'm sure a few consultants out there can sympathize.

None of this is to say that a comfortable living can't be made on the road or that a live music oriented can't counter some of the negative effects piracy has on artists. But clearly there are some people out there (who are being held up as the ultimate examples) that might not choose to do it that way again.
Going private in 2011
>Patches, bug reports are welcome :)

Well, not really. My biggest beef with clojure is that it masquerades as an open source project by strictly following the letter (it is released under an open source license), but not actually following the spirit in any meaningful way.

How many other OSS projects have an exhaustive list on their website of everyone who is allowed to make contributions?
Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying
"CSS Editor" toolbar icon seems to be ripped off CSSEdit.
There is no reason, in a virtual goods model, that larger audience sizes require thinner margins. Players choose games based on how much fun they are having and what they can play socially with their friends - not the pricing on individual items.

Also, the author states "You think they're going to justify a $50 billion market capitalization through banner ads? Are you kidding me?".

This has nothing to do with Zynga and ignores Facebook Credits, which give Facebook a 30% cut of all the revenue on the platform. I'm pretty sure this author has never heard of them.
OK, I finally found the video, it turns out Kevin Rose was doing the asking (Alex is next to him). It's at 22:30 http://revision3.com/diggnation/2008-05-01mightier
I was just making an example of something that would be outside of the general 'groupthink' of HN.
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Wipe up our worthless tears because we gave these idiots way too much power in the first place.
FWIW, my roughly eight-year-old nephew is an avid Scratch enthusiast.

A couple of other things that might be worth exploring are the Android App Inventor (a Scratch-like environment for programming Android phones), and Hackety Hack (a Ruby-based environment for programming very simple webapps).
Dick Cheney Has No Pulse
CDN Cache: http://thechangelog.com/post/2596290871/opengovernment-empow...

I was thinking of hacking something like this for the UK legislature. Guess this goes on The List.
> "And while the "record" business is dying, music isn't going anywhere. Satisfy a core customer need, work your ass of, and you have a viable
business."

Well, for some of us, music is what's RECORDED, not live shoes.

I can accept: "well, too bad, traditional recording profits are dwindling, just man it".

But, "it's no problem, just give live shows" is a stupid answer. At best, it's a non general enough one.

All those articles and blog posts hammering on the "make money by playing live shows" theme, feel to my European tastes as written by Texan rednecks, whose idea of music is Willie Nelson or something... (and DMB is not that far off).

It's 2011: there are tons of groups, music genres etc where it doesn't make sense to have traditional concerts. And there artistis that don't like to give them, anyways. Not all musicians want to be onstage, especially in electronica, ambient, etc genres. Heck, even the Beatles got bored and stopped playing live mid-career. Oh, and "selling t-shirts and merchandise"? Some people want to be in the MUSIC business, not that of Matel and Threadless.
Holy crap, these are good comments. I agree that it's impractical to build a new net from scratch, but there's some really good work arounds here from cabalamat, wiseweasel, sfphotoarts, and others.

What other ways can we increase Internet freedoms working with existing infrastructure? What other legal and technical work arounds are there?
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I agree completely that we need to be aware of what we eat. My concern is that we're using really bad terminology to scare people.

A much better word would be "artificial" or "synthetic" additive IMHO.
Yes, I would like to hear more about this (as well as other examples of "companies gone wrong")
"Are you suggesting that the plainly visible SMS logs on your phone are in some special digital domain that, in stark contrast to the notebook in your bag, the police should not have access to in an incident-to-arrest search for evidence?"

It's one thing to say that the last 48 hours of SMS messages are fair game. But most people have the last several years worth of SMS conversations on their phone. And considering the average teenager sends 3339 texts a month, I don't buy that police should be able to read your 80,000+ most-recent text messages on the grounds that this is similar to a pocket notebook.
Carrageenan also causes all sorts of cancer in rats - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230341040457515...

It sounds like working through the red tape in each community was costing them so much they finally said screw it.
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Do elaborate. I know a handful of people at Etsy and they all seem pleased to be there.
"Software: The most obvious point is that Apple hasn't compensated for mass purchasing yet."

"The Volume Purchase Program makes it easy for educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume and distribute those apps to users. The Volume Purchase Program also allows app developers to offer special pricing for purchases of 20 apps or more."

http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/
I'm a huge DMB fan and have seen them many, many times. I can say with certainty that the quality of DMB shows gets worse every year, as clearly the band is just plain worn out. I was very happy to hear they are taking 2011 off. Touring every year (and they often do up to three tours a year: summer, winter and a non-US tour) just can't be good for them.
Net neutrality? Not at the coffee shop
Breaking scalability barriers using live-cloning virtual machines
FIRST off this is me!

http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/gimado-funded/

http://mashable.com/2008/05/02/epic-fail-take-two-dorble-ris...

I also run these sites:

Nerrot.com
Articleram.com
Whipers.com
Jenple.com
Appiker.com
to name a few!

I joined to post this as I've been a reader of Hacker News but not a member. So if a new user joins makes a post and it gets noticed their considered falsifying info? But if this wasn't helpful to you then ok that's your opinion to not be open minded and understand what I was offering and encouraging others to do. I wasn't selling anything.
I wasn't selling anything lol dude and um ok if you want to weight your spectacular insane ramblings about something you don't understand to clearly point out why Hack News sucks and isn't valuable to anyone anymore then fine. To each his own your not going to like a service that goes mainstream all of the time, no one forces you to come here and post...noone!
I took your advice. Scotch officially moved over to Github - https://github.com/bendmorris/scotch
Thanks for the link. I just submitted my resume for the program manager position. I got wireframe skills like you've never seen!
From what I've seen, Rich does things to end controversies quickly rather than talk them to death. There was a religious war developing in the user group some time ago over licensing terms of products that were developed in Clojure. Rich didn't take a side, as I recall--he simply intervened after a few days and asked people not to carry on this discussion but to focus on technical issues. At least one heavyweight (Jon Harrop) seemed to disappear from the user group upon being asked to cut out the licensing jibber-jabber, but peace was restored.

Given Clojure/core potential earnings and the bigger bang for the buck of corporate sponsorships, requests for individual donations are not worth the ill-will that they apparently cause. I like his techniques for time management and choosing his battles carefully.

Onward with Clojure development!
what a waste. They could have bought IBM BladeCenter solution with the same processors, but with Infiniband and more memory.. instead they have a big toy.
Awesome solar eclipse picture
Cool - thanks, I guess this is faster than "New" + the hand move to the arrow keys + 3 arrow keys. I hate that these things bother me :)
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