skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps because people are willing to pay and without the high price on ebooks, the price of traditional books would not be justified.

All in all, I hate how many books are made too verbose just to sell more pages and therefore have higher price. The same content would be better communicated with less repetition and side content.
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Generally if it compiles on FreeBSD it compiles on Mac OS X, at least that has been my experience in the past. I am in the unique position that I develop on Mac OS X, then do my tests on FreeBSD and when it works on those attempt it on Linux.
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Sure is a lot of "google's in trouble" chatter in the echo chamber the last couple weeks. All because of a couple of subjective search tests?

Honestly, if you want to spin a good "Google collapse" yarn, start with how advertising is a derivative of sales and talk that up in to a bubble of overvalue bursting, that's at least sort of believable.

Way too much talent and they have too many things they are exploring. They are a one trick pony still but I suspect they'll find some followup acts. If they could crack medical care or put some serious energy in to the salesforce.com type space of enterprise apps... it could be a different kind of company than the world has ever seen.
I'm a college student myself and it would be great to people with tight schedules and also a way to get yourself some specific classes quickly without the burden of signing up for long term academies, whom will charge you even if you don't find the classes useful afterwards!

Trial classes, user clustering to look out for specific classes... There's a lot of very neat stuff to be done.
Yep, the reason why NS4 had buggy CSS support was that they tried to implement it by translating to JSSS.
Web-controlled or not, I wonder if it is legal in Georgia (or the US in general) to let firearms lie around unprotected?

And there must be giant hogs in Georgia, if you need a total of 6 shotguns to kill them.
Project home page; not linked from app: http://wterminal.appspot.com/
I added a test[1] for Handlebars.js, which is identical to mustache, but pre-compiled. It comes in 2nd in my tests. [2]

[1]: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/47
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New seed stage investors are finding fertile ground in Internet start-ups
Getaround: Peer-to-peer car sharing and car rental startup
2 pictures worth 2000 words :-)
I think you might be slightly overemphasising how the average person responds to advertising. Not everyone thinks that all advertising is evil and intrusive. Most people don't like to admit that they are influenced by ads, but they are, especially if the ad is relevant and executed well. Think of some of the great TV ads of the past, people like them. Not all advertising should be tarred with the same brush.

Having said that I do hate the fact that ad's seem to be following me around these days. I checked out the supplement mentioned in Tim Ferris's Four hour body book and it followed me round for ages until I cleared my cookies. Now that is irritating.

By the way I think TF's new book is pretty shabby compared to his first.
They aren't talking about free, they're talking about theft. -yawn- Yet another content creator upset that they can't make money on piracy.

"If even HALF of those people who downloaded my book that week had bought it, I would have hit the New York Times Bestseller list."

Yeah, that's a BIG hint that piracy and sales aren't linked in any useful way. Stop wishing you could turn any portion of that into real sales. Download numbers aren't related to sales numbers at all.

Just face reality: Your book isn't actually popular at all.
Shift-JIS encoding is more widely used than the world standard UTF-8.

I thought that was because the Japanese were unhappy about Han unification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Rationale_and_c...
Is there something other than just "bad form" as to why people would not want to go through an affiliate link if the ultimate purchase price for them is the same?
interesting, does this mean Google does not care about the Russian market much? also, why doesn't Yandex try to expand beyond Russia ?
Hard to read incoherent self serving rambling which insults the name of Machiavelli.
While I like the story, and I’m happy for his kids, I worry about a generation of children raised by Farmville.

Computers for the young, like sugary cereals, should be part of a greater life expeiernce that includes interacting with friends in person, reading, making music, and causing trouble.
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[1] http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383
I think the headline might be misleading. From reading the article, it appears that what's illegal is hunting with a remote controlled weapon... not necessarily the remote-controlled weapon itself. But it's really not crystal clear either way.
Location: It would be nice to divide posts based on locations. We have lot of posts from SF Bay area, NYC, other metros, UK, Germany, India etc...and it's all jumbled up.

Specially for jobs or networking purpose it would be really helpful to search posts by location.
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At least that’s the theory. In reality I think this site has about a snowflake’s chance in the white hot cauldron of a collapsing star, and it’ll probably be overwhelmed by porn merchants faster than you can say “charge for online video.” Assuming they find it.

I don't remember reviews on TechCrunch being this harsh. Wow.

There's constructive criticism. And then there's this.
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No progress without consequences.

What did you imagine? That you could just by magic reach potentially 6Billion people without any cost of distribution and be the only one allowed to take advantage of it?

Here is the thing. If you want to make it hard for people to copy your books, don't distribute them digitally.

Or charge 1 USD pr. book.

Or learn to do the design, marketing and printing yourself

Add something to your book that makes it worth buying.

There are so many ways to approach this and you have no option but to embrace it and accept it and learn to sell in that environment cause thousands and thousands today can write books.
The wording in the article is a little hazy, but I think it was trying to say that it's primarily the domain of the Fish and Wildlife Service rather than local police or other federal law enforcement.

Any particular law enforcement agency doesn't necessarily take interest in every kind of criminal offense - only things that fall under their jurisdiction. I think the point was that this is primarily a concern for Fish and Wildlife right now regarding illegal hunting - that means not really relevant as a threat to Homeland Security or local police forces, but could become so later.
http://www.unt.edu/honors/eaglefeather/2007_Issue/kniatt6.sh...
"Machiavelli’s The Prince as a Satire:
An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli’s Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations"
Ask HN: 
I'm a developer based in SF bay area and lot places I've been applying for job area asking for previous work example, code snippets etc. How about some nice "Developer/Programmer Portfolio" we can share with each other to help the community.
I've been saying this for years. PPC is going to die pretty soon.

Pay Per Action models (ie. Groupon) is the wave of the future. it's measurable, accurate and effective.
For no particular reasoning other than they can get away with it.
It's weird. What I get from this post is "if you won't buy my book, please read something else". That, of course sounds logical but she is missing that she is telling freeloaders to download some other author's works, thus "marketing" the other author and not her. I would not do it like that.
Ask HN: How redundant is S3? Do I need another backup?
How often does S3 lose/delete your files? Or is there some backup feature/functionality built in, that is pretty robust?

If it will be storing all the user uploaded files, should I also be pushing those files to some other CDN - like Rackspace's CloudFiles?
Is it realy a good idea to lure in experts to find an empty page? I took the time to register and so on to take a look, but only to find empty listings, now i will most likely forget the site and never come back.
It looks like this http://techcrunch.com/2005/09/19/mefeedia-named-best-of-the-... might be the review you're referencing?
Rogue Facebook apps can now access your home address and mobile phone number
Yeah. It's sad that this author cant sell more books, but the people who download books are not the same people who buy books- it's the same as with people who download movies. It's hoarding plain and simple.

I would seriously suggest that the author have a look at Cory Doctorow's work. Right on his home page, you can download his books in any free, non drm format you like. Yet he seems to do quite well selling his books too.

Heck, if your book is out of print and still getting 800+ downloads a week, I'd contact the download site and tell them you'd bless the download if they put a donate link in the book or on the download page. What have you got to lose?

Or, you could always sue your customers, that's worked well for the RIAA.
The article does not say anything about web controlled guns being illegal. In 25+ states, cyber hunting is banned.

The article headline is definitely in error, not just misleading.
I think you should try to find someone here who has put some work into a tutoring service, and is clearly moving in a positive direction in tutoring like your project. Give it to them and help them get going on their ambition. Great designs and name, and I hope you find a home for it :)
Honestly, fuck them. It's a blog with dubious editorial standards anyway.

Focus on finding users, marketing, generating revenue, etc. If you're worried about TC then you're wasting energy that could be used elsewhere. Once you get a few paying users, find a PR firm to issue a release that can be forwarded to smaller blogs and new outlets.
Just because North Korea and Pakistan have nukes doesn't mean we should open the floodgates and let anyone have them.
If she's getting 800 downloads a week, next time, screw the publisher. Put up a link to an epub and mobi with a paypall button for $1.99.
I don't know, I'm not too worried. Currently the people in their 20's were probably raised on video games and they seem to be doing just fine (look at all of the people starting companies and doing cool stuff). I would argue that as a parent you can point to many things that are corrupting your children, and this has been the case since America was founded, if not long before.

Basically, If your kid is playing too much farmville, turn off the internet and kick them outside. It is as you say, when you are young, you need to experience everything, even causing trouble.
Why set up one gun when you can set up six? More firepower always wins, right?

Also, hoghide is incredibly tough.
Yes. Doing so makes it more profitable to post worthless affiliate links in places like this, which encourages people to do so, which makes the web a noisier place.

(Note that this is not a justification for avoiding all affiliate links.)
I've heard it said that "if it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist". Despite any claims of reliability, I would always make sure my critical data is backed up in two totally different locations.
"Download numbers aren't related to sales numbers at all."

You have two groups of people, one buying, one pirating, and they share the common goal of obtaining x.

To claim pirated copies are completely unrelated when there's quite obviously that relationship is just as extreme and silly as claiming they're all lost sales.
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That's what I have been thinking. Just wanted to find out what experiences have been like.
I couldn't find any tutorials for beginners on Mozilla's site.
Particularly when you start moving the goalposts when the stats didn't say what you wanted them to say.

I'm taking issue with your statement "if chinese, Indians and Koreans do well" and the implication that these groups are doing well. First there is the definition of "do well" which I'm taking to mean "performing as well as the majority (white) demographics." And then you next have to look at the statistics you want to compare.

Income is one relevant stat, but not the only one. There are others like poverty, upward mobility, lifespan, incarceration, addition and so on. Yes, Asians in the aggregate have higher median incomes than whites even, but to look at that one stat and then say "okay, no problems, we're done here" is not helpful.

But mine is clearly the minority opinion here. Such is life.
This is just way too much fun.
I happens to sell arts for microtransaction and put my stuff into the public domain. What do ya know? I actually make money.

Nobody thought my artwork was good enough to spread it though. (One guy got around the server's security and view the artwork for free for a while, but he didn't do anything to spread it.)
I get the impression from their website that they're basically making INGDirect.com + Mint.com, design for mobile from the start, and instead of a single bank, aggregate a bunch of them. There's probably some special sauce too they haven't elaborated on yet.

Interesting combination, hope it works, and that their business model has solutions to the obstacles you mentioned, especially the fee/cash flow stuff
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My list (no reddit account so I'll post here)

https://gist.github.com/749734
Ask HN: Hosting - Self, Co-Lo, or Rackspace
My new site is taking off reasonable well. It is a video streaming site and runs on CentOS 5.5, 2x1tb enterpise level drives with 12gb of RAM. The totals about 300gb in size with more being added everyday. I am not sure how much bandwidth it sucks down every month.

My wife has been complaining that the internet is cutting out and performance is suffering due to this site running.

I have a 22/5 Comcast circuit now and I can upgrade to 50/10 for an additional $50 per month totaling $180 a month, no bandwidth limitations and 5 static IP's

Or I could get a dedicated server at GoDaddy or similar. However for a comparable box to what I have now it ranged from $299/mo to $540/mo. Unaffordable.

Rackspace Cloud seems unaffordable too. The virtual machines are expensive and the bandwidth alone will kill me every month.

Does anyone have thoughts?
"Even if half the people that borrowed my book in the library bought it, I would make more money"
I am an author and have a book distributed over Kindle. People who bought my book wanted to buy it, and people who pirated it wanted to get it for free. That's okay with me. The two are not linked.

I would never get angry if someone loaned one of my books to another person, so why would I get angry about someone pirating it. And if people had not loaned me many books, I would never have grown to love writing. It's just the case that the internet can loan many books to people easily (or so I see it).

The market is very fickle about what it likes. Effort spent fighting piracy should be spent on writing more books and promoting them. In the meantime, I would endorse piracy of a commercially failed book as a way of spreading my name.

It's obvious this person's book didn't fail in touching people, it just failed in inspiring them to buy. The solution to any writer's problem is to write more.
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Franchising and the FCPA
my friend started a similar site www.educator.com
I've used AIR apps(as a consumer, not a developer) and there are times when I get a little frustrated with the experience. Still, I use the software because it saves me time and makes my life 10x easier. Overall if customers are criticizing your use of AIR as a platform rather than praising you for solving their problem, then you have bigger problems than the AIR vs. Native debate. Many users will tolerate even the crappiest of experiences, see IE6-IE8, so long as it solves their needs.
"To claim pirated copies are completely unrelated when there's quite obviously that relationship is just as extreme and silly as claiming they're all lost sales."

To be sure, there is a relationship, but it’s not at all obvious what the sign of the relationship is.

John Scalzi noted that physical sales of his books shot up after he released free ebook versions (33%, 20%, and 9% for The Ghost Brigades, Old Man's War, and The Android's Dream, respectively).

I'm not arguing that pirating ebooks isn't wrong -- I think the author should have the choice of whether or not her own works are available for free. Just sayin', your "You have two groups of people, one buying, one pirating, and they share the common goal of obtaining x." model oversimplifies things.
Insurance is about pooling risk to allow people to reduce the variance/value at risk/etc of their costs, while holding the expected value of their costs constant.

You are describing a forced redistribution scheme, which perhaps devotes a slim minority of it's revenues to insurance. It's deceptive to describe such a scheme as insurance - you might as well describe the mafia as a pizza business, since a small amount of their revenues are laundered through a pizza shop.

You are also utterly mistaken about what charity is. Charity is the practice of benevolent giving. You are describing taking money from people by force and giving it to other people.
Interesting, but robotic cranes on the ground would seem to be more efficient and reliable in ordinary circumstances. It's not a question of how to grip it, It's a simple question of weight ratios.
Superficially, that seems like a great idea. I'd be concerned about wear and weight though.

What happens when it's kicked into a pole, a car, a wall, etc? What happens when someone directly kicks the output port? I can't imagine this not being quickly damaged in real use.

Would it weigh more than a regular ball? Seems like it would have to. Worse, the internal movement would probably cause it to "wobble" through the air, at least a bit. Wouldn't kids avoid a ball that played different than regulation?
My favorite is when the same person complains that some browser doesn't use stock widgets in the content of the page because it makes the app not look "native" enough, and then goes and styles them making them look totally different.
That's very good point.

Same goes for all the other manufacturers- they are already MPEG-LA licensees and safe from the vast majority of patent threats.

So all those implementing WebM still needs to license H.264 to be safe from patent threat, and all those implementing WebM almost all have implemented H.264. WebM is only an addition to H.264. So the question for Google is always why dropping H.264 and never why adding WebM (since it is always there).
sorry, I put the note at the end of my post. We have not launched our website yet and that is why the site is empty. I was just sharing a post in my personal blog and did not really expect great responses like this.
Yay for business models based on artificial scarcity!
> The physical manufacture has never been the main cost driver.

Show us the numbers then. The publishers won't.
I guess you're re-reading in the bad ("what a moron") sense?

I'd love if you expanded on your points. I don't really know what to make of them. Am I (we?) being criticized? If so, I'd love the opportunity to reply; if you could provide your reasoning I'd give it a go.
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Exactly. Click fraud is just part of the cost of doing business, like shoplifting for a retail store. The problem is that the individual stores don't have a lot of control over the level of fraud that Google will tolerate. There's a big difference between stealing a Slim Jim from the 7-11 and stealing a diamond necklace from Tiffany's. If you are successful on AdWords it's only a matter of time until the fraudsters realize it and leech on your success.
Interesting idea. One thing I am curious about is that the FAQ lists accidents as being covered by their insurance but makes no mention about the theft of a car during the time it is lent out. Who's fault is it and who's insurance would it be under?
Am I the only one that only uses Google as I'm about to describe? With very few exceptions, I only search Google for specific things I know exist. For example, I will search for the name of a specific restaurant, a famous person, or the name of a song. I rarely see spam because I rarely search for blanket terms like "prescription drugs," "video camera," "news," etc. I have never noticed a decrease in the quality of Google results (although I do think the design of the results page has gotten less useful).
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She's popular to the tune of 800 free downloads per week and 10 sales per week.

Anecdotally, one of the ISVs over on Programmers.stackexchange had a piracy problem; when he started detecting pirated software and reminding the user to buy, not steal, his sales numbers directly went up.

I think this idea that downloading IP for free is ok is really wrong. If you want something, you should pay the price for it, whether the price be fixed or negotiated. IP piracy is theft.
Our company (http://udemy.com) has been pursuing a similar vision for a while. Good luck with your next venture.
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Thank You to everyone who has responded to this thread. My goal is still the same, but I definitely will be rethinking my strategy.
I don’t get the point you are making. Could you elaborate?

I don’t really see the connection to Minecraft. It managed to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed without any artists, isn’t that just the point? It’s nice that economies of scale allow us to throw 60 artists at a game and that’s something independent games can probably never deliver but that doesn’t automatically make games by big studios better than those that cannot afford 60 artists.
I highly recommend checking out The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP)'s other projects as well:

http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/research
And you better watch out for that damn rock-and-roll noise too.

Seriously though, kids seem to have done pretty well against the onslaught of new ideas and concepts that have been doomed to corrupt them. I was exposed to computers almost as an infant, and it didn't stop me from getting into all kinds of trouble.

But letting Farmville raise your children is an issue for that reason alone - computers aren't parents, and neither is a television. As the author stated, actively participating with and encouraging a child's desires and inquisitive nature is what is most important.
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Pretty neat! I'm sure they'll get to it eventually, but there's no advantage to having three drones in this demo, since the work isn't pipelined. It seems that a drone has to wait until one finishes picking stuff up before it can pick up something itself.
I like the concept, but the author haphazardly combines asymptotic analysis with unsubstantiated performance benchmarks and uses some imprecise language.

What does "nearly O(1) complexity" mean? Why does he mention a complexity of "O(8sizeof(void ))"? Shouldn't that constant factor be collapsed?
Good point. Would you submit that question here: http://support.getaround.com/discussion/new
This is my impression. Having used Excel and having a decent math background, FP seems easier to wrap my head around than OOP. This would be an interesting topic for a new thread.