skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had had the same idea when I was pregnant but there were several key problems that I concluded were unsolvable. I am both curious and skeptical as to how/whether you address these. (I am basing my questions on an understanding that yours is a registry and not a simple a wish list, as per your own description).

1. How to mark items as purchased. Relying on gift givers to "reserve" and "unreserve" items may be a step up from restaurant reservations but that's not saying much. I wouldn't be surprised if your honor system led to close to half of every registry ending up in a black hole of forgotten reservations.

2. How to keep up with out-of-stock items and price changes. Baby registries usually span months, so how do you deal with outdated information or dead links? From my own Amazon baby registry experience, about 30% of my wish list went MIA by the time of the actual baby shower, when most of my friends and family made their purchases.

3. How do you deal with bad UIs. Drawing again from my Amazon experience, a lot of older relatives almost bought the wrong item because of all the "you might also like" items all over the screen. I wouldn't be surprised if a large chunk of your purchases got diverted by bad 3rd party UIs.

4. Varied URL standards. For example, some shopping sites get product options from user session so non-logged in URLs link to an item's default color and size. So once you are off to a 3rd party website, there is no guarantee the gift giver would buy the correct item.

As far as I can see you've built a wish list that you are marketing as a registry and I am not sure if that's a good thing. The key feature of a registry is that a retailer makes sure that the correct items get purchased (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_registry) so I think there is a broken promise there.
This wouldn't matter as the companies in question will just count that as a "sale lost to piracy" regardless. They already assume that their profits should be going up every year. Do you really think they care that you are taking a moral stand when it benefits them to label you as a "pirate" as opposed to just a lost sale?
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Depends on which phase of the project im in :)

If it is the beginning, GREAT - if middle/end BAD.

I need partners that are finishers.
"People" will Google "babylist". Remember that the vast majority of the people using the web have no idea what a browser is, much less a URL. Even when they have a URL, that ubiquitous google box is the place it gets put.
Don't agree with 'Purchase should not exceed the cinema price.' since that stuff comes with extra content and 20 years from now I'm sure whatever the cinema costs were will have become untenable due to inflation...
Don't forget the unix version:

mac:~ sam$ dc
2 2 + p
4
mac:~ sam$
All the arguments below aside, are there any cases where an online petition has had its desired effect on an any large business, let alone an entire industry?

I do ask this both as a jab and as a legitimate curiosity.
Microsoft Makes Push for U.S. Patent Reform
That's an interesting idea actually. Assuming that the people you work with represent a graph (say something like Linkedin) and everybody's resumes were online, a traversal of that graph might yield other good employees.
Someone posted this earlier, but under the title "Mark Zuckerberg Stole My Idea!". The actual article has that title with the quotes, which is an appropriate because it is addressing the common complaint that people steal ideas. The title here on HN did not have the quotes, which I think changed the perception significantly, and is probably what led to it getting flagged.

Since it is an interesting article, I thought I'd give it another chance with a title that can't possibly be seen as link bait.
That's the way the duplicate detection works here on HN. A recent exact match becomes an upvote, because if you think it's worth submitting then you would obviously think it's worth upvoting the original.

On the other hand, since old discussions are closed, repeats are allowed after a certain time. Likewise, if the URL isn't an exact match, it's not recognised.
No, you aren't. The response to your silly analogy is, "if I throw a black drape over my organic bread and allow you to see it only after paying for a loaf, you cannot legally enter my shop and remove the drape".

The fact that nobody would set up such a system is evidence that your analogy is unproductive, not that your argument is strong.
AirPlay video support in Mobile Safari — a bookmarklet
Another IF authoring framework is Inform 7: http://inform7.com/

It's got an interesting execution model based on "rule books", and source code designed to at least look like declarative English prose. (From one of the examples, "A display is a kind of thing. A display is always scenery. A reminder is a kind of thing. A reminder has some text called a memory." That example here: http://inform7.com/learn/eg/bronze/source.html)
Right; at this point if I were considering working with either of them, I'd probably not.
Exactly. It's SVG, which means it runs on iOS devices plus any smartphone, plus has IE7+ support (with excanvas). It truly rocks. Built by a Google engineer. Google uses it behind the scenes for some of their internal BI tools.
It's something like say your slow value was 25 ops/sec and your fast value was 100 ops/sec, then do (1 - 25 / 100) = 0.75. So as a percent 25 ops/sec is 75% slower than 100 ops/sec.
What can you do in 2k LOC of C?
I PROMISE not to steal the 2011 BMW M3 Coupe SO LONG AS you price it no higher than cost + 5%.
Interesting to see some young people here!
Not sure how much time you expect to be able to spend on this once your baby is due. Probably 0 hours for the next few years! Congratulations though. Also the site looks very nice.
It's supposed to be a bit of a play on words to get you to bite.

I don't think "Loren" thinks this is a "start-up" in the SV sense.
:)

Well I guess that is more job security depending on what you want. You can always go back to doing startups, plus you will know a bunch of other engineers who may hop on board with you.
That is frankly awesome. People think there's something wrong with me for using dc instead of bc in Unix shells.

Not sure I can justify £50 to buy the hardware version, though.
I dunno, if a company we hired on contract pulled shit like that we'd fire their ass exactly 3 minutes after the first invoice arrived (and of course we would require weekly invoices with written notice if there was deviation from the original budget.)

The UK government has no such contraints of course.
Add "&sout=1" to the URL.

Or click "Switch to basic version" in the page footer :)

More information:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?ti...
Notes from Andy Hunt's Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
What language(s)?
I believe PageRank isn't as important as it was 10 years ago. Besides, you don't need explicit links to create links. Off the top of my head, the following could be used to link resumes: keywords, references, educational institutions, co-authors on papers, and former employers. All these can be extracted fairly well from a document as structured as a resume, and then you can go wild with link analysis.

At the very least, it would allow you to filter the chaff, and enough care could be given to a dataset as small as 75,000 documents to take care of preprocessing, some manual curation, etc. and yield some decent results. If you wanted to, you could even compute PageRank scores in R on your laptop for a dataset that small (and that would probably be the only computationally intensive part of it, after POS tagging and ML model fitting).

As a bonus, the effort would go a long way to help your recruiting in the future.
Observe people at work. What could be improved? What sucks? What is great?
Technically yes, but it is and always has been a shallow argument to claim that copyright infringement is not theft.

Of course it's not the same to duplicate information as it is to remove a physical item, but both are based on an artificial legal concept of property.

The natural state of things is indeed that I can copy any information coming my way, and copyright artificially restricts my right to do so in the eyes of the law.

Then again, the natural state of things is also that if you have a physical item and I want it, then if I am bigger than you/have a bigger gun than you/have more friends than you, then that item is now my possession and not yours, and theft-related statutes artificially restrict my right to take it in the eyes of the law.

In the end, copyright, like physical property, is an economic tool. Society gives it the force of law to make sure that people don't game the system unfairly. It makes no sense to debate that law, in either letter or spirit, without considering the economic implications of breaking it. Those implications are not zero just because information that already exists can be reproduced with near zero marginal cost and time overhead using modern technology.
once all the referral cash starts flowing you can just buy it :)

In the mean time work out a way to ensure as few people as possible have to verbally pass the domain on, think about tools which enable you to let the interested party notify their friends that this is their list; easy things like publishing to facebook, twitter, email, etc.

(some of these may have been done, sorry if they are - I didn't take the time to look it over to thoroughly).
tap tap tap, famous in the iPhone dev world for making tons and tons of money want to crowd source the development of an app? I wonder if having tap tap tap as your publisher is worth a 60% cut of the profits.

There is a pretty sweet plasma globe game in the store right now http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plasma-globe/id400905823?mt=8 if you're looking for ideas or want to see what is out there already
Ultralight Filmmaking & Monetization: Why I've Quit Netflix for Vimeo
I'm not sure about a site where the word "transparent" is misspelled as "transparant". Good luck any startups that are attending!
I think this an awesome idea really works well for young startups! http://stuffbuff.com
Great point, I completely forgot that Google's was built on Flash.
We did have people in the workshop that were quite knowledgeable in those areas, but we had to keep the text short to avoid most people just skipping over everything. This is bound to create inaccuracies. As for this point in particular, of course it is unreasonable as it is, legal issues would prevent most of this, but the point is to start a discussion. We also had folks from the European Union there that were really enthusiastic about hopefully getting a case to present to (or rather against) detractors.

The filter thing was because yes, some services do not presently allow you to search for all movies that are dubbed in language X. If you are trying to watch something with your kids, it is pretty annoying to have to look for a movie, then go in the language selection, then choose the language of your liking, and then at the end be told it's not available. It's basic UX imo, but if people don't do it right now, it's worth static.
"start-up - n. A business or an undertaking that has recently begun operation."
Palo Alto startups: adopt a hacker angel
Any startups, in or around downtown Palo Alto, who might have a spare desktop I can work at for the next 3 months?

I have minimal needs--just a small space where I can code and be among fellow hackers. I'm working on a solo startup that's near launch.

I won't make noise. And I'll gladly pay.

Any leads, please email me directly (address is in my profile).

Thanks for reading.
This is a great idea! You should check out: http://hackathon-audax.eventbrite.com/ to put it to the test
I win. :)
Seems very, very promising.
It's simple, it's easy to use and looks both nice and cute (as in, not some website from 10 years ago without a single retouch); in a twitter'ish way, if you know what I mean.

I have a question about the logos, as this is a subject I myself always fear when creating a new side project:
Is it safe to have other companies' logos on ones site (as listed on yours), or is it possible to face infrightment allegations? Thinking about issuing a .us based project, I'm a bit afraid of somebody suing me for something like that.

Thanks, and congratulations!
I've found a very simple question that weeds out about 75% of applicants:

"You have a bunch of objects which have an implicit ordering. You want to insert them into a collection, look them up, and retrieve the smallest/biggest one as quickly as possible."

You'd be amazed at how many people suggest hash tables.
They should have gotten out while they still had a user base. I wonder if they would even get that much for their domain now? Not saying they're dead yet, just saying.
We agree that authors of digital content deserve to get paid, right? Then it doesn't really matter what you call people who manage to avoid paying. This debate over semantics does not help advance the discussion.
Assume there is zero distribution and duplication costs for the goods we're talking about.

I'm going to assert that the optimal pricing strategy for these goods is one of per-customer price discrimination, where the price is the highest one the customer can afford and at which the customer still values the content more than the opportunity cost foregone by exchanging money for it.

I would expect this to give an exponential distribution of prices: a few with a very high price, more with somewhat lower, and so on until a very long tail with a very low price (e.g. in the $0.0001 range).

This should give maximum profit to the seller of the content, and simultaneously maximize value for consumers of the content, because all consumers who want to view the product and can afford it get to watch it.

Of course, it assumes a market where arbitrage is impossible, and consumers don't revolt at getting different prices (which they will perceive to be "unfair").

So instead, we have a market with an arbitrary cut-off point for the lowest price segment. That leaves large numbers of marginal people who could get value from the content, but not so much value that they can afford to pay this particular cut-off point, or they can get other things which they perceive to give better value.

At the other end of the spectrum, at the highest price discrimination segments (fan packs, "ultimate" bundles etc.), the people with the most money are probably not being charged enough.

In effect, people who can afford to pay a high price are getting off light, while people who can't afford the lowest price are being excluded completely. Meanwhile, the seller of the content is not making as much money as they could.

Some would say that this is an unfair situation for everybody, except for the richest people.

There are alternative models of paying for content. For example, there could be a combination of a content usage monitoring system, a progressive tax collection mechanism, and redistribution to producers in proportion to how much is consumed.

But above all, I think it's important to get away from the idea that these goods are like physical goods, and getting them for very cheap or free is "stealing". It's intellectually dishonest.
Interesting. How's your write speed with SimpleDB?
There are plenty of legal alternatives for you. Indeed, you just mentioned several of them, and another is not to consume that particular content at all and to find your entertainment in some other way.

Please don't pretend anyone somehow forced you to break the law. You chose to do that yourself.
I'm actually working on a stats PhD (in the early stages) and I've made it my goal to build a lot of Python software as I go along. So if you have the inclination I'd recommend giving it a shot. When you consider the wealth of tools out there for both high level (NumPy-based) and lower-level computation (e.g. Cython, for speeding up algorithms), and software development (especially interactive debugging and testing), it's a fairly compelling proposition (for me, at least).

But long story short is that people are working on making Python more amenable to applied statistics work. And the more people working toward that goal, the faster we'll get there.

So I would recommend: join numpy-discussion and scipy-user mailing lists, explore projects out there-- last few SciPy conferences are a decent place to start.
You could certainly build freeways/bridges as toll roads. All the 19C railways were built like this as are modern mega projects like the channel tunnel.

There are some problems - do you allow compulsory purchase of land? If not then a single person can ransom your project if you do then you need government approval for each project. Upto 25% of the cost of some 19C railways were in legal fees to get the legal acts needed to build them
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I'd be more impressed if they were all generated by one guy with a really good text to speech engine, and a great personality generator.
Mirror of the various git repositories which were in the ps3free tree (some of which are still up and some of which are gone): http://rapidshare.com/files/446044378/ps3free.tar.bz2
Seems I failed to proof read...

s/Worse yet, LET has/Worse yet, LTE has/

and a few other mistakes.
I don't know either of the men involved, but consider the source:

http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/01/come_on_crybaby_cry.h...

(For anyone who doesn't remember that MacHeist drama from a couple years ago)
> I have access to pretty much every movie ever made.

Oh c'mon.
> He said there is a potential for violation if DOT
> and the public were misled by "engineering-quality
> work"- even if the authors did not claim to be
> engineers.

Isn't this essentially saying that you can be too smart/thorough for your own good, and that the government is going to punish you for not getting a license to use your abilities? What the hell is 'engineering-quality work' anyways? Talk about an amorphous term...
ESRI (The geospatial software company) and SAS (the commercial alternative to R) both got caught up reacting to their existing user bases instead of proactively watching the analytics world. Both companies have (or at least until recently had as my knowledge is circa-2008) very desktop-centric product lines. Their customers used their products as if they were fancy versions of Excel -- a perfectly valid use case, but not one suited to production analytics. Both companies first forays into production systems involved clunky wrappers around desktop components. I'm sure they will eventually put out first-rate headless production components, but there's probably a nice window available in which start-ups may innovate.
HACKATHON
Do you think you can handle it?! Check out this Hackathon: http://hackathon-audax.eventbrite.com/

Don't miss the chance!
We recently released http://rewordio.us which helps people find alternative domain names by using a thesaurus. We went with this name because it's a bit shorter, but also registered the dot com to make sure wayward souls got back to the URL we wanted.
Startups: The Problem of Prestige
As a developer working w/ a MI based startup this is intriguing. Well see how it plays out but its an encouraging sign for startup's outside of the sv-hub.
"Sorry folks, you're entitled to not buy it, not to steal it."

EXACTLY. Yes, downloading a movie isn't exactly stealing, but it's still taking something without permission and it should be frowned upon just as much as stealing is. If a person pirates a movie they're taking something without reimbursing the rights owner with what they want. People aren't judged for stealing because it costs the store owner money, they're judged because it's immoral! When someone steals a DVD from walmart nobody says "Whoa, you stole $9.99 worth of product! You should be ashamed!" they say "You stole something you weren't allowed, you should be ashamed". Why online does it suddenly become about the cost?

it doesn't matter how ridiculous their demands are, if Disney want $100,000 per copy of their latest film, that's their choice, if you disagree then don't buy it that doesn't mean you should just take it.

The whole idea behind this website is self entitlement, nobody is entitled to someone else's creation and the idea that this website is doing the content creators a favour is laughable. If someone creates content (or someone owns the rights to created content) it should be their choice how people consume and acquire it, whether that's free, $9.99 or $100,000, that's their choice and we should abide by it. Pay what they want or don't have it.
It seems to me that if you're a dev that wants to work at Google, sending them a cover letter and resume is a waste of time. Google can afford to pick almost anybody. You've got to stand out. I'd imagine that it's probably best to become an active contributor to an OSS project that has a lot of impact or create a startup that could potentially target Google's market and hope to be acquired. Obviously the startup route is much riskier, but more rewarding. Regardless, it seems that if you want to work at Google, you've got to make a name for yourself.
I'm guessing the point they were trying to get at was, you should be able to download and share subtitle files -- which are only useful to people who already have the movie -- without fear of prosecution.
Too bad I haven't a facebook nor a (personal) twitter account :)
thank you:)
YC tells me I have 7 karma, hmmm.
Survivorship bias. Pretty common. "Look I failed" posts are much rarer.
Binary trees are also something you will never need to know about in 99.9999% of real world programming situations, especially if you're using a sufficiently high-level language. In the real world, there are thousands of other factors, tasks and considerations on your plate other than having to figure out exactly how to manually create a binary tree or even think about it. It's one tiny thing in a sea of issues. Speaking from 25 years of programming experience here, about half that in industry.

Useful? Yes. Necessary? No. And in the real world, you could just look it up, give yourself a refresher, etc. as needed.
Yes there is an argument (not the one you are alluding to, however) that MySpace's UX was what attracted so many 'normal' folks to it.

Show a boring blue + white Facebook page and a crazy green-pink-orange MySpace page to a 17 year old emo goth in Ohio and they probably will prefer the MySpace page.

Those are the people that click on ads, those are the people that want to friend Burger King. IE, those are the people that generate money.
Yeah, but I would download a loaf of organic bread if I could. And I'd copy that loaf whenever I needed more for a sandwich, and I'd upload that bread pattern to all my friends, and give away free slices to any hungry people I came across.

Post-scarcity is funny that way.
Glympse looks pretty sweet. Thanks for the pointer.

The point of this tool is to be extremely simple (no accounts or login). Continuous tracking is often useful but it kills batteries and raises some additional privacy concerns.
You should check out this hackathon.. there might be someone there who might have a spare desktop! http://hackathon-audax.eventbrite.com/
That's probably in the range of number of resumes that the top job sites get. Maybe they should start doing something with the rejects?
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W-w-what? That doesn't even make sense. Of course not, there's no specific age where you're "too old" to do a startup. If you're still alive, you're young enough. Now get cracking.
Probably phrased that way for "oompf" factor. "Win a favorable term loan" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Might I suggest the a new terminology for founder favorable seed-round convertible notes?: "Yuri bucks"

edit: BTW, great to see an innovative startup event taking place in downtown Detroit.
I did think about that but the messages that you leave someone are likely going to be different, and hence you need different codes.
That (saxing the sax) sounds awesome. Do you have any stories?