skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rovio will still never be forced to distribute Angry Birds under the GPL, even if they are found to be a derived work by association. Being found of infringement just means they have to stop distributing Angry Birds, in it's infringing form. Once the infringement is fixed, Rovio can then distribute the non-infringing form of Angry Birds without having to license it as GPL.

If however, Rovio wants to continue distributing the infringing form of Angry Birds, they only license they are legally allowed to use for that is the GPL.

But at no point is Rovio ever forced to distribute a GPL licensed version of Angry Birds.
I've written a few thousand lines. A couple toy VMs/compilers, some web apps, some random graphical tinkering. Nothing big, but enough to feel like I've gotten a sense of the language. I started using it expecting to be annoyed by all of the features it doesn't have, but I ended up really liking it and not really missing much. It has become my go-to language for random tinkering and prototyping, in part because I always end up thinking about the code and never the language.
Good points. The system is pretty flexible, and what you're talking about is possible.

The referral happening is just an action - so a SaaS company using it could easily provide credit, as with Dropbox. You could provide a callback URL for us to notify you when the referral happens, but we handle all the tracking, url generation, analytics, split testing, etc. Check out the custom integration instructions:
http://www.curebit.com/integration#custom

Some of our stores (mypuppypads.com) delay the offer by a week - giving their customers a chance to first try the product.

In other cases, like when Six Orange Grove runs a Charlie's Soap deal (these always go super viral), there's no need to delay the offer. The people that buy & share are die-hard Charlie's Soap fans that stockpile it whenever it goes on sale:
http://twitter.com/#!/kakaty/statuses/4377656799793152
http://twitter.com/#!/myfirstkitchen/statuses/43714330105036...
I just did my first AirBNB experience (actually am still in the middle of it) and I can say that it's actually been surprisingly smooth. It's almost like a paid way to make friends. The hosts who I'm staying with are so cool, and since I'm pretty public online, it was easy for them to feel comfortable with me staying at their pad. They've set it up as much like a hotel as I could ask for. It's really great, and it's paying half their rent (they have about 100% occupancy, believe it or not).
It seems like the major newspapers source their stories from the HN front page. It's great that they're listening - but, if they are just relying on HN and the signal and noise around it, they should also step out of this field of myopia and deliver original insights and breaking news, as well - you know, add to the conversation.

(edit: Major newspapers, like the Economist, are usually more thorough in their analysis than an HN commentator or a blog post. So, they definitely have plenty of value in the information stream, but rather than recycling and refining stories and ideas, they should also be encouraging new insights.
Why did Andrew Cooke deleted all his answers from Quora
So Reddit's down. How is this community different?
History of Internet Explorer from Version 1.0 to 9.0 - In "We Are IE" Video
Perhaps a bit too much hyperbole here...
Why would anyone talk about that stuff when pitching to a VC?

Sure the operational factors are important (and that's why they get discussed here), but they're secondary to size of the market and the nature of the solution when it comes to how big the investment opportunity is.
I'm wondering if proprietary data startups kill the "open" internet. Do any of these companies allow users to collect all of the data that they generated and export it?
Addicts, Porn Stars and Interns
A Treatise on the Black Market of Holds (2007)
And Netflix is buying the film and video content from the distributors and publishers, so the customer is still paying for content creation and delivery.
Andreessen Horowitz Makes a $49m Bet on Jawbone
In my experience, Airbnb's biggest competitor is HostelHero and I found this much more convenient than Airbnb while traveling (if only because hostels nearly always have space, unlike the many rooms we encountered on Airbnb advertised as free but suddenly not when you book them).

Arriving in a new city without internet it was great to have HH and be able to find 10 hostels and know they are going to be open. I guess McDonalds wifi etc. means Airbnb could have been a competitor, but the ease of finding accommodation reliably, of a reliable standard, and at more affordable prices meant we used HH far more than Airbnb.

Having said that, the times we could manage to find a room that was genuinely free, and appeared to be genuine people with a spare room, were some of the highlights of our travels. The people and the rooms were both fantastic, and it's this "home away from home" and social aspect I think Airbnb should be pushing. I think at the same time they should be working hard to remove the listings that I could best describe as dodgy guys trying to run a hotel out of an apartment building without adhering to local hotelier laws as we found these far too prevalent in some cities.
His choice of breakbeat hardcore classic 'We Are I.E.' by Lenny De Ice deserves great praise.
How would you determine what is a session cookie and what is a long term cookie? Expiry time?
I don't see any skulls and crossbones on the animated map, so I can only assume that means I'm safe here in the US.

Actually I did guess it was going to be considerably more dilute when it got here than this map shows. (I was under by a couple orders of magnitude.)

I don't have anything against nuclear power. I just have something against failures like this.
Something built around the model that Khan Academy presents would be really interesting. Videos and learn at your own time. Home work help, helping parents and students find tutors, helping with test preparation. The long summer months are also a problem for a household where both parents are working. There is a lot of opportunity to help students here. Will be exciting to see what comes of it.

Good luck!
I was saying this! We should do this. Get lot's of twitter clients to integrate this as an option so if twitter ever pushes developers further they aren't dead and this service gets lot's of users.

Also I think the reason Identica sucks is because it doesn't think about features or design. This has to do some things twitter doesn't but shouldn't be over the top, it should be lean so that it's not like facebook and have a great API.
Nice, pg.

Have you ever given a similar vote of confidence to founders who didn't live up to your expectations?
The Google Loophole Has Become The Facebook/Twitter Loophole
Looking back at IE 1 through 9
The paper itself[1] says:

The study was done primarily on iPhone 4 and Google Nexus S.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/epicenter/2011/03/Android-...
What could YC/Airbnb have done to prevent this? Anything you guys would do differently in hindsight?
My favorite: sparks with grapes / CDs (though those smell), or making plasma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RFyh5ABcQ
It's not good enough and doesn't have very good marketing, sounds silly but this'd need to look decent and be appealing to users.
Ah, ok. That makes more sense.
I return to this comic sometimes: http://www.viruscomix.com/page528.html

It says basically what Max said, except with more pictures.
These startups are directly profiting from their ability to extract information that others can't.

They're NOT serving you recommendations of others' products. They're NOT serving you ads.
Great article. It really explains to me the success of the iPad, which from my geeky, feature-centered, cheapskate perspective made little sense. I bought a netbook one year after the iPad came out, which seemed to correspond more to my use of a lightweight computer.

Incidentally, I stopped using microwaves a few years ago. I wonder what that means my future relationship with tablets will be.
Could there possibly be a better pitch for YC than this? Awesome read!
MARKET.

http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-star...

That's all Fred is looking at in that phase-- because even an awesome team won't build a venture-sized business in a tiny or low-growth market.

At our Demo Day, there was two teams that had a veritable investor feeding frenzy around them-- and they were both attacking markets that were either huge/rich or markets that were growing like gangbusters (and they had the good sense to talk as much about the market opportunity as they did about their product).
I realize the frustration in receiving any parenting advice at all, but please bear in mind that being too strict in what germs the baby comes in contact with early on can have negative long term effects.

I'm sure you know this already, just a thing to keep in mind.
I guess this is true, but even when I keep these habits (i.e. exercise, albeit too "mechanically") (and right now admittedly I fail to do so), the lack of focus I'm talking about is not only in the sense of "what direction should I take in my life", but in the sense of me trying to read and grok something or need to do some math exercise and am unable to focus.
I have a "guest" account set up on my computers for exactly this reason. Windows' "fast user switching" gives me a nice way of quickly providing someone a handy "clean" environment for them to go wild with.

Not sure what the equivalent of this is in OSX or Linux.
Offtopic, maybe: I've taken to blocking all JavaScript using NoScript. I don't want random strangers from the Internet running programs on my computer. Besides, disabling JavaScript has made my browser so fast it's not even funny. Pages load instantly, runaway scripts no longer take 25% CPU, pages don't try to autorefresh every 5 seconds. And, of course, no Google or FB ads.
This reminds me of jedc and his MBA research about startup accelerators and how, and more importantly, when to clone.

His #1 point was:

> You need to be unique, where unique is not just a seed accelerator in a different city

Imagine K12 is unique in their knowledge and connections. What a fascinating proposition.

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2011/02/23/looking-back-1-5-...
I'm not using it directly, but sometimes I use tools that in turn use mongo. -- So for now, browsing docs.
Ex-Googlers penetrating startup hierarchy
Apparently Arthur Whitney wrote a one-page interpreter of an APL dialect in C (in the same style!) which inspired Ken Iverson to write J.

http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#40
At times Life sucks. Beyond our control. Things slip away even when we clutch at it. We feel that we could have salvaged it if we had done anything different. We run those scenarios in our heads over and over. And we all go through it more than once in our lives. And no matter how much we all say that its normal, that its bound to happen, that we all went through it before, truth is, you are the one going through it now. And only you know the acute pain that it has brought on, this overwhelming cloud of despair. So, we are right here with you dude. We probably cannot ever begin to understand your pain, but we are right here. You were brave enough to ask this question, and we show our solidarity to your cause by being here for you. Dont think about the light at the end of the tunnel. Dont think about how long it will be before you can be back up on your feet again. Truth is, we dont know. But we are fucking staying right here so that you know you aint alone. Fuck no.

Stay strong.
Great product! You've basically built something every company tries to build when first launching a product.

Ever think about a badging system to go along with this? I mention this because this is similar to what we built to use on Fanvibe for awarding users virtual goods and real life deals on tickets etc.
I wonder: is it something like how Time Machine works? In that each file is mirrored and unmodified ones are hard linked through editions? I can't imagine that being space efficient but I wouldn't put it past them. AFAIK OSX doesn't have an LVM equivalent in terms of snapshotting live file systems.
I wrote down BMP file palette reordering.
Cardkey system exploited using an Android app
For many years, MIT had no operating systems course. In the fall of 2002, Frans Kaashoek, Josh Cates, and Emil Sit created a new, experimental course (6.097)...

That seems pretty shocking, unless they meant in name only. What was the next closest thing?
Coding up a semantic, lean HTML/CSS timeline
It should be surprisingly cheap in relative terms, not necessarily in absolute terms. I would imagine that the NYT is much more cacheable than Twitter, given the nature of the site.
So true. I've often read interviews with founders and things get very vague around the "how did you pay bills before you had revenue" question. It becomes pretty clear that there was some family money, but it's not talked about since it takes away from the pure bootstrapped ideal. I wish there would be more honesty about it though, because it's still an amazing accomplishment to start a company, and it might help founders to get a more accurate picture of what's involved.
The NYT paywall arrives
Advertising isn't inherently evil. At its best it actually adds value to the viewer. Consider the ads in bridal magazines or during the Super Bowl.

Perhaps the NYTimes can pull off a paywall (we'll see soon enough), but most content producers can't. So where does that leave us? Micropayments? Would you really want to pay to Tweet?
It looks as though Kevin Lawler can hold his own in that style, too. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/blob/master/k.c
New York Times paywall plans are ambitious and sort of crazy
Regardless, I'm just interested in seeing how often/if I'll run into any ANY new limit NYTimes.com has.

If I don't, then this change won't matter at all.
Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation
one for me please! email in profile (i'm fairly certain I registered for the beta already)
Unrelated to start-up investment, just a random thought about ABNB:

I was thinking about the impact of hotel chains' business traveler kick-back schemes (euphemistically known as "rewards" programs) on the independent room providers (a phrase I just coined to run the gamut between someone renting out his spare room and a boutique hotel) ability to attract business travelers. How, as a business renting out 40 rooms in a single city, do you compete with Marriott who can offer some guy and his wife a free weekend stay anywhere in exchange for funneling his company's (or even his company's client's) dollars toward their brands? What if ABNB offered up to these independent operators a rewards program similar to those offered by the big chains? They would move beyond be a transaction facilitator toward being closer to a consumer brand. I believe that lower-end hotel chains basically follow this model -- independent owners become franchisees of the brand as a way to get bookings, have a recognizable brand, etc. While I doubt that too many of today's ABNB bookings are business-related, that number will surely increase. I love playing armchair QB :)
Uberdata: Rain's Effect on Uber Ridership
NYTimes limits free access to nytimes.com
i'm glad someone else posted this. i do the same thing. i don't know why, but it annoys to no end to be forced to log in when i've clicked through to an article from somewhere. i'm sure that i am in the minority, and so my opinion does not count, but it really has made me realize just how little i care about reading some of the articles that a simple login dissuades me from actually reading them. i have a feeling that once the paywall limit is hit, far fewer people will then the nyt imagines will be tempted to pay. they may just close the tab and move on with their lives. that's fine, of course, the nytimes doesn't have to cater to people who don't value their product, but it does pave the way towards a more specialized, targeted product. people happily subscribe to news sites about minor league baseball or the franchise restaurant business. we'll see what happens here.
If there were a <noads> tag to serve different content to people who will never ever click ads, I'd love to use it.
People who like APL do not often code with readability as their number 1 priority. In fact, to code in APL one must have an outright disdain for the idea that someone else could easily understand their code.
I think this list shows mainly that these kinds of lists are not that accurate or interesting. Let's pick a few from this list: Microsoft, Best Buy, Symantec, Adobe...these are companies that I regularly hear questionable things about.

And to top it off, from the site...

"A methodology committee of leading attorneys, professors, government officials and organization leaders, assisted Ethisphere in creating the scoring methodology for the World’s Most Ethical Companies awards."

Great...because when I think of ethics, I can't think of a single attorney, professor, government official or leader who's run afoul.
According to the author's reasoning, glibc is also an illegal derivative work of the Linux kernel.

The latter part of your statement doesn't follow from the former, since glibc was written from scratch by its GNU authors. If half of glibc headers were just stolen from the kernel tree, your argument might hold water, but they absolutely were not.

glibc is a legal implementation of a Linux-compatible libc. Since it's LGPL, one can legally link non-GPL code against it. The author's suggestion that the only way to make things OK is to switch to glibc is kind of farcical, since it would appear that creating a new implementation of Bionic whose licensing status is on par with glibc would suffice.
Profanity Filter for Rails (open source)
From CNET:

Blaze backed away from its conclusion in light of the new data. Chief Technology Officer Guy Podjarny told CNET in a statement:
This test leveraged the embedded browser which is the only available option for iPhone applications. Blaze was under the assumption that Apple would apply the same updates to their embedded browser as they would their regular browser. If this is not the case and according to Apple's response, it's certainly possible the embedded browser might produce different results. If Apple decides to apply their optimizations across their embedded browser as well, then we would be more than willing to create a new report with the new performance results.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20044325-264.html
Application Stats on Android Market
How many Asians? Caucasians? African Americans? Paraplegics? (Quadraplegics?)

In other words, why does it matter how many of some arbitrary sub-categorization of "humans" applied?
Ruby Koans is a great tool for learning Ruby in general as well as its quirks and differences with other languages.

http://rubykoans.com/

Basically, it presents you with a battery of broken tests. Your goal is to reach enlightenment by fixing them. The first ones are simple to fix and teach you simple concepts as you do so. As you go, complexity increases.

It's a great tool for someone new to Ruby and Rails as you will want a solid understanding of the language if you will be using a framework on which the language is based. Plus, it reinforces how automated testing can be a valuable tool.
I don't know how far the analogy holds up. After all, microwave is not very programmable(in the computing sense) nor so restrictive.

Did the microwave only cook food that was specially labeled microwaveable(and food grocers had to pay 30% of the price of food to the microwave manufacturer to get that special label) ? Isn't that what happens with the iPad?

Eg. The free Sony e-reader app was rejected, Readability was rejected. Kindle and Netflix are on the chopping block if they don't pay up by June 30th, same with any apps for magazine or content subscriptions. Microwaves never had these restrictions.
In this day and age with the power and ease of networks, is a personal introduction really discriminatory? or was it ever? Find out where he gets coffee in the morning, ask the barista for an introduction. It might not work, but it is an intro.

Also, is a woman any less likely to be linked in the network than a man? I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at saying this is discrimination.

If a personal introduction is discrimination, isn't location discriminatory as well?
Less trolls.
Is it just me or just Brian Chesky reply 2 minutes before PG sends the intro? Time differences won't account for it since NYC is ahead of SF
Just to be clear - I meant pathetic of the individual turning down employment from Facebook.

I do not believe it to be pathetic on the part of Facebook whatsoever - in fact I love their take on the topic.
This is fantastic, and aligns with a project my wife and I have been discussing. It's frustrating that one or both of us would have to hit the Bay Area to do it (on the wrong coast), but certainly going to consider it.
The content is wonderful to read through but the time frame that this conversation takes place over (a month) has a lot to say in itself.
I agree with this, but something is missing. I think when it comes to recruiting, fundraising or customer development the work must not only get done - but it must be impressive to the target audience.

I propose an adapted definition based on your definition (numbers relate to the order listed above):
A players understand a problem in terms of stakeholders[5], and takes initiative[2] to quickly build a solution in code[4] that will impress these stakeholders both in the short-term and over time [1, 3].
Video: Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
From the paper itself:

"We used iPhone 4 for the iPhone measurements, and Google Nexus S for Android 2.3 measurements. For our Android 2.2 measurements we chose the Samsung Galaxy S, since it has almost identical hardware to the Nexus S, making the OS the
primary difference."
7 takeaways from the video

1. The Reddit alien came from a doodle in marketing class. Always be looking for inspiration.

2. If you have a great product and great service, tie it to an awesome brand. This will help you become memorable.

3. When people tattoo your logo on themselves, you’re doing something right

4. Great branding can’t save something that’s not good enough, so making sure you’re product rocks is the first priority.

5. Decent branding without a lot of cash: If you don’t have a network of designers, checkout a site like 99designs (but “shake the friend tree” for artists before you go this route).

6. You can’t succeed if you don’t actually start. Don’t be afraid to fail.

7. If something fails, no one will know about it because no one used it. Stopped letting fear paralyze you and built cool stuff.
Or was that the first Acid?
There's OneSocialWeb http://bit.ly/OneSocialWeb with a great engineering team (talented chaps like @eschnou) and backing of deep pocketed Vodafone. Open sourced under an Apache 2 license.

Also there's the free open source distributed/federated www.ThinkUpApp.com from Gina Trapani and Anil Dash which can probably be built out into something along the lines of what you are thinking.
I like Airbnb. I've hosted 8ish times and stayed with people once.

Why I think the people on Airbnb are 'cool' is that its a small population that has a lot in common (young or young-at-heart, singles and couples without kids, internet natives, own a macbook, would love to hitchhike Europe while submitting correspond reports for the NYTimes). As it grows, I'm worried that everyone's not going to find everyone else 'cool' on Airbnb.

I wasn't around for the early days of Craigslist, but I imagine it was easy to like people you found on Craigslist because they were probably very similar people to be on Craigslist so early. But now, after scale and popularity, that's gone.

I wonder if Airbnb might lose the 'cool' people edge after scaling.
Government of Canada — Open Data Pilot Project