skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people on Facebook are not as sensitive to posts from their friends.

See the recent LivingSocial Amazon promo on Facebook for an incredibly successful example of this model.
If you have an idea that you can’t get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/3923883167
Does any of those libraries gut the original Linux kernel headers the way Bionic does? Not as far as I can see.

You can build libraries if you like, but you can't just put header code under a different license unless you're the original right holder or have the original right holder's consent.
And by "Your Web", they mean "Our Web".
Markets are the most important. Great team in a small market: no hope. Bad team anywhere: no hope. Great team in a great market, bad idea: there is hope (changing the idea is easy, just pour more money - changing the team is close to impossible)
evercookies to the rescue then (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).
Japan quake: Tracking the status of fabs in wake of disaster
Amen. I was just asked to give a testimonial by one of their product team, and I damn near tripped over myself trying to respond as quickly as I could.

I've had experience with a number of the 'heroku for Django' startups going around, and while I don't have any complaints against any of them, dotcloud is KILLING in this space.

The best part, to me, is not having to mess about with various components -- I was able to put together a wordpress/mysql stack for one project, Django/Postgres for another, and Flask/mysql for another with the same interface, the same ease of use, and the same instant gratification.

It really is gold.
Wow. I did not get the pun in AirBnB until I saw it spellers out widhelm he lowercase b in airbed.

The capital B is either a branding miss or an intentional branding effort to look more upscale than Airbed.
My reading of it is that this is what the author was trying to express (i.e. the group to watch is "malicious deceivers", pushing a variety of ideas - rather than the reverse). It simply wasn't expressed well.
This is great stuff.
You can't blame any VC for being cautious at that early a stage though, and although the idea of hotels using airbnb to list their vacancies hasn't happened yet, as far as I can tell, it may not even matter. I have just started trying them to rent my apt in NYC, lets see how it goes. Personally as a "landlord" I feel like I do a great job accomodating my tenant, but on a site like craigslist, which is where I'd been posting my listings, this never gets reflected as there are no opinions/ratings, etc. As a result, I can't "stand out" from other landlords. It's not hard to get tenants in NYC, but I can imagine in some other parts of the country or world this may be a bigger issue.
This is where I hope airbnb comes in handy.
That's a good warning. My wife always did a quick spoon-to-her-lips check on the food temperature as precaution. Similar idea to squirting the milk on your wrist.

As always, pay attention to how the child reacts, too.
It is not true that if e.g. Angry Birds was found to violate the GPL that its developers would be forced to release it under the GPL. _Please_ read this article: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 .
Interesting that completely missing from this conversation is:

-- Their website design
-- Their code (Rails? Jquery?)
-- Their hosting / scalability / "cloud" strategy
-- Source control methods, dev environment, tools
-- APIs, "ecosystem", social media, "viral rate" etc.
-- And more...

Basically, all the things that most of us here spend most of our time discussing.

Instead:
1) Idea / Team
2) Execute
3) Talk to people with money
4) Go to #2
I suspect that WP7 continues to have update issues because it is built on top of the Windows CE kernel. the MS-skeptic in me thinks that it probably a bad foundation for a high-performing device, but this view is not based on any actual knowledge of Windows CE. Would love to hear from someone who actually knows about Windows CE.
This is an absolutely wonderful summary of jurisdictional issues facing courts in the United States. I really wish you had taught my civil procedure course!

What's interesting about the original question, which pertains to standing in French courts, is that there's an on-point case involving the inverse of that. Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme (LICRA) establishes the competence of French courts to hear internet cases. Of particular interest is that Sony, which presumably has offices in France, could use the US Marshals to serve the defendant in the United States, pursuant to the Hague Service Convention. I imagine that any potential benefit Sony would get from doing this would be outweighed by the costs of litigation, and the risk of having the judgment unenforceable in the United States, though.
I've seen a few other publishers do this too, and it seems hopelessly perverse. If the digital edition has zero advertisements, then I can understand that it reflects the true cost of production (qua newsgathering, writing and editing).

But it's still going to create a perception among the public that the online readers are subsidizing the print readers to a certain extent, and indirectly the printing and paper companies as well. And for those who care about such things, the ongoing consumption of about 100,000 (farmed) trees annually. If online readers get a better deal by subscribing to the paper version and putting it straight into the recycling bin every day, then the NYT is encouraging them to consume in the most wasteful way possible. This also reduces the value to advertisers, who are going to start discounting the subscription figures proportionally to 1/(web_traffic_growth/online_subs_growth).

This isn't helped the options of NYT + smartphone edition, NYT + tablet edition, and NYT + everything edition (crossword puzzles and other NYT products excluded). Where is the NYT + no frills edition? I do read news on my phone, but I prefer a bare minimum summary of important events in that context. But apparently I must purchase a mobile app I don't want and would never use in order to have subscriber access via the browser.
Human-sized hamster wheel makes you work to charge your phone
In yours maybe. In mine there's at microwave/regular oven combo which I use as an oven only when cooking cakes and pies or the odd dish requiring it. Electric stove for rumsteaks and pastas. The rest is microwave, microwave, microwave, cooking all sorts of liquids and vegetables. It is so much more energy and water efficient.
Here's a pic of part of the Los Angeles Times publishing plant:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_djhOGl10yrQ/S9iTs3OOI5I/AAAAAAAAAE...

(The post is here: http://edpadgett.blogspot.com/2010/04/end-is-near-for-lat-or...)

This does not include the paper mills and the delivery trucks.

The point trying to be raised is that the infrastructure needed for print distribution is much, much heavier than that for electronic distribution. And much harder to scale.

Because of this, it seems like the online subscriptions are overpriced relative to print.
For one thing, IE 8 is arguably a more secure browser than Firefox due to its use of low-integrity process isolation on Windows Vista and 7. It's also more stable than Firefox in my experience, probably because of the way it isolates browser windows into separate processes.

And now IE 9 has a rendering engine that's at least equal to Firefox's. It lags behind Firefox's user interface in some respects (customization, built-in spell check), but it feels much faster, and it doesn't bog down over a long browsing session like Firefox does (again thanks to isolated browser processes – now one for each tab, just like Chrome).

For my part, I still think Chrome is superior to both IE and Firefox for general web browsing, but these days I certainly wouldn't look at someone funny for choosing IE. It may just take a little while for the folk knowledge that "IE suxors!" to catch up to the new reality.
But it requires that those who receive licenses from you (or source) be able to pass them to others, free or charge or not.
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Is it terse or is it just concise?

So many 'business' people think that long waffling sentences seem clever and impressive. Nothing is further from the truth.
This is great. Thanks in advance for providing the videos. Will the news of the videos availability be announced on Twitter?
The Linux kernel specifically allows programs to make system calls into the kernel without being GPL. From http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38/COPYING

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.

The Linus quote on the other hand, pertains to binary modules -- ie. binaries that are linked into kernel-space and use non-system-call APIs.

Since user programs are specifically exempt from being GPL'd, I cannot see how you could possibly make the argument that Angry Birds is somehow affected, unless it is being linked in as a kernel module.

What is in these headers? If it is just definitions that are required for making system calls, I would expect that all of this falls under the exception above.
If the ability to "go places" is what's important, than doesn't that make the C player the A player? It's like we're measuring something, then saying we really want to measure this other thing instead.
Lots, but it's tax-deductible.
Wow. I knew about the durability changes but I had no idea that sparse and covered indexes where coming. These three changes where the biggest drawbacks to mongo for me.
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The article flat-out lies about achieving radiation immunity. Claims like these are extremely representative examples of misleading sensationalism. There is simply no room for discussion about the central point: the article is making statements that are provably wrong. After that come the smaller claims they make, several of which sound highly dubious to me, especially your favorite one here:

> "'It's not that we're blocking radiation from hitting the tissue,' he says. 'Somehow...they repair themselves, and go about their business.'"

I strongly suspect there is no data to support this statement. We have known about small-scale repairs for a few years now, but this statement goes far beyond that. With the radiation doses involved, this phenomenon would require the reconstruction of information that is quite simply lost from the genome. Of course it is possible that many of these cells "go about their business", but that's not the same as assuming they have somehow repaired themselves.

As far as being "automatically credited on this site" I think you should give the other users a little more credit, and perhaps tone down your blanket judgements a little at the same time. Just because I made a few "scientific-sounding arguments" doesn't mean I'm automatically wrong. The article claims immunity from radiation which is total gibberish. As far as the alleged complete self-repair goes, there are plenty of reasons to be extremely weary about this as well.

By the way, I think I made it clear in the original post how important research like this is. At the same time I believe it's even more important not to misrepresent findings.
This is a great point....market potential seems to be top of mind more than anything else.....which reminds me of how Sequoia invests....clearly they got the larger vision (and presumably had more data points as they invested later)
I'd actually like to see what that looks like, even if it's just a joke.
Umm, "required a personal introduction." Does he not understand how discrimination works?
Exactly, it really has become the go to place for my pet projects as well as professional projects. Regardless of what platform/backend mix I choose, Dotcloud usually has it.

I don't have to worry about forcing myself to use RoR because there was only Heroku anymore.
I can just hope that this site renders fine on IE6.
Oooo... Its the Big One... You hear that Elizabeth... I'm comin' to you, I'm comin' home to Georgia
Answer: It's really expensive and complicated to run an at-scale, common infrastructure project. If identi.ca got to scale it might cost $100-200k a month for servers and bandwidth. That doesn't take into account building out five to ten sysadmins and a customer support department.

Of course, Wikipedia has done it.... last I heard they had hundreds of servers in four locations. That has to cost millions a year to service.
Jesus, why does HN care about this guy?
Tiobe Index’s Biggest Jumpers This March: Lisp, Lua, Ada, NXT-G
Based on previous discussions, I think it's done intentionally to reflect a pivot (away from airbeds).
Fascinating conversation. Thanks for giving insight into how these deals work...

>ABNB reminds me of Etsy in that it facilitates real commerce in a marketplace model directly between two people.

Interestingly enough, I still tend to side with Fred's assessment of AirBnB's future. All my experiences with it as a user have been too unreliable to expect that it can scale to truly massive usability. Selling your old guitar online is a lot different than renting a room to someone. Renting a room has so much more of a personal aspect to it.

There are so many more subtleties to actually having a stranger come and stay in your house than there are to sending a stranger a book, guitar, etc via USPS.

Regardless, I still think there's a massive market out there for this type of thing, I just don't see it swallowing up the whole Hotel industry.
"It's as much a rag as HuffPo, it's just a lot better at maintaining "production value"."

Well then, you're in luck. The content you don't care about will not longer be free to you. Enjoy your full refund.

Seriously, I can't take you seriously if you don't suggest an alternative. Print and other broadcast media were the most efficient way to reach large numbers of people. The internet changes that somewhat because you no longer have (much of) a marginal cost to differentiate your information product. The long tail works for information products as well.

UNFORTUNATELY, this means that those things (classifieds, ads, coupons/inserts) aren't going to be available to subsidize the higher-cost things (investigative eporting, foreign bureaus). Craigslist and eBay did more to hurt newspapers than "bloggers" ever did. Free NYtimes content online was a way to stay in the game until they could figure out the new business model. Which they will or they wont.

What I don't get is your anger over this. Why do you care? Either they'll do OK or they wont. The only difference to YOU that I can see is that you'll no longer have access to that "rag" for free. You've already stated that you dont like the articles. It's clear to me that you're not going to be taxed on them either.

The rest of us who are willing to pay (because we find value) will probably do so. I'm thankful that someone else is willing to do the hard work and write this stuff up. I've got precious little time as it is and the premium I am willing to pay for smart, relevant content is some value substantially greater than zero.
not sure whether this is in 1) but the fact that they actually talked to their customers in NYC etc. is a huge point as well.
I'd argue that those most likely to use Adblock and similar addons are those least likely to ever click on them. My (quite anecdotal) observation is that many less technologically minded users notice and click on ads, while more experienced users see only the content and grow tired of flashing in their peripheral vision.

That hypothesis extends partially to why Hacker News and similar are so different from, for example, the much messier layout of cnn.com.
This is neither terse nor concise. Terse and concise means you write what you mean. When the VC writes, "we are still in the data-gathering phase", he really means "I see what you are saying, but my gut says no right now. I may contact you in the future when I know more."

This is longer, but it actually means something. Instead of saying that he needs more data in order to make a decision, he's said that he needs more time to make a decision. The data comes natrually.

A "data-gathering-phase" is the phase that everyone is always in about everything. I am currently in a "data-gathering-phase" with respect to whether or not I should make another cup of coffee. My current cup is cold, but still contains liquid. So it's not a sure thing that I should make myself another cup of coffee. On the other hand, hot coffee is nice. I can't decide, so I will continue to gather temperature and flavor data until I make a decision or I spill my coffee.

See how meaningless that is?
Creating Shazam as an undergraduate term project is essentially impossible. Just assembling a sufficiently large database would take longer.
Imagine K12
We don't need an open source web service - we need an open protocol like smtp, ftp, rss, etc.
To me it looks like something designed by Fisher Price. The original has a sci-fi feel to it, like a high tech machine that looks simple, but hides a lot of high tech inside. Even the subtle details on the side of the yellow portion lead you to think there's more than what the eyes can see. The new logo says 'toy'... and nothing else.
I also noticed that the test sites were the sites of all the Fortune 1000 companies.

I'm thinking these might not be ideally representative of the kinds of sites I actually browse. Why not test some more content-rich sites, or the most popular sites, instead?
Just reminds me of: "Ron wrote back in literally 2 minutes and said, in what I have learned is Ron’s distinctive email style (immediate, short, all caps), “AM ON IT.”" (http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/07/ron-conway-explained/)

The format seems more IM-over-email than "email where important shit goes down."
Have you met the Sequoia guys?
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Ask HN: closely related patent held by bankrupt company
I've been working on a project and was writing the provisional patent application when I came across a closely related patent which is held by a fairly large company which declared bankruptcy and was then bought by another large company.

The patent doesn't expire for quite a few years from now.

One of the big differences between my application and the existing one, is that the existing patent has such a general scope as to how it would work that it could not conceivably create a reliable result.

As a comparison point, I'd say their patent is like somebody patenting 'a system for the search and retrieval of webpages where results are ordered by relevance' where my application is much more like google pagerank, which describes the method for calculating and creating the relevance order. Note: neither patent is related to web search.

Any suggestions on how to handle a situation like this? I figured there would be prior art, but hadn't been able to track any down until now.
How to raise your profile on Github
I'm starting to learn as well, thanks for the links guys
My take on it is that Airbnb is great unless you're the kind of person that doesn't trust strangers. Sadly, in the United States, the tendency to not trust strangers has been on the upswing for the last few decades.
No, you can't! I use node.js!
Hmm. What's your workflow for reencoding every file in a directory with a name matching a certain pattern and then renaming the reencoded files with a number based on the order that the original files were in? For example, M2441j.avi (an MPEG) should be reencoded into H.264 and then renamed to 23.mp4. All files not matching M###j.avi should be ignored.

Yes, I know that this probably isn't something that you ever do, but humor me. Would you go hunting through, identify all those files and then reencode and rename them by hand? I certainly wouldn't, I would spend maybe five minutes writing and testing a script to do it for me, and then just invoke it every time I needed to do so again in the future.

Programming is all about automation, and the command line is perfect for making programs that do easily repeatable tasks. It's also far easier to debug. As an analogy, do you prefer writing programs by hand or putting together building blocks? It's the exact same thing.
Personalization is hot even outside the social software arena...
I'm surprised this isn't getting more play. This is huge.
>It is so much more energy and water efficient.

Is it? Maybe for small meals. http://www.terrapass.com/images/blogposts/450-POWER-GRAPH.ht...

I think a pressure cooker on a stove is much more energy and water efficient.
I was in my previous apartment for 18 months and never turned on either the oven, or stove. I can't even tell you if it was plugged in.

The Microwave, on the other hand, was my magical baked potato maker and chinese-food/pasta reheater.

Of course, I've been in my current house for a little over a year, and don't believe I've ever heated up anything in the kitchen, so perhaps I'm an outlier.
Poptarts instructions: "Microwave on high for 3 seconds". Probably my favorite use...what else can you make in 3 seconds?

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Lots of folks say that raising your profile on Github is a good way to improve your job prospects. In particular, creating, contributing to, and maintaining open source projects can really raise your profile.

Devon Ross found a rather unique shortcut to accomplish this.
I wonder if missed investments like this have the senior guys listening to the junior members a bit more, or whether the young guys are wrong enough to keep it biz as usual.
Yes, and the more you can strengthen those habits in the good times, the better they will carry you through the bad.
If it were to be converted to a 1-bit image (Black/white) you could still make out what it is. That's basically the silhouette test.

This one doesn't quite work because there's no separation between the three colors that make up the circle. Not that it needs to, though. This one is better than the last for this test. In this case the silhouette would be the larger outer circle and the smaller inner circle.

It's really only used in print design, or at least that's how it started because logos needed to be versatile enough to work in many different color spaces, including being sent via fax. It is useful to keep in mind so that we create clean and uncluttered logos, though.
Strangers renting rooms are only a piece of their future. HomeAway (vacation rentals) just bought a superbowl commercial and are reporting revenue of $100M+.

writing on the wall: https://skitch.com/webwright/rieyj/airbnb-search

Note the # of entire home/apt entries. My guess is that these (with B&Bs, inns, and eventually hotels) will dominate the listings.

ABNB has a challenge with positioning moving forward-- a LOT of people think they are all about renting a room in a stranger's house, sharing a common area, etc. But their growth speaks for itself.
I like my salads simple. So honestly, half the time I just go into the store, and buy a cucumber and a tomato, or something like that, and eat 'em with a little salt. Cheap, nutritious, etc.
What about "Toby Tablerow, SaveIE6 founder"

Tablerow, heh.
Perhaps I'm mistaken but "They would celebrate whoever got the highest dose of the week by making them buy the beer for the rest." seems like very good culture. The policy uses free beer to incentivize low radiation exposure.

It actually sounds like a fairly effective way to encourage everyone to pay attention.
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