skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to see that the new development team will stay true to the source material.
may be RIAA is from the future ("Austin Powers")
Their behavior may be rational if they believe that no new business model can work.
Heretical tales not part of the Canon...
Simple. Just dig out your checkbook, write out a check for $75,000,000,000,000, sign and date it, smile, and invite RIAA to take it to the bank and see what happens.
This is a great thing. Status.net is an awesome project, and Evan is brilliant - but having a bunch of inter-operable services and projects just makes OStatus that much more useful. I can't wait for more.

I hope everyone's creating machine images for these projects. It should take two minutes to start your own microblogging site - ideally with as little technical involvement as possible.
@aaronontheweb

Are you tying the resize of the background directly to the window resize or scroll event? You might want to consider using setTimeout(customResizeFunc, 100) just to keep the scroll event from blocking
I can see trying this, but the local truck has to turn left given the roads. Looking at the comments to the story, it seems many are reporting a different tale.
The $2 Interactive Whiteboard
that's an excellent point that i hadn't considered. maybe they realize (correctly or incorrectly) that there's no way to sustain their business at the level to which they're accustomed, so they're just slash-and-burning the whole thing and taking the lumber to build new houses.
Why is Google disallowing the sale of Chrome extensions?
It's been 7 months now since the ability to sell Chrome apps was added to the Chrome Web Store, and it's still not possible to sell extensions in the Chrome Web Store without insecurely using the Chrome Web Store Payments API.
Commercial pressure can often produce better art.

Compare old Star Wars to new Star Wars.

Or The Matrix to its hypothetical sequels.
I am really not sure it is good for users. They are paying for a experience and I am not sure the Android apps will work as well as native apps. It might be much like an X windows program on OS X.
This is the record industry's inflation adjusted Doctor Evil moment.
I was more thinking along the lines that the GE engineers who designed the plant, etc, would help out. Incredibly, in the first few days after the quake the military was on top of things but there were rumblings at the NRC of "Let's distance ourselves from this. If something goes wrong, we don't want blowback." That got mostly fixed a wee bit before it went to press. (Newspapers: yesterday's news, today!)
Idle, evidence-free speculation: I suspect that Gearbox completely started the project over when they got the trademarks. I suspect that they didn't use a single line of whatever morass of code in various stages of abandonment or obsolescence that they got out of acquiring the property.

I think they dove in and built a game from the ground up. Perhaps there were art assets worth using, but perhaps not even that.
Magnetic Gels That Swim, Shimmy, and 'Walk'
I think that when you ask for more money than the GDP of the entire world you should be laughed out of court and then slapped with a punitive judgment for wasting the court's time and resources.

But that's just me.
I can't find it in the market. I tried searching "color" and "color labs". Is it available outside the USA?
AOL tries for Silicon Valley cred
It boggles the mind how much money this would have cost in forgone earnings.

Perfection comes at a high price. Duke had and retains the power to be an absolutely massive franchise. With a steady tick-tock development model, you could pump out new Duke games every 18 months and be raking in hundreds of millions per release by now. And that's before considering movies, tie-ins and merchandising.

Perfection has destroyed value.
Roughly the same amount too.
Cool idea: Mini magnetic white boards for mobile, web wireframing
I remember when 'flybuys' first came out in Australia they had neglected to handle cases where goods were returned. Trampoline sales (and returns) went through the roof!
Sounds great, looks great, but actually trying to sign up with a new account using email address (because using my Twitter or Facebook login on this seems well, kind of inappropriate) returns "Internal Server Error".

Fail.
Disagree that FB "sucks at mobile."
re: "The uncoupled securities now do not just include derivatives but also commodity contracts as exchanges no longer have the limits in place of having actual products to enter into those contracts." This is a subject of great debate among commodity followers, including silver and gold. See many, many discussions regarding the CFTC rules (or lack of same) around "naked" short positions--a method whereby huge banking institutions can create a false "demand" and reduce the price. Lately, it appears, (Though not verified.) that there isn't enough silver to actually meet the contracts held by people or institutions who want actual delivery. In the past, the speculators and huge banks would exit the fray before it became time to actually deliver the goods. However, rumor has it that the actual supply of real silver is so tight and the buyers (the longs) are sticking to the end, that the shorts cannot find metal to deliver and are paying off in cash. (at, of course, a premium) Its fun to watch -- harveyorgan.blogspot.com/ being one of many places. Another source is zerohedge.com. I am only touching on a much larger drama, but it looks like this is one place where the bankers are taking a hit.
knowingly passing a bad check is a crime.

A bit modifying your idea, the Limewire LLC should just accept the 75T debt or even willingly accept another couple hundred T on top of it. Let it be round 1000T to cover any future violations.
I'm not sure of the specifics but I believe we did continue getting it indexed by Google during TimesSelect.
How many folks have actually _tried_ this app yet? I downloaded it, and despite having been a user of Path, Instagram and just about every other photo sharing / social media app that's popular, I've yet to get any interesting result from it. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but how the hell do you use this thing? Am I supposed to just randomly take photos and hope other people nearby are using the app? Why do I care if they are?
Interesting point, but I don't think that's what's happening. If it is then some people need to be fired.

Apple is raking in billions from itunes that could have gone to the recording industry.
Replace "will" with "will probably, based on a variety of assumptions, most notably continued technical progress in the long term". Economy of words.
What do they do in their app that's innovative? Aside from the ability to check in, their apps are basically mobile web pages.
Actually, I think it's a great long term move for their QNX-based platform. End users don't care whether an app is native, Android, AIR, WebWorks or Java-based as long as it's available in some form.

Having more apps offers an incentive for early adopters and end users to invest in the platform in the near term. Eventually, as the platform grows (perhaps as a result of the various app offerings), developers will start creating native applications.
New Products: Announce Early or Go for the Surprise Rollout? (2007)
Why Is Microsoft Seeking to Sue Competitors For Piracy by Overseas Suppliers?
Damnit, I should have left out the period.
These steered arrays have been standard radar technology for decades. The signal processing involved is not that advanced. I assume when it's needed it can be done.
I didn't say they were innovative, just that they don't suck. Different people have different FB needs, but for me, I just want to scroll through my news feed, comment on stuff and get out. It works fine for that. n=1.
Lots of discussion on the matter here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884685

tl;dr: If you need Amazon's bandwidth/intranet, use EC2. Otherwise go with Linode.
Line-art vs. Color: Thoughts on a high-resolution social graph
"In order to follow someone from Identi.ca, just paste the ATOM feed from their profile into rStat.us."

That's when it all falls down, of course. And you can't follow people on Twitter?
Giles Bowkett: Why I Hate Social Software
the lmin[1] macro will convert the uints to a long int and then do the arithmetic.

[1]static __inline long lmin(long a, long b) { return (a < b ? a : b); }

[2]static __inline u_int min(u_int a, u_int b) { return (a < b ? a : b); }

Edit:
6.3.1.8 Usualarithmetic conversions in the c-99 standard.
this is becoming a cliche!
I'm not sure where you're heading with this. I was trying to tell the parent comment that arguing against 'amateur' coders writing php is the same as the Linux kernel was factually incorrect.
Are any HN'ers making livable money off Android apps? My experience so far suggests that even if iOS is a better money maker in general it's also very competitive at this point and hard to break into, so I'm considering trying some Android apps too.
this is the follow-up btw: http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/rim-rant-follow-up/ , RIM was trying to make things right.
The main purpose of a golden parachute and cash comp is to allow a troubled company in trouble to get good talent.

At $1 million or more per year, you can get all the talent you need. I have more talent than 90+% of big-company CEOs in the US and I will work for less. What is actually being paid-for in getting a big-ticket CEO is connections and reputation. Don't misuse words like that, at least not the word "talent".
How could it possibly benefit indie developers to give up more of their rights? The rights held back by the GPL --- for the developer --- are almost exactly those those required by companies to commercialize software. I'm vociferous about the GPL entirely because it enables developers to profit from their labor. The GPL is anathema to megacorps. That's why you dual-license, and charge out the wazoo for the corp-friendly license.

You really, really, really need re-evaluate your take on this. GPL is the most indie-friendly of the licenses. There's a valid gripe against it: it fractures the open source community into "people who can use GPL code" and "people who can't use GPL code". But that has nothing to do with commercialization. Once you BSD license something, it is extraordinarily difficult to commercialize the code itself.
I've been following @jason and @om discussing this on twitter and I look forward to Om's newsletter due later today.

I feel they both have a point. The idea of an Implied Social Network (ISN) is disruptive to services like facebook and foursquare. While it doesn't make those services obsolete, it does change the dynamic. An ISN tears down the walls of meeting people with an auto-introduction and has the potential of expanding your social network 100x.

As for the functionality of the Color application, I feel they completely missed the user experience side. It looks great and could potentially be great to use, but right now I have a picture of myself on a blank wall. They missed their opportunity at SXSW, plain and simple. The app needs a UX overhaul and some expanded connection functionality.

We are going to see an a move towards these open and fluid social networks in the near future. Social should be open to the web and the users and communities should sprout organically.

The community is coming.
I should put this moment in a diary or something. The moment my 'cool. awesome!' response was entirely dampened by my 'wow. fetishization much?' response.

I don't even own a lawn yet :[
ip accepts shortened versions of it's commands
e.g.

ip a

can be used instead of

ip addr

Even shorter than ifconfig!
I think you need to focus your product on a specific killer use case. I'm a bit lost as to what your unique core vision is beyond making the world a better place by helping people, cause I'm sure no one else in the world is trying to do that.
Don't get me wrong, I think it has its uses, I just think it's pretty limited in scope, to the point that it probably shouldn't be compared with Quora and Yelp. Not only are you unlikely to find the best Mexican in SF, you're not likely to find out about too many new places with that particular type of salsa: chances are good that you've at least heard of the place that everyone's voting for, and that awesome new place doesn't look too appealing, 'cause it only got one vote.

On the other hand, it'd be pretty good for confirming that your friends actually like your favorite Mexican restaurant as much as you do (or maybe that you should have that party somewhere else), and everyone in Texas thinking of visiting SF will probably be happy to be able to make a poll of where they should eat (granted, they could have just posted a comment and counted the "likes" on each response).
Groupon accused of 'bait and switch' advertising on Google.com in lawsuit
Ask HN: Favorite Social Sharing Button Groups?
I'm sprucing up a bit of hn-books.com today with an eye towards making it easier for users to share links from the reviews on their social networks.

I've thought about using one of the "pre-canned" solutions where you sign up for a service and they give you the javascript and it automagically lets you share on 15 zillion sites, but quite frankly there's really only a few hacker-related sites: digg, dzone, HN, twitter, tumblr, etc. It might be better just to roll my own bar.

Does anybody have any favorite social sharing bars they created or like on another site? Any tips from folks who have already went down this path?
To be honest, I wish the blog post would have actually answered, "what is this all about?" It was all garnish, no meat.
Reserve your identity with gokit
My understanding is that all the exciting changes in Honeycomb involve the user interface, which is all ASL.
If you are developing for iOS or Android, you can replace the entire preceding two paragraphs with one sentence: Press the button that says Build and Run (or the equivalent button within Eclipse for Android).

snort Sure, or at least that's what happens after you've gone through provisioning hell on the iPhone. (I don't know how the Playbook works, that may be a problem as well).

For what it's worth, the iPhone SDK was much less developer-friendly early on than it is today - an unpolished developer experience, by itself, won't be a showstopper. What will really matter is how many people buy the Playbook.
While I see why people would do this, I think it would ruin the site. When people are forced to use their real identity I've found the quality is always much higher.
Aim Higher: Stop Building Photo Sharing Apps
because most people secretly desire to be rich - that desire is in our cognitive makeup, so is the desire to bash rich people.
Unfortunately, the only people who care about Twitter's recent actions are the nerds. At this point Twitter has too much momentum for the nerds to have much (if any) influence. Building "open" technology isn't an effective method of social engineering here. I wish I knew a better alternative but I don't.

That being said, I never understood why everyone (including pg) referred to Twitter as this great new protocol. It's 100% proprietary and this type of decision should have been easily predicted. SMTP and POP are protocols, Twitter and Facebook are websites with APIs.

But good for the developers. The seem passionate about the idea and are building it. Kudos.
Neato. Feature suggestion: add a waterfall chart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_chart
As someone who's never heard of Qbix I came away from this post with the knowledge that you make "tools to accomplish things with" that represent "a leap in social communication." Oh, and that you're out to change the world. Before clicking around the site I actually thought it was a parody.
You may find this a helpful starting point:

http://www.dlt.ri.gov/lmi/census/wf/female.htm
>As it turns out, the information about Morgan Stanley’s $3.5 billion discount-window loan has been sitting on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s website since last month. The panel didn’t mention it in its final report. And nobody had written a story about it before.

Makes you wonder what other sort of "non-public" information is actually out there just waiting to be found.
I've been looking in to this recently and the point he makes about flying crazy routes to get extra miles is a little off. It may work for some airlines, but I know for others you earn miles for how far your start and end points are apart from each other, not how long your route actually was.

So if you're flying Los Angeles to Seattle, but have a layover in Miami, you would only earn the miles that someone flying Los Angeles to Seattle would.
I voted you up sir
Could you get the relevant twitter account, so people could follow it? Looks abandoned with that last tweet made may '08.
I agree, FB doesn't "suck at mobile". But its a safe app, there is nothing innovative, nothing disruptive, and no killer feature. FB doesn't suck, I just expect more. They are going stagnant.
But he states 'Bubble era valuation multiples were more than 10 times higher than current comparable multiples'. That is essentially putting the new best of breed in those tables. We don't have public markets to go by, but he's using private market figures to compare the two.
I had this, err, idea! Congrats for doing what I wouldn't do and implementing it. Perhaps I should have just put the idea on CaptainObvio.us and let someone else implement it ;-)
iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0
do i get points for that? ;)
Fully baked?

This code is shipping on commercially sold devices right now. Wake up.
"(As you may know, Japan has displayed a special sort of organizational paralysis in this crisis, but wouldn’t it be surprising if “toys” like these were used in an incident managed by Very Serious People anywhere in the world?)"

I'm pretty sick of these sorts of comments. I absolutely do NOT know that the Japanese authorities have failed to meet expectations as far as their responsiveness to this disaster. I know it strokes the pleasure center of some people to regurgitate wherever possible stereotypes of hiveminded, hidebounded, unimaginative Japanese, but let's at least wait until some actual evidence emerges of their failure to take initiatve in dealing with 1) the worst earthquake / tsunami they have experienced in modern history 2) the second most catastrophic nuclear disaster ever, in the span of two weeks.
Is Android actually less competitive? (That's not a rhetorical question.)

It seems like there are lots of developers who would naturally prefer developing on Android to developing on iOS. Additionally, the recent stream of developers getting more and more pissed off at Apple probably has been resulting in at least some switching, albeit not the exodus that some of those pissed off people predicted. (The allure of big money trumps the fear of frustration -- and Apples store certainly has the allure of money.)
I can see this being replaced with something automated. As it stands it smacks of "hacker put a text input field to test functionality and it works." I mean, worst-case, they could screenscrape the user's page and pull the Atom URL that way.
These examples might also be due to collaborative pressure.

On Star Wars, Lucas worked with a great editor who could say no to him. Same for script on Empire. For the Star Wars films 1-3 Lucas had total control over everything.
Interesting, but this isn't true for any of the major US carriers (e.g, UA/CO, AA, DL), so I don't think it undermines his presentation.
UX design can't be scaled up beyond a single individual very effectively, so it has to be a founder responsibility.
Still trying to work out how this wooden iPad cover outsmarts Apple's own cover (as promised in the title). Can anyone help me out?
Didn't this already happen, and last time we got identi.ca? Why spin off a new microblogging site when there already is one rebel site full of open source devs? What does rStat.us get us that identi.ca didn't?
The iPad is a computer that, as far as my mom is concerned, you never have to boot, don't have to think about the operating system on, don't require peripherals for, can stick in your purse, can tap 3-4 times to get install any of 10's of thousands of applications, can tap 3-4 times to install any of thousands of movies and TV shows on, and costs half of what a cheap laptop cost only recently.

Can you inform me of the obvious potential of "Color" that I'm missing? Because I also seriously don't get it. And: I like Instagram. But I don't think it's the future or anything.

(Yes. They would have dodged this Daring Fireball post if Adam Lisagor had done a video for them.)
That's what also struck me. I already have thousands of photos that I don't look at - both hardcopy and on a hard drive.
Donald Knuth's IFAQ
So... it's the great photo sharing app of all time, then? Um, ok? $41MM?

When's the last time you had even the faintest urge to share a photo? I'm a geek, and that urge hits maybe once every other week.
It depends on the execution. But the idea is simple and I had a use for it just a few days ago - I was going to attend a gathering. I have not noted down the address and can't remember if the invite came through from Facebook, any one of my email addresses, IM or text. If I can go to a single textbox, type the name of the host and popup the invite/address, it would have been great.
The site isn't mine, I remember coming across it on KillerStartups a while ago.
Well, this is our first post on the blog. It may be a little bit grandiose. But to tell you the truth, what's written there is exactly right on. We have a technology, a capable team, we are funded, we are on a roll, and our products are doing very well on the iPhone and Mac right now (top 25 on the Mac App Store).

It will all make a lot more sense once I start writing more blog entries. I am pretty excited, and that blog is like anything else we do ... it will come together part by part, and it will all make sense.

I have a question though ... do you think the header doesn't work with the white background? We designed the rest of our site to be pleasant to look at for long periods of time, and in my experience, white isn't. I'm curious what you think
Perhaps it would have been better to say "FB is adequate at mobile--but not innovative or killer. "
That's easily the best thing about the iPad.
Right, except Facebook is also the largest photo-sharing site on the web right now, and one of the most used iPhone apps. So, they've already got all of that data (edit: and momentum) that Color will need to somehow get, and I'm not quite sure how Color will disrupt THAT.

I do agree about the part that Sequoia probably knows what they're doing but the current Color product is shoddy and underwhelming, with that amount of cash and no pressure to launch (SxSW is gone!) - why would you launch a shitty product?
Yes, what exactly is this all about?
I guess I didn't put it very well. You're right.

Put another way: It's commercial pressure that made Lucas subject to collaboration. And it's subsequent commercial pressure that made collaborators subject to Lucas.
I think they make different iPhone apps (like a Groups and Calendar management app), click through the links on top.

Wouldn't have guessed that from the blog post though.
Cool - this is exactly what we're working on over at mileagebrain.com.

It is a system, and it can be hacked - I figured it quite likely that the hacker crowd would be interested in this (like I am).
Seems like the type of thing Facebook could do much more easily with machine learning. Even some simple graph analysis should be able to extract your various clique-like structures. From there you have a dense feature set to figure out what each cluster probably means to you.
if the salesman wasnt obviously selling to the point of discomfort, people would take him serious and then bother to prove him wrong.