skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind Slideshows -- Your mind, the original entertainment system
http://mindslideshows.heroku.com/

An idea I had recently when I thought about how we could use our minds beyond just slurping up information from screens all day. And have fun with it. And point into a direction we're usually not thinking about.

I find it highly entertaining, and recommend closing your eyes as part of the experience. Usually it takes a first consciously created association to get the show rolling.

Enjoy! :)
Allow me to point you to these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

Not to mention that you are making an awful lot of unwarranted assumptions about the outraged people.
I think it's more of an ideology. Obviously, the NYT could (and probably will) close down particular workarounds, such as this one, but the bigger picture is that computer-savvy people will always be able to get around the paywall as long as it's targeted at blocking mainstream users.
Interesting article.

The author compares map-reduce to Teradata. Serious question: could a system on the scale of Google's various "apps" run on a Teradata database?
No more QR-codes from Google?
A very strange decision
He sees himself as the hero of the village. Practically a superhero to these Africans.

You don't see how a massive narcissist would find that fulfilling?
+1 is available outside of the US, I'm using it from Peru right now. Just enable it here http://google.com/experimental
>And Google stated their definition of open

Which has nothing to do with Gruber's definition of open. If Gruber has his own definition of 'open' then it's that definition which matters when assessing whether he's being hypocritical or not.
I am a fan of both Top Gear (seen every episode, save for the most recent series) and Tesla (would kill for a Roadster or Model S).

The Tesla Roadster review seemed to be fairly typical of Top Gear; with Jeremy Clarkson pointing out his likes and dislikes in fairly equal proportion. Clarkson in fact seemed very impressed with the Roadster’s performance and I believe the official lap time placed it somewhere around a comparable Porsche 911. The breakdowns seemed believable, especially for a supercar; as Richard Hammond pointed out in a later episode within that series (wherein a Pagani Zonda breaks down within the first few test laps on the Top Gear track) that it’s the nature of supercars to "explode immediately" on use. Tesla didn’t seem to receive a harsher treatment than any other car manufacturer.

The Tesla Roadster is an amazing product, but it -like every machine made before it- has a few bugs to be worked out. Nothing out of the ordinary.
It's been a while since I've seen the episode in question, but who's in the right depends entirely on whether the claims were falsified. If the brakes did fail and the motor did overheat, then it doesn't make much sense for Tesla to sue. Either way, I suspect we'll find out.
The big thing there is if. Doesn't seem to be much unbiased information out there. But basically the BBC seems to be saying they're sticking by their claims.

The segment's online, this doesn't seem to be a review for comedic value: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfHyGD7_pM

Clarkson (the presenter) seems to have clarified what actually happened on the day here (2 pages, starts near bottom of 1st):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/art...

There is an especially strong claim in the article:

Tesla could not complain about what was shown because it was there... Tesla, when contacted by reporters, gave its account of what happened and it was exactly the same as [Top Gear's]. It explained that the brakes had stopped working because of a blown fuse and didn’t question at all [Top Gear's] claim that the car would have run out of electricity after 55 miles.

So either Clarkson's grossly misrepresenting Tesla's behaviour so far, which would be very odd, or Tesla's suddenly done an about turn and thinks it can get the BBC to say something else.

But the BBC's not playing ball with Tesla at all: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12907367
Oh, well then that makes sense, thanks :)

(I've actually been wondering where the name came from, and asked a few times, but never got an answer. I assume that it was his idea, then?)

To be honest, though, I spend a ton of time reading technology news, and had no idea who Dick Costolo was until right now, so I don't know that it's really safe to say "everybody".

Perhaps Dorsey coming back is kindof "New Coke"?
Soon, App numbers will not be a differentiator for WP7 Competition
The USS Enterprise Recreated in 3D Inside and Out
Maybe they should take the hint and move the fuck away from elephant country? Nah, easier just to kill them.
This is going to have about as much effect on GoDaddy's userbase and bottom line as did all of the privacy concerns last year with Facebook.

A sliver of a fraction of GoDaddy customers will ever see that video or even hear about it. Most people buy domains there because they have hot chicks in super bowl commercials.
Well, did u by any chance mean expert sex change??
How much money are side projects actually making people? (Taxes are a big issue. Is your app really worth enough to have to deal with a 1040 + 1099s instead of the 1040EZ?)
GoDaddy is essentially 100% owned by Bob Parsons. I've heard that their marketing department dislikes the Super Bowl ads almost as much as the rest of us, but the final call rests with Bob.
The way I see it, the point is that the NYT convoluted and overpriced paywall is no better than any other "DRM" on copy-protection: crackers will always find a way through.

If you look at the movie and music industries, antipiracy measures have constantly failed to stop people from "stealing" their products. They want the people to go back to "the way it was before" when you bought your newspaper every morning and rented videotapes. All it did is give more troubles to legitimate buyers and give more incentive to go bittorent.

Netflix, Spotify and others try to move forward and find new ways to monetize the media, by actually adding value over the "old way" and by making illegal download actually _less_ convenient than their legit services. I believe the NYT and all the other news conglomerates need to find their Netflix, not try to make things more difficult for users and give us the feeling we're losing something.
This is perfectly acceptable, and all the bravado about moving domains looks silly. Obviously, the local citizens (tour guides) in this video didn't want to tell the warden about the elephant.

Additionally, I have no doubt the owners of many registrars do objectionable things. The devil you know...
Google’s Android isn’t so ‘open’ anymore
I don't think there's any platform that can be used as a distribution medium and that doesn't come with strings attached. Even stuff licensed under GPL comes with strings attached.

And there are inherent disadvantages to being open, which Google is trying to mitigate here, and they have been doing this ever since Android launched (people have short memories or simply bad attitudes -- Android's source code wasn't released from the start).

If anything Google's behavior is actually consistent.
Well, I'm pretty sure this won't be a popular response, but anyway.

Firstly, I'm not really referring to this specific case. I think the video is tasteless and in many ways vile. However, I want to comment specifically on trophy hunting.

In my opinion, allowing big game hunters to pay for trophy animals is an important and integral part of animal conservation. In many impoverished African countries, their is little to no government funding to conserve animals.

Yes, there are risk factors. But personally, I believe the additional amount of animals that are killed due to the argument of excess demand is a lot less than the number of animals saved by the increased funding for poaching prevention.

Furthermore, I believe the economic benefits of this to the local community hugely improve the lives of the local people (who I believe are a lot more important than the elephants, as important as I think the elephants are), and that this improvement will decrease poaching.

To summarize:
- I agree that Trophy hunting can have negative effects.
- However, I believe the positives for animal conservation of Trophy Hunting offset the negatives in two major ways.
- Trophy Hunting decreases the ease with which poaching takes place by funding anti-poaching measures.
- Trophy Hunting decreases the extent to which poaching takes place by improving the situation of the local communities.

So if you are pro animal conservation, and pro human rights, you should be pro Trophy Hunting. IMHO.
Two new Google domains: Iraq and Tunisia
Direct link: http://www.yvoschaap.com/weblog/the_google_1_button_discover...
For QR-code companies it means one competitor less: http://servletsuite.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-more-qr-codes-fr...
How to put NFC chip on screen for example ...
There is very little reason to dread this move. I am not sure I like Unity yet, but I applaud Ubuntu for thinking outside the box. If you install Ubuntu 11.04 and want the old user interface, you can pretty much get it. Just install and then at the login screen, choose the classic desktop. Then, run the command metacity --replace. On one Narwhal test machine, I created a startup application to run this command on each boot. This gives you a desktop almost exactly like the old desktop. So, you can have the old or the new. Choice is nice and everyone is served.
What could this sentence possibly mean?

"His crew can build a more than 1GB in about 15 minutes (after stripping out debug information)"

1GB binary? 1GB of PHP? 1GB of C++ output? None of these sound like a good idea.
GameSalad raises $6M in quest to make everyone a game developer
This merely ensures that I will never use GoDaddy's services, and I'll also advise others not to use them.
That's like 60 Totino's Pizzas.
Someone Just Found An Embeddable Google +1 Button – And It Works
The types of searches you mentioned don't even monetize well on Google. The reason Google search is a profit machine is because people search for stuff like "lowest credit card rates", "refinance mortgage", "best shoes for my wedding".

Searches for "Japan Tsunami" and "Justing Beiber" are not revenue generating searches. Twitter's searches are only marginally monetizable.
Yeah, it's definitely classic scapegoating. The fact that it was mentioned makes them seem a bit petty...
Tesla Vs BBC: Top Gear Planned Dead Electric Car Shot Before Test
Skype 5 Ideas (a.k.a I’ve complained, and now I’m offering some ideas)
> Not sure if you read the article but Jacques specifically states there's a clear difference between a rich dude shooting the Elephant and a native Zimbabwean game warden doing it to protect his crops (which btw, there are many other ways of going about that than shooting it). The psychology behind the former doing it can be extremely powerful (and enraging) compared to the latter.

That's a great point. I mostly agree with the GP, but the symbolism of Parsons' actions is really powerful.
WordPerfect, Borland's compilers, etc. were widely considered the best back in the day, so I don't think it was primarily the strength of Microsoft's products which made people use them.

My recollection of this is a fair bit different. WP seriously began to lag Word in the 90s. While WP wss the undisputed king in MSDOS, on Windows it was buggy and late. Office 95 in particular was pretty crushing.

Borland was somewhat similar. They had a good set of dev tools, and for example, their C++ compiler was blindingly fast and the VCL was relatively clean (at least compared to MFC). But around VC 4.0 that began to change (at least build speed). VC started to beat Borland in build time and seemed to spread its lead in code quality. This coupled with a better IDE made is Visual C++ become the more common choice. Although I also think the strength of VB played a large role in the uptake in VC. No data to back it up, but anecdotcally I saw a lot of ISV shops bring VC along, because they were building a lot of internal tools with VB (and no one really had anything to compete with VB).

And lets be clear... VC was never shipped as part of Windows nor any bundling of VC with OEMs. So there's no monopoly ties that help push your case that VC became dominant through some monopoly manipulation.
SOE Hit With 205 Layoffs, Three Studio Closures, Agency Cancelled
"Unlike Google, you see, Facebook has been known to promptly open-source some of the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure."
That was my first reaction too. I guess I have to go back to my CueCat.
Google Goggles for People
It's not so much about slaughtering the elephant as it is exploitation of the villagers to promote his company.
It's like he's saying to them "Fine. I'll help you. I'll get rid of this elephant and save your crops and even feed you for a day or two, but you will have to wear my hats when you slaughter it".
If this is more a philanthropic gesture, are the hats necessary? Should Bill Gates require every kid who is saved from malaria wear Microsoft t-shirts?
That's not true. Vegetarians have a problem eating meat, hence the vege- prefix. I'm a vegetarian and have no problem with killing, especially for food. I'm just not going to eat meat.
oh screw off. He killed an elephant, an endangered animal, for fun. People should be outraged at that. So what if people "eat" meat, or haven't faced poverty or even been outside of their own town, let alone country. That doesn't mean they don't have a right to an opinion or to express it, unless of course that opinion is that other people shouldn't be allowed to have their own opinions... which is what you've basically just said.
This irked me, Google has contributed quite a bit to the open source world.
> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant.

Really? You know that the majority of ecologists support Elephant Culling (killing elephant family groups wholesale from helicopters)?

> There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them

There is an oversupply of elephants and an undersupply of space. Killing a lone elephant bull is no problem.

I find it sad that a lot of damage is done to the ecosystem and to other animals (which may not be as pretty as elephants) because some groups (such as PETA) opposed elephant culling.

How long does it take for a tree to grow? How long for a beautiful Baobab? Do you know how quickly an elephant fucks up a tree?
Elephants are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water).

And unfortunately due to stupid laws (making hunting difficult and other requirements) it is very expensive for private game farms to have animals.

I fail to see how anyone opposes elephant culling can label himself as an ecologist.

--PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE--:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Elephant-culling-in-Africa
You are connecting the actions of the CEO with the actions of the company. I am making a point about the culture of a company that actively promotes themselves with sexist advertising campaigns. They are free to do as they wish and I am free to suggest that supporting a company that promotes themselves in this manner is also supporting the attitude in our culture that 'women==objects for our amusement' and is rewarding them for adopting that attitude for profit.

[addressing a sibling comment] Yes, the actors in the ads are willing participants...and that matters why?

One useful way we have of responding to corporations is by not participating in their activity if we do not agree with them. And yet, this ability is horribly underused. Don't like sexism? Don't support companies that rely on it. Don't like violence? Don't support companies that participate in it?

I just find it interesting where people draw the lines.
It's a private company, run by a very opinionated individual with a demonstrated lack of concern for the feelings of others.

He might notice, but he's making so much money that I really doubt he cares.
The Hidden Secret Behind SaaS Pricing Strategies
A secret pricing strategy I learn about in Dan Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational" called the decoy effect. A super powerful behavioral strategy to steer website visitors to buy your "PLUS" price point. Powerful stuff here fella's...
I'd assume this statement was more offensive to vegetarians than watching that video. I'd assume that b/c I am one.

So what if you're offended? That's no reason for the other side of a rational argument to change their argument in reaction to you being offended, so it's irrelevant.
No No No. Anti competitive behaviour doesn't arise when consumers all choose to use a particular product because they can't be bothered to try others out. That means the product they chose is likely sufficient for their needs. The dominant use of Google Search doesn't preclude anyone from using Bing if they choose, and for this reason Google's dominance in search isn't anticompetitive. It's only when they use this dominance to enter and dominate another market (or, as in this case, preventing WinMobile's youtube app from accessing the same video metadata available to Android and iOS youtube apps).
You can ask around in the #bitcoin-otc channel on Freenode to get an idea of who's considered reputable. I understand Bitcoin4Cash is generally well-regarded.
Dealt w/ "top SEO" according to TopSEOs. Any blogs interested in the nightmare?
It was one of the worst experiences we have ever had with an outside vendor. They pretty much ruined SEO for our company by cementing the fact that it is mostly black magic and spammy tactics.<p>Does anyone here write for an SEO blog who would be interested in discussing our experience?<p>Here is the link to the Top SEO rankings, which I now know is BS: http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-seo-companies
Certainly Scots law is fairly different in this area from England & Wales (e.g. we don't have the separate concepts of libel and slander).
Perhaps some of us care more about endangered species than those getting scammed around the world? Just a thought.
Place as Filter
DNSSEC Finally Signed for .Com TLDs
"No one is using BigTable or the Second Coming of the Google File System. Except for Google."

I've never read anything from theregister before, but is this really what to expect?
Why The Amazon App Store Is Revolutionary
"The bar was also seen as a potential means of in-app notifications for new @mentions, DMs, and other important activity."

Raise your hand if you believe this.
Just a vocabulary/definitions nit: Data modelling (relational, document, data-structure, whatever) is an independent concern from consistency.

I may want ACID properties but over a document-structured store, for example, and there's nothing contradictory in such a desire...

In fact, as a continuation of my "mix and match" consistency pipe dream; I'd like to mix-and-match data models within the same system, too! Strongly typed w/ integrity constraints; bag-o-data; etc...
So it is ok to have show on cable TV where people shoot animals for fun (or our politicians doing that) and but we are disgusted of killing animal for food and protect the crops.

This is good very PR move because it hits the center of hypocrisy in wester societies: our "love" of animals.
You are using the above as buzzwords.

Making a valid and logical declaration based on personal experiences with the society he/she lives in is not a logical fallacy.

A logical fallacy is incorrect reasoning.

An opinionated, consumption-oriented, and selfish society is not one that produces people that have:

1. Either fasted, or have gone hungry (even the povery line class has been able to eat - a lot of food is cheap and there is also government and community help).

2. Do not consume animal products.

3. Truly help others (or anyone but themselves).
I've made ~110K in my first 9 months on the app store. Apple takes care of scalability, monetization, discovery, etc. Native mobile apps are just so much easier to make money off of, which is why they are taking off.
Ask HN: Who's applying to TC Disrupt battleground?
I'm applying to disrupt for my startup UpOut. Doing a beta right now (will post that on HN over the weekend). I'm just wondering who else is applying? Also, any advice?
Curious about why my suggestion, pretty similar to fogus and perhaps more useful, since /r/langdev seems to be a new subreddit with little content, got no upvotes. Anyone?
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The World According to Embedly (YC W10)
They want you to pay to see their content but they don't want to force you to pay for reasonably small or occasional usage. They have not implemented an onerous system that some simple hacks can't get around and I'm assuming that they know this. It seems like they've carefully weighed the trade-offs between pissing off users and getting people to pay - I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out for them. My guess is that it is, as you imply, doomed to failure, but perhaps will be made up for by selling content via more closed channels (ipad, etc.)
You cite one use of Amazon Cloud Drive, which I compared to. Yes, the point was to illustrate you're looking at it too narrowly.

To elaborate:
Yes, Amazon Cloud Drive can act like iTunes, insofar as you buy tracks from Amazon and can play them thru a browser via the MP3 player. No question Amazon will, like Apple & iTunes, expand this ability by using this "cloud drive" as the focal point for an assortment of applications, now that Amazon is in the e-book, e-movie, e-music, etc. business. I expect the Kindle will start using this in both overt and covert fashion. As Amazon observes what people use their "cloud drive" for, they will provide matching services to enhance and lock-in use thereof. The intent is to make this a disruptive product: its full potential may be unclear, but it's the groundwork for new ways of doing things - and new ways for Amazon to make money.
The work behind is impressive and inovative.

More general benchmarks would be nice. more real life situations maybe, even if it is hard to say what is 'real life'.

or simply to fork http://mootools.net/slickspeed/ and to put myjs in there to see how it compares.
What if you believe in your side project but do not have the money or resources to leave the full time job yet?. Does anyone have experience with running your project in full steam while keeping a full-time job for few months?
just fake the "Referer" HTTP header to http://www.twitter.com/something using one of many extensions available for Firefox... Much more easy than messing up with yahoo and rss..
Letting Go of My Peanuts
Gold's a pretty good analogy. We're not quite to the point where it's impossible to make money mining, but you have to plan carefully to break even.

The real usefulness, though, of bitcoins/gold isn't to make money mining, but rather as a secure medium of exchange. Bitcoins are a bullion currency that you can spend online.