skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to your second reservation is to have users agree to a software license/terms of use. Usually, there is no guarantee of uptime. If you want to guarantee uptime, then you can do that. In that case you'd define the terms of your guarantee to be something like, say, $10/day of downtime up to the amount of the monthly bill.

The solution to your first question is to realize that all professional developers have learned from other developers. It's a pay it forward system. Someday, someone will look at your code or receive free advice from you that helps that person make a living off of software. That said, if you think you are deeply indebted to a particular person, you could thank that person with a monetary gift or even purchase rights/license to use the code.
Most linux companies aren't interested in the desktop. Redhat is focused on servers. Canonical is the only major linux distro/company that has the desktop as a primary focus.
do yourself a solid...check out decalcms!
What a perfect way to give something legs.

I had never seen this Top Gear episode, but I am definitely going to watch it now!

This is a tough spot to be in. Sue BBC and try and get a correction (and give it publicity) or ignore it and risk reputation damage silently with fewer people.
Being around entrepreneurs + Coffee Shop = Flow
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As Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta commented, "Selling bottled water is so yesterday -- now you can sell air"
Bullshit -- define "open".

Also, when referring to "their words" some references are required ;)
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You should add an "I am the man" option
And that's exactly why I want to move, I just didn't know how and saw the opportunity in this thread to get some help (also, OP, sorry for the small hijacking).

I've never seen an elephant in the wild and don't know Zimbabwe nearly well enough to know how much of a problem elephants in general (and this one in particular) are.

The whole attitude, though... Something akin to "here I am to save the day", or something like that... That I don't like, and it adds to the poor customer experience.

So, there. :)
Yeah, that's a really good point. I am talking about organizational culture. More specifically - structure around participation.

But, at the same time, it seems people often conflate governance and power with organizational culture. Is there a good reference for differentiating the two?
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You are making some broad assumptions of a large community. Some of us have indeed gone hungry for multiple days in our lives. Some of us have gone to Africa to help.

"Stop finger pointing. Stop exerting yourself on others."
Google: "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That's why we created Android, and made its source code open."

The fact that they're now restricting and controlling the innovations of other industry players by keeping the source code closed seems pretty much like the definition of hypocrisy.
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It's not just amusing -- it's a clever, unique and interesting solution to a common problem, however pyrrhic[1] the victory might be.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
Then search the internet for sources - there are many. I cannot search properly (because it turns out the a country full of elephants has a lousy (and expensive) internet connection). Elephant culling has been widely debated in most countries. It is no secret.

The Kruger National Park even had a programme where they even tried to use contraceptives for Elephant Cows... What is next? An abstinence program?
Nice to see google cheating:

http://i.imgur.com/JxFKP.png
>Can you magically not do those commands in that tweet now? No, you still can. Does it suck that you can't checkout the latest files just yet? Yes. Is this delay being completely blown out of proportion? You betcha.

Uh, actually, you can't do those commands in the tweet if you own a Xoom, and want the source for it. You can own a device that is running an Linux-based open source OS, but can't get the code that's running on it.

As far as I can tell, most of the delays for Android versions were on the order of a week or two after the SDK was released. That's a pretty acceptable delay because someone needs to go through Google's private branch, do a little cleanup, and commit the files to the public git repository.

This isn't a "slightly longer wait". This is Google not upholding their commitment to the project. I'm actually surprised that the FSF isn't going after them for this, since the Linux core is GPL, and that means that the code needs to be released...
It's worth remembering that the producers of "Bumfights" went out of business due to lawsuits, not because they had revenue problems.
Namecheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
I don't see how vegetarianism even plays a part in this discussion. I'm not a vegetarian, but this offends me. I'm offended by Parson's bravado and his claim that "Of everything I do this is the most rewarding."

Parson kills an animal under the guise of crop protection and to feed a village. Were I watching a local hunt for this elephant to feed their family I would feel that the death was justified. But we're really just watching a rich westerner tramp around in the dark so he can fire a gun.

Is this really the most rewarding thing Parson could think to do for local villagers in Zimbabawe? And even if so, I would expect some more humility from someone who claimed their actions were so noble.
Here:

"We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That's why we created Android, and made its source code open."

(from: http://source.android.com/)

Are you seriously going to pretend that Google is not now restricting or controlling the innovations of any other industry players?
He was joking about the comment "//why isn't this async?" which appears in every entry.
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>I beg to differ. We could have it all if it was really an open source project.

Meego was - where did it go? Desktop Linux? Don't kid yourself, you can't have it all.
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That is what I was thinking. Is the distinction having employees?
Google Gulp
Looks like the king of open is realizing that Apple isn't evil, it just has better foresight.
I've also had horrendous customer service from 1and1. Minor billing problems for several months on end, which would have likely been easily remedied if they had competent phone support. (This was about 3 years ago, so maybe they've gotten better since then. They have already lost my business, and they'd be hard pressed to win it back.)
>Seriously -- for what values of open or good do we get a big fat green tick?

Open and good in the sense developers don't have to go through a App Store with capricious restrictions and a forced 30% cut. You can either publish on your own or go to alternate stores like Amazon App Store which will try to attract you with better terms.

Open and good in the sense that subscription providers don't have to pay a toll of 30% to Apple for nothing. Even WP7 is 'Open' in this sense.

Open and good in the sense of the variety of hardware. Eg. If you like hardware keyboards on phones you have no choice in Apple land. Even WP7 is 'Open' in this sense.

Open and good in the sense you can install whatever normal apps you want without jailbreaking. (AT&T phones are locked to the Android Market, but Android apps don't have to go through an Approval process).
Loaded fine when I checked it from my cell phone earlier today. But checking again now from my desktop, either this needs more testing or they changed their minds about the feature. It's a black page and firebug net tab shows:
GET tps-bg.jpg
http://d61fqxuabx4t4.cloudfront.net/tps-bg.jpg
403 Forbidden
Google Teleport
If you're offended by the practice of killing living beings for food, but you're not a vegetarian, what you are is simply inconsistent.
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Here is an article by Ron Thompson:

http://www.shakariconnection.com/culling-elephants-in-KNP.ht...
Just out of curiosity where are you going to move your domains? I own just over 30 domains all at GoDaddy and I'd move them over the massive amounts of cross selling and insanely cluttered UI.
My assumptions (in the post) are across society in general, and not specific to the HN commenter pool.

Though I see how it can be read that I'm commenting about the readers in this thread.
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I will be on the phone with each and every person I know who has a domain.

We will discuss whether or not they happen to be using this cowardly imbecile's business.

I will describe this horrible little gutless advertising stunt.

We will work to switch them over to another company immediately.
Yea but at the end of the century no one will ask with the same incredulity why we wrote anything in Java as why we wrote anything in PHP.
I would say that's a reasonable way to make that distinction.
"I've been a fan of Fogbugz for a long time, but I have a team of 5, and can't afford $125/month unfortunately."

Agreed, $125/mo. may be more than you or I are willing to spend. I don't understand how it's over the top if you're on the hook for a team of 5.

Personally, I wouldn't use Fogbugz based on the fact that it costs $125/mo. But, I know I'm not their target audience.

You might want to take a look at one of the following

Unfuddle - Project Management + Git/Subversion Hosting
http://unfuddle.com/

Assembla
http://www.assembla.com/
I agree partly, but not entirely. Some lock down is good, such as preventing the modifications from carriers that usually users don't like (from what I've seen, at least) and delay updates. However, allowing the user choice to apply their own modifications like custom homescreens and skins is a good thing, and has actually improved the default product for me. Some control is good, but I think Apple takes it too far.
I don't see this going over well at all...
Well, my last job was with the Navy, which I suppose is The Man, but that doesn't fit into any of the poll options.

It'd be good to add "public sector" and "military" options, I think.
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Liberty Reserve Down / Innaccessible / Scam? Updates from official blog
> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water).

Tragically enough, in Africa humans have natural predators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa
>Are you seriously going to pretend that Google is not now restricting or controlling the innovations of any other industry players?

Huh? How is delaying the source code release of an incremental update such a big deal? Innovate all you want on top of 2.3(which is barely a few months old), make it tablet friendly or whatever and port it to whatever hardware you build.

Haven't you heard of the concept of forking?
Twitter could have started charging for ads from day one, couldn't they?
I have had my domains with Name.com as well as NameCheap for more than half a decade.

Name.com's interface is a little confusing and NameCheap have great customer service!
"... does this mean whatever I create is an extension of their creations? ..."

Yes it does. Everything ever created is an extension of what someone else created. And someone may create something new based partly on learning from you. Don't worry about it.
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There is not an official API. However, there is a partially complete API available from the guy who made iHackerNews at http://api.ihackernews.com/ -- it works well, but stuff like voting is disabled.
Microsoft can't complain YouTube is the only game in town - they discontinued their Soap Box thingie. Besides that, YouTube is not the only video hosting provider - There are Vimeo, blib.tv and a host of others. Also, Google scans that books and bears the cost of the scanning. Why would they give this data to Microsoft for free? If Microsoft wants to scan their own books or provide a video hosting platform, they are free to do so, but I don't see why Google has an obligation to provide them these services.
Very useful projects like Protocol Buffers & Gtest (unit-testing framework) come to mind..
Would I be very far off if I would guess that a single photo safari for taking pictures of living elephants would earn more money than the whole village makes in farming the whole year?

Maybe they can't afford electric fences, but the GoDaddy guy surely could. Also now I remember in the Zoo they also don't have electric fences. It sounds doable to me - certainly not more effort than for example building those rice terraces other countries seem to manage.

Maybe these farmers really have no choice, which would be a purely political problem. They are definitely picking the wrong solution, though.
> Both groups have plenty of intelligent, well-meaning, members.

You do know that "he meant well" is an insult, right?

Almost all evil that happens claims "good intentions".
Well, you're right - he might not care but next time he'd think a million times before killing yet another helpless creature and posting a shameless video of it.
Exactly. I learned how closed android is when I tried to remove my Google account form my Nexus One. It simply wouldn't let me do it. That's an interesting concept of free and open if you ask me.
Idea vs execution: are ideas worthless?
That might well be true, but is it not Zimbabwe we're talking about here? I know they're neighbors, but that doesn't mean they face the same exact problems.
Addicts always say "No, I can give it up any time I want." :-P
Or working for The People, as opposed to The Man :)
This isn't something I'd do, but doesn't really seem like the biggest outrage ever.

There is one rifle shot which would remove a clear threat to everyone in Zimbabwe and the region. If the CEO of someone like Xe flew in and took that shot, I'd be happy to transfer all my domains to his company. (Mugabe, obviously)
Is this for tomorrow's April Fool or is it old and I just never saw it before?
A web page on the internet is an entire marketing campaign?

What percentage of Android users even visited that page in their lifetime, forget about being swayed by that statement on it? 0.005%?
"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"

Riiiight. Because Netflix, Spotify and others will be doing just dandy with their paywalls when it's as trivially easy to download a pirated, DVD-quality movie as it is to download some text and images today.

I love the logic, though: it's not that you're annoyed that you have to pay for something that you think should be free; it's that the DRM isn't onerous enough that it makes it more convenient for you to pay.
I think that would be "owner of your own company".
https://madrelease.google.com/_/doodad/button?url=http://new...

Huh, well that link for me worked a couple times, no more.

Here are the sprites:

https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/stars/po/ESAPv1/buttonS...
There's nothing hypocritical or even illogical about special casing every single species with varying levels of concern. At some point you have a set of purely irrational axioms about some qualities, be they kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species, or some other subjective criteria for what makes a living creature worthy of consideration when its life is in danger.
It starts to sicken me to see all these nuclear energy supporters telling us how safe and limited the effect this accident has. I just don’t see it this way. The situation is getting worse and the long term effects are not all that clear for the region and Japan overall.

It just amazes me to see TV shows showing us the Tschernobyl aftermath with this deep impact to the people and region. Some reports state that 4000 were killed while others state 200’000. Hard to extrapolate what the real facts are and what Fukushima really could mean to Japan.
Clickable: http://myjs.fr
Why did the village need Bob to shoot the elephant? What, the villagers do not have guns? or do not know how to use them?
these guys use AK-47 since childhood and those villagers are much better hunters than an american rich guy who just arrived on a helicopter.
The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. the american smartass bribed corrupted local government to let him shoot the elephant. Local corrupted head of municipality gets a couple of thousands of dollars (which makes him the richest man in the surrounding are) and the american guy (and his brand) gain cheap publicity back at home. everybody wins, except the elephant, but who cares about the elephant, right?
Old: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-april-fools-...
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Get yourself a proxy.
Do you really think that people who have to fork a months old version are at no disadvantage to those who have access to the current source?
I love reading this kind of stuff. I love being reminded of how complicated reality is, given my own high levels assumptions. You think "change orbit, that's easy" or "take space pictures" but the nitty gritty filled reality is so much more amazingly complex, it's mind boggling and impressive.
Entrepreneurship is an art not a job
It seems as if you have to put idea and execution together to really produce something of value. The real value comes from the looped feedback system from idea to execution to an idea modification to an execution modification ...etc . If you keep repeating that process you'll eventually come up with a great idea and a great execution. It's the feedback and improvement process that comes from the two that results in innovation.
Hehe, Myjs.fr is simply not designed! I presented the framework yesterday to a JS conf, many people wanted to try it out fast. So I pushed a raw version of the framework in the rush today. I'll be adding a getting started page, more benchmarks and the api doc first and i'll go for the Design quickly. For StumbleUpon, I don't know why it's not working, myjs.fr is a simple static site, with some .css & .js. By the way, do you happen to know good designers/developers? (I'm looking for a great one for my startup)
I was hoping this article was going to make the "stop separating account sizes by number of repos instead of, you know, actual usage" point.

Github will get my company's money when they stop doing just that. We have many small, low-traffic repos. We self-host them on a minuscule little box and yet, according to Github, we would be a "Platinum" business account. Say what? $200/mo? The box we have serving them now isn't even worth $200 in total. Back in the Subversion days, of course, it was one repo split into projects to take advantage of SVN's partial checkout ability, but that's not how Git rolls. So instead, it's many small per-project repos.

Bitbucket figured it out: split accounts by number of users, a meaningful "usage" metric. That's sensible. So would be actual resource usage (disk space, bandwidth, etc). It makes no sense to me that we could have a hundred people working on 5 repositories, using tons of space and bandwidth, and that's $25/mo. But a handful of us with a bunch of tiny repos, that's biggest-account-size $200/mo territory.

(It's too bad we're so attached to Git, or else we'd be on Bitbucket and stop waiting for Github to come to their senses).
And I disagree too. If you look at actual "creative" people throughout history they generally mastered what existed before them before making a leap beyond. Picasso was skilled at traditional art and sculpture before he created cubism. Shakespeare wrote sonnets, comedies, and histories (at that time, these were accepted, even tired genres) and was very much a "participant in the system" before transcending that same system. Leonardo Da Vinci was an apprentice to another artist during his early career.

We live in an era where ego gratification makes far too many people think they're creative when really they don't even have the tools developed to be creative.
Look at all these passionate discussions. Positively and negatively charged, both sides full of fiery opinion.

I thought this was supposed to be a terrible publicity stunt. I say it worked.
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I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. Even after the control that Google is "allegedly" trying to exert over Android, it still remains a more open platform than iOS.

Are you advocating 100% Open as in Utopia OR Totally Closed like Apple? I don't see how that makes sense. More open is better even if it is not 100%.
Well, Ms. Lohan has been bounced from a couple of movies now due to her publicity, and the quote didn't have "stunt" in it and Enron certainly became a household name but not in a good way.
- You use Top Gear reviews as a major factor to buy a +$100K electric sports car.
- You haven't seen their show enough to know what Clarkson's views of green-tech are.
- You haven't looked at corroborating evidence on forums a real drivers, etc.

You probably aren't good at this car buying thing.
GoDaddy damages it's brand daily by overcrowding it's servers to the point where they crawl. Hating animals is just the icing on the cake. Haha
Hacker News brings me back to what I use to love about Slashdot — curation by geeks for geeks. When Digg just focused on tech it sort of had this, but that got lost once they added categories.
Android tutorial: Simple (but persistent) data storage with SQLite
Hmmm... Contrary to a lot of recommendations I see here on HN (patio11 mainly), they seem to recommend enabling keep-alive.
I think the distinction is that freelancers technically own a company, but what the company does is whatever people ask it to do. Compare a freelancer's company with a company that makes washing machines and you'll notice a substantial difference — I think that's the line here.
Different source, same story, submitted a day ago, no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2388112
Bad taste, up, down, left, and right. He removed any reverence of the hunt, respect of the animal. Just him, his orange hats, his gun, his camera, his killing, his audio track of choice, his vacation video. Ugly rich guy video #93,275
I used to work at zynamics (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynamics) for a long time and while I was not part of the initial team, I still have a good idea of what went on in the early stages.

The company charged hundreds and thousands of dollars for software licenses from day 1 even though the first versions of the products were pretty bad. In fact, we even had customers who bought these early versions not because they wanted us to succeed. I remember at least one customer who bought licenses for many tens of thousands of Euro telling us 'we won't use your software yet because it is not good enough but we believe that you will deliver great software one day and by buying early version we will keep you alive'.

So yeah, charging right from the start worked out tremendously for us. Without it we would not have survived.
It's already April 1st in New Zealand and Australia, probably in India as well.

April Fool's used to be for a morning every year, now it's for a couple of days every year.
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Apologetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics) anyone?