skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming that Limewire is an LLC, which means its debts (don't always) transfer to its principals. This would likely mean Limewire is liquidated and the plaintifs get dibs on whatever is made from that.
>I just moved to San Francisco not too long ago. Maybe I don't want to know about the best Mexican food in SF from someone from SF, maybe I want the opinion of my Texan pals, who share a similar taste in Mexican food....cuz damnit, I want that certain type of salsa (or something).

I agree with the sentiment (DFW'er here!), but how are Texans supposed to know about restaurants in the Bay Area?
Lots of anecdotal evidence of people no longer posting things on their blog but on these services instead. Been going on for years now.
Can you explain in more detail what you disagree with and why?
Node.js CMS - Interested?
If a developer could increase the reach of his apps (and thus make more money), you don't think he/she will take an extra 30 mins and submit to Blackberry App World?
Yep. http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b/ref=topnav_storetab_mas?...
Fukushima — where are the Parrots?
IIRC Google's Market app is closed source and Google offers no official API or other method for third parties to fully access the Market.
You remind me of a great Chris Rock skit on the difference between Rich and Wealthy. Specifically the line where he says "if Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a fuc*in window".

Wealth is relative. Rich people have problems too. Rich people can be unhappy. At the heart of this is that we're all human. I'm still struggling to figure what exactly we're trying to prove by asserting otherwise... This article, and all like it, are just so silly.
Allow voting. -- Captain Obvious
I assume that you're capable of substituting another entertainment or news option which you do pay for in the example.

Literalism is a logical fallacy.
Make a Painting Come Alive with this Photoshop Tutorial
I have been doing a few internet strolling until I came across with this screen captures magically alive paintings in Hogwarts of the Harry potter movies. So, I suddenly got an idea of how about making a painting come to life.
Android Marketplace and Amazon's App Store.
However, you will get enormously higher valuations - literally four to ten times or more - if you have the right connections in Silicon Valley. And you will get acquired more readily (very likely because of those same connections) in Silicon Valley. Until/unless companies outside the Bay Area get those same sorts of valuations - and largely they won't because the angel/VC infrastructure isn't there - it makes way more sense to move to Palo Alto.
From what we've seen from other developers, it'll take more than 30 minutes to deal with Blackberry app world:

http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/
The Judge noted in her opinion about this that $75 Trillion is more money than has been printed since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Your first reaction may be to rail against the lawyers of the record industry, but realize they are just asking for the maximum allowed by federal law ($30,000 per infringement). Indeed, one might argue it is a lawyer's duty to seek the maximum amount of damages allowed, just as it is your accountant's job to arrange your taxes so you pay the minimum allowed by law. The real problem is the disconnect of the law itself with reality. I'm in no way endorsing the behavior of the record industry (imagine how well they'd be doing if they had bought Napster instead of suing it?). I'm merely seeking to point out the root of the problem. If the law was written more intelligently, dying industries wouldn't be able to get life support from the courts.
Yeah, but f & t are deeply engrained into everyday life of people and businesses.
Many may disagree with me here. I'm not going to comment on the money, because that's what everyone else is doing.

I downloaded the Color app. I like it. I'm in downtown San Francisco. A number of other people apparently are using it right now, so I'm able to see some local content.

I think the setup experience is very nicely done. Its simple. Ask for a name, then it takes a photo of you using the front facing camera.

The interface is minimal and well designed. I'm not buried in tons of options I don't need. I played with everything for a few minutes and it didn't take long to get the hang of it.

Its insanely easy to upvote and leave a comment on someone's photo. I was actually surprised that my comment went through as soon as I hit Done, instead of showing me what the comment looks like and another button to post it.

The only thing that threw me off a little was the layout of images. The feeling I get from the interface is its reminiscent of Windows Phone OS. I personally kind of like that non-iOS kind of interface, in that its something new and interesting, but not bad. If that's where they indeed took their inspiration from, its not a bad source.

So money or not, I've had fun using it today.
"... We're trying to figure out why this YC batch did so well. One theory: they all used Convore ..."

With no other information other than the tweet, I'm somewhat confused. Is this an 'in-joke'?
While it is not rigorously scientific in the sense that physics is, it is compares very favorably to findings in the fields of medicine and nutrition. (Yes, they are much worse than you imagine).

And while this document cannot reflect this, I've been following Seth Roberts for a few years now -- he is the best kind of scientist, with a remarkable talent for objective measurement of oneself. While this cannot be generalized to other people easily, as far as it refers to himself, it's probably way better than most medical results published in the last 20 years.
Facebook Questions rolling out to everyone
Hoping for clarification from PG, as well.
What licenses are used in Android beside the kernel's GPLv2? In other words, what are they required to release? What can they keep closed at will?
Getting In Shape For The Sport of Data Science [video]
I probably went down the same time-wasting search hole you did.

I did so because every time I've ever skimmed her blog, I've never seen anything interesting on it. Then I watched the PyCon talk linked above and it's full of "cute" things with no substance. Skimming through some other talk gave me the same feeling.

So I started digging.

In Fall 2008, she was part of Path101 (http://www.slideshare.net/path101/path-101-opportunity -- slide 3) and listed as having a PhD in Computer Science. But like prunedevir, I had to dig relatively hard to find what university she taught at. There's no CV on her blog. There are claims that she's on sabbatical, so this is REALLY strange. Availability of her information is _nothing_ like someone who is a researcher in machine learning with a PhD.

So I dug more.

As prunedevir points out, the university is Johnson and Wales. It's a technical college. And she was an _instructor_ there (google for the JWU catalog 05-06) for a few semesters before they finally upped her to assistant professor (JWU catalog 08-09, I think). And in the catalog, she's listed as having an ScM, NOT a PhD -- which makes a whole hell of a lot more sense.

I found a few slide presentations that she put together (sorry, it's a few hours later and I can't re-dig up all those links to post here) and they were all about PHP, CSS, and other web development stuff, as well as some stuff about the use of technology in education. I think most of this was from 2006-2008. You'd think the _chief scientist_ of bit.ly doing machine learning work would have been doing something else during this time -- not looking at run-of-the-mill web dev.

Her previous website (3greeneggs), archived by the Wayback Machine (http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://3greeneggs.com) shows more stuff consistent with web dev, etc, and awfully soft for a chief scientist working on machine learning.

Furthermore, here's a paged removed from her blog that Google Cache allows us to see:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hfTTGEb...

I'd probably delete it, too, if I were pulling the same act that she is.

Also, side note: in the PyCon talk she mentions that she looked up some old manuscript on statistics and it was by "A. D. E. Moyver" or something close to that. My jaw dropped. Surely she knew what she was talking about, but that name sounds suspiciously like a horrible bastardization of Abraham de Moivre -- and it was. He was exactly the guy she was talking about.

I fully realize this post comes off as hugely negative, but I hate seeing people get ahead because of repeated self-promotion and gaming the system.

Also, the Path101 slides could have been juiced up by someone other than her, OR the JWU catalog may be wrong and she really does have a PhD, but I way doubt the latter, and there's almost no doubt, for the former, that she at least would have seen the slide deck before it went out.

I wasn't going to post anything, but this whole thing left a really bad taste in my mouth and the truth tastes a lot better.
Here are a few simple CSS tweaks that can improve readability. I only spent a couple of minutes, but I think it helps: http://pastebin.com/WEKswHND

EDIT: Here's a screenshot preview: http://cl.ly/022H381a2N2p1N0h3q0k
> the top end of what is being asked for is almost literally, all of the money in the world.

LOL, now THAT is awesome. The RIAA would be the perfect villain if they weren't so ridiculous.
Yeah I don't really follow either.

if(revenue >= expenses && expenses != ''){
$("#time").html("<span class=\"white\">37</span>signals");
It isn't contradictory to congratulate someone and state honestly that he is confused about how the app is meant to be used, and therefore won't likely try it again. For example, I admire what Zynga has accomplished but won't ever play one of their games myself.
Lord Of The Rings came pretty close.
While all of what you say rings true - it's been said before and bears repeating - git isn't a version control system as much as it is a set of version control tools from which you can design a workflow that meets your needs.
Facebook has 500 Million active users, where active is defined as logging in at least once a month.
I thought a lot of the value came from SEO. I just googled "sex" and sex.com didn't come up at all. That could be because they have a link page up instead of any content. Googling "slots" at least brought up slots.com 6th.
All of the startup mantras hacker news recites go out the window if you raise lots of capital, apparently.
I really should learn to quit commenting on these things. They take over my entire "thread" page on HN!

You kind of made my point, the software can be represented by electrons, ink, light, gears, switches, marbles, etc. Or it can just be a loose collection of intents in my mind that I haven't quite coded yet, but it is not these things any more than a wave is just a mound of water. The mind is its own idea, so I'm saying that it might not actually exist in a strict sense.

"Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy."
-Terry Pratchett
Hey Start-Up Gurus: Go Help Yourselves
Check out Redwood, http://redwoodapp.com. It runs on your desktop and searches Google Docs, GMail, and Basecamp. Since there's no server intermediary, it doesn't have the same privacy concerns as greplin.
It hasn't improved enough to actually be competitive in the way that is often dragged out as the measure to go by (speed), it doesn't look any better in my view and extensions are everywhere.
The guy is a prof. of psychology at berkeley, and knows his statistics much better than most researchers in medicine or nutrition.

I don't respect your skepticism, unless you are just as skeptical about advice you get from your Doctor or pharmacist.

Roberts looks for effective, simple treatments that you can try yourself without requiring a large budget or large lab, publishes everything without trying to make money of it -- including a diet-free diet that works remarkably well, that flies in the face of all "nutrition science" common sense. He is not the crackpot you think he is.
For example, if you work on Chrome or Chrome OS, most of what people work on is available in public repositories.

For what it is worth, when I read this article one of the people it reminded me of is someone from the Chrome OS team. It might be, however, that with the release of the Cr48 that the situation has changed (I last talked to him days after those shipped). The people I've met from the Chromium team, however, were certainly a different story.

However, I know a /lot/ of people at Google (Chrome OS, Books, Social, Native Client, Ads, Docs, and those are just the people I know a project title for), and for almost all of them the article's content rang true.

I'd add one more thing, though: I often get to hear about just how much fundamentally better their tools are, or how much larger their scale of operation is, with this background attitude of legitimate pity. To be clear, I mean to say that I get a really legitimate positive emotional read from them of "I wish you were here, too, so you could play with me on the other side with all of this cool stuff".

And I'm sure that Apple engineers would be even more constrained!

I never actually knew many people who wanted to work for Apple, but those who did are certainly in a fundamentally different class of secrecy: for all intents and purposes they are now dead to me (which may be a uniquely-me problem: I could see them being fired for even talking to me; the treatment I now get from them is "head down, don't reply, shut down conversation, leave venue").
Most of it uses the Apache Source License 2.0, which doesn't require releasing the source. You can look through http://android.git.kernel.org/ (especially external) for some others, but they're mostly similar licenses.

There are some GPL things in there besides the kernel, and a few of them are probably shipped. I'm not sure how e.g., Motorola is handling this (since they clearly have an obligation to provide the GPL source).

See also http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html
Isn't it likely that anyone with the book will learn more from it by working through it themselves rather than reading someone else's solutions?
but you're saying everyone is jealous when almost all of the grievances come from the fact that the app is useless to most people. You confirmed this point (that it is useless to you) yet you also claim that everyone else is just jealous. Why can your "I'm never going to use it" not be the same reason everyone else has and why can't that be a valid reason for thinking this is ridiculous?
Surely this is the classic tech "dog bites man" story.
That's high on my list of things to add - that, tagging, and email subscriptions. Love the feedback :D
I wish that's how the RIAA did the calculation.

Judge: "What are the damages?"

RIAA: "How much money is there in the world? We'll start with that. No, seriously."
Awesome, I've also heard that 3D Realms has signed a platform exclusive to bring Duke Nukem Forever to the Playbook. Word is Playbook will be ready for the DNF launch.
"The Law is a huge blunt weapon that does not and will not make distinctions between what you find acceptable and what you don't. This is how the Law is made." Neil Garman

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. ”— Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.

I call bullshit. I agree, defend freedom, but it's the same with terrorism, if not worse. There has to be intervention to judge it. Somehow that seems to be done better than say the software patent system. Terrorists are being held, or watched, by ways that shouldn't be legal, because what they did isn't illegal, just so very near. Immoral text/images, software patents and terrorists actions all have blurry lines we will take some time to sharpen.
You owe the bank $10,000 and don't pay, you have a problem.

You owe the bank $10,000,000 and don't pay, the bank has a problem.

You owe the RIAA $75,000,000,000,000 and don't pay, who has the problem?

This seems like a great example of what I am sure will be an increasingly common problem as more and more laws are written by lobbyists. What do you do when they don't make any sense and were clearly never thought through?

It's so hard to be optimistic about the world in the face of this sort of thing, especially when there are instances of it everywhere you turn.
Excellent work guys! Thanks for sharing your experiences I'm sure (and hope!) they will benefit many of us here :)
The link to the comments for ideas with one comment is currently displayed as "1 Comments". You might want to change that to "1 Comment".
I'd like to submit anonymously
Yeah my first thought was it was more of sound level and light level thing. So if you're somewhere dark and loud you're probably not in the same place as someone nearby who's somewhere quiet and light.
LimeWire is incorporated as an LLC but plaintiffs are trying to pierce the corporate veil and name the founder personally.
no way, then I couldn't show off my sexyness!! I'll just have Tivs take it for me ;)
it working for me.
Very nice v0.1

Just thought I'd let you know that if you ever need an official Tee (weekly best idea?), there's a good one on threadless: http://www.threadless.com/product/2537/Captain_Obvious
The background image is causing scrolling lag in Chrome. I turned the background image off and it fixed the problem.
That's a useful, precise criterion if I ever saw one!
I'm convinced that it's not actually delayed, but rather Gearbox is trolling all of us.
It is 10% of forrst.me accounts that cost $9/month, not forrst.com accounts.

Forrst.me can serve as the central place of your online profiles, but not everyone on Forrst have a forrst.me portfolio.
Ionizing radiation - messes with the electronics and makes things that aren't specifically built for that kind of environment break in unexpected ways.
Researchers enable tactile feedback for eReaders using real paper
It's my impression that the quick poll is a better mean to get to content from your friends than looking at 200 profiles for an information that may have not been there at all. I often ask for suggestions for a good book about X and would be willing to give one, but i don't put them in my info page.
I don't know about Japan, but in the US it would take a pickup truck full of paper and 6 months of review committees before an official agency could actually locate a GSA approved vendor and buy a Parrot drone. Parrot might not even employ enough minorities to be allowed to sell directly to the US government.

Yeah, sarcasm. The point is that a G-man can't just run down to Toys-R-Us, grab one and send it on in. Even the very logically minded would at least want to stop and have a think if there's a possibility then sending in a little toy might do more harm than good if something goes wrong. I personally have no clue what large amounts of ionizing radiation does to wifi.
Thank you! I've been wondering that myself. Two possibilities occur to me: (a) would one of those ignite a pocket of hydrogen? (b) what are the risks of a lost one (one winding up ditched in the equipment)?
Is it mainly meant as a way of getting feedback on ideas, or throwing ideas out there for others to implement/use?
Of course he can. This is the old point about reviewers not having to be creators again.
And they should. There's a big difference between two guys renting a house and living of their savings accounts pre-launch and 41 million dollars and 27 employees pre-launch.
Yes, they could charge for 'commercial' accounts, so that resteraunts etc. are allowed to push coupon/adverts into the local stream.
Some privileged companies are not only getting access to the code but actually shipping Honeycomb based products today. Most of the reviews of the Xoom noted some lack of polish but I don't recall any massive problems that would suggest Honeycomb is simply too unstable/feature incomplete to be released.
Bad advisors, bad friends, and bad investments.

If you've really got a fortune to squander, that's the way to do it.
Doug Mellinger at Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit [video]
Same problem here. Firefox 3.6ish / Mac
I was a young music fan who taped music because I loved music and had no money. I now buy lots of of music because I love music and have money.

I do not pirate music and I buy (or legally stream) TV and video. But I clearly remember and resent the late nineties and early 2000s when a CD was £15.99 in HMV or Tower (close to $30 in old money).

(I am also fairly convinced that there was price-fixing and monopolistic behaviour then)

Now we have a more open, fairer system for artists and consumers - yet rather than accept that they have been caught-out and the world has moved-on without them the record companies are lashing out at young music fans rather than nurturing and encouraging them.

If you ever needed a reminder of the greed of the recording industry here it is.
I like the Instagram (well, I liked it better when it wasn't so crashtastic) but I can't help feeling her talents would be wasted there since there's basically no web presence.
Not really. Though 2.3 has been out for months, 90% of users are still on 2.1 and 2.2:
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

It takes forever for Android users to get the new versions anyway so RIM users won't be any worse off than any other Android app users.
Nice touch writing out the full "$41,000,000" rather than just "$41M". Definitely makes it look like more. Although I don't disagree that the size of the investment seems unjustified.
just curious here, but how much money has the record industry made since the beginning of time?
Is this an ad for 37Signals? They're the only startup with revenue exceeding expenses? I don't get it.
This is a way to bootstrap an app economy and solve the chicken and egg problem. If they launch with their own app store (like Nokia) no one will build for it and they won't get any device sales because they have no apps for the device. This way they get 200k+ apps ready to go and if they can build a better piece of hardware, they'll get a big install base. Then they can convince developers to develop native apps for their platform.
I think people are still recoiling from the shock of the brilliance that out-shines the sun that is the Smart Cover™ (© Apple) and what super-awesome things it means for future generations (better than flying cars, clearly, now that we have Smart Covers™. Maybe bread that toasts itself! Smart Bread™!). The world is forever changed; I see the light; All bow before Steve Jobs!

</ partial sarcasm>

Partial, because I do think it's likely people are still recovering from "why didn't I think of that"-itis (or maybe "why didn't someone make this sooner"-itis). Apple just one-upped the entire world of things-that-cover-things, possibly by a greater degree than Tupperware that burps so you know it's keeping things fresh. It takes a while to re-define your place in the world when something like this first comes into existence - until then, everything is awesome: flowers smell more flowery, covers cover more completely, and computers compute like never before.
We've been using a similar death clock in a spreadsheet, but it calculates the date that we go broke. Nothing to fire you up like impending doom!

Not sure why a break even company == 37signals though...