skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the idea here is that it will let me see more and be more in touch with... the people who I already see and am in touch with?
I'd rather do the exact opposite - it's my friends in other states who I want digital tools to keep me more in touch with.
I'm curious as to why Facebook won't just add a "photos your friends have taken around this place" feature and make these guys a distant memory
I disagree strongly. Detroit's 30 glory years were the exception and they have long past (let's say 1940-1970). Now that so many countries have advanced industrial infrastructure, it's just another really cold place to live.

What kind of management alternatives would you suggest? I suppose a different policy regarding balance of trade might have been impactful but it's too late now.
For extra points, abstract your game logic, port the rendering, input, etc to Unity, to have it even more cross platform:
PC, mac, xbox indie games and arcade, wii, ps3, wp7, android, and iphone.
What are you trying to say with this question?

Are most major companies something that have a repeatable business model or are they a combination of being in the right place at the right time, with very good execution?

Would you want for your own company a repeatable business model or to be in the right place at the right time, with very good execution?

Could you even make a repeatable business model without a combination of being in the right place at the right time, with very good execution?

Really, I don't understand your question at all.
"Learn what the number inside something like ls(1) or perror(3) means."
you got me there, I don't know what it means and now I'm curious and can't find it on google
> "the Priceline of Dating anyone?"

Does (YC W11 startup) Grubwith.us count? :)
Creepy indeed. I wonder if it has a backdoor to ECHELON.
I'm pretty sure that Color also takes interaction within the application into account (i.e. if you frequently comment on a user's photos, view their stream, etc., then it also boosts your social connection).
I've previously been in the camp that there isn't a bubble. This seems like its a valuation of 1 or 2 hundred million for a company that hasn't launched yet. It's very hard to see how this deal could make sense in a traditional way.

Don't get me wrong I think this sounds like an excellent idea that could turn out to be an excellent company. It's just such a large amount of money to raise that it kind of raises the question of what game the VCs and/or founders are really playing.

It seems like at this point there might be a possibility of VCs planning on Facebook and Twitter going public and either being acquired at an inflated price with all that new capitalization or going public themselves in the wake.
I had a thought the other day because one of the women I'm working with was showing rather a large amount of cleavage.

I think women basically have two role models for how to "dress for success": One is basically as a "boy toy" and the other is to dress like a man, neither of which cuts it. I think a lot of women who dress "sexy" really aren't specifically intending to come across as "sexy". I think they are trying to come across as "successful, as a woman" and we really don't have much for them to draw from. We have female entertainers who make big bucks, in part because they are sexy (Demi Moore, Madonna, etc). And then we have male role models for business and such. Dressing like a man risks coming across as one or both of the following: 1) Sexy, because it only serves to emphasize that she is really a girl, not a guy or 2) Second class citizen because it only serves to emphasize that she is not a man. In the US at least, we don't have a history of female presidents and such, so we have clothing that signals "successful for a woman" (which almost always means either someone's wife or you got your money because you are sexy) and we have "successful for a man" (which doesn't work well as a clothing style for a woman).

As a woman working in corporate America, I am painfully aware that most stuff you see in magazines is something I would be sent home over as "not appropriate" if I showed up at work in it. Most women who have devoted themselves to becoming competent enough at core skills for their career to get anywhere aren't fashionistas and won't have spent gobs of time studying this topic. I think about it a lot and I think the lack of good clothing options for signaling "successful business woman" significantly contributes to the rampant amount of office-slut-wear out there (which makes me basically cringe on a daily basis).
I expect they do and I expect that the people in the survey who were asked what they thought the distribution of wealth in the US was gave something that approximated what they thought the distribution of income was. The fact that the two are easy to confuse is what made the article actively bad, rather than merely pointless.
I'm gonna just go ahead and say this, does anyone else think this is a bit silly? $41m.

There's no getting away from the fact this is just an app that shows you photos taken near you, by strangers.

I just don't get it. I might be wrong, in 12 months I might be kicking myself, I just cant imagine it.
That logo looks a little too much like the new MySpace logo
Everything was awesome up until this part of the FAQ:

-- Stripe transfers money to your bank account at the end of the following month: that is, you receive June's payments at the end of July.
They're the man page sections. When something appears in more than one category, you need to specify the section in the `man` command.

$ man 1 ls
$ man 3 perror
$ man 1 printf
$ man 3 printf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
What do real writers want from a writing host like pen.io or quitewrite
webapps like pen.io and quitewrite provide a service where writers can have a nice place to host their writing outside of a blog, pdf or ebook format. Are there any writers out there who KNOW what they want? What are the key features, what keeps you coming back and what are the nice-to-haves.

Some possibilities to get the discussion started.
- Sharing features ( Twitter, Facebook , Reddit?)
- Unbranded by the host (ie. no quitewrite logo)
- WYSIWYG
- Custom CSS
- Pagination
- analytics
- Anonymity
- ability to sell the content
- Private / Public viewing
- blog cross posting
- short-URLs
- Permanent vs Editable
- "show more from this author" link
- HTML, Markdown or other markup languages
How, why and when would I want to do this?

I don't understand it from neither a sharer, or a browsers perspective.
That is so true. I also did not understand what the real world application around this technology would be. Any ideas there? Something that can be understood in not so layman terms :)
Why is it disappointing?

Microsoft has become a company that produces technological advances as a side-effect of their primary goal, which is making money. They are not really interested in sharing, or promoting innovation - they are interested in generating lock-in, collecting licensing fees, and stamping out the competition.

What I find truly disappointing is that there are so many brilliant, creative people letting their work be owned and controlled by companies like Microsoft.

Open source projects get admiration and passion because they are OPEN. The top priority is to share the discovery or creation and promote productivity and innovation among others.
Retail Processing Qualified Discount Rates of 1.69 % for your business
Wonder how much colour.com cost.
Even on the iPhone, you can't find the app searching for "color". I followed the link from color.com
Here is what free speech means to me. I have the suspicion that others might disagree, but it's a starting point:

Free Speech means that law shouldn't punish communication.

If you write a hate filled article then free speech protects you from lawyers. It does not force your employer to continue employing you, your neighbor to continue smiling at you, or your grocer to continue to sell food to you.

It means government won't persecute you. It does not mean everyone else must treat you the same way as they did before you said anything.

It also does not mean people have to listen to you, or that you've a right to use others property to deliver your message.
Knowing Sequoia, I'm guessing it will automatically trade exotic derivatives by using ambient lighting data to make better weather predictions.
How to ask for things
"Simultaneously use multiple iPhones and Androids to capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album. There’s no attaching, uploading, or friending to do. "

It seems like all Facebook need to do is add a "Merge Albums" feature for use between friends.

And I've come to the conclusion they're just after FB stock via acquisition. Fair plan.
Can someone give me a tl;dr for this article?
I just fired it up on a couple devices, and it's not very intuitive. It's a great idea, they just need some UX help now.
The Amazon Load Balancer only performs load balancing... a reverse proxy can be used for a whole lot of other scenarios... here are just a few...

Rolling Upgrades: you have 20 instances of V1 of your app, you want to slowly test them out, so you start with moving 5 instance to V2, then 5 more, etc. To switch from V1 to V2 gradually to make sure there are no major snags.

Versioning: Make a single API available at the address http://foo.com/V1 and http://foo.com/V2 but those actually go to two different servers running two different applications.

Sub domain to path rewrite: You want to provide customers with sub-domains at <customer>.foo.com but it actually serves up contents from service.foo.com/<customer> on the back-end.

Virtual Sites on single server: Some providers (i.e. some shared services) only allow you to have one or just a few domains/sub-domains for a single instance of your application. Now you can have http://foo.com and http://bar.com actually host up pages from http://foobar.com/ and the original requested address will be in a new HTTP header so your app at http://foobar.com/ can distinguish the two.

Instance Allocation per customer: Some multi-tenant architectures have a "home" node for each customer. In this case you could setup a rule that states that customer a.foo.com goes to instance x while customer b.foo.com goes to instance y.
Thanks for asking the question, I have been doing the research myself to move away from google notes and google bookmarks. I have been trying Evernote and so far don't like it much. All the interfaces that I tried (web, windows client, chrome extension, iphone and android apps) are clumsy, slow and lacking. I don't especially like the fact that desktop clients have offline support for free, but you need to pay for the mobile clients to get this functionality. I am looking at SpringPad as an alternative (their web and android interface seems snappy, and they support offline storage as well as no storage limits), but waiting for them to add a feature to import and export data. I will not try a product that locks in user data.
This might very well be by design. Why make it hard for those who wouldn‘t pay anyway to get to their articles? This seems to me like exactly the right way to do this (if their pricing weren’t so strange).

It will be interesting to see whether they will make it harder or whether everything stays the same. I could imagine that they get desperate and introduce much more drastic DRM should their pricing not work out.
I think I'm gonna be your customer, this seems to be exactly what I need, but it somehow escaped my attention before. Two things that are not clear from the screencast: do I reply to emails through Tout or through my gmail interface and does Tout automatically detects replies from people I emailed, stores them and archives them in Gmail?
Silicon Valley's economy is more diversified than Detroit's auto industry was.

Silicon Valley also has nicer weather than Detroit.
That's really oversimplifying. For example, if I write a full Photoshop clone that links to a third-party library to support some obscure graphics format, you'd have to be out of your mind to say the whole program is a derivative of that library — but that's how the GPL sees it. In GPL World, all of our programs are forks of libc.

This problem is so significant that no major Linux distro puts its system libraries under the GPL. It is clear that they believe the GPL would interfere with more than just the freeloading business model.
OK, I take it that from government attacks you are referring to gold seizure in E-Gold and during the Roosevelt era.

I don't know if this can be avoided. Governments could coerce the release of private keys so that the BitCoins could be reassigned to another party. (by the way, what happens if the private key is lost?)

During the Roosevelt era, it is simply outlawed, and gold has to be exchanged for fiat currency. I'm not sure if BitCoin can circumvent that.
Thanks, quite frustrating not having any keyword that allows you to google something

more info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
Your use of parentheses hurts my head...
Proximity based advertising is cheaper and more efficient to smaller and local businesses.

I've been working on something similar... $41M sure would be nice! For a group of proven talent I can understand the investment, but $41M is pretty crazy.
no surprise that this newspaper survives and even hiring at the times when others are laying off.
Rich environmentalists should consider buying up cheap land to create nature reserves.
I bet the majority of requests go unanswered because the recipient simply doesn't understand what they need to do to participate.

Beating around the bush is self-sabotage. Be specific, demanding, but polite. If you know how the person can help you, give concrete steps. If you don't, be very clear about what you need help with.

Also one more: Write skimmable content. This is done by breaking things up into structured paragraphs or lists, ideally gracefully degrading thanks to a general summary in the beginning and call to action in the end.
Don't Listen to Yourself: Redesigning the eBay of Latin America
Yeah, or the idiot in the cube next to me that I spend 10 hours a day with.
Well, at least they have enough money to market it down people's throats. They're going to need every single dollar they can get to eventually get some of those Facebook users to want to use this thing.
This is pretty insightful, the part about hyperinflation vs confidence.

I'm not a BitCoin supporter, but I still think you are wrong on this count.

Confidence depends on perceptions. Nothing can command confidence consistently if the underlying economy is bad or broken. In the case of BitCoins, not being able to artificially increase the supply is a virtue. (ps I'm not a supporter because bankers always figure out a way around limited supply of a precious commodity).
IE9 Released
Sauna - SA-3020
I guess I'm not with the times anymore. Thanks for sharing.
Of course, github is just making work the things that people were already doing. But ~user predates twitter even for referring to users.
Thank you very much, both of you!! I'll keep your tips in mind!!
It sounds cool, but due to the name it's impossible to find in app store search.

Edit: I was able to find it by searching for "color camera group", though curiously, not "color group camera".
Popular speech doesn't need defending.

If you don't believe in the freedom of "unquestionably wrong" speech, then you don't believe in freedom of speech.
I have generally found it very helpful to spend a lot of time understanding the behavior simple concrete cases, and understanding how a general mathematical principle applies to them. The visualizable low-dimensional case of analytic geometry is a particularly flexible concrete case for understanding many principles of calculus and linear algebra. I appreciate fairly well how it breaks down: I went on to path integrals and other quantum stuff where the number of dimensions is much larger than three. But the understanding from 1-3 dimensions was very helpful. More generally, one can make a habit of thinking about how general principles apply to special concrete cases that you understand. When trying to understand group theoretical theorems, you can check how they apply to your favorite concrete groups. When trying to understand conservation of angular momentum, or the Bohr correspondence principle, you can cross-check your understanding of them with what you know about the behavior of hydrogen atoms and balls rolling off the edges of tables and so forth. And probably many readers here will have naturally tried thinking about how a nontrivial algorithm would work on some simple concrete data set.

The advantages of thinking this way seem to be a little like the advantages of test-driven development: time spent understanding representative concrete cases doesn't teach you everything, but it can eliminate many misunderstandings very quickly.
How to Find Unclaimed Property in California
Describes the actions the state of California is taking to return unclaimed money and property to its owners.
Does anyone actually say the @? No one says the # in hashtags.
It's odd that his 2nd tip is "Learn Vim" and then goes on to describe all the bash/readline keystrokes in Emacs mode.

$ set -o vi
So, you want me not only to move to Japan, but also to date a Japanese girl? Too much work, pal!! I want to learn a language, not change my entire life!! Haha!
This changed my life forever, if only because I got to see Guy Steele shout "More cowbell!" and dance around a handful of sigils.
Zynga are an extreme 'yes' example.

I have experience with some FB apps, mainly just app versions of websites. These were not monetized(by me at least).

https://developers.facebook.com/ is your friend!
>Nguyen has visions of fundamentally changing some aspects of social interaction and local discovery with the app, which he considers part of the so-called Post-PC movement.

webvan anybody?
Tricky color scheme. What bizarre thinking leads to using dark red to represent less loss than light red? It doesn't even line up with using dark blue to represent more gain than light blue.

The data the chart is representing is interesting though; I don't mean to imply that you were wrong about that.
I was nodding along so strongly to the first half of this that I was genuinely surprised when the other shoe dropped. I see another friend get sucked into the vortex nearly every week, and it's gotten to the point where I have trouble being happy for them. I mean, I'm thrilled to see friends do well, but I know that suddenly a great mind has been removed from the larger community.

Conversations with pre-Google-employment friends go along the lines of:

"What are you working on?"
"Well I was working on an inventory tracking system using Flask and Redis so I needed to kludge together something to store session in ..."

After getting hired by Google, these conversations are more like:

"What are you working on?"
"App Engine."
"Oh. Um. What parts?"
"Oh, you know. Python and stuff."

It's sad.

So congrats to Avery and everyone else who's getting sucked in. I'm sure things are awesome over there, and I hope some day you'll be able to come back out and tell the rest of us about it.

But I sure as hell am never going to give up my freedom to talk to my friends.
"Straight Cure".
Nothing says that you're speaking into the void more than "talking at" someone rather than "talking to" them.
I don't own any Apple devices to test this but I am curious if they are enabling WYSIWYG post composing on iphone/ipad using native interface somehow?

For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).
Fraudulent SSL Certificates in the wild
One of the first things it suggested to me was "Weed"
If you don't believe the money that the NY Times spends reporting stories and producing quality journalism is worth it, please just don't read their news.

It costs money to hire quality journalists and send them around the world to report on the news. If you're willing to pay the cable company $100/month or more to pipe Jersey Shore into the house, you should be willing to pay the New York Times to bring you the news they spend so much to report.
Functionally as a sysadmin, I've heard ifconfig is deprecated before yet I've never used ip. just 'ifconfig' on the command line tells me everything I need to know about what interfaces are up, their status and basic info.

'ip' just gives me the standard syntax description.

The power of the basic shell is that there's usually a few hundred ways to skin a cat. And just because there's documentation saying something is deprecated as often as not it's still so widely used that in practice, it's not.
The link to the Android Market does not go to the app page. With a name like 'Color', it's almost impossible finding it in the market.
I just got sent this screenshot from an Indian tech co who say they were hacked only a few hours ago, from an Iranian IP address:

http://imgur.com/qj1Ak

Turns out the IP address is being misreported as from Iran, so i'm wondering if the same thing happen in this case to point the finger at them
They compare with QuickLZ 1.0 from 2006 (you can see that from snappy_unittest.cc).

I've done a quick benchmark with the files on quicklz.com on the same machine with QuickLZ 1.5.0:

test file; library; compressed size; compression speed in mb/s

average
QuickLZ 47.9% 308
snappy 53.0% 261

proteins.txt
QuickLZ 1.5.0 35.6% 331
snappy 40.5% 232

plaintext.txt
QuickLZ 1.5.0 48.1% 245
snappy 55.5% 193

gdb.exe
QuickLZ 1.5.0 45.8% 270
snappy 51.1% 214

flower.bmp
QuickLZ 1.5.0 86.7%
snappy 91.5% 208

northwind.mdf
QuickLZ 1.5.0 23.2%
snappy 26.4% 456
Dell Studio XPS 13 battery
Stylish is your friend on Firefox.
IE9 was released last week, so this is old news. I'm still up voting because I want everyone to install it who can. People will probably be happier with Chrome or Firefox, but in the event that a version of IE is launched, I want the stats counters, etc to see IE9 as the most used IE. In a couple of years IE's < 9 will just be a bad memory.
No.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350147
Related article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-soc...

According to one of the comments at TC, the domain cost $350K. It's cool to see newer (and well-funded) startups going for non-"web 2.0" names, e.g. Path, and now Color.
They're trying to have their cake(paying users) and eat it too (free Google traffic).
Poll: Do you think that the mind is physical or not?
Although partially inspired by this survey (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/), I have been curious about this concept for a while. That is, what the mind and its consciousness really are.

In a sense, there are only two views that you can have with regards to this mind-body problem:

Physicalism - The mind (its mental functions, consciousness, sense of
identity, etc.) are nothing more than physical properties.

Dualism - The mind is composed of a different substance or property
than physical matter is

It'd be great to see your perspectives on this issue.
I believe that the mind is physical (Physicalism)
I believe that the mind is non-physical (Dualism)
I am not sure what I believe
ifconfig doesn't show the additional IPs on an interface unless they are bound to aliased interface names (eth0:0)
TipTheWeb — Building a Better Web, Together
Agreed, the important part about being concise is not that you can boil down a complex idea into a short statement, but that you can give the questioner the information relevant to them. When there is too much relevant information to be concise, that is in itself a relevant (and concise) answer, the art is giving the questioner just enough information to ask another question.

Personally I find doing that sort of thing _extremely_ difficult, and doing it in real-time as part of a verbal conversation orders of magnitude more so.