skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or c) those who want it don’t have enough skill to code it, and those who have the skill aren’t interested.

That’s the generalized response to the flawed argument “if you want it, why don’t you make it?” in open source. People specialize at tasks to hopefully increase the total effectiveness of a system to more than it would be if everyone did everything. However, this means that if the only people who have the power to do something unionize, other people can’t get that thing without agreeing to their demands.

You could say in this situation, the core devs of Arch “unionized” to demand either coding help or patience from those who want the feature. I’m not interested enough in this situation to be bothered to research whether this is a reasonable demand. If it is unreasonable, c) is the case, and if it is reasonable, a) or b) is, but that’s as far as I care to investigate.
I would just hope that I don't get a virus that turns my windshield black.
Some pictures/video here:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/samsungs_latest_transparent...
This happens from time to time in OSS projects. Some users kick up a big stink. Often times their issues get fixed.

However, it's a shit way to do it and tramples on a lot of people... and in the mid to long run can damage a project greatly.

A more constructive way for a user to get a feature in is to either pay for it, or code it. Setting up a 'bounty', or helping to get funding is a better way to try and get these novel writers to help with the project.

Get these passionate writers working for the project by directing their energies towards getting funding. Telling them to shut up and submit a patch won't work... since they are not capable of writing code sometimes. However they do care greatly about the issue, and have time to send off emails and write blog posts.
Ever hear of the philosopher Charles Pearse? Or the school of American Pragmatism? You're touching on some of what he was into. "Links in the chain of credibility".

I like that XKCD gets cited in rhetoric here. =)
Agree 100%. The trick for them is to build a compelling application.

I faced a similar problem with delineal.com. Like Color, my groundbreaking stuff is in the data choices, algorithms and data filtering and in my generalized approach to solving problems. I don't lead with detailed discussions of the technology because A) the vision and direction tell a more entertaining story B) The matching and filtering algorithms do not a product make. I need to build products that solve real-world problems to generate revenue.

I like the recognition they're getting for their technical work. It bodes well for me...and provides some nice hints about how to better frame my pitch... because I can say "I have technology AND useful apps".
This made me angry at first, and then I thought that IV were being smart and doing what everybody else does in a political fight: attempt to exert influence by paying for it.

I am more inclined to blame the representatives who make legislative decisions based on who is funding them .
Just once I'd like to find out that reality doesn't turn out as rotten as I can possible imagine it. To hear somewhere, someone, on some board said, "ya know, we've made enough this quarter, lets not make giant asses of ourselves by usurping and corrupting the system that allowed us to do so."
Michael, I really appreciate your feedback. You pointed out issues that surely should be addressed. Actually we got half of your items in our bug tracking list.
Again, thank you so much for your feedback. It is great and straight to the point.
Would you mind to elaborate on profile page?
Thanks
ASUS rips off Bing Bang Theory for Transformer promo
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How to import FLV to iMovie with FLV to iMovie Converter for Mac?
didn't dropbox have 'getdropbox.com' initially?
Thanks a lot for your feedback, we are working on it.
SalesForce integration is coming in April-May. First CRM we decided to connect with is HighRise.
I made this more as an exercise in rails (started learning last week), but people seem to like it, so here's to pulling all nighters and building things!

(This isn't my startup however, also working on that...)
That's what capitalism is for.

If you don't have something you want and I have (the skill to write this patch), instead of bitching and griping, make it worth my while to do it for you.
Thanks for advise, next post will be much more descriptive
I am one of those not buying the "big idea" of Color (of course I can be mistaken). But I think that the fact that something like it already existed does not mean much. Search existed already when Google was born, for example.

What matters usually is execution and timing (and a little luck), and Color might have them, even though execution for now has not been that great. But with all the money they got they can fix it.

EDIT: spelling.
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This is a fairly longstanding consensus here. It comes up every now and again though, and my position isn't the only one. Some believe up votes can mean agreement, but that obviously this has a limit. Since a down vote definitely doesn't mean disagreement, it only follows that the opposite shouldn't mean agreement. That would only serve to dilute the conversation. Like I said though, this is just a rough consensus.

Here is a previous HN discussion on comments [1].

And I'll save you the trouble of reading through to an even earlier discussion[2] where PG weighed in to say "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement." But this was on a different topic regarding troll-like behavior, so it's not entirely clear what his thoughts are.

But a person is going to use their up votes to mean whatever they want them to mean. If you want to up vote in agreement, go ahead, no one is going to stop you. I only up vote things I agree with if I think it adds to the conversation. So while I thought the linked video was impressive and a great way to see the product, I'm not going to up vote a comment that doesn't add much. You are free to disagree.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
danke! We plan to implement more comprehensive analytics by the end of July.
Elbrodeur,

Dude, you are a life-saver. I'm going to use this and deploy it soon after I try to patch that scrolling lag issue people have been reporting - is there any way I can give you an acknowledgement or something in the footer of CaptainObvious or on the about page?
I'm using some CSS hacks to do it. Here's what that code looks like:

body
{
font-size: 75%;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #232323;
background: url('img/styles/blue_bg.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/img/styles/blue_bg.jpgg', sizingMethod='scale');
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/img/styles/blue_bg.jpg', sizingMethod='scale')";
background-color: #00689c;
height: 100%;
}
I wonder if he asked EFF if they were willing to defend the case. The thing is it's probably never individually worth defending against these cases, but on a society level there'd be so much gain if someone had set a legal precedence for the validity of robots.txt.
Dude, that's a great idea and hysterical to boot! Thanks!
I don't get it, why this is on HN? If it's to show that there's no innovation in what color wants to do, it's pointless. It's not like only the idea mattered, and execution was not important...
On the list - shouldn't be hard to do :D
Basically, I'm a little tired of people using JavaScript to implement the basic functionality of a text-oriented website.

A blog is, by definition, fundamentally text-oriented, as opposed to, say, a vlog (video log) or a podcast, and so should work acceptably well, if not attractively or with all of the intended features, without JavaScript. Ideally, it should degrade gracefully without CSS, too, but that amount of respect for your readers is probably a lost cause.

And it is all about respect for your readers: Books don't demand you read them on a veranda attached to a five-star hotel in New Delhi regardless of how much that would improve the experience. Books are quite happy to be read in a grimy bus terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, if that's the best the reader can manage. Text-based web pages are quite capable of being read, at an ugly 'bus terminal in Hoboken' level, in browsers like Lynx or Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 6, and the designer should not presume to demand that their readership have access to first-class tickets booked on Firefox 4 or Chrome 11.

Sometimes this isn't possible. Sometimes, you really do want to put video on the web and people who can't handle video are out of luck. However, you and I both know about the impact open formats and captioning and other measures of respect for the audience can have.

Finally, I could mention the blind tied to screenreaders, but that's insulting both to the technology of screenreader software, which I hear is fairly advanced these days, and to the authors of web pages, who should not need their noses rubbed in the existence of physical limitations simply to be convinced to show basic consideration for their audience.

(Personally, I find a .30-06 at medium range quite suffices.)
I love Instapaper, and always find what he has to say interesting, but it baffles me that every one of his blog posts seems to reach the front page of HN almost immediately. It makes me wonder if people wait for RSS notifications of his entries and then jump to be the first to post it and get the guaranteed karma bump.
My leftist friends think I am a hardcore capitalist. My rightist friends think I am an irrevocable socialist or communist. They don't put me in the middle ground.

Hackers like to point out the flaws in all kinds of systems. So be prepared to be ashamed at least some of the time. Some people just like to think about how to improve the systems.
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...but those millions may take years to win. Every lawsuit has an opportunity cost. Yes if you get to a certain level that is the cost of doing business, but if you are just out of the gate and have X dollars and Y hours in the day that may be a poor investment. Also there's a difference between a disruptive cost in upsetting an old industry (say a YouTube or Napster) vs. fighting a single companies' walled garden. At the end of the day building a company on top of another companies walled garden is a high risk to begin with, so it could be better to just move on.
Clever, take a lcd panel, remove the backlighting and put semi-transparent solar panels one or both sides.
I dunno, I'm 26 and equally baffled by every new mobile/social fad. I think technology and late stage capitalism does something strange to culture, leaving a void where religion, music, or some sort of dialog traditionally exist, so young people are following the logic of consumerism, going to whatever gives instant gratification and a semblance of meaning.

That's the best explanation I can come up with the success of things like foursquare, instagram, etc. and the rise of online gaming.

There were probably assholes like us saying the same shit back in the 50s though - why do these people stay inside and watch TV when they could see ART at the Cinema!?
I completely agree, and I'm 22. The fact that I check HN several times a day should speak to my interest in technology. I would say this has nothing to do with age, just a certain sense of what's valuable.

While time has shown that the average person can find a use for Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, I still find it very difficult to see how "another" social app... and a photo-sharing one at that... is going to draw the kind of crowd that would make this extremely high valuation reasonable.

I would agree that, based on numerous comments across the web, the only reason for such a high valuation is because of possible acquisition. But this article specifically mentions that the company is not interested in being acquired, so I guess I just don't "get it".

During the dot-com bubble, "eyeballs" were becoming as important a metric for companies as "revenue" or "profit". It seems to me (and others here) that we're seeing some of the same sentiment all over again.

The fact that Color will give me a 'dynamic social graph based on who I interact with frequently' does not make me want to sign up. Then again, I might not be their target market. I currently don't have much interest in sharing photos on the internet with strangers just because they are nearby.
[2010]

I thought it sounded familiar.
How many entrepreneurs do you think there are who wanted to pitch other Sand Hill Road VC firms, but not Sequoia?

Not those with no traction. Now there is a precedent, I expect their traffic will be much more.

Edid: Repling down voters.

I said I expect the traffic (applications) to Sequoia to be much more than it is now Would you as an entrepreneur tried to pitch Sequoia if you had not even launched in the app store?
"FIG. 4 is a diagram of an exemplary story line 400 according to an implementation consistent with the present invention. In this example, the story line 400 involves aliens that steal a company's logo and includes five animated images 410-450. The animated image 410 represents the beginning of the story and shows an alien spacecraft approaching the company logo. The animated image 420 shows the alien spacecraft landing on the company logo and an alien inspecting the logo. The animated image 430 shows the aliens leaving their spacecraft to further inspect the company logo. The animated image 440 shows the aliens hauling away the company logo with their spacecraft. Finally, the animated image 450 shows the company logo after being deposited on another world by the aliens."

Google Mars.
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Here is another one: http://www.brool.com/index.php/the-genius-of-python-the-agon...
Snerk.com?
Yeah, I agree with you. This is the kind of thread that makes me worry about HN.
Most of the software-based 'hard problem' niches that are accessible to programmers without specialized domain knowledge outside software were filled by startups in the 70s and 80s that are now the establishment. Nobody is going to fund another word processor, operating system, or DBMS.

Web startups are attractive because they have low capital requirements, don't need much domain knowledge, and are more closely tied to changes in culture than technology, so there are always a few open niches.
"Wow - I bet users will gladly line up to upload photo and video to a data mining company."

And yet people seem to like Google...

"It really feels like all marketing BS when the core of the business is to track, record and mine their users."

I can't help but think that this also describes Google. :)

Edit: the person that downvoted me should at least have some courtesy and explain themselves.
This reminded me of a dream that I've had for there to be a website that you check to basically look up the "street cred" of a language/framework/library and see what important/influential people use that language/framework/library and what their thoughts were (and, even in lieu of influential people, seeing that 58% of the hardcore hacker community uses some library that you've just heard of for the first time could be very useful).
Same story here. Clickable link, btw: http://www.6colors.net/ipad_check/
L.A. Metro $2000 developer challenge for L.A. transit apps
If Color gains any initial traction at all in hopes of making a social graph, I wouldn't be surprised to see Facebook immediately going after it as well to cover their grounds. They have robust photo capabilities and strong mobile integration already, and it makes sense with their location check-ins to events and places.
The two cases are different. The guys manufacturing credit default swaps had someone to sell them to. But (unlike in the 90s) there is no one buying lame startups for billions of dollars.
Thanks. I intend to learn Erlang, because of its said performance and reliability for scalable network services, but it was hard to find a friendly introduction.
I make it a point not to buy a domain I don't have a use for. There has been ~50-75 domains I checked in the last month that were nothing but godaddy parked domain pages. That being said, I usually just pick some words and phrases I like, and hit the thesaurus. If you're persistent and lucky, you'll hit a good+available .com
Same here. Server error upon using the email link.
Agreed on the thumbs up for Arch; I'm not thrilled with the direction Ubuntu has been taking recently (at least in the desktop version) and so have been migrating my non-server Linux boxes to Arch.

Sad to see LWN publish an attack without making an effort to get the other side of the story first. If the complainer had made the patch submissions he claimed and that the Arch maintainers deny ever seeing, well it should be pretty easy to sort out before publishing the article -- if you're really interested in journalism, that is.
I love how Forrst posts seem to get a lot of visibility on from the community where they might not get much on HN/Reddit. Sort of a facebook news feed instead of a vote-up competition.

As feedback for Kyle: I find the Activity and Posts menus confusing. Why the separation? Why don't you just show me things you think I want to see, and not give me so many choices? I feel like you can get rid of a lot of the stuff on the top menu bars. I'm not a power user and I find it overwhelming.

At any rate, I expect that forrst will slowly start to become another one of my regular visits.
Mozilla had getfirefox.com but not firefox.com.

Dropbox had getdropbox.com but not dropbox.com.

Songbird still only has getsongbird.com

I don't think this will be too big of a problem for them. Getyolk.com is shorter than all of those.
Pirates of Private Space Ventures-Orphans of Apollo-MIR Corp.
Becky Neiman, Elon Musk, Gus Gardellini, Jeff Manber.Sir Richard Branson Eric Anderson-SpaceAdventure, Michael Potter, MIR Corp, Orphans of Apollo, Rick Tumlinson, Todd Jones, Tom Clancy, willager
Not that Yolk is showing up high in search results or anything, but Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, Dropbox, etc., all have (or didn't have) premium domains and are doing fine.
My final degree project in Computer Science was an attempt to build a P2P twitter http://code.google.com/p/qantiqa/

Due to personal issues and a tight deadline it was not featureful as I wished but it worked, although there is a central point that works as gateway to the overlay.

Anyway, after this point, it works fully decentralized.
Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500
It's a link to an app in the app store. It's an advert.

Looking at the submitter:

user:	georgio

created:	53 days ago

karma:	45

Only this link has been submitted.

No comments.

Hardly a contributing member of the HN community. I say flag it.
Hi Anm,

Years of work worth reading your feedback, appreciate very much.

I am very interested what you say here:
"My concern is that the primary multi-touch gestures chosen are two handed.". I think that ultimately there will have to be a standard for handed, but an evolved set of gestures. I am working on that, you know why?

I strongly believe that there has to be a balance in terms of handed gestures to execute on what has been selected (our innovation, do a gesture on a selection). There will be a time when gestures have to evolve to cope with demanding tasks at home with multiple touch devices in almost all glass/crystal/plastic surfaces, so there is going to be plenty of need. New types of gestures that can be learned and reproduced fast. Nor the palm graffiti type nor the imagery type (pinch, stretch, and swipe). New types.

Something is in the middle that can be worldwide interpreted and very easy to execute, that is the key. As an example we created the Twitter peak ">" gesture cause is fast and symbolic. That creation process has to be applied many more times again for new gestures with an implicit action and a symbol. Also the key can be to synthesize the gesture to a minimal expression.

Also, once the user has done the gesture four times, the fifth goes on its own. So its all about learning curve. We humans have a great ability to remember mechanical movements. I would love to have a more consistent scientific background. Any doctor around?.

This is the way I think we can overcome the real problem and concern you are pointing out and that I agree 100%. Of course tablet will be a superb place to run PadKite.

Great feedback, really.
What would have happened if he had done it from a company based in the Seychelles for example?
Would that be a way to protect against Facebook aggressively suing with no grounds?
But you're only going to up vote things that you agree with that also add to the conversation. Of course people up vote things they agree with, but in the case of something like the comment that started this all off, did it really add much to the conversation? I didn't think so, but it wasn't frivolous enough for me to down vote it. You're free to disagree and up vote all you want.

As a side note: truthiness, as defined by Colbert [1] isn't something that a crowd can tell you. It's something that only your gut can tell you. And my gut says that your comment wants a burrito.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
It's a sarcastic comment about color paying $350k to get color.com
IE8 Crasher
Move to my native Sweden, it is a not-so-capitalistic economy which is clean, with very little corruption and backroom dealings. Just ask the politicians.

But before you go, I wonder if you might be interested in buying a bridge to a really good price...?

(At least you get to find out some of this stuff in the US. In many other countries the 'ol boy's clubs are just too tight. I think I'll send money to WikiLeaks, even though they seem a bit weird.)

Edit: Thanks, dexen. Sigh, I aimed for humorous and informative, not sarcastic. (I can't upvote you, since my "avg" is too low after questioning news sources which people claimed were good without having references. I probably came off as sarcastic then, too.)
Since this is apparently patentable, I'm actually kind of happy that it's Google that got it.

1) They're not going to actually enforce it because that would damage their image significantly.

2) In the absolute best unicorns-and-rainbows case, I can even see Google using it to demonstrate how ludicrous the patent wars are getting these days. This even makes a little bit of sense, given that the first hundred hits (on bing!) for '"Google sues" patent' are for patent countersuits.
Flagged accordingly, upvoted for sparing me the sleuthing.

I've gotten gun-shy about explaining my flags (even though I consider it polite to do so) because I keep getting downvoted for it. Which is baffling, since the spammers shouldn't have enough karma to do so, which means he either has friends in low places or this community REALLY wants to EXECUTE and SHIP so much that they cheer on non-contributing spammers with retaliatory downvotes.

Who knows. Doesn't matter, but it's annoying.

[Edited a late night typo]
IE9 also crashes.
I think is spot on.

My children inherit my old iphones (no sims) and I'm going to set them up - will be interesting to see the photostreams from round my house and the places we go... (and if you are wondering I'm from the Bill Joy school of privacy - there isn't any and I learn to live with it)

I can see it being quite cool for meeting people too - if you are in a space and someone else is making pictures there.

I can also see the potential for hidden artworks/performance

I hope it does take off - it's a new kind of thing and really does have the power to transform our physical spaces
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Also, the title is misleading: he got threatened with legal action, not sued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/garden/15hongkong.html?_r=...
Boost has lots of things. Why is this one particularly interesting?
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