skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't mind if they are coupled

Of course you do. They may be under the control or purview of different team members (or teams, or contractors), and coupling always increases maintenance costs.

> just update them at the same time.

Or don't couple them and update them when you need to.

> Also, proprietary protocol often don't come with the long term vision that characterize open file formats and protocols. The cash has to flow soon, then for a few years. Beyond that, all bets are off.

Right, so you would not use REST for proprietary services because proprietary services are by definition moronic in design and intent?

Sounds great.
I feel he neglects to mention how excruciating frustrating it is trying to learn Vim. Evrytime I try it is stop after an hour or so, laugh, and say this has to be some sort of joke. Unix programs like that seem to violate just about every human computer interface principle imaginable. Everything is hidden from you, nothing is self evident. Maybe after a lot of practice and memorisation you see good productivity gains but at least warn people what they're in for.
In other news

http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-a-person-bittorrent-c...
Big companies mostly mess up entrepreneurial companies when they buy them and it really is best that companies like Skype stay independant and run by their founders if that is possible.

"independant" - google doesn't even mark it as a typo.
Dude, why be rude to pg? What can you possibly gain? He was not being rude to you, simply answering your question.

Pro tip: don't burn bridges with powerful people whom one day you might help/investment/advice/partnership from.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of what tracker(s) these IP addresses were harvested from.
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Sometimes people doggedly pursue something that others would have 'failed fast' with, and it works out for them in the long run. Many times, it doesn't.

There's some merit to all of these ideas, but the real trick is knowing when to apply them and when not to. They aren't iron rules.
I enjoyed the movie "Sophie's Choice" and I have to say SPOILER ALERT for the above comment.

(I'm hoping the poster edits his comment to include a spoiler alert phrase)
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Access denied based on IP? Come on Adobe, are you bloody serious?
Oh. I thought it meant something like Germany is a great place to get venture capital but not such a great place to start a startup.
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I don't really understand why they compare the Robots.txt file to a suicide note. Could anyone explain this?
> We already have CSS3 text columns

Aka Multi Column[0]

And Grid Positioning[1] and Template Layout[2] and Flexible Box Layout[3]

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css3-layout-20100429/

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/
cool idea, but I can think of plenty of startups not listed
ooh, i see. nice.
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I see one technical problem with this: Skype is heavily peer-to-peer (I just learned from Wikipedia that even the "pe" in the name reflects this).

Xbox 360 communications is not, inherently, very open. You cannot randomly connect an Xbox 360 to another Internet host, you must go through a Microsoft-maintained gateway. So connecting e.g. an Xbox 360 to a Skype client running on a PC would not be simple.

Of course MS could choose to provide such gateways and (probably) change around in the protocol once they own it to make this happen. I'm just pointing out that it's not as easy as "just do it".

See http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/EngineeringBlog/072810-Develo... for some talk about the architecture.
The "This Week in Law" podcast has touched on this issue a few times:

http://twit.tv/twil

Although I can't remember the specific episodes.
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Thanks for the feedback, appreciated!
All corrected on the new version.
Will get it proofread soon, now that it got more popular :)
... even if advertising "only shifted demand around," ...

Given the state of US consumer debt, you can make a convincing case that if this wasn't true 100 or even 20 years ago, it certainly is true now. (Unless you mean the top 5% whose wealth is skyrocketing, of course; they could probably be convinced to spend more of it since they won't have to pay it in taxes any time soon.)
>"As many users as Facebook"

I suspect that there is a closer correlation to one account = one person with Skype than Facebook since there is little social incentive to create multiple Skype accounts. In addition, the strength of relationships between Skype customers is more easily determined. Finally, Skype has the potential to scale well into MicroSoft's core B2B business model.
I like humans browsing my sites but I certainly don't want scrapers copying my work wholesale, claiming it as their own and ranking ahead of me in SERPs.

I'm not alone :-) see http://incredibill.blogspot.com/
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I was wondering how Twitter signin is performing for non-social sites. I understand that Facebook Connect is the best solution in case you want to leverage the social graph. But if you just want a quick way for people to sign up without having to register, Twitter is the least intrusive, least binding way for the user to try out your service.

So, I was wondering, how does Twitter sign in compare to FB Connect or OpenID in terms of conversions for you?
'Steal everything' era of hacking
I know, you're right, but I thought I'd start with the ones I knew about and then let founders add their own startups to the list.
The team consists of some of the best hackers in the world and they claim that this is some kind of a novel idea they are working on
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I was led to this theory by the book Learned Optimism. I call it a theory because Dr. Seligman claims int he book to have come up with a hypotheses: (1) That you can measure a quality he labels optimism and pessimism, and that (2) optimism is a predictor for performance. He claims he then tested his theory and it was confirmed. That being said, confirmation by the theorist is much weaker than independent confirmation, so if you're a stickler for the scientific method, research this and see what current thinking has to say about it.

Seligman's second theory is even more interesting, he claims in his book to have cognitive therapy that improves optimism, and to have confirmed his second theory. Independent confirmation would be great for this one!
hehe - how else am I going to learn coding tricks etc. out here in China?
This is what Project Honeypot does http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php#f
That's quite a comment, thanks! There's a marketing element to it, of course, but seriously, one of my main reasons for starting the tea business was because I was fed up of seeing over-priced teas being marketed incorrectly that I knew anyone could buy easily and cheaply if they were in China.
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I think the idea is that while downloading a copyrighted work is still illegal, uploading is distribution, which is one of the indicators of "willfulness" which exposes you to the high statutory limits.
:)) Oh no, it's not that smart! :P
Yeah, they apparently didn't get the memo.
nikcub has a comment on this thread that convincingly puts Skype "gross profit close to $500M+ for YE 2011."

I was going off an article that had skype revenue/profit as 859.8/20.6 for 2010 and negative the year before. I assume that the accounting tricks of having been bought by a PE firm that he mentions are responsible for the discrepancy.

If true, P/E is < 20, not bad.

Still, I doubt that is really what MS is after.
No problem, I used to be a technical author ;) so kind of hard to lose the habit. I really like the book. I hope you don't think I'm being too critical, and I hope you make some good money from it.
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Previous submission and discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024576

There's some more submissions, but I think these are the only ones with a decent number of comments.
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That is, if they keep Skype as it is. There are, however, more than just financial reasons for this acquisition. 2 reasons off the top of my head:

1. Microsoft will gain from Skype's synergy with their existing portfolio. Think Skype + Live Messenger or Skype + Windows Phone 7.

2. Block competitors from purchasing. Microsoft, Google and Apple (to some extent even Facebook) have businesses that are increasingly overlapping. Skype in the hands of a competitor becomes an alternative cost for Microsoft.
Am I the only one that thinks this will be the biggest spyware since BonziBUDDY?
Googles business is logging data about you and sell targeted ads. I am not sure I am ready to hand over my os to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBUDDY
This contrasts greatly with Joel's post on the advantages of splitting equity fairly:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445447

I'm afraid I don't have the expertise to tell which of the contradicting points are valid, perhaps someone who agrees with Suster could refute some of Joel's for me, or vice versa.
As a side note, the book was really much better than the movie.
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Film companies pay snoops to troll BitTorrent sites, dip into active torrents and capture the IP addresses of the peers who are downloading and uploading pieces of the files.
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This is a very vague way of gathering evidence. I am sure that the ISPs don't hold logs of the actual connections each IP is making, so I am wondering how is it possible to prove that the accused person actually downloaded the files in the torrent. Unless the snoops use a hacked BT client that downloads a whole file from only one specific peer, which is highly unlikely and will take a huge amount of time for all 23000 people.
Good advice. "Explain" in this case wouldn't be enough to work out what's going on, however. In both the TEXT and VARCHAR cases he expected the queries to be using temporary tables so the output from mysql explain (both showing the use of temporary tables but not the storage medium such as disk or memory) would not have helped.
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"They're going to use whichever video chat comes built into their SmartPhone, tablet, computer, etc. They're going to use FaceBook's eventual video chat service or something Google offers."

Really? I'm thinking the barriers to switch from Skype are pretty high due to the vast amount of users Skype has. Why switch to a slightly more polished product when you have no one to communicate with there?

We have to remember that the Hacker News crowd probably represents early adopters. Most people will not be as quick to try/switch to new services.
How about move up then? I work for Sococo, and they have a service for distributed teams like yours. Always-on, no minute charge or limit, plus expanded presence information like you wouldn't believe. Can also call out/in, share docs and views, works on Mac/linux/Windows.

Above it was mentioned Skype has no loyalty, will be replaced when something better comes along. We're hoping thats Teamspace, Sococo's 1st product.
This rant is absolutely ridiculous and unintentionally highlights the reason that people hate nerds. As most "popular" kids consistently try to prove their own popularity, nerds do the same with intelligence. Most normal people at some point realize that there's more to life than being smarter than the next guy, but nerds ne'er do.
This article is chock full of pseudoanalysis, providing what the author believes to be concrete reason for nerd persecution, but to the reader it comes across as a pathetic attempt to gain virtual sympathy and assault the reader with his pathetic life stories. Why? Because he goes on and on, distracting his nerd audience with justification for its obnoxious behavior towards the rest of the world.

I dislike nerds and nerd culture - I don't get any pleasure from proving to other people that I'm smart via rambling about a specific body of knowledge that I've immersed myself in, I think dr who is a dumb show, and I thought star wars was all right at best. According to nerd criteria, I must be an idiot popular kid. And yet, I'm in the top 10% of cs majors at my college. It's people like this author and his friends who make my life miserable every day in this major by constantly trying to prove somehow that the world is black&white, and that since I am not part of nerd culture then I must be dumb. No, assholes - there are people that are smart and not social retards and the fact that you can't grasp this proves how simplistic your mind really is. There is such a thing as being an intellectual, although you would never know it by talking to the asperger majority in cs.

Tl;dr - there are more ways to classify the world than "smart" and popular, being nerdy != being smart, I hate cs nerds because every conversation turns into an intelligence pissing contest ending with some obscure video game reference that I don't get because my parents wouldn't buy me a console since I'm a girl and thus should love barbies instead.

Tl;you have ADD - I hate people that need to shove the world into disjoint sets.
Just when I was planning to purchase shares from the IPO... Damn.
Submitted 12 hours ago, it has been on the front page most of that time, with many comments - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530663
But also its the "facebook effect", where you go there because everybody else is there. So that's in Skype's favor.
That whole site is very enjoyable and I've got to make up for a lost hour at work now.
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Would have been much more convenient if they had converted all these Word documents to a more multimedia-rich web format
Are we talking about the same company? The only time Apple ports their software to different environments is when they are in a position of weakness (like they were when they reluctantly put iTunes on Windows). I don't think a single Apple iOS app has made it's way to Android, or any new Mac software has been ported to Windows in recent years. You can accuse Microsoft of a lot of things, but they've always been willing to port their software when there is a buck to be made (they are a software company after all).
Thanks - I didn't know it had already been submitted. I thought dups could only be avoided by extending the url...
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I have lived with depression since my father died when i was 8 and this is the first time i've heard of over general memory. It makes sense on so many levels that it is mindblowing that no psychiatrist ever told me something about it.

To me this was the most helpful link ever provided by HN.
Wow, thanks for this one. Until now, I didn't even know there were any angel investors in my country. Now that I know there are... well, I might just try my luck with this whole startup thing :).
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Have seen it previously on HN, but last time didn't see a comment that I now have, linking to http://www.ephraimkishon.de/en/my_favorite_stories.htm

Possibly because I'm English (?) I don't quite follow what I presume is/are the stereotype/s behind that joke, could anyone enlighten me?
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Suing is not about what is lawful or not; suing is part of the civil court, not court of law. Anyone can sue anybody for any reason and the judge has the responsibility to decide if any wrongs were performed, and if they deserve compensation. So it isn't about what is lawful, it is about what bullshit they can convince the judge of, so getting a clued in judge is what you need.
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They were pretty quick to adopt Skype. Its only seconds to load another VOIP-style client, and no time at all to use the one that came preinstalled. And you always know who you want to talk to on Skype, you're not calling the flower shop or anything, its your brother-in-law or whoever, so you can arrange for them to try another client in seconds.

So the barrier to switching is pretty low.
I'm really looking forward to what new Chrome OS goodies will be announced at I/O. What ever happened to the "start button" they showed off (in the top left corner) some time last year? Seemed like a good way to launch apps, much better than the scroll down method we currently suffer through.

A ChromeOS tablet would be a dream but we're probably too early for that. I'm just hopeful that whatever notebooks get put out have the horsepower to smoothly render pages that the CR48 chokes on.
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If I put aside how I'd prefer the world to be and accept it for how it actually is, I'm inclined to agree with you, bluekeybox.

Here's a question for the self-taught self promoters on HN:

Is there a good book that coaches you about how to learn to become an effective self promoter?

I think a lot of technical people think of themselves as bringing a lot to the table, but are (perhaps too) quiet about it in a group.
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I'm fairly certain that deep packet inspection would be required for an ISP to connect customer to IP address to visited resource. That being said, it would be trivial for an ISP to log the date and time each customer held a given IP address. If a plaintiff were to provide that date and time information, it seems at least technically possible to link that activity to a subscriber account.

What I don't see though is how you prove that the person listed on the account was the one performing the activity. Then again, all it takes is convincing a few people (6 for a civil trial jury?) who weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty.
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I remember reading about it in a popular science book when I was young. Always found it mightily interesting. I always wondered whether an alien intelligence would 'get it', and how it would approach decoding it.

Too bad all our SETI attempts still turned up nothing.
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It's basically a $229 iPod touch with no screen, no battery, no camera, and no sensors, so they don't have to be losing money on it.
I am also confused as to why you want to avoid spotify - I have had nothign but great expirences with it.
The bitrate on this is a rate amount lower than spotify's as well. Lower than youtube in a number of them too..
They will use Skype like Apple uses Facetime. Get it natively into every Windows PC, Windows Smartphone and Tablet and let people (video)call each other easily. With the userbase MS has, this doesnt seem like a bad idea.

Imagine Scheduling Meetings in Outlook with automatic Video calls to everyone involved. Could be huge in the b2b market
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AT does many, many illegal things. They copy and redistribute content without permission of the owner

I don't know if AT does or does not do anything illegal but what you have outlined is not illegal per se. archive.org and Google do it too.
And here's the press release, confirming the $8.5B pricetag.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10Cor...
Just get a Google Voice number, hook it up to your mobile phones sip client, and enjoy the ability to make and receive calls when ever you have a data connection.(Free to receive but international rates apply when calling out, but US and Canada are free)
I can't help but think that, when the dust settles, Apple is the winner here, and Google is the loser.

Skype is an app that cuts across all these platforms and provides a service user's want. It has the potential to detach user from a specific platform (at the OS, manufacturer or carrier level). Something like that has to have been an annoyance (bordering on threat) to a closed and leading platform like iOS.

It suddenly finds itself biased towards not only a specific platform, but the weakest of the bunch.

As for Google, the only good news is that Microsoft just spent some 20% of their cash reserve on a money-losing business. The best outcome for Google is that nothing changes. The worse is that Skype succeeds on WP7 and MS executes on whatever wild integration dreams it has.

I'd warn that i'm not an analyst, but I think that's pretty obvious from the above (not that I think analysts know what they are talking about either).
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what's sad is, this device could easily support an external device. user did not realize they purchased an artistic statement of design simplicity instead of a flexible computing device.
The official announcement. I wonder how interoperability between various VOIP solutions will turn out with MS on board.

I am one of these dreamer of a multiprotocol VOIP solution. Like emails actually.
That's an interesting business model.

1. Make a terrible low-budget porno that few would ever actually buy.

2. Wait for it to hit the torrent networks

3. Harvest IP addresses

4. Sue for millions

It's possible some of these firms will make more money this way than they would have from regular sales.
If you mean rich text editor made in jQuery, then there is http://aloha-editor.org/ and https://github.com/bergie/hallo
Because it's so hard to come up with distinct unused names that work worldwide. Look at Apple, they aren't really any better (Thunderbolt, Air, Apple TV).
Well, yes. The regions idea seems to benefit people who are trying to bring a more mag-like experience to touch devices like the iPad. If you think about it and look at the spec, CSS regions gets pretty close to what adobe is already doing with the Wired ipad magazine. Them being the ones presenting this spec isn't a coincidence.

Regarding content flowing between boxes and hostile experiences: you can create user-hostile experiences with just about anything - but it doesn't mean everyone will. Tools will be tools, and more stylistic freedom isn't bad if the designer/developer does things in a way to benefit the user and not his aesthetic muscle.

TL;DR: more freedom is a good thing. In the hands of the right people.