skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end of the video discusses how a "society free to build upon the past" is able to create new forms of expression from old ideas. As opposed to articles condemning software patents and IP trolls, this video explores the benefits of unencumbered reuse of earlier work.
If the LED being used has a perfectly linear current-to-brightness curve then sure, it's possible. Most high-brightness LEDs, however, do not.
I thought that was one of the best aspects of the video.
The numbers are already out of date. Google just upgraded 160 million people to Chrome 12. Firefox will hopefully upgrade 200 million people to Firefox 5 this week. I've watch the numbers for the past couple of weeks and IE9 has caught IE7.

The web could really get a bump if we just nudge the remaining legacy browser users to upgrade. Why anyone would run IE6 or IE7 is beyond me.
Colemak is another good alternative to Qwerty layout. It's still not as popular as Dvorak (Colemak support was not present in OSX until Lion), but it seems to be beating both Qwerty and Dvorak layouts when it comes to speed and learning curve.
Thanks for the comment, but I thought I was pretty clear that the original claims were indeed false.

There are other issues with PayPal that I covered, as well as their poor response to the false allegations.
Watch,bad teacher,Online,megavideo
Watch,bad teacher,Online,megavideo
fictional, I want their world to think they could really exist, and they may actually be real. Green Lantern is not giving me the feeling of a certain CGI rent very low.
Cocksuckers ...
The author's own site (including the video), Nate Harrison:

http://nkhstudio.com/
Can this generate enough revenue to run the service?
With how terrible the Tumblr service has been the past year (I finally had to move every site I had off of it) I often wonder if they are making money. I had read somewhere they make pretty good on the themes and "feature" piece, but not sure how that could amount to very much.
OK, why's this almost a 100% sure a false flag op? Because they're using a giant botnet ("Lulz Cannon"), and not something like LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon, what Anonymous used). Who uses botnets? ScriptKiddies? Maybe if they've got access to rich Daddy's gold credit card to buy these botnet minutes from the web crime pros in russia; but for sure they can't build a powerful botnet like this. The "good guys" Anonymous apparently had some very skilled people; the chance that the "idiot ScriptKiddies" LulzSec has even more of them is very small.
And on the other hand: What would a false flag op use? LOIC on their own PCs at home? Or in the agencies? LOL, for sure... No, they'd use a giant botnet; what else...

And lastly: Always ask the question "Cui bono?" (Latin for "who's gonna profit from it?"). In the Anon case it was clear; they were activists trying to express their support for wikileaks and their anger on organizations that ceased support for wikileaks. But who's profiting from what LulzSec does? They themselves? Think again!
Well, the included cat and transformer pictures must have helped.
I've included links to a few relevant Quora threads here:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business-model

http://www.quora.com/Posterous/How-does-Posterous-make-money

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money

http://www.quora.com/How-exactly-will-Tumblr-monetize-Other-...

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-generate-revenue

http://www.quora.com/How-do-free-blog-publishing-platforms-e...

http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-monetize-blogging-as-the-blo...

There is surprisingly little detail here, though, possibly suggesting that the companies haven't quite figured it out yet!
You can control the rotation with your arrow keys. Does that accomplish what you want? We need to make that more obvious. Thanks for the feedback!
I am currently teaching a few people how to program. If youre interested in joining us, drop me a line at startupz.net@gmail.com
Brilliant. The gem for me is the statement that a ton of small decisions creates a defensible moat perhaps even more formidable than adding features. (Biased opinion: After 20,000+ hours of work, Stormpulse is an example of this.)
related: http://www.xentax.com/?p=303 - "Duke Nukem Forever exposes crap reviewers - 100 reviews compared"
Seriously? I've been watching some playthrough videos and it just looks BORING. Long, long stretches with no enemies, the enemies themselves are canonfodder and in sparse supply. It looks like a sketch of a game that's highly derivative of Half-Life.

I'm gonna save my money for Serious Sam 3.
This is a nice comment from one of your links:
Luis Felipe Lanz, Intrapreneur, software architect, tec...

In my humble opinion, Posterous seems to be following the same strategy than Foursquare, Twitter or even Quora, start for free until get a consolided installed base users, then start side business around publicity.
The http://villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/ on http://villagetelco.org/
Is there any good open source or free realtime aggregation engine?
Is there any good open source or free realtime aggregation engine available today with possible java APIs. Looking something close to OLAP like system.
According to Techsmart Posterious a Funding:$5.14M!
There has to be some brains behind it somewhere.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/posterous
Starting minute 11:00 and specifically 14:30 the narrator actually starts talking about Copyright and the video becomes interesting... so yes, this is actually about Copyright and licensing.
Dumb and Dumber
This dude steps out of his truck while its in reverse and accidentally runs himself over. To make matters worse his buddy sees the truck back up and figures its time to leave and also runs him over.
No, ProFounder requires users to send non-transferrable email invitations to their friends and family (or "community"), i.e. pre-existing relationships. Afaik they don't provide a way to meet investors on the site, like you're suggesting.

For how they address other potential legal issues, go here: http://www.quora.com/Is-ProFounder-in-violation-of-any-secur...
The LED or SIL (Status Indicator Light), is controlled by the Mac's SMC. You can fiddle with how it operates by setting the relevant keys using IOKit.

http://www.parhelia.ch/blog/statics/k3_keys.html gives details on some of the Mac's LSx SMC keys.
Oh, I see. The rotation control is kind of strange. Rather than have it control the momentum of the spin, it would be more natural to have the left/right arrows first stop the automatic rotation, then simply rotate at fixed-size intervals.

Play/pause/left/right buttons may work even better.
Isn't it just a fact that the vast majority of programmers are men? Or are you working somewhere that is different? Is there anyone who can deny this?
About the selection protocol - it sounds like at least some of the participants in the study were in to yoga before the experiment. Those kinds of people usually already have a spiritual streak or will at least be more open to it.

It would be interesting to see this experiment repeated with more "mainstream" subjects or something like 30 Wall St bankers.
They have no money anyway short of begging and selling their country status. What could possibly go wrong?
That Steve quote really resonates.

Your assessment is 100%, it all stems from a lack of self-confidence in my own ability. And that lack of self confidence is causing a constant nagging in my mind that prevents me from achieving what I'm ultimately capable of.

I already have a number of side projects which are predominately mobile apps. One of which has an install base in the thousands. Another of which absolutely bombed and yet took the longest to develop - that was a failure. I don't think I fear failure in my work. Rather I fear failure in life, being rejected for jobs and not being good enough to work at company X or with person Y.
I don't think so, but I also know that judicious use of caching and Amazon S3 can keep your costs relatively low.
People who only read the first paragraph anyway and people who play FarmVille.
It's broken on Opera as well. That doesn't make a lot of working browsers...
You may wish to look into Paratransit: http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/1031/470
If psilocybin was unknown and a pharmaceutical company discovered it along with the "appropriate" dose and published this study, their stock would be worth approximately the entire western world's GDP tomorrow

Except... it wouldn't because these people only required 4 doses, each a month apart, and then had better results 14 months later than every "take daily for life" psych drug on the market today
I think that every successful product requires a strong vision. Start out small (MVP) and build on that vision. If you follow that path implementing "small" user requested features will most of the time be straightforward and will actually build on your initial vision of the final product.

However, sometimes you have to ignore some requests (big or small) if they aren't in line with what you want the product to eventually be.

One last thought is pivoting - which only select companies have managed to pull off - and have profited incredibly (Flickr, Groupon, PayPal). While it's not necessarily on topic, it's important to listen to user feedback and look for potential in every single idea (no matter how silly they might be).
Puts things into perspective nicely.
"What is your preferred Internet password?" asks priceline's registration page
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for APIs
Those with ads (like 4shared and megaupload) get money from annoyingly trying to get you to subscribe to get pirated content.

Yes, megavideo, I am looking at your 72-minutes limit.

About those without ads, probably their business model is to trying to get you to subscribe, by being less annoying than those without ads.
Yes, that made up strategy would be very profitable.

Here, I'll help you get started on a "yeah-huh!" rebuttal: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/google-chrome-p... (pdf)
I was thrown off too, but on reading it again I noticed "$26 thou"
The referrer isn't spoofable in any normal browsers (and CSRF attacks occur within the user's browser).
They are making money but probably not much. David once said they would probably make millions if they put a single AdSense banner in the Dashboard, but they refuse to use regular advertising and want to make a more creative way of making money.

(Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/22/founder-stories-karp-tumblr...)
What are the problems you are having with it? After the change to Instant I didn't perceive any change, i.e. I didn't encounter any problems.
LulzSec Members Exposed by Vigilante Hacker
I'm a .Net Developer, and I approve of this message. Windows 8 rocks!!
Apparently Herman Kahn spent his LSD trip finding the best way to bomb China. So there might be something to be said for the theory that it "intensifies" your existing personality/interests.
1. I don't see how this is better than using a system that already has a mature language and libraries. Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, et al have that. Yes, Node is catching up very quickly. But how is catching up better than being ahead?

2. This is a restatement of the first reason.

3. How do you know that popular technologies right now are going to decline? Java was popular ten years ago, and it's still popular. Python was not popular ten years ago, and now it is. I don't expect either to decline in the next ten years. Node, on the other hand, could very well stop growing, or even recede.

4. Why would you require Node experience? A good web developer should be able to pick it up quickly. That allows you to work with the same general talent pool as if you were hiring for Rails or whatever.

5. This is a restatement of reasons one and two.
Thanks a lot for the excellent explanation. I tend to do my Ajax requests with post just to get the token in. Is there a reason not doing so, like savings in bandwidth or something like that? Might that be a gain Facebook is trying to achieve?
> The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.

If they have 'productized' the process so that they get, rather than one charismatic, super smart guy like PG, a series of founder types who go in and talk and mentor their startups, perhaps it can be made to "scale" to some degree, rather than be a program based exclusively on the brilliance of one individual.

Although, to be fair, YC seems to be taking on new people as well.
I use Vim religiously with the Colemak layout. hjkl are a bit messed up, but that's nothing.
Makes no difference. This is still sexist.
Hope not to sound like a extreme liberal, but a lot of the highly illegal hard drugs, aren't nearly as hazardous or addicting as they made out to be and can have positive effects - IF used right. That includes psilocybin, MDMA, THC, DMT, LSD and whatnot. Others are clearly toxic and very unhealthy, like crack or meth. It's all matter of being well informed about the effect and right use of the drug, as well as a having clean products. The one thing that makes them dangerous is the potential of miss use is very high.
It still would. It's just that other pharma companies would be in the closet.
Business owners and analysts: which one do you think its better?
"Some script content on this website is insecure, and has been blocked for your safety"

Y U NO FIX YOUR OWN SECURITY ISSUES.
Agreed. I have been looking for a time tracking application that is DEAD SIMPLE to track my daily activities. I work for a large consulting firm and I am required to track the hours I bill to each of several contracts on a daily basis by filling out a time sheet online. I am not responsible for sending invoices or anything so all of the programs with additional capabilities like that seem too cluttered for my uses.

Clearly, I am not the target audience for a complete "fully featured" application, such as the one the OP describes.
The Insecurity of Google's ClientLogin Protocol
To create another internet you need another medium. Today everything that is connected to the internet shares a physical cable or a short wifi hop to a cable.

Unless you want to build out an entire secondary network of cables (fiber, copper) there will not be a 'second internet'.

Their idea is to have the shared medium be airspace. This would almost be feasible with a ton of satellites, but not using peer-to-peer repeaters and ad-hoc networks.

Now - if you could figure out how to do communication over power lines through major power grids, you would be onto something. There are some household devices that can do this, but not between households.
What if no one ever asks for the most important feature? We get a lot of feature requests, but the number one feature we focused on: "When the map loads, is it easy to know where the nasty weather is?" No one ever asked for that, but it's the killer feature.
BART: comfortable, fast, limited locations in the city but reasonably good coverage of East Bay and it will get you to the airports (SFO and Oakland). Price varies based on number of stops but roughly $4 to $8 is a reasonable set of bounds.

Light rail: comfortable, fast, moderately good coverage of the city. Price is fixed ($2 / ride)

Bus: Uncomfortable, slow, but excellent coverage of the city. Price is fixed ($2 / ride)
Also available as a bookmarklet for other browsers.
You cannot assume a request is coming from a browser.

curl --referer http://www.example.come http://www.example.com
I don't know why they won't use nice looking ads from sites like Carbon or The Deck, which IMO add value rather than take away.

I just read that Tumblr has passed WordPress in terms of # of installed blogs, but I believe Matt's company makes tons more cash. Very interesting too, considering WP is OS.
Vim + eink
It's a market for lemons. When devs are in demand, that brings in applicants who are only in the industry because the wages went up, while the good ones are more likely to be taken. These each lead to a greater proportion of incompetents to filter out, and the cost and risk of accidentally hiring one have not improved.
Only a fraction of current D&B uses the amen break. Plenty of current stuff doesn't use sampled drum loops.

Loxy & Resound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mcxqhJ2j8

Consequence ft. ASC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwdSS--cgo

S.P.Y.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnl_EumKXX4
Tumbler 40.3M!
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tumblr
Rape and abuse of women as a plot point? Lost me there. Take your money and buy Dragon Age 2, which brings a refreshing new take to gender dynamics in video games. http://jezebel.com/5785846/video-game-lets-players-slap-wome...
It's up to you to constantly look for "killer" features, but sometimes user feedback might point you in the right direction.
The break started here (at :05 sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUImpeQG66U
I'm a coder and I only learned to touch-type recently (within the last year) in QWERTY, it felt better but QWERTY itself just didn't feel right to me.

I've since moved over to Colemak layout and I've never looked back (combined with a TypeMatrix keyboard).
Aargh! How many scrollbars does a web page need?
No worries. I spent four months backpacking through six countries and Borneo was the highlight for me. You could probably live quite comfortably for $6-7k/year.
This is going to make programming in outside, strongly sun-lit environments a breeze :)
i have mixed feelings on the iPad, but I generally prefer it on an iPhone or other mobile device.
Yes, but if the user wishes to avoid their own security like this, they can already do it a thousand other ways (and to no adverse affect, there is no opportunity for an attacker to exploit this, I don't know what you're getting at).
The (positive) mushroom experience is like being in love with everything.
excelent, thank you! Now to get my code done.
People still use Windows XP, and people still use old ActiveX software that was developed when IE6 ruled and Microsoft was still pursuing dominance through lock-in.

The real question is why Microsoft hasn't developed a way to install newer versions of IE on the older OS'. There must be a way to isolate the browser from the rest of the system, even if they have to wrap a VM around it.
They would presumably up the cost to compensate and you would do the equivalent of taking out a mortgage to partake.
What specific kind of aggregation do you think of?
you mean they should copy the holland model :)

(technically the netherlands only decriminalized marihuana; practically use and possession of user quantities go nearly always unpunished)
Yeah I have to agree - I really thought I was up for a return to the past, a good classic action FPS, a great piece of history that will go back to the classic FPS formula...but it looks and plays like a mod of Hexen or Quake or SIN. A very boring, half assed Hexen mod. It manages to take everything people HATED about FPS games back then (ie. long boring puzzles, long areas with no enemies, confusing jumping puzzles, the "run around the room mashing the use key to figure out what to do" gameplay) and put it in one package. So while it's certainly a return to the past, it's also a return to a style of gameplay that got killed off because it was boring as buggery.
Firefox 5 slips out ahead of schedule, gets official June 21st
I'm a little puzzled by comments such as this. Haven't we been pointing out that "it's just a game" when people point to the unending stream of murder and genocide out of videogames for the past 30 years?

Besides, I'm fairly certain at least the rape in this case is being done by the alien bad guys....
I am not the person you were asking this of -- but I type in a similar fashion (I only use my two index fingers and my right thumb [which is dedicated to hitting the space bar]) and I have no problems typing fast in the dark. I don't look at the keys, it is all just based on muscle memory of where the keys are. Where I do hit a bit of a snag is when trying to type on a keyboard that is sized significantly different to that of the ones I normally use, but even in that case I adjust to the new spacing within a matter of minutes.
Well, I think everyone received and logged http codes 302, 403, 405, 417 ending with 409 and 410 at some point. Life!
His enthusiasm and tenacity are admirable, but he still has a lot to learn (and the "this guy is smarter than anyone else" hype in the article is overblown). That's not an OS, it's a rudimentary shell and a couple of simple programs that can be called from it. To anyone who has ever taken an operating systems class (where you usually do have to write your own OS), it's quite obvious that he hasn't even begun to tackle the kind of problems that real OSs deal with.
Wordpress has also enabled lots of developers to make tons of money through templates and plugins. For example, woothemes makes millions/year selling wordpress templates.
This will be my last response in this thread - I don't wish to troll / waste my resources on an argument that doesn't deserve them.

>why the bitterness

Because I'm yet to see a more primed-for-PR CSR initiative. At least from a startup. Much as I'd like to perceive it as being well-intentioned, it smacks of being the brainchild of a PR agency ("snapdeal.com Nagar" anyone?), which is all kinds of wrong. I'd have been just as indignant if it were Groupon or Facebook that pulled this off.

>their action is "unexpected" and perhaps more newsworthy as a result

There's a not-so-fine-line between innovative PR and inappropriate opportunism, and a responsible company would know better than to cross it. And that's the beauty of this issue - you're damned if you take a stand against it, because "they did help a poor village after all". If, as a business, you really wish to be an ameliorating influence, do it quietly - don't pimp poverty for PR. There are always other ways to grab eyeballs.

>as a fellow Indian (Indian-American), I always find it curious and somewhat unfortunate that there is a contingent of "the tribe" that can't just be happy when others in the "the tribe" do well.

That I'm afraid, is the classic ad hominem. Please read the parent comment once again and point out one instance where I've expressed disdain or envy for the company / the founder's success. As I've already said, I'd have been just as enraged had this been any other company from any other country. That you would confuse indignation at a dodgy PR stunt with envy for a fellow Indian baffles me.
China should open their doors to Hollywood production companies. These places look perfect for zombie apocalypse movies.
You can also sue Zeus. It won't be worth your time, but you can do it, and people have done it.
If they could fetch $1 cpm and sell their entire inventory they could pull $1M/day.

Correction: $1M every four days http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/tumblr-pageviews-a-day/
This looks really good, and I hope a number of users sign up and try it out. One issue that you might think about addressing: I imagine a lot of developers (at least, the ones on HN) would see this and think "That sounds like a good idea ... but why would I use this service when I could hack something up on my own and use it?"

That is, you might want to tell developers why they should use Labradoc and not some home-grown solution.

You might use the answer the Dropbox guys used when asked why they were entering a saturated market, and they asked back: How many of those solutions do you actually use?
Yeah, except that they should allow psychoactive drugs too and allow selling (while disallowing taking those out of the country).
Duke Nukem Forever exposes crap reviewers - 100 reviews compared
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Must be just you, Tumblr been running great for my 30+ blogs.