skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we're not in the third world here... legal remedies exist

Tell that to the guy who was legally fucked over for a year. At least in the third world, corruption is acknowledged. Here, despite three pages of detail, you maintain a belief that the same legal mechanisms that allowed this guy to be nearly disappeared will also bring the appropriate wrongdoers to justice.

That strikes me as a little unrealistic. So while I don't agree with murder as a remedy here, I can sympathize with the sense of defeat that inspires it.
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Jaso: the re-assessment has convinced me that I'm not learning any more. I did once upon a time, but I'm not now. That's why I'm largely stopping reading, certainly stopping reading the comments. I'll still read the links submitted by people I've learned to trust - people who have similar interests to mine.

I've never used Reddit, so I can't comment about that.

ADDED IN EDIT: Just to clarify a little - there are still people here from whom I can learn a lot, and I'm sure there are still comments and submissions that I can learn from, but they are drowned by stuff I consider irrelevant, repetitive, uninteresting, or otherwise not something to learn from. The gold is hard to find now, the returns are no longer worth the effort.
It would also be easier to see with an object that had near-perfect vertical bilateral symmetry but no horizontal bilateral symmetry; the opposite of a human in a normal posture.
I wouldn't be so sure that HTML isn't becoming a PDF replacement. And it seems odd to pitch a dynamic document format as a better type of static document. The whole point of CDF is that it isn't static.
SPICE MI 270 ANDroid TOUCHSCREEN DUAL SIM PHONE SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICE
NYT's Hybrid Subscription Model is Working
Reminded a bit of V for Vendetta's speech

Well, guess where they got the masks from, amongst other things. Anonymous is pretty much V incarnate. He's their idol and inspiration. He's everything they aspire to be.
For both of these to work, Color needed a viral social product to gain data and users.

I don't disagree with your analysis, but surely one surefire way to gain social network data is to be bought by someone who has the data already. Google has a pretty good idea who a gmail user's social network is, as evidenced by the Google Plus suggestions.
Canadian police aren't required to respect non-Canadian judicial proceedings in Canada - though they really ought to have in this case.
The post says "max file size", not "storage limit".

I don't see any mention/clarification at the top of their blog (yet):

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/
Cory Doctorow's novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, "whuffie" is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency. The book describes a post-scarcity economy: All the necessities (and most of the luxuries) of life are free. Whuffie has replaced money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things. A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation and is gained (or lost) according to a person's favorable (or unfavorable) actions.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Whuffie
Dreamworks Boss: 3D Is Losing Interest, 3D Movies "Suck"
You incorrectly assume that I recognize the legitimacy of their system.

Even if I did, do you want to know what issues I couldn't have taken care of by those people? Nearly anything that has industry lobbying behind it. They don't give a shit about individual "citizens", why should they?
-->"It's exceedingly hard to believe google valued a small pre-funding startup at over low eight figures."
But Sequoia did when they made the $40mm investment. That's what's so odd about it.
Most people want a self-contained document format in order to read and share content rather than to write or modify it. That's why people have most of their music in mp3 format rather than as a collection of multitrack clips and mixdown parameters, why most people swap pictures as jgg files rather than as photoshop documents or a collection of TIFF and LUT files, and why most people watch movies on DVD or in some single-file digital format instead of as a collection of film clips that need to be rendered overnight before watching, and why most people like printed books or single-file ebooks instead of printer's galleys and versioned markup documents. Indeed, this is why most people like sitting at a table in a restaurant instead of going into the kitchen and making the meal themselves.

Look, I write and create multimedia content, I like powerful composition and editing tools. But managing all the structural information and assets for a large compound document or media project is a lot of work, the kind of work for which I prefer to be paid or rewarded in kind. When I'm just consuming and sharing the work of others, then I don't want to do all that work and I prefer a nice self-contained package that doesn't impose any administrative overhead. When it's as easy to store or share a HTML+CSS+JS document, online or off, and have it appear exactly the same way in a completely device-independent manner or even as the output of a printer, then I'll sing its praises. What I do not want is a bunch of extra files to keep track of for a single document that I just wish to add to my library and might not open again for a year. I am often much more interested in the content of a document than in the ability to edit, deconstruct, or radically reformat it.

When I was younger, I cared more about having control over things like typesetting, page flow, and other design issues, and also cared more about everything being as editable as possible. Now that I'm older I'm far more concerned with what a document is about than with how it looks. So I tend to open Picasa ten times for every time I launch Photoshop or my Camera RAW editing software, and I tend to read PDFs in the browser or in Acrobat reader far more often than I run up the full Acrobat environment to make a PDF file.

I suggest that you focus less on how you would do things differently if you were Stephen Wolfram, and more on whether his CDF format might open up some new economic opportunities, the way that PDF files have leveraged simplicity into ubiquity.
This is the dumbest article.

A) Knee deep in a startup and can't date? That's what Korean massage parlors are for. Not to mention that dating sharpens your social skills that would otherwise languish while fighting with your spouse about having to do a week of 18 hour days and all the stress related with that.

B) I did a startup married and it contributed to the divorce I got after I left it.

C) I've gotten more play using the startup angle then I can even care to count. It's all about packaging and presentation my friend.
You just reminded me of another "next Google". Cuil.

Not comparing Color to them talent-wise, just saying, you made me smile :)
Google+ hasn't yet taken off. It's only used by Google employees, early adopters, and celebrity bloggers.
North Korea does not have an internet. Practically, they simly can not focus on North Korea with the aim of rooting up the North Koreans to revolt against their government.
No, and that's why sarcasm on the internet is usually a bad idea. Subtlety doesn't come across very well in text.

That said, nothing about this article suggests to me that it was intended to be sarcastic. It reads pretty serious to me. But that's just me... :-)
So what has become of that effort? We're 7 years in now, did they actually go ahead with their plan?
I'm wondering how it came to be that you typed 'faul.'
I do have faith in the legal system as a whole. Corruption like this should be exposed and eliminated, within the context of that system. Not by murder.
The article speaks of an "officially accepted Unicode 6.0 Emoji / ISO 10646 standard", but of course a standard has nothing to do with whether it is Linux supported!
It's a long time since I had a play with 3d tools but you could do worse than start by grabbing a copy of Blender: http://www.blender.org/
Thanks a lot for posting the pocket guide. I like pretending to know what I'm doing when I eat sushi, and that guide will help to artificially limit my options so it looks less like I'm choosing at random (and eating healthier to boot!).
The same revenue source Google was interested in when they made the offer--your personal data for purposes of context-sensitive advertising.
Yes, the boring drones who work in regular 9-5 jobs are more interesting than people trying to impact the world
I've been trying to find this quotation from Neil Degrasse Tyson but haven't been successful. It's one of my favorite perspectives on NASA's budget (and specifically the the importance of lavish, public, manned missions).

Paraphrased: Investing only $19 billion dollars a year is a no-brainer, considering the return is a generation of American kids interested in math and science.
While I agree with the part about being a boring date and working too much to be interesting, he totally left out the part about being unattractive due to being completely broke.
hold on a minute... same thing happened to me. my little girl was running around until 11pm, when we both felt asleep and i woke up at 3am. :)

also funny to mention that i had to run home this afternoon too..., but i have to say... many missing pieces are coming to my mind when i play or watch my kid... and not when i'm fighting a tech related problem.

you do have to manage your time anyways...

i recently stopped working for clients and do start up something. until now i say startups and families do work together. i'll keep you guys posted! :)
PERESPECTIVE:Spotify(altleast it's model)has a chance in winning the Music War
> iOS has had Emoji support for a while now

Yep, iPhoneOS 2.2 (November 2008).

Although it's important to note it uses Softbank emoji.
Someone I know is suggesting that these documents were already free and available on the web. I don't really know, since I haven't (and don't have the bandwidth to, really) downloaded the torrent and cross referenced. Here are the links he's provided:

"Unavailable anywhere else? Here's the ones from the 1600s: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk​/cgi-bin/ilej/pbrowse.pl?i​tem=ti... . Here's the ones from 1832-1938: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/se​rvlet/RechercheEquation;js​ession... . They're pretty widely available, for free."

"Looks like a bunch are on archive.org, too: http://www.archive.org/sea​rch.php?query=creator%3A%2​2Royal...

Can anyone confirm that these are the same articles in the torrent?
Seems almost tautological. Everything we observe changes our brains
Yes, although the time delay between publication and public availability was increased to 12 month.

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
Oracle Buys Ksplice
Public Library of Science
Steven Frank's New Book: How To Count
Lash out at Sony for prosecuting GeoHot, right?
Assuming a mirror's face is its front:

Photons bounce off the right side of you, strike the left side of the mirror, and then reach your eyes. Similarly for the left side.

Photons bounce off the top side of you, strike the top side of the mirror, and then reach your eyes. Similarly for the bottom side.
Interesting how now even BBB has hopped on the infographic train as a way to spread messages on the internets.
I might be the only person in the universe who thinks Color is a fantastic idea, but not because it's trying to be an uber-cool new social network.

Location-based photo sharing is an incredible idea. When I'm at an event -- say, a concert -- there are hundreds of people around me taking lots of different pictures. I want those pictures, but I don't know any of those people. Imagine going to a venue, not bringing a camera, but still coming away with awesome, memorable photos of the band, from people that have nice equipment and know how to take photographs.

I'm not sure it justifies the huge valuation, but I can easily see why this product had the potential to be a huge player in the photo-sharing space. I feel like the press from their first round caused such an unnecessary uproar around their brand that coming back and producing a humble, useful app was nearly impossible.

That said, I probably would have taken a $200 mil payoff for an idea for an iPhone app.
i feel like HN is fascinated by but has relatively little understanding of how deals work.

companies don't just show up on your doorstep with an acquisition offer and a giant check. many times the deals are staged and dependent on progress. consider google's acquisition of dMarc, the talked about price, and the actual price.
State and federal court opinions are freely available from the courts themselves. Westlaw, LexisNexis, etc. gain much of their value from tools they provide for analyzing the opinions. These companies manually produce headnotes, case histories, and citation history (i.e., "shepardization"). Collating this value-added data would be vastly more difficult than automatically pulling opinions out of the PACER database (or even JSTOR). Not that I wouldn't like to see somebody try it . . .
Not a sock puppet, sorry to disappoint. Should I say more? I think "do no harm" applies when you claim to be an activist. I can't justify an attack as a protest or retaliation against governments, corporations who act contrary to the public interest, fundamentalists, or individual sock puppets when you harm others by disclosing personal information, disrupting business, etc. The fact that you want to "out" someone or some organization and you can't find a legal way to do it doesn't justify doing whatever you decide is the best course of action. And if you do decide to break the law in protest, perhaps you might consider manning up and identifying yourself like Ghandi or King.
Not from the Onion: Employee proud of his fake Apple Store
The things you are saying are true about livestock. The commenters above are talking about fruits and vegetables specifically.
It makes sense to me that a dirt patch and sunlight out in Ohio are cheaper than setting up hydroponics plants.
Cisco is hardly the cheapest manufacture, right?
Scientific computing is dominated by low-level or system languages like Fortran, C, and C++; and by domain-specific languages like Matlab and R.

There is no good high-level, GENERAL computing language that can do scientific computing well. This leads to a huge gap between "research" and "production" implementations.

Python stands to shine in this space if things are done right. pandas is a gem of a library.
Microsoft Reports Record Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results
Ghana cracks down on gays
There was an interesting read on HN not too long ago about the "biggest mistake" of humanity... and it was settling down and growing crops instead of hunting and gathering which allegedly made life easier but according to the article it actually made things much worse in terms of health, time invested in order not-to-starve and a big point were monocultures: humans feed on hardly any diversity which can lead to all sorts of malnourishment and they found proof of that in lots of bones from ancient civilizations after their culture had moved to farming.
2011 MacBook Air benchmarks are amazing, outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros
We released a new visual design and want feedback from our startup peers.
Notetab.com
If you tried to publish something behind your advisor's
back in an academic setting, you'd have a lot to answer for.

Hmm, but similarly if I made a contribution to a breakthrough, and my adviser was going to publish it without my name being associated with it at all, I would feel cheated. I think that's probably a better analogy.

It is a very strange setup where Stephen is claiming he created the work done by others. Legal, certainly, but not very nice. I guess I wouldn't care to work for one of the most egotistical people on earth, however smart he is.
I know. I rather miss the option to just save a web page as a self-contained file in Chrome, because I used to use that all the time. It's not that you can't do the same things with web technologies, but that it's so much less convenient to do so. I think this is why Instapaper and Readability have become such big hits, because they offer simplicity and one-step document management. PDF does the same thing for more complex documents that need to be presented in a consistent fashion. This CDF format looks like it could be ideal for textbooks, instruction manuals and the like.

There's another comment downthread where I talk about why I don't actually want all the possible editing capabilities to be available most of the time. Sometimes you want to maximize convenience rather than control.
it's always fun to see one unbased broad generalization about startups countered by yet another unbased broad generalization about startups...
That certainly doesn’t mean that the comparison makes no sense. Apple’s current cash reserves are equal to what many countries produce in one year. That’s a perfectly valid and valuable comparison.
Anonymous and Lulzsec are more like 21st century revolutionaries, on a global scale. Revolutionaries are always seen as the enemy by the Government. So it's no surprise that the US Government wants to declare war against them and wants to catch them.

If they win, then the Government changes, and the whole society changes after that. If they lose, they end up dead or in jail for whatever crimes the Government said they committed (and if there isn't a crime they can use, they'll make a new law for it like they tried with the SHIELD bill against whistleblowers)

The hacktivists aren't doing any real damage to society, and in fact they may actually end up helping it a lot, in the same way Wikileaks changed some things for the better, and they were also hunted down by Governments.

The real damage they are doing is to the people in power, and those people will fight to keep things the same and get away with their own crimes against the people they should represent.

I think we'll experience major changes in the way our democracies work by the end of this decade. For the fast times we live in, and real time information and feedback, we can only give some feedback once every 4 years, and it's usually just 2 choices: the one that has been in power, and another one. Politicians need to become a lot more accountable, and our feedback should be a lot more direct and often than once every 4 years through the voting of a party or a president.
It reminds me of the Measure Map acquisition. Launch a new product, then acquire a talented team that worked on something similar. It worked pretty well I believe for Google Analytics.

http://techcrunch.com/2006/02/14/google-buys-measuremap/
Apple paid $2.6B lion's share of $4.5B Nortel patent acquisition
Yes. Absolutely.

Once it was about access. If you had the keys to the Library, then you controlled the information.

Now it's about distribution. If you want to examine your idea in public, you can compare it anywhere, anytime to work that preceded yours.

Appropriate resource allocation can only be improved by increased informational availability and transparency.

All these are part of the most basic tenets of Capitalism. Perfect Choice, and Perfect Information. Improve one or the other will continue to have untold benefits.

So in short. TLDR -- Yes. Absolutely.
My answer (Andy) explains how it's really the photograph that is flipped. When we say the mirror flips the left-right directions, we're accidentally referring to the absence of the familiar rotation of the photograph.
Hmmm, so a simple description of what the irrational thinking the market has deserves a downvote now.

I used not to believe the downvoting trend on HN, but it appeared to be a real issue.
Add Adverplex, we're a tech-driven startup incubator in Kendall Square. Always looking for entrepreneurial engineers who know Python and/or Ruby.

http://www.adverplex.com/
Due to some strange kernel driver for an attached storage device requiring multiple reboots and whatnot, kernel updates have always been a pain for me requiring an hour of downtime -- until I found Ksplice.

From the text of the email I got however, it seems like they do not intend to make the service available outside of Oracle's own Linux variant:

> The Ksplice Uptrack service is planned to be included
> as a standard part of Oracle Linux Premier Support,
> and we will no longer be selling the service
> separately to new customers moving forward.
> As an existing Ksplice customer,
> you may continue to renew your subscriptions
> and add additional systems to your account as before

Same can be implied from http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/ksplice/gene... which says:

> Oracle is expected to be the only enterprise
> Linux vendor that can offer zero downtime update
This might apply more here in Europe than in the USA, considering you have such an abundance of land available. But our cheaper vegetables are notoriously grown in glasshouses in the Netherlands and Spain over here and they do not touch any real soil; and it is ultimately cheaper and allows for better use of the space since they can grow on several levels and harvesting is much easier than having to dig something in and later out in the field.

The worse part still remains: chemicals, pesticides and lots and lots of genetically altered vegetables and fruits. You cannot even use their seeds to grow new ones; you have to buy seeds from e.g. Monsanto each year along with all the chemicals you need to grow that stuff.

You have to watch "We Feed the World"!
Ha! Awesome - "Lion's share" (get it? get it?)
I think that Color is an incredible idea for an application, and when I read their pitch I wanted to bang my head on the desk for not coming up with that concept because it is so beautifully simple yet obvious yet useful!

Isn't it obvious that if you are at an event, say, a birthday party, you'd want to see what photographs your friends are taking as they take them? What about at a sports game or concert, can you imagine how amazing that'd be?

Raising $41M, selling for $200M, all irrelevant versus the grand scheme of this idea. I worry that they have this awesome idea, and are poor at actually building the product, and this makes me sad because I really want someone to do it right.

I really do not understand the hate at Color, they have made mis-steps, but their concept is actually a good idea - compared to a lot of stuff that Hacker News thinks is dumb.
2010 Investment Activity Report
Public debt = net private sector savings. Nobody gets worked up over the private sector saving too much.
Data frames (and the associated functionaly for reading and writing csv files) are one of the main features that make me use R over python. Whenever I need to manipulate, merge, slice, and dice table-like data, I turn to R. I would love to have something feature-equivalent in Python. Although maybe rpy2 and rnumpy are sufficient for now.
Rental Hacks: How to find a place in a tough market
Additional Cloudwatch metrics for SQS and SNS
Full Circle
It's also new with this API.
Given the woods, Mr. Page has done an admirable job pruning the suckers and trimming deadwood. Let's see what he plants.