skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What are you going to spend it on?
Some of the money will go to long-term investors and shareholders. "

does this sound kind of pyramid-schemey to anybody else? they are taking new investments in order to pay off investors?
thanks for the pointer, http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata looks interesting.
I don't know that I see the point. Sure, buttons are cool but why not just carry buttons and the iphone/smartphone that already has all your music anyways...
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A phd in particle physics (even from caltech) can be as meaningless as journalism from yale/harvard. Entire careers have been based on strings ...which is famously not even wrong.

As in every profession, there are lots of "artists". Some also have substance though: ie. Feynman was like Dali: some neat stuff (teaching) and some less neat1, to still make a living.

1 ,,Please send my notes back'' -- Stückelberg (not the painter), as his worst enemy used to joke (back) to him
Indeed, the server is smoking already.

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 15728640) (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/melvinmt/domains/melvinmt.com/public_html/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php on line 224
I'm not sure I understand the parallels to IE and Windows for that matter. Maybe this insight:

> You rely on them, because you often have to use one of their products, because Search, Maps or Gmail, to name a few, are all far more superior than what other competitors have to offer.

He speaks as if this is a bad thing. IE is an inferior product. If a monopoly provides superior products than who really cares? Monopolies are only bad for economies when they limit supply, price discriminate, use predatory pricing, etc. None of those things happen with a free service.
What % of world population have bank accounts?
That's not exactly true- they are innovating, but they're also a patent troll. There's no reason why they can't be both.
Is this the Second Coming of the semantic web?
Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical
One of the more aggravating--and possibly predictable--problems with the acquisition has been a huge influx of boring people.
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You're not getting the point.

You _can_ create tunnels via ssh, even with PuTTY. You _cannot_ use the feature I'm looking for. Tongue in cheek I'd say check the docs on the ControlMaster feature, but this is what it boils down:

Terminal 1:

ssh someHostThatYouNeedForLotsOfThings [options here]

(.. wait for the negotiation, connect. Good)

Terminal 2 to N

ssh thatVerySameHost [options here]

(reuses the handshake, is _much_ faster to connect)

Why do I want that? Couldn't I just use one connection and start tmux/screen? Turns out, no, I cannot. As soon as you have anything that actually needs to send data from your machine to the target host (i.e. nothing interactive. Think scp. git.) you need to open a new connection - and that's when I'm hoping for this feature on Windows.
It is yet to see another cloud based solution for python. Of course, having Guido there is not the _real_ reason why this would happen.
Prolog and AWS
Seems like Urban Outfitters would be an obvious retailer to go approach with something like this. But I agree with others that the price is a little too high - I imagine that you'd want to collect these like some people collect vinyl, but since it's more of a novelty, something like $10 would be perfect.
I'd almost bet this guy is a former SEO manipulator. They're the ones crying the most about Google.
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How soon until wall street comes out with an advertising backed derivative. Then, the two worlds can merge.
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Teenagers girl's haircuts can range from short to long and there is a style for every hair length. For a great young girls haircuts you should decide what length you want and style that does not make her look older than her age, here are some great cute girls hairstyles examples...
http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/Locale-Maketext-1.19/lib/Local... - which is an article, not a CPAN module, despite its hosting. Localization isn't "find and replace" easy, it's a nightmare.
really love this idea.
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IE is inferior now. Compared to the alternatives, IE6 was fantastic when it was released.
Too bad it was not down when I clicked the link.
The content was not worth the time at all.
I think there's a critical difference between using a product due to familiarity (which is intrinsic with IE given the fact that it was here first) and using a product due to ubiquity and usefulness. One could say the latter is perhaps even scarier than the former - at least the formemr is a matter of habit as opposed to a lack of choice.
I think this could be huge after concerts, especially if combined with a recording of the performance the fans have just listened to.
Interesting. It seems like they are still attempting to grow in developing countries. Why are they focusing on this when their primary revenue stream is display advertising? I cannot imagine big-name advertisers are particularly interested in reaching people outside of the "Westernized" world...
Struck me that the title was written first and then the article was any filler that came to mind. The analogy to IE wasn't substantiated or even explained at all.
OSX has an automatic switcher between the IGP and a discrete GPU. Think Optimus (on windows).

A major difference however is that Optimus switches based on a software list, whereas OSX switches based on APIs used. And never switches back until the application(s) which triggered the switch is closed.

This has the unfortunate effect that some software trigger the switch even though they're just using some nice transitions/animations (Twitter/OSX, Sparrow and Reeder all trigger the discrete GPU for instance), because these are flagged as switchers. And of course the discrete GPU burns more power than the IGP.

gfx provides two services:

* Tell the user whether he's on discrete, and which application(s) triggered the switching

* Allow users to force things one way or an other (and setup different configurations depending on whether using battery or AC). While this is an advanced feature and can lead to weird results (MBPs don't support a second screen via the IGP for instance, so nothing will happen and if you try to switch entirely you'll just have a black screen. And applications which actually need the discrete GPU will freeze or crash) it's quite useful.

FWIW one of the major issue is that Flash can trigger the switch (I've never investigated too much, but I guess one or two precise functions use flagged OSX APIs), and in that case to switch back without gfx you have to ensure the relevant tab is closed and restart your browser.
So far, SQLite and Firebird are in the running. I'm looking to run these on desktop/laptops. It's going to go off the grid and in places where power outages are very common. The database will be locally networked, but in no sense in a datacenter setting, so all datacenter-like bets are off.
You can't be a patent troll if you're actually making a product. The entire "business model" of a patent troll is to make money off of lawsuits, not from actually selling things.
Qwili.com: search for wine, tea or coffee
People incorrectly give Google credit for quality when it's not deserved. There are very few products that Google makes that would survive in the "real" marketplace if they weren't free and not subsidized by their search revenue.

Google Docs/GMail/Calendar is not even in the same ballpark as Microsoft Office in terms of quality. ChromeOS is pretty bad compared to any version of Windows. Android isn't nearly as good as Windows Phone 7. Google just undercuts everybody with free products in a some sort of "burn down the forrest" strategy.
I was a little surprised that the legality of this was questioned, so looked it up. In Roman Law tradition this kind of action would apparently be called "periculum in mora". An example would be that you enter another person's apartment without consent, because you noticed a strong smell of gas on the other side of the door.

The OP in the linked article had strong reasons to believe that the people who submitted their credit card data were in imminent danger of large financial damages if he did not stop the fraud quickly.

Apparently (and to my surprise), in the US the idea of "periculum in mora" only applies to law enforcement agents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance_in_United_...), though. Does that mean you would have to let the apartment explode if the police is too slow to show up and stop the gas leak?
Yes. And the latest, well supported by research -- see Carol Dweck, Mindset.
The other example is the Enclosure movement in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_movement), where nobles simply stepped in a seized land that had been for common use, in some cases throwing people out of their homes to do so.
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34% Of iPhone Owners Think Their Phone Is 4G
Working on it, didn't expected this much traffic.
When did "found out that an FTP password is 'password'" start to be something that is a 'counterhack'? Except in Hollywood movies?

Replace the headline with 'Guy that seeks naive people for his phishing site is too dumb to use his own software'.
The guy has certainly learned very quickly how to keep an audience hanging... he doesn't say much about his background but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a person with very strong business skills influencing him along the way.

For his age his moves seem too direct to chalk up to talent alone.
Article summary:

1.Google creates monopoly by offering superior web(!) products for free

2. Facebook is at disadvantage because it does not allow Google to crawl its pages and this is Google's(!) fault.

How come such absurd article is third item on HN?
(edit: grammar)
-Zynga could be brought to heel in an instant if Facebook wanted, too.

Good point, although I wonder if it would do no harm to Facebook either. They appear to be in a symbiotic relationship at this point. I bet Zynga would love not to depend on Facebook and vice-versa. Zynga probably is already mulling (if not preparing for) about porting their stuff to google+, just in case. I wonder how would Facebook take that.
Ask HN:  Can Google and I launch products with the same name?
Oh no! If the start-up world wasn't difficult enough already I recently ran into a an issue that might sink my little bootstrapped ship a little faster than anticipated. I can change my name and re-brand my business but after four months of preliminary marketing and research efforts I'm in 'that' place where I need to start promoting my businesses, follow up with my contacts and hopefully make a little money.

My scenario is a little unique in that I developed my start-up ( I couldn't find anything else in the market I liked )to help me launch a few other business ideas with more traditional businesses models. I did not Trademark my start-up name but I have been live for about 4 months and have made contact with over 800 interested artists/businesses ( I used Sonicbids.com to run a promotion to attract artists and musicians). I feel my intent to use this name has been shown. I have also developed a mobile app that plays off and works to compliment the start up name which reinforces the idea that re-branding is possible but not ideal.

I threw out a question to the team at Sprouter and this was their response.

"The good news is that just by making use of a brand name, you require certain trademark rights in it. Therefore, if you have made any public use of this name prior to Google making its announcement, you might possibly have certain common law trademark rights in it. However, if this is something that has merely been in development and you have made no public use of it, or even if you have made only limited public use of it, you will have some difficulty in asserting your rights against Google. Your best course of action at this point is to retain a lawyer who can review the specifics of your case and consider whether or not contacting Google at this stage is a good option available to you in order to reach some sort of co-existence agreement."

I question the idea of 'limited public use', in that I developed the platform to help me launch and market my businesses with the thought that any additional users of my platform would be a bonus as I don't need millions of users to make my model profitable.

Google is using the name for their Google TV 2.0 platform for Android and their first press release showed up around June 22, 2011. I'm using the name as a social network with a mobile app and have been live since mid March of this year, and although I have gained very little traction, the idea is I can prove the viability of my platform by using it to market my other business ideas (clothing, music and blog/app). Once that happens I will market my platform more aggressively to outside users with proven vs speculative results.

fishtank(google) vs. http://fishtaank.com (dave)

Any thoughts? Feedback?

"From the mountains, through the hillside the crazy river water flows. It takes my to my pot of gold buried underneath a little stone. I'll find a horse and ride away and take out across the open plains. I'll turn into the wind and go to find out what my story knows."
Agreed - though, if open source is gonna kill the golden goose regardless... maybe might as well kill it first, get all the eggs.
It just sounds like they're buying some early shares back to me.
AppEngine is hiring
YC should start its @YCjobs
Following @techstarsjobs and @usethesource there should be a dedicated channel for recruiters like http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

P.S. Unluckly I wouldn't benefit from this... yet?
People really hate the Netflix price hike
currently reading this bored off my ass on my phone. my development computer is being used to give a presentation! i'm outta here in 2 weeks folks.
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A marketplace doesn't have to include an exchange of currency in order to be "real".
Indeed.

I find #python similarly useful, although people do tend to be less patient and more likely to tell you you're wrong (which I think is good, most of the time).
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“A billion dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A bazillion dollars.” -- Evernote
i assume from your comment you are a computer scientist. this does not hold for most of other sciences.
Not that copy/paste is hard, its just much easier to click a link instead of highlighting it, switching to browser, new tab, paste
We don't have a tree house, or a tree, either. The lesson I've learned from having two boys on one grad student's stipend is that they would almost always play with an empty milk jug than some plastic toy from Kids'R'Us. We have a bunch of big old fancy plastic toys people gave us and the boys have spent a total of about 10 minutes looking at them. How long have they spent building towers from old cardboard boxes and knocking them down? I haven't counted, but it's a long time.
I really like this idea, but $25? Ouch. Out of my price range. I think having a bunch of these clipped to your jacket would also be a nifty way to show off your music taste, too.
Calling FUD on the Google Plus Terms of Service Scare
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We built qwili.com as an easy way to search and get educated about wine, tea or coffee. We found out a lot of wine lovers knew very little about wine; how to get a bottle that best matches what you want to eat is not always easy. We appreciate any feedback.
The question here is whether they will offer newer movies for streaming or will continue to offer those on DVDs only. If they update the streaming library with fresh titles then who cares about the DVDs delivered via email.
A few weeks ago, one of the neighbours' (don't know which, just that they live somewhere near me) 4 or 5 year old girls ran into my house, up the stairs and into one of the rooms before I could blink (she was chasing the cat).

Lucky for me, kids running around unsupervised is pretty normal here and nobody think anything of this. I thought it was a little weird because, as a kid, I was taught not to go into strangers houses, but apparently its not so strange here.

Of course, I didn't carry her out of my house or anything, I just put the cat out so she could play with it outside.
I think there's something to be said for rebelling against efficiency.
Also 403 for Python. The other page are blank because they use <script ... /> which is not correct and should be <script ...></script> but the code is here if you look at the source.
We were faced with a very similar dilemma when we set up our virtualized cluster... Do we go with a free open-source solution like KVM, forgoing an easy-to-use GUI, or do we go with a more expensive solution such as VMware?

We eventually decided to build a KVM-based cluster, and while we were already extremely glad we did before the vSphere 5 licensing change, this latest development only serves to confirm the wisdom of our choice. We have enterprise-level support if we need it, the virsh command-line interface is very straightforward and easy to pick up, and we have not shackled our fates to an organization that can yank the rug out from under us whenever they like. Moreover, for Linux-based folks who find themselves pondering their options, consider that VMware requires that you run Windows in your cluster if you want the full advantages of vSphere (e.g., live migration). Because of the added maintenance and security concerns, we were quite loathe to introduce any Windows operating systems into our cluster environment, and the unfortunate state of the VMware world is that it's extremely Windows-centric.

The best part? Not only do we have a fast, rock-solid virtualization solution in place, but the easy-to-use GUI we wanted is also on the horizon. Take one look at the Archipel Project at http://archipelproject.org/, and I think you'll agree its interface puts vSphere to shame. Archipel is not yet ready for critical production environments and (last I checked) currently lacks full support for libvirt-based storage APIs (e.g., for LVM-backed virtual storage pools), but development is progressing steadily. I, for one, am looking forward to getting the best of both worlds (liberated + easy-to-administer software) in our data center when the time is right. If that interests you, head on over to https://github.com/primalmotion/archipel and fork away!
I can't think of a more traumatic experience for a family than what the victims went through.

How about breaking into their house at night, tying them up in the basement, and starving them to death?

If I had to pick between someone using my WiFi access point to download child porn or being physically tortured to death, I would pick the WiFi thing. That doesn't mean it's OK to do what the guy in this article did, but it's not the worst thing that can happen to someone, either.
Agreed, and it's mentioned in the article about Google's innovation. Honestly, I think that Google is one of the most innovative companies of the century... still doesn't convince me that Google+ will really stick. Did Wave and Buzz not stick because of no critical mass? In that case, how can Google assure that doesn't happen with Google+?
I wonder what would happen if government became a result oriented organization. If the point of patents is to increase innovation, shouldn't you be able to measure innovation? And if you can't measure the impact of patents on innovation, what evidence is their to justify monopolizing ideas? If you can't measure and observe, then what's the evidence? I would say there is none, it's entirely subjective. Unconditional support for actions regardless of consequence is a bit religious to me, and there used to be separation of church and state.. but I guess that can't really be measured, can it?
Texas does not seem to be having these same problems.

My point was not that Silicon Valley was having problems, for the most part it's not. California is having a lot of problems and Silicon Valley may not be able to escape/overcome them. I am based in Silicon Valley.
Even odder, the text is actually there, if you view the source. I think maybe his pretty print javascript is going haywire.
They're using their patents to crush their competitors. It's not patent trolling, it's anti-competitive behavior.
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> You also have to annotate your code with type information (a la javadoc) to take full advantage of the compiler

I consider this an upside, especially on large JavaScript products with many engineers contributing (like the ones Google builds). Having your JavaScript checked at compile time helps ensure quality code, and helps to avoid errors at run time.
Actually, they introduced the concept of private fields and restructured all their architecture to allow for profile fields to be optionally hidden...

Oh wait, they already had that.
Moral of the story: have engineers only work on projects from clients who are related. Nepotism facilitates communication!
My question is, if you just provide an external "Buy Me" or "More Apps" link to the App Store you would have no idea who or how many people actually use that link, and of those who use the link you would have no idea what they did once they got to the store. They could buy someone else's app, they could browse some more, they could leave a comment.

So how does that qualify as a "survey" in Lodsys's eyes?
The entire argument pretty much hinges on this broken definition of a monopoly. If others are competing but Google is simply offering superior products, that sounds like a fair competition where Google is simply doing very well. If anything, it's a monopsony in the talent pool (Microsoft did also have enormous hiring power at its pinnacle, but that is generally thought to have been a consequence of its status as an abusive monopoly rather than the cause).
The Internet wants to hire you to build stuff for it
The translation API was marked as deprecated and will be phased out (along with them providing alternative APIs for you to transition to) because of abuse.

Making-up facts only weakens your argument.
What's a "real" marketplace? Actually, I don't think it matters because millions of businesses pay for Google Apps, the packaged version of their office suite [1].

[1] http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/customers/
VMware has had some significant management changes: http://managementaschangeagent.blogspot.com/2008/07/update-t...
so you are maybe right about the MBA, non-founder thinking at the C-level there.

Compare VMware's 20110331 net income to 20101231 net income: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:VMW&fstype=ii - note how it has flattened.

Since VMware is public quarterly results are vital to the naive MBA. Said MBA might decide to improve profitability by pushing small customers to cloud services (Amazon) who are already customers of VMware.

This also has the advantage eliminating VMware as a competitor to some of VMware's largest customers.

ESXi is already free with limitations. This will definitely be the reasoning if we see VMware make workstation free thereby bring even more potential users in.
The 10-yr-old son of a friend of mine got into programming after asking me how to set up a game server. Introduced him to basic networking via the router config, explained how the internet worked and from there he got interested in how games are made. I think we all have our own stories about what compelled us to dig deeper.