skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! That's a very good question, and the honest answer is because we're geeks and design is much harder work for us than building functionality. I guess that's another argument in favor of something like iubenda.com is doing.
From the small cheese manufactures I've seen it requires a long term love of the process and a resource, something like a family farm without a significant mortgage. The markup on artisan cheese seems pretty incredible.
The most of it was dealing with PV (present value) and Expected PV of the deal, so the first point would be learning concept of PV and discount rates
Caste system? I'm an SRE-SWE myself, but I couldn't tell you what side of the fence each of my team members are. (I might have an educated guess, though, based on the projects they choose to work on...)
Firefox and IE's "View source" can be spoofed to show anything
Looked at facebook just now, and sure enough there in the footer (if you're fast enough to click on it before the infinite scroll kicks in) they have this http://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy, which reaffirms my suspicion that using only what the author suggests probably isn't quite as safe legally.

That said, I definitely agree that putting a simpler layer on top of it so non-lawyers can get the gist of your policy quickly is a great idea - now item 1,000,001 on my startup's to-do list!
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Copyright extensions are not retroactive, fwiw. Once a copyright has lapsed, it's gone forever.
> One of my biggest pet peeves is when I tell a mom something her son did and she turns, looks at him and asks, "Is that true?" Well, of course it's true.

I'd almost certainly ask my son that. Seems like a good way to get them talking about the issue, and hear any mitigating factors they might consider. A teacher who took that as a me questioning their authority ... grow up and deal with it.
I want to win more. Seriously, with all the AI folks out there, surely someone can build a system that makes accurate predictions.
Any (ex) CEO that doesn't know why they got fired by someone reading a lawyer's script obviously doesn't have a clue how things work. A firing of that magnitude has to go by the book, and they have to close every legal loophole they can. No personal messages, no teary goodbyes... Just a lawyer's letter.

The phonecall method seems horrible, but what was the alternative? You don't want them in the building because you don't want a scene, either from their being hysterical, or from the guards escorting them to the door. A letter could only be worse.

No, they played this by the book, and she's upset about them doing things correctly. And badmouthing them over it.

The personal insult during the phone call really shows her character.
It's confusing because Google constantly markets Android as "open", then says "Yeah, it's not actually open, you can see the latest version when we finish it."
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This is fantastic, but "1080p" can have a dramatic range of qualities. If Inglorious Bastards just fits on the 2GB card and is over 2 hours long then the bitrate will be around 2Mbit/s, which is probably not very good. (cf. ~25Mbit/s for BluRay).

I should also point out that depending on the quality of the encoder, the bitrate is also a bad way of measuring quality. But I believe it is more useful than just saying "1080p".

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+gigabytes+%2F+Inglour...
IF they can, it's going to make a lot of waves. IF.
You made me think about how audio has been generally far ahead of its technical development, so in theory maybe this just means that 44.1k 16-bit PCM is so ubiquitous and good enough that it is considered a pinnacle even though options that are better exists. I love my 192 kHz sample rate on my device, but admittedly this is for audio recording and ham radio, so, almost a scientific instrument really.
I'll send you an e-mail, and we can work something out. Apologies for getting your hopes up. Still thinking through pricing, if anyone interested in the service has any advice.
So is this Google's plan to compete with Yelp?
She's very good at making sure no one else will hire her.
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If they do decide to discontinue the Zagat book they could turn it into an eBook on google books possibly.
Folks, this article is about private equity. 10 to 1 odds it doesn't apply to you. Not tips for dealing with VCs. Interesting if you like finance.
Content-Disposition: attachment warning too. I hate when sites force me to save files when I can easily view them right in my browser.
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It's not fair to compare companies and copyright. I can make a company that provides the same service as your company or a bit of your company or as your company and two others combined, and not violate anything -- that's (mostly) celebrated as competition and innovation.

Also, your proposed 20 years copyright + 20 years extensions for derivatives would make it trivial to extend copyright indefinitely by producing a trivial derivative at 19 years. It could even be automated. I think it would be better to fix the derivative works clause so such a work is copyrighted on its own.
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Microsoft Research was never a product development arm, it was a research arm. In that area they've succeeded magnificently -- a huge amount of seminal OS papers (back when I was doing systems research) came out of MSR. In contrast, the Google papers always were (and I think mostly still are) complete crap. I say this as an exiting Google intern who's trying to work for them full-time.
6) Referral for $25 ... people want to refer us anyway.

Without the fee, people would refer you anyway, mostly anonymously. So the $25 fee is a way to document where your referrals come from. That sounds like a good buy.
Although I am generally a Google fan (I still like AppEngine, even with higher costs, I use GMail + GDocs + Calendar hourly in my consulting business, and I enjoy G+) I wrote a blog a few months ago rating Amazon as a more interesting company than Google, technology-wise.

Part of it is that Amazon is not a black box. I have read most of the relavent papers published by Googlers and Amazonians, and I feel like Amazon technologies are so much more approachable and generally useful.

Top level: both Google and Amazon have developed great technology that they needed to run their companies and then decided to make a subset of their technologies available to outside developers and companies.

Still Google does some very nice things for developers like Google Code, and little things like releasing Wave in a Box (which is great!) when they announced the termination of Wave services.
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I find it hard to reconcile the term free market with the monopoly status granted in a patent, but this is the system we have and MS would be wrong to not respond in this way. The goal here is to make Android uneconomic for handset makers, not to generate revenue.

Google can dump their OS on the market because their business model is different than Microsoft's. They make 98% of their revenue on advertising, so it is in their interest to commoditize the OS level and increase the adoption of internet-connected devices. MS makes virtually all their profits on the licensing of software, they need to protect that business and their core platforms.
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Google doesn't seem to think that RAM is the limiting resource:

"Most frontend instances don't come near their RAM limit, and most of their RAM consumption is on shared data like packages." -- nickjohnson http://goo.gl/SOeSF
So you're saying that you expect an application in your browser to reach down and monitor, upload, and download gigabytes of data to your filesystem?

Your appropriately paranoid IT staff would collapse in convulsions of terror if this were possible. Fortunately, it's not. The reason Dropbox (and rsync, and lipsync) are native apps isn't because the developers are unaware that there are people in locked down environment and need a browser-based tool, it's because the apps need to be native.
I wrote the Dvorak letters on my keyboard with a marker and by the time it wore off each key I knew what that key was. It took a couple of weeks.
As php code gets more structured, its moving towards MVC frameworks where php tags are used sparingly in the views. (they are a fast way to make spaghetti code)
> Google has interesting, proprietary software, but they don't sell search engines

http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/

> , sorting tools

Okay, so they don't sell sorting tools. But to be fair, they've published a number of papers on different technologies which have furthered the creation of a number of tools, including sorting tools.

> or scalable web hosting.

http://code.google.com/appengine/
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>The problem is it would be like any one of the entrepreneurs on HN being told in X-many years that "Sorry, you lived too long so your company is being taken from you, you'll no longer receive any profit from it and it IS NOT being purchased from you at a fair market value. Sucks to be you. //

This is a false analogy. It is not the company that would be taken but the right to copy it's products that were produced, and sold X years ago. Put another way, we don't allow artists only X years to produce work and then acquire them as vassals of the state. Moreover the value of works for an artist when that work falls out of copyright is not normally zero unless it was approximately zero at the start; an artist can still perform the work and get paid particularly if that work was deemed by society to be of cultural value.

Why is this fair? Why would a copyright term of 20 years max be fair? Because it's a deal. The state provides monopoly protection in exchange for release into the public domain after the stated period. If you don't want to take the deal then you can keep your works private.
Sorry for the n00b question, but can someone explain the distinction between PE investor & angel/VC? Is angel/VC a subset of PE investor?
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Damn you beat me too it.

Also its not even actually 1080p that video looks to be running in 2.40:1 (movie aspect ratio) so the height isn't taking up all the screen real-estate.
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Assistly seems like an interesting customer service platform if human vs issue centered customer service really is their differentiating feature.
The Raspberry Pi sounds cool in concept. I should hope that the demo is unoptimized for now, perhaps the ceiling for the hardware is higher than we anticipate.
Android seems to have obviously changed the game in mobile development.
I can't believe anyone would post this, even with a disclaimer.

That said, what's your Meyer-Briggs? For my own personal research, not being snarky, I just have a hypothesis. :)
>This is exactly what Google is about. //

I thought Google was about finding more people and opportunities to advertise to.
Intellectual Ventures' Peter Detkin responds to NPR, others re patents
Who made your video on the homepage? It is nicely done.
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Growing up, the "bad" kids were always the ones with parents defending their kids' bad behavior or saying it's false. The "good" kids were the ones with parents who accepted that their kid fucked up. People don't like to be called out on their bad parenting.
Funny you mention the Kinesis, which can switch between qwerty and dvorak with a keypress, without you having to consult the OS about it. (great if you can't configure the computer you're using)
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I don't really hear people complain about grocery shopping either.

But there are countless times where I've needed to do some serious grocery shopping, and I plainly just don't feel like going to the store. I've avoided the grocery store for weeks, because I just don't enjoy being there. And I'd rather spend that time doing other things. Which, is my problem, yeah, but if someone is offering a solution...
The best part is that we are making it automatic, just check our main website, our goal is to help website owners to get rid of the hassle of writing a privacy policy :)
I thought this was first planed for firefox 6. http://www.browserscene.com/2011/04/firefox-6-download-manag...
Google's perspective also made it to the HN front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-just-got-zagat...
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JCreator
http://www.jcreator.com/

I think it is the only decent Java IDE not written in Java. From the site:
"JCreator is written entirely in C++, which makes it fast and efficient compared to the Java based editors/IDE's."
I have replied several comments about the security issues. Maybe you can take a look at them.

For the margin trading problem, we liquidate positions by force when the user's net value falls below maintenance. All data is transparent and you can see how far you are from being taken over.
[From OP: Detkin's WSJ letter to the editor doesn't mention NPR, but his Facebook status says it's a response to NPR and others.]
Hi - I'm Liz from Raspberry Pi. What you can see in that vid isn't the whole of Inglorious Basterds, but just the trailer (which is why it fits on a small SD card) - we were playing it on a loop. The Raspberry Pi can play back full 25 megabit HDMI; it's part of our mobile phone SoC dividend.
...which is exactly what they're doing, right? By having let's say a Yelp competitor, they have an entire market that can be described as "anyone who eats" out at their fingertips...
Not a bad idea. But, I don't think there is great demand + a shortage of cheeses. Many grocery stores already have "gourmet" sections of "fancier" cheeses. If there was any increase in interest I would imagine they would be the ones detecting that, and jumping to capitalize on it. Some branches in metropolitan areas, do and have expanded those sections, for example.

For cultural reasons Americans simply don't seem to like cheeses that are not bagged, shredded and kept in the refrigerator. (American HNers might be surprised to find that a lot of cheeses are not meant to be kept in the refrigerator). Good cheese is like a living organism, it not something dead that needs to be kept cold. It has bacteria that lives on it and it alters and changes its taste. I believe you won't even be able to sell that in US simply because of local food safety laws -- cheeses have to be pasteurized to be sold here.
If you're doing a yogurt startup, do you need a technical cofounder who is an expert in yogurt?

This is not a joke, I'm genuinely curious whether "technical" cofounders are specific to the tech domain or if they are necessary in every startup (another example is chef / restaurants)
I definitely agree about GE being a bad choice, I suspect that something like HT would work better for this application. I wouldn't be concerned about Virtex-4 being old, being used as a proof of concept for this should at least give some indication of how the design of the whole thing scales and give some idea of the problems that will come about, latency being one of them.
I'm curious, why do you have a large N key?
Your comment made me click on the app. :)

I thought it was attractive, and fills a need. Nothing depressing that I can see.
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We definitely can. Our BOM comes in well under the planned selling price, and we're totally confident of hitting the $25/$35 price points.
What's with the out of date Flash popup? Running Chrome beta channel here with Flash built in.
And maybe I was a touch too cynical. If she were here, my niece would be jumping about and down right now to remind me about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_Clubhouse in which Mickey has had a starring role for years.
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Agreed that it is disappointing and frustrating. No question. Part of me wonders, however, whether it's possible to be a mainstream tech blog and a non-gossipy tech blog at the same time.

Mainstream, mass-audience blogs always seem to take the LCD route at some point in their life cycles. I don't know whether they feel forced into it by advertisers, or whether they consciously do it in an attempt to optimize pageviews. Either way, the outcome is usually good for short term business, but bad for long-term readership.
The lessons I learned when I played a bit this winter:

Always put torches on the right (really "same") side of tunnels/etc as you dig/explore. Then you can always find your way back topside.

Always build markers at your spawn point pointing which way you're heading out, as well as a chest with basic supplies there

The mapping tools are great for finding a structure that doesn't fit on your mental map you know you built (but ones that point out minerals feel like cheating)

Burning Netherrack makes excellent markers, as well as monster killing traps

I don't play minecraft often anymore, but when I do, it's very well planned out ;oD
The pig dances, I'm sure that over time it will learn how to dance better.
IntelliJ Idea Ultimate is by far my favorite Java IDE. The community version (free version) is still good and updates are frequent, but you don't get as much of the "I" in IDE.

Eclipse is free and has a huge user base, lots of plugins, and people even build full applications on top of the open platform.
Google Buys Zagat
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
The current version is more akin to hiring half the working class to guard the other imprisoned half. It's more sustainable that way.

http://prisonvalley.arte.tv/
Very impressive, really. Will you be offering quantum discounts?
What is that website with recommendations?
I once noticed very nice website, but unfortunately I didn't bookmark it. It is a website where you can answer questions and you get recommendations for food, music and pretty much everything. It was founded, I think, by ycombinator, but I can't find any links. Have any ideas what the website is?
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From the source...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974271
The article doesn't mention the HDMI sound, which was always high quality. The upgraded audio is from the 3.5mm jack, which means you can now run two high-quality streams at once - something that some people have been requesting.
The cost is very low through services like Mechanical Turk. Typically you'd ask them to complete a survey on usability of your site -- you get some useful feedback from them, and sometimes they return as users themselves.
Virtual shared folder is rather flaky for me on OS X. It magically disappears and reappears in Linux guests.
OK. I have seen a bigger problem. The teacher asked for a student's record notes "in a harsh way" and "threatened" to give her low grades. The student eventually committed suicide leaving a suicide note saying "This teacher is responsible for my death".

Later the teacher spent days in jail.
Also notice that we are working with a top-notch designer ^^
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That's really incredible.
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We're definitely not done with optimisation, which is why we're not launching right-now-this-minute. You'll be seeing improvements, which we'll be blogging about (we think development's fascinating, and that it's good for people to have a glimpse about what's involved with putting this sort of thing together) all the way up until we launch.
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PE investors buy mature companies and extract profits via cost cutting, mergers/acquisitions, re-organizations. A PE firm may buy a paper manufacturing company if they thought they could increase profits by cutting unnecessary costs.

angels/VCs fund growing companies and extract profits as the company value grows and is to sold to a company or the public market. A VC would never fund a paper manufacturing company unless this were a wholly new way of making paper and had potential to transform the entire industry.
You might be confusing Michelin with Zagat.

Zagat has always used a crowd-sourced model, collecting customer reviews and publishing them in book form. They haven't really adapted this as well online (I'm sure this is where Google will give them a huge boost), but their approach was always UGC before people talked about UGC.
Makes sense. I've dealt with a few PE funds and always had my gut screaming at me to run away quickly. Explains a lot.
The most troubling aspect of Google these days is the shift from passively indexing the work of others (Google crawler) to deliver relevant ads and search results, to owning the data itself and granting access (G+, Zagat, ITA).
The Facebook popup is quite nice, but I can see two ways in which it could be improved (from a cursory observation - I don't really use Facebook much any more).

Firstly, "[...] and any other information I've shared with anyone" could quite easily result in people accidentally permitting access to data they didn't mean to. In contrast to it being viewed by anyone, there is a good chance that data will be stored elsewhere and stashed, regardless of whether the user later notices and removes it.

Having some mechanism to fully disclose what your "any other information" is, from that popup, might help people to notice accidentally shared data sooner, and prevent them sharing it with people who are storing it. The UI might take a little work, but afaik they've already got "view my profile as $foo" abilities, but that's tied to the account privacy settings pages, and not directly accessible from this sort of popup.

Secondly, and maybe not nearly as practically, but it'd be nice to see actually optional disclosure settings for apps like this. Android has a similar problem with its apps, it tells you what (coarse-grained) permissions it requires, but you only get a choice of all or nothing.

Granted, it doesn't make much sense to install your GPS-map application without giving it access to your GPS data, but in the Facebook realm, there can definitely be data or services which you want to consider optional.

There's probably even a business model in charging users (more) if they wish to disclose less about themselves, making them less attractive from your advertising revenue.
The major problems I can foresee are (a) microtransactions, and (b) actually making your user aware you're effectively selling their personal details in exchange for providing them with whatever service.
Nice. This is the most interesting question about Dvorak, to me.

Everyone I know who recommends Dvorak is a programmer. And I'm more than content with my comfort and speed typing English; the pain of slowing down to type brackets all the time when programming is more of a pain point for me.

So with this in mind, it's interesting to note that Dvorak has moved the quote key to a slightly less favourable location, and basically banished paren/bracket. Not a solution for my pain point!