skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that there are accepted standards to the meaning of the term "open source".
Unity and Flash : a sneak peek.
Buyer's remorse.
In the same way that there are accepted standards of HTML.
Yes without but there is a lot of space for improvement with better leverage of taskqueues and async datastore operations. We hope to reduce by 50% some some of the requests so that we spin out less instances. We also fine tuned a bit, check out our results:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2951217
your email isn't in your profile, you have to add it to the 'about' section for it to be visible to others.
Did you package it yourself or used some package/library?
"Ignorance and stupidity are different things though"

My dad like to tell me that ignorance was his problem (he could teach the person new things), but stupidity was their problem. The trick is recognizing the difference and not wasting your time on the later.
Being an extremely effective professional programmer (as opposed to a competent one) requires you to learn and do some things that you won't learn in school, and also that no sensible person would pay you for. This is just fact and people who don't like it either may accept being just competent or are in the wrong career.
There's a 'pools beta' that runs your stuff in bsd jail. Worked well with mod_wsgi in my tests (I'm not using it in production though).
Socialcam is hiring
With all due respect this kind of behavior makes me heave.

Don't get me wrong. Trustworthy relationships are essential, after all people buy from people. But buying privilege with dinners and fake friendship is not a way to build a trusting relationship. Business needs to be conducted on merit not on who has the largest expense account. Yep, I'm an naive idealist, but my definition of success includes retaining my integrity.

By the way the way to flummox expense account driven salespeople is to always buy them lunch when they come to pitch to you. Messes with their reciprocity training.
It's likely that the lab grown "meat" won't be a proper substitute for the meat that we evolved to eat. Food is more complicated than it outwardly appears (i.e. a collection of muscle cells != meat)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
Is the server open sourced?
Very nice. Played this game on paper at a big family reunion. It was hilarious.
Strongsteam, the data-processing web-API
In vitro meat has been coming (in that it's been researched) for at least the last 16 years, and there have been edible forms since 2000. None of the other breakthroughs have lead to large-scale production, which I believe was due to the poor taste and that it's currently more expensive to produce than normal meat, per-pound. So don't get your hopes too high.
Happy Birthday Google Chrome enters third year
Unfortunately there's a limited number of threads to handle requests (like 8 per instance) and you can't create new long-lived threads. While an improvement, it's not a solution to the problem.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that... That is too bad...
In no way do I fault Mr. Arrington for anything. It's a savvy business move to apply what you've learned about an industry. At the same time, this is why people don't trust "the media".

With limited space for coverage of startups, it's inherent that there will be unequal treatment.
Yeah, the blatant abuse tends to put a focus on events. The problem is elected reps not getting the pat down and certain executives who have private jets keep thinking rights are not as important as safety.
I'd try it. And then I'd stay up for nights on end, wondering - "Is that really what human meat tastes like?"
Can we please keep the spam out of HN?
Yes, there are compromises involved in iOS and the iPad, but I don't think they're the kind of compromises Sinovsky is talking about.

Find me one place where the touch UI of the iPad was compromised in any way to provide affordances for people who want to hook their iPad up to a keyboard. If there is one, I'll be floored.

An iPad means a sealed box where you don't have to mess with file systems or insecure code. Can't we have a compromise for those of us who want the ability to use a Finder to move files around and load them up in different apps? No, we can't, because that would compromise the experience. Can't we have a cool little local scripting development environment for doing nifty interaction design work. No, we can't, because that would compromise our sealed, secure box.

Sinovsky is saying that Microsoft is flatly refusing to provide a "tweener" interface, where the utility of the tablet is compromised to provide more of a desktop-like experience. I don't know whether Microsoft can deliver really excellent tablets or not, but (as with most of the things they've done with Metro) this part of their approach makes sense to me.
FT pulls app over Apple data row
Cash is king. You can demand more equity and priority in the debt stack ordering when you write checks. Life's not fair but whining over how you're getting screwed won't help you realize the opportunities that are available to you.
You're right. That's a big drop in 40 minutes. Someone's listening :)

But if you click nearby properties, they're still mostly around $1700 for private rooms.

In contrast, on craigslist, I can easily find private rooms for $750 in the same area. Same quality of room. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/roo/2560093770.html
Yes there is a great deal of irony in standard business practices. No irony intended.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ is useful for doing this
Your points about non-meat animal products still very much hold still. Pigs would be pets and sources of organ scaffolding for humans.

Additionally, the yearlong production of milk in animals requires contant pregnancies, so will still cause many animals to killed. For instance, goat milk products kill far more male goats than any demands for the meat.

There are multiple types of vegetarians. Ones who dislike the moral part of meat will not have an issue with the new meat. There are energy consumption vegetarians. If this new meat is considerably close to the energy requirements for a vegetarian diet, they may go for it. The health vegetarians who are afraid of adulterated food may go for this meat now, but the ones who are afraid of the general higher cancer risk from red- meat based diets, etc, will likely not be persuaded to change.
...hoping UK gets added to the list...
FTFA: "This decision is a result of our strategy to protect the premium nature of our brand by preserving the appropriate pricing and packaging of our exclusive and highly valuable content."

Interesting strategy, but I doubt that is going to work for them (or anyone else) long-term.

I don't want to go to 8 different sources to find what I want to watch. Netflix is a very high value aggregator for me, and most TV is just barely worth the effort to passively consume. Moving off to your own little island will, IMO, not increase your perceived brand value or viewer loyalty. It will just make it more cumbersome for people to find you.
the compulsory rate in the US right now is 9.1 cents for songs up to 5 minutes in length, and 24 cents for ringtones.

syncs right now go from free to maybe 50k, unless it is a massive song (thing the Beatles) in a massive campaign or feature. the average network tv sync right now is prob around 5 grand all-in, meaning 2.5k goes to the owner of the sound recording copyright (the label or artist) and 2.5k goes to the owner of the composition (the songwriter(s) or publisher(s)).

Music publishers can take anywhere from 10% (for an admin deal) to 50% (for a co-publishing deal). Bigger percentages involve advances (recoupable payments against future royalties), but also much longer terms (5-10+ years).

Songwriters don't get publishing deals unless their songs are being performed or sold, and there are lots and lots of indie publishers out there, along with the majors as you mention.

In many territories outside of the US, artists and master recording copyright owners do get paid for public performance - in the UK for example PPL is one society that pays some of these rightsholders for public performance.
So TechCrunch really isn't a news publication anymore, it's just a company blog now.
A Deeper Look At Startup Genome Data on Failure
Fair enough, I've bought albums several times (vinyl to cassette to CD to MP3). Don't think I've ever bought an album on the same format twice unless it was by accident. But haven't we all had it with those format switch games? I bought some MP3s, I don't expect ever to buy them again.

BTW, most of those 15M tracks are deep in the long tail of obscurity that would never see the light of day without an all you can eat subscription model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu

It wasn't terrible, but it didn't make me want the real thing.
Yep, https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream

There is a TileStream Hosting service that has integration with a CDN & DropBox, stats, etc. It uses the open version and just adds glue code to services.
In April, he wrote: "in a few months, there’s a very good chance that I’ll be a direct or indirect investor in a lot of the new startups in Silicon Valley"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/an-update-to-my-investment-...
I wonder if they yet support full disk encryption on mac. That's been the missing feature for years.
chatnearme.com (mobile webapp same url)
I didn't mean to paint a rosy economic picture. Sorry if it came out like that.

I just thought people should know the difference between a songwriting royalty and a recording royalty, and what that means for songwriters and recording artists. I also want people to have an idea of exactly how big of a cut publishing companies and record labels take.
Is there any "cheap" Android phone that has reasonable support for Flash 10.x? I need one mainly for dev testing.
It's been done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
The New York Times has actual quotes from Arrington and Tim Armstrong: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/technology/michael-arringt...

Arrington:
'I don’t claim to be a journalist,' Mr. Arrington said, though he breaks news and writes prolifically. 'I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.'

Armstrong (could have been more careful with his phrasing):
'TechCrunch is a different property and they have different standards', said Tim Armstrong, chief executive of AOL, in an interview. 'We have a traditional understanding of journalism with the exception of TechCrunch, which is different but is transparent about it.'
As a bit of a shameless plug (I work for one of the organizers of the event), would really recommend you to tweak the schedule a bit to be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 25-26 — Investors' Day Central and Eastern Europe will be undergoing, with quite a lot of startups from the region attending (had over a hundred last year) and plenty of opportunity to communicate.
Arrington is also an LP in SVAngel. Not listed here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/an-update-to-my-investment-...

But it is listed here: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington

SVAngel co invests with all YC companies.
> Not only do markets appreciate beef, but they will pay top dollar for fancy high-quality beef.

Maybe. It depends on the extent to which high-end beef consumers are paying for the direct experience (taste, texture, mouth feel, etc) versus other things.

For example, consider the scam that is high-end speaker cable. People pay a lot of extra money not for real quality, but for imagined quality, exclusivity, and brand association. The same thing definitely goes on with wine and cheese, and I'd suspect some beef purchase will be like that, too.
The page itself had to be taken down by request of certain people, so I'm not sure how much I can really elaborate.

But basically it was just this:

1. Lots of buzz around a startup
2. Use startup's name in your link titles and add a bit of controversy

It gets plenty of clicks :)
You're also limited by the number of threads the GAE team will decide you can use per instance.
"You know you’re in a bubble when… tech journalists join startups – Bye Steve!"

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/you-know-youre-in-a-bubb...

So what are you in when tech editors fund startups?
I would actually submit that their has been no true micro-payments service other than some credit systems (e.g. XBox Marketplace). Is there a place to sell documents, audio, or video for 5 to 10 cents a piece and getting 60 - 80%? I believe the paper from 2003 is not a predictor of what would happen in Amazon or Apple would have such a system. Both have excellent UI and easy process in buying higher priced media.
Pidgin: your favourite Internet Messenger
Maybe because the value of the string is also large that can cause overflow? You mean you got the alert when you put in "999999999.....99999"?
eMusic has a fairly low payout compared to other services offering DPDs (digital phonographic downloads aka an mp3 file) - in the range of 10 to 30 cents a track depending on a number of circumstances. On the other hand, they generally do good volume (often number 3 after iTunes and Amazon) and you can look at not distributing on eMusic as an opportunity cost - i.e., persons have paid already for a subscription on eMusic, so they are unlikely to take additional money and buy your music elsewhere if it is not available on eMusic.

eMusic's real fail is that there are one of the very few DSP (internet music retailers) that only account quarterly... almost everyone else is monthly.
Netflix stock plunges as Starz ends contract talks
Because it didn't go up on TC first, since they should have been the first to know.
The keyboard on the back is a terrific idea. Just a nitpick: I'm begging you, if you can, straighten those dammed keys.

http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards
Yes it was mostly a joke.

But it's never bad to be able to quickly relate to a certain summer when talking to such people some random time in the future.

It's a bit like how you see in the movies people relating over going to the same university.
It censors all of my penises!
Nicely done you sucked me in for a few drawings :-)
The right one is powered by a mini display port -> DVI and the left via a USB > DVI converter.

The leftmost one is rather slow to refresh, so I use it mostly for our company geckoboard dashboard and for autotest output. The right monitor is a Dell Ultrasharp with component inputs from the Xbox and Wii.
Would there be any reason to use it over Lion's full disk encryption?
Looking at the Scala API for List, I see the following:

def flatMap [B] (f: (A) ⇒ GenTraversableOnce[B]): List[B]

Seems nice and readable to me. The full declaration is below it, but this "use case" documentation is usually enough.

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.colle...
Nooo, it's dead! 500
I have re-bought CDs I lost, or albums that got scratched that I loved, or given my copy to people who I wanted to become fans, and then re-bought my own copy.

As for those buried tracks, keep in mind that it's unlikely that Spotify will cut anybody a check for $0.029, or even 10 times that amount. So unless those albums get listened to a lot, they're not any better off in Spotify.
You mean in 8 hours they learned Node, JS, MongoDB, git and built a penis recognition algorithm? I suck at coding :-(
when I tried to draw "procrastination" it killed the server, apparently.
This is actually a good way to go or at least kind of fun for killing some time.
They make very little money.
This is a favorite of mine, though I know it as "Eat Poo You Cat".

A narrower marker or a real color selector would both be nice.

The server appears to be down now, though.
The Liquid Robotics folks gave a lecture at Stanford in EE380, the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, which is available on video. It's at the link below and probably available on YouTube and iTunes as well.

http://ee380.stanford.edu/permlinks/091028.html
While the 25$ model certainly costs them, the 35$ one may not. Plus, if they have massive commands, they may be able to invoke some economy of scale.
IPhone 5 Prototype found at a bar
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I might disagree with certain aspects of YC, but one of the things I respect most about PG himself is his skill and finesse in keeping the program fun and relatively low-drama.

Arrington ... not so much. He seems earnest, but the thought of being part of an Arrington fund feels a lot like participating in a reality show. TechCrunch seems to brew a tempest in a teacup about twice a year; how would that not affect their investments?
I don't really like the dog video where the guy says "all those birds to chase... oh nothing." Yeah it's playful, but after the issue with the apartment in SF that was ransacked, it's just distasteful.
We reported on this back in July...YC discussion thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768953
No, you don't. Compare with current dual core models.

What's the cost of

- Samsung Galaxy S II

- LG Optimus 2x (or Optimus Speed, depending on location)

for you? Both are recent dual core models, the latter is the cheaper one (I own that one and payed more than $300 and thought it a bargain).
"Oh dear," says TechCrunch's journalistic integrity and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
Go for Beta rush - Doctape expands Closed-Beta userbase.
It's a fantastic time to be an entrepreneurial, forward-thinking, business-oriented musician.

But that is a fairly small subset of people with the talent set necessary to stand out musically.

The security of the previous set-up is gone but the opportunities are endless.

Does this sound familiar yet?

A generation ago many of the people reading this would be lifers for HP, IBM...now look what you're doing instead?

OK, so you're lifers for Google and Facebook.

You get the point, though.
Designer vs coder: who would you hire?
We didn't have time to test on ipad or other mobile devices. The prize for most votes is an ipad2 so if you vote for us (top right corner of the page) you might be helping us build the ipad version.
you pay them zero, but from the point of view of TuneCore it costs money to store and deliver your content, account to you, run a website, etc.
Python library for Nexmo API: Meet the author
Nexmo is a cloud based SMS API that lets you send
and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates.
> ... to start a new venture and took half the staff.

but left the tank
It's back. In 8 hours we did not have time to build it for scale. Each image is stored in Mongodb as a base64 image.
"now" ?
ITT: People have read an article where Gruber interprets "compromise" to be scoped to whatever level of the subject suits his agenda best and nobody notices.
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Judge Throws Out $1.3B Fine Against SAP In Oracle Suit
I really like the brutal honestly of this post. Mr. Pollak and I have a lot of the same opinions about Scala in the enterprise. In the land of the commodity developer, it is hard to motivate companies, and the developers themselves, to learn and adapt to new technologies. It is very hard to demonstrate the benefits of new tech when the old is doing just fine for them ('just fine' resulting in that they haven't experienced the benefits of the newer tech).
tl;dr: it's possible that some piece of hardware roughly the size of an iPhone might have been left at a local bar. Nobody has any concrete details of the device beyond that.
Dropbox-style file syncing is a transitional technology. They won't be around in 10 years unless they reinvent themselves. The reason is, personal computers are being phased out. That means local filesystems are going to move online where a service like Dropbox becomes redundant.

What's broken is the personal computer. It was wrong form the start. Thin client computing is already back en vogue, just now we call it tablets/smartphones and cloud.
Using the Heroku SendGrid addon decreases your email deliverability
Android in Space: Part 2
It may be easy in the purely technical sense, but that can be exactly the thing to afford you a view into the other aspects of making and selling software beside the programming (design, marketing, etc).

You might even learn that the coding is indeed not the hardest part of making a living off of your own software projects :)
Good point. My brain is hardwired to think product == SaaS product. So I'm only referring to using this strategy for a SaaS product.

I think it works with a SaaS product, assuming you keep all business related stuff (Domain registration, servers, business incorporation, bank accounts, etc) in another country (i.e. Sweden).

I just don't know which countries would be best...
Haha no penis recognition in 8 hours. But don't abuse that - it kills the fun.
Still better than America's obsession with protecting kids from seeing nacked skin, IMO.
A quantum computing system with the von Neumann architecture
No question that this is true.

And there are a lot of people making a lot of money on selling 'self-marketing opportunities' to independent musicians.

But to compare that industry ('huge'?), in terms of revenue, to what the majors did in their hey-day is an exaggeration.

The model of selling services to indie musicians has not yet surpassed the model of selling music to customers.

But perhaps that's where we're headed? That's a depressing thought.
Starz content to be pulled from Netflix in February
So not really all that different from Hacker News.

This type of indirect value capture will tend to happen given the economics of online publishing. Hopefully TC can put in to place a some policies that limit the impact on the publication's objectivity.
Yeah, but nobody listens to 15M tracks. They listen to a small subset of those tracks, and that subset differs from person to person.

Heck, for fun, let's say you were to listen to music 8 hours a day every day for a month (~30 days) -

8hrs * 30 days = 240hrs
(240hrs * 60min/hr) / 3min/song = 4800 songs.

Basically, you're paying $5-10 for a maximum of 4800 songs - or, between $.001 and $.002 per track, if you listen constantly.

Or, from the other side:
Spotify's premium is $10/mo, which comes with no ads. They pay $.003 out to each band - let's just pretend they follow Amazon's 'agency' policy of a 70/30 split, so Spotify's making roughly $.001 on each song, and it's costing them $.004 total for that song (hypothetical - just stick with me). If we assume they're not losing money, then an average $10/mo user must listen to at most 2500 songs per month, and if Spotify's costs are higher than $.001 per track, the number goes down.

Point is, the industry's providing _ACCESS_ to 15M tracks, but they're only having to deliver ~2500/mo - but that's a different bundle of 2500 songs for each user. It MAY make sense from their end just to call it 'unlimited' and rely on the fact that the user can't consume music fast enough to really upset the economics for them.

(Incidentally, if you were to decide to listen to each of those 15M songs once, you'd wind up paying:

15,000,000 Songs * 3min/song = 45,000,000 min
45,000,000 min = 750000 hrs = 31250 days ~= 1027 months
1027 months * 10/mo = $10,270

The record labels, then, value their entire collection of music at $10,270 - if you only listen once!)
We didn't evolve to eat happy meals, pizza, and onion rings, either. We evolved to exploit of a broad spectrum of foods, and this new food will probably fall within that spectrum.
I do not think it would offer anything over Lion's encryption. The real hope would be support, I think, for hidden OS. The TrueCrypt Boot Loader has been absent from the Mac versions because the full disk encryption has been. I do not know why.

I suppose, then, a reason to use it over Lion's encryption would be to gain the boot loader and hidden OS feature.