skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot tell whether thing you say are right or not, but I noticed that you lumped relationship/health and money in the same category. I think that is one is biggest mistake one can do in your life: thinking about wealth and health/relationship as equal or even related.

On this particular subject, I would say that risking wealth is ok but risking relationship/health is not.
You're absolutely right that video blogging is not for everyone, and not for every startup. I also agree that HN would not work as a web cam comment site.

For the right startups and founders with a certain type of DNA video related content (with transcripts and time-coded key points) can be an excellent marketing tactic. Just look at Gary Vaynerchuk - his videos are far from polished, but they are entertaining, and get the job done.
Hey Ray, thanks. I've tried chartbeat, gosquared, and google's realtime. They're all fine, but now I mostly just get it via twitter.

It's not "analytics" per se, but the first 10 minutes worth of retweets is a better indicator of whether a post has legs or not than anything else.

With the proper realtime tools, I would basically just watch for irregular spikes after I pushed a post. The actual numbers never really mattered.

A quick SMS saying the post was doing better than 80% of my other posts would do the trick too.
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Yes, people would. Obviously, the people who are really adamant about switching away won't be deterred by this, but there will be a lot of people who are less forceful about it who might well just give up if it's too hard.
Finding people who share your passions is relatively easy. We advertise them on our sleeves. There are, literally, catalogs and clubs and conferences and books and lecture circuits and cruises devoted to any given pastime, from Ethiopian funk music of the 1970s to small-scale software companies focused on order tracking.

Finding a romantic partner or a spouse is a wholly different problem which generally plays out on a completely different level.
I really enjoyed learning Logo in my 5th grade gifted program. I'm pretty sure that most of the class enjoyed it as well.
Maybe paid upgrades are the answer?

20 million devices, $30 for the ICS update, 5% take rate = $30 million dollars.

Considering random teenagers in web forums can produce pretty good functional ports there's no way it will cost Samsung more than a few hundred thousand dollars to do the development work. Maybe they have to give the carriers a cut to cover their support costs/retraining/etc. Still a good financial incentive for Android OEMs not to abandon their older devices as quickly.
I think that's a great way to release things. Since so few people release actual numbers, it's hard to know what counts as a success. When they have big ones, like C.K. did, they tend to trumpet them loudly.
Agreed. Not to mention I used to love Diggnation and it was supported by everyone there so I figured why not.
Amusing that you'd hope that GoDaddy would continue screwing their (soon to be former) customers because they don't like that a competitor thinks they're playing dirty pool.

Unsurprising, but amusing nevertheless.
> Who wouldn't want to go with the company that supports the phones for the longest time?

Seemingly, everyone who buys Andriod instead of iOS. The platform gets what it wants: total customizability of an infinite variety of hardware, or devices that are all alike but keep getting every update 3 years after end of warranty.

It's a trade off, and with the original purchase, one is voting for which model one wants.
New youtube UI by yet another Silicon Valley programmer
One of my good friends launched this yesterday please, provide your feedbacks.
Nice. Can you talk about how you did this?
As anyone who does relationship or health counseling can tell you, they're very closely linked. Financial problems destroy more marriages than any other single issue, and the stress of a bankruptcy is comparable to that of the death of a family member. Health and wealth are also closely linked. So it's not as easy to separate these issues as you might think.
I wanted people to see at a glance whether there's a chance their own representative is supporting the Act.

Also, the reason I started looking at it was to see if there really was a concentration of support in any particular region. It seems as though there is.

But your point is well taken... I probably should make it smaller so it's clear there's more information below.

Thank you
I like to believe we're a culture that's willing to help people move past their mistakes to become productive members of society. I want to move the reality closer to that belief.
I think he's being too hard on himself. Compiz is amazing. Unfortunately FPS dropped in my games since Compiz was introduced in earlier Ubuntu versions so I don't run Unity I run Unity 2D which brings back my FPS to what it was but it uses Metacity so no fancy effects any more. I'd say focus on performance and get it back to what it was in Ubuntu 10.10 and that would be huge.
And yet they haven't repeated this with subsequent releases. Why not? I really don't know. My guess is that they think this was a one-time gimmick and not a repeatable model.

I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
I've read the legislation in its multiple versions. I've never seen a version where GoDaddy is exempt. I've seen the versions where EVERY SERVICE PROVIDER WHO COMPLIES WITH SOPA is exempt from financial liability for making a mistake, but nothing that would be more specific to GoDaddy.
The two scenarios, supposing that MS's current product line is dead in 10 years, and pretending share prices cost $1 right now):

Own MS now. $10 investment yields $20 in profits, all invested in Bing. Net result, in 10 years, you have 20 shares of Bing.

Own MS now. $10 investment yields $20 cash in your hands. You buy google. Net result, in 10 years, you own 20 shares of Google.

Unless you think Bing is a better investment than Google, you are better off taking the cash and reinvesting in Google.

And as an investor, I don't care if MS exists in 10 years. I care whether my portfolio is up or down in 10 years. And I care about liquidity - all else held equal, I'd rather have $1 cash in my hands than $1 cash in MS's hands with me owning shares. If I can invest $10 into MS, take $20 cash out, and have the company die, that's not a bad thing.
http://kiwifruut.tumblr.com/ - official blog post.
Lots of things suck. Compiz is not among them. It may not be perfect and may be unstable under some specific conditions, but it works here and works well.
I've seen fast food restaurants do this in the US to positive results. (I've never seen a 100% staffed place, but they worked with local non-profits who worked with the intellectually challenged.)

The advantage is a loyal workforce. The disadvantage is that these workers have more difficulty with change and optimization, and often do not have the same top-end speed in a rush. In a depressed economy such as this (on the low end) it's possible to find motivated workers who don't have the same challenges.
If this is indeed against ICANN policy, they're still in breach of this rule. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/godaddy.png
Honestly? They get an OS for free (unlike Apple), and they can't even keep their old devices updated? I understand that there are costs for porting, but surely that pales in comparison to making your own OS
I assumed it was sheer incompetence, but maybe this explains why the only system update I have received for my HTC Incredible is a total mess.

The update process never finishes, no matter what I do. Something seems to be updated nonetheless, and now I constantly get "out of space" notifications, despite having 700MB available. At this point, text messaging is crippled due to this issue, and there doesn't seem to be a solution (checked online and in store). No outreach from Verizon or HTC on this, and since my friends who also own Incredibles have the same issue, I can only assume that a lot of people are stuck now with an almost broken phone.

Just a lovely situation. Makes me want to stay away from Android in the future.
Hey JS, I think you've got two fallacies baked into your perspective.

First, that blogs have to be unprofessional. That's simply not true -- for more "serious" industries, you can treat the content like mini-whitepapers or slices of a conference presentation.

Second, that non-technical people can't appreciate and share good content. They can, although it goes through email rather than rss. If you provide the mini-report and analysis which helps someone win an intra-management dispute, you're going to have an evangelist forever.

The less your industry does it already, the more value I see in you breaking the mould. Which supplier are you going to pick up the phone and call? The one you've heard very highly of, or the one whose report you just spent the morning poring over?
Does Microsoft still support PIPA? (May 2011)
Thanks!

1) Originally, all of the photos were gotten from various sources, like Flickr, friends' dogs, photos I'd seen on icanhascheezburger and other memes, and Google Images to fill in the rest.

Then someone suggested I provide attribution for all of them. It's not my intent to steal anyone's photos, so I'm trying to go back and either find photos available with a flexible CC license (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)) [1] on Flickr, as well as my friends' dogs. A few kind people have even offered up pics of their own.

If the owner of any of these dogs sees this and wants his/her dog taken down, I'll happily do it.

2) It wasn't intended for that originally. I had created this the weekend after Tomomi created her HTTP Status Cats, really just as a joke and because I prefer dogs. But perhaps if I can find enough photos with the proper license, others can use them without any worries.

Come to think of it, I wonder how Tomomi is handling licensing issues. Maybe I ought to ask her.

3) Heh, good eye. That was a joke, since I didn't feel I had a claim to any kind of rights to these images.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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Show HN: Move your Flickr photos to Facebook (with privacy)
A monopoly status quo company patents something completely ridiculous in the hope that no other company can ever get ahead of them in the same product spectrum, and then later attacks another company, which earlier refused to become their customer and instead boldly built their own database products, which is why they conquered the world, at which point the monopoly company realizes it's way too late to save their monopoly already on the path of irreversible self-destruction.

Less dramatic version: http://www.google.com/patents/US6192476
If you can't be earning, then at least be learning (ideally both) otherwise you're burning. Cheers.
> I come from a country that suffers this "war on drugs"

I don't think anyone's disputing the toll the “war on drugs” is exacting – often outside the US, as is typically the case with these things. The problem is the idiotic approach to a problem, declaring it a “war”.

It may be held a truism, but it bears repeating that the violence in Mexico and South America is caused by drugs being illegal. Prohibition benefits three parties: criminals (especially organized, like the cartels), makers of non-prohibited drugs, and those making profit on jailing people, selling weapons and so on.

(I'm sure that many of the criminals would find other illicit activities to engage in, but I doubt they'd escalate to the level the cartel warfare has.)
>Where are we okay with a manufacturer never updating or even fixing the bugs of a very expensive product just months after they release it?

Pretty much everywhere, actually. If I buy a vacuum cleaner, do I expect updates? If I buy a toaster or a microwave, do I expect updates? If I buy a TV, do I expect updates? People without a technical background classify their phones and computers in the same category as toasters, microwaves and televisions. To them the software that runs on the device is indistinguishable from the device itself. When they see new phones coming out with Ice Cream Sandwich only a couple of months after they purchased their phone, their reaction is not to scream for an update from their carrier. Their reaction is, "Well, darn. I guess I should have waited, so I could have had a better phone."

Think I'm wrong? Go ask Joe Random iPhone or Jane Random Android what version of iOS or Android their phones are running. It's the rare breed that'll give you anything more than a blank stare in response.
All I needed to read in order to figure out that this guy is a complete loony:

Since the mid-1970s the rate of progress has declined in physics, biology and the medical sciences – and some of these have arguably gone into reverse, so that the practice of science in some areas has overall gone backwards, valid knowledge has been lost and replaced with phony fashionable triviality and dishonest hype. Some of the biggest areas of science – medical research, molecular biology, neuroscience, epidemiology, climate research – are almost wholly trivial or bogus.

If anyone really thinks progress has slowed in either physics, biology, or the medical sciences since the 70s, I would be happy to debunk those claims, but I'm not going to even bother up-front, it's so absurdly wrong that I doubt anyone will even ask for a reference...
This really is a special case though. HTC made a terrible decision with the amount of internal storage on the Nexus One and Desire/Incredible, so the image wont fit.
"That's not really all that differentiable, and it costs money both short and long-term."

The classic counter example is Nordstrom. Nordstrom looks at you and figures that if they keep you as a customer, you will spend $100,000 at Nordstrom over the course of your life. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_lifetime_value)

Because of that, they will (Snopes says "maybe" http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/nordstrom.asp) allow you to return tires to Nordstrom that everyone knows you purchased somewhere else, because they aren't losing money so much as they are ensuring their $100,000 of your money.

Regardless of the truth of the tire story, Nordstrom is known for having excellent customer care and that helps customer retention and supports their other pricing policies.
This is an article about Splunk.
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Ask HN: anyone have free office space in south-west London?
Hi all,

I'm running the startup www.scirra.com (HTML5 game creator) with my brother in south-west London and we're pretty shoestring budget but hoping to find some office space we can use, not really for any technical reason but just for a sane work/life balance and hopefully lower stress levels.

We don't know of much of a startup community in the south-west of London, and although we had one offer in north London it turned out the daily travel through London would probably cost as much as renting somewhere anyway!

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Thanks all!

Ashley Gullen, Scirra.com
How/do you handle royalties on the iBooks and Amazon sales?
"I like to believe we're a culture that's willing to help people move past their mistakes to become productive members of society. I want to move the reality closer to that belief."

If you truly believe this, then you wouldn't want to have drug addicts in the first place. Making it easy to start very addicting drugs in the first place (like heroin) with little to no consequences means we will most likely have more addicts.

If you look at the stats on Portugal, lifetime addictions increased after drugs were de-criminalized.
Legalizing it will make it even worse because it won't have any negative stigma.

It's very telling when a community that is supposed to be about honesty down votes me because they don't believe in my opinion. Without an honest discussion with all view points, your issues will never get solved.
I've been trying to start on videos[1] because I also feel it's got a lot of potential reach. Even though the view numbers are significantly lower on my videos than my blog, I get many more emails and comments about the videos. I guess people respond better to a face and a voice than to text.

It's definitely something I'll be putting significantly more time toward exploring in the new year.

[1] About 30 videos up so far at http://youtube.com/robfitzpatrickable
You are correct davidu, the blogger has pieced together their version of the truth in this matter incorrectly and has posted a very wild accusation. The truth is how the law is written, any service provider who voluntarily complies with the requests made by an IPEA agent will be granted immunity. (raise your hand if you're aware of the IPEA's purpose with SOPA)

As I've said before, this sort of backroom method of dealing certainly ignores the entire tenancy of due process. Which is one of the many reasons SOPA is ill fit for law.
I believe Namecheap still resells some TLDs from Enom. What has probably happened is that the name has been released at the registrar, Enom has received the transfer acknowledgement but NameCheap probably has not picked up the completed transfer (there is no notification mechanism so transfer orders have to be polled).
There seems to be a growing number of people using 99designs for cover designs.

Are thinking more along the lines of matching up illustrators/artists to authors for art inside the books?
> Adderall/Desoxyn/Methamphetamine/"Speed" are a great example

Small clarification: Adderall isn't methamphetamine, it's amphetamine. When discussing street drugs, for some value of safe, it is a considerably safer substance.

(Real, lab-made methamphetamine, even abused, is naturally much less bad for you than the typical battery acid sold on the street, too.)
"There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

Unfortunately the internet is an intellectual ghetto and so there are no good links that describe honour. But cmon you ignorant computer scientists, read a fucking history book. Honor was the most important code of conduct for American aristocrats and lasted until the mid-20th century. If they were publicly dishonoured they could lose everything they cared about.

This is why people fought duels to defend their honour. People were willing to die to maintain their honour.

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/03/05/man-knowledge-an-affair...
I hear that name.com forces a wildcard DNS entry if you use their DNS servers so that any unregistered subdomain points to a "domain parked" or similar squatter-esque page. This is completely awful and should be enough to bring a lot of heat to name.com directly. Definitely much, much worse than misassuming bad intentions.
> (Perhaps cars are turning into this model. It used to be that it was not a big deal to take your car to your favorite mechanic, but now I gather, various forms of IP lock-in or just plain expensive required diagnostic tools are creating a barrier for independent mechanics.)

On both cars and phones, this kind of tamper resistance makes support cheaper, and generally better for the average customer. Moving to electronic subsystems in cars means reliability to the point of basically never breaking, at the cost of being able to adjust spark timing or carb tuning with a screwdriver and motivation alone. At the same time, the iPhone 4S (with no jailbreak available) is easier for both Apple and for a company's IT department to support than a rooted Nexus S running "rAv Rom 1.3 Stock 2.3.4 + Additions + JAME BOND 07-Jun-11 New version 1.3".
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essentially we're a drug driven society (caffeine, taurine, aspirin, adderall, etc.) hence a death penalty for trafficking might ultimately be effective but at the same time seems totally ludicrous to me.

furthermore I don't think drugs themselves are the problem but the underlying mechanisms of society that drive somebody into drug abuse.
Accelerated C++ maybe? I haven't read LPTHW, but Accelerated C++ is a good book to learn C++ from, and is very example focused:

http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/

Of course, doesn't cover the latest rev of C++, C++11. But this should lay good foundation.
did you know that EA games and Sony also support SOPA?
I'm pretty sure that mhartl means that there (is|should be) no universally mandated goal of a business (e.g. maximize stock price, maximize market share, grow quarterly). Not that businesses should be allowed to break laws.

The goals of the business should be the goals of the owner not the goals of some economist or capitalist pundit.
"There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

Aristocrats had to preserve their honor or face reprisals: They could be ostracized, humiliated, publicly shamed, lynched, challenged to a duel, convicted of crimes they did not commit, have their property taken by force and then have the police look the other way, etc.

Whether you like codes of honor is a separate question from whether it existed.

Codes of honor are all about vigilante justice and public humiliation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour
> With Apollo everything was unknown, huge rockets, space suits, life support, space rendezvous, cameras, pens, even Tang.

Tang wasn't invented for the space program, it was merely a commercial food product they happened to find a use for. The Space Pen was inspired by the needs of the space program and was used in it, but wasn't a prerequisite for it.

http://www.misconceptionjunction.com/index.php/2011/01/tang-...

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
The code: https://github.com/bryanhelmig/jazzchanges

Built with Django, SASS, Twitter Bootstrap, font from http://musescore.org/ and christmas whiskey.

http://jazzchanges.net/ may work for you as well, currently waiting for DNS to propogate.
Ask HN: Which Java Web Framework will stand out above others in 2012.
Web has evolved and Java web frameworks are still in the 90's. What does the Hacker community think about which Java Web framework is going to nudge out the rest and really adopted by the masses.

Play is beautiful, Roo is confusing and seems like another me too. Struts, JSF are operating from coffins.

what will survive in 2012 and next few years?
I suppose that's why Macs have been violently losing marketshare for the past decade, the iPhone was such a flop when it first came out at roughly five times the cost of a normal cell phone and the iPad is getting murdered by the Nook Color. Because reputation doesn't matter, only price.

It's true that there is a subset of people who just buy the cheapest thing available — but there's also a pretty sizable segment of the population who might not be able to evaluate for themselves whether or not a phone is a good buy, but who do know that their "techie" nephew told them Samsungs are bad.

(I'm confused why this is fluctuating so wildly in the votes. Is it really so controversial that some products succeed on the strength of their brand rather than just price?)
Hey Ashley,

Club workspace, Leathermarket, is a good option. I've just moved there last week, and so far I like it. It's £55 per month if u sign up this week. £95 from Jan.

Nikita
I've been monitoring the progress of companies transferring away from GoDaddy and have been getting timeouts on Whois requests myself.
I don't get iOS 5 on my iPod Touch.
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