skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just sad, I get the impression from the comments and
up votes that tech does not get Hollywood. Hollywood business only work
because only Hollywood is willing to give Christopher Nolan 200+ million
dollars to make Dark Knight, ditto with James Cameron's Avatar. When Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook or Yahoo decides to give a Christopher Nolan or James Cameron $200million+ to make a movie, things will be different. Then these multinationals can distribute to everyone who wants to buy the movie without DRM, without regional restriction and at a competitive price. Until then everything is just
posturing, indie budgets will not change Hollywood.
Tech world has competition, but only Hollywood is making these big budget productions.

edit: not sure why this is getting down voted, it would be interesting to see a counterpoint.
New arrival coolous alien case for iphone 4, hard silicone case for iphone 4
Very clever. I liked it. It's nice and refreshing to see this as we put our pitchforks away.
My guess would be they will haggle if the buyer wants to haggle. They aren't going to give up a sale. But, I've never shopped CarMax so I don't really know.
You know, searching from the location bar in Firefox has worked for a couple of years now. I use both fields, depending on what I'm currently doing.
I really like the way FreeBSD separates system and third party software, the latter typically being installed to /usr/local.

Linux' failure to differentiate between system and non-system binaries is IMO one of it's worst features.

Neither FreeBSD nor Linux accommodate network mounted NFS mounted applications as well as SunOS did so successfully by the late '80s. This is probably due to the corrupting influence of Unix and Linux engineers who came from MS Windows backgrounds. Windows admins waste countless hours having to install software locally on every machine. Sad that only Solaris provides for a standard network-based application filesystem. Odd too that Solaris is home to the single most ill-thought-out non-system directory, /opt.
all in google's details (and same registrar as their main domain)

Domain Name: DUCK.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 19-nov-2010
Creation Date: 23-feb-1995
Expiration Date: 24-feb-2015

edit : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691
The site blog.curebit.com is down. Here's the cached version:
"Apology to 37signals

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Allan Grant
Recently we launched a site with several pages copied from 37signals’ Highrise. We did more than take inspiration from their design – we actually used html & css code, and hotlinked to images on their site. We apologize to David and 37signals for ripping off their work. It was stupid, lazy, and disrespectful of their creative efforts. It’s particularly painful for us to have done this to 37signals because they are big heroes of ours. We just hope they will accept our apologies."
Dick move, google.
That's fine, as long as they don't mind having their entire studio's Internet access cut off if any three people who ever wrote a piece of software each allege that someone from the studio downloaded that software illegally, based on the fact that at least one IP address that was allocated to the studio's domain at the time was observed downloading a file that contained the unique identifying mark "int main() {". Also, each developer who agrees to do this automatically gets $150,000 in statutory damages for every file containing that mark that anyone from any studio IP address ever downloaded.
Awesome! I'm wondering whether using jQuery's deferreds can give close to same advantages.

Looking at first parallelSearch example, it could be like that (in regular CoffeeScript):

parallelSearch = (keywords, cb) ->
searches = [search k for k in keywords]
$.when.apply(searches, null).then cb

Although seems like it can't really cover all Iced's use cases. Hopefully the fork will continue to be maintained!
I was the one who asked their ages. I'm 22. I was just wondering.

I knew that if I just asked "how old are you?" it would come off as a snarky comment on the situation. That's why I also included "Not making a judgement, genuinely just wondering."

While I wasn't trying to tie age to the issue at hand, I would have to disagree with your assertion that physical age doesn't have anything to do with how people react to different situations. Maybe experience is the real driver but obviously that is closely related to age. Either way that's neither here nor there.

As for the rest of your comment, I'm not totally clear on what you were trying to get across or who you were responding to but it still doesn't seem like it deserved to be down voted.
I'd like to think that the evil chocolate factory is so scared of DDG such that they would buy up a related domain name, but the domain was owned by On2 technologies which, as you may recall, was bought by Google for their video codec. Of course, Google may be undermining competition in other ways. I'm sure they are.

They should just donate the domain to DuckDuckGo if only to squash conspiracy theorists.
Backstory: https://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google

tl;dr no reason (IMHO) it should point to Google search -- it's just confusing people.
Sounds like a problem which can be solved via CSS hacking.
Integrity is personal -- and it means doing what you say, and vice versa. In other words, congruency.

Which means that it's perfectly integral and congruent for DHH to call somebody a "fucking scumbag" when that person steals from DHH's company. His values, and his words, and his actions all line up perfectly. He is behaving exactly like himself.

Even if you fall back on the dictionary definition of "the quality of being honest and having strong moral character," it fits.

Just because YOU don't think somebody should use a certain word doesn't mean they lack integrity. It also doesn't mean that anyone else cares.
> It's fair game for anyone to purchase it as well.

Not for use as a logo, though, it would seem: http://www.istockphoto.com/help/licenses

> Prohibited uses for both Standard and Extended license

> Use in any logo or trademark
Nice example of Docco in action!

http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
I almost feel bad for these guys but I understand why DHH was so pissed. Getting inspiration or even straight up stealing the HTLM and CSS is one thing, but referencing assets on 37signals servers is beyond the pale as 37signals is paying money to serve those assets.

This happened to a company I worked for, a company not only ganked our website but used pictures of our offices and staff we had on our about us page!
Here's our Mac OS X program that reads QR codes anywhere on your screen -- any program (browser, editor) -- and makes them live links.

http://www.ripeapps.com/#qrreader
Hacker News is so great that I don't know other similar communities.
Good thing you're here to tell 37signals' owners how they have to behave to be taken seriously as a company. With that kind of personal language, they'd never get any serious customers!

Oh wait.

Here's the thing: this is how they've built their company. This is the kind of thing they say.

It's totally "acceptable" for DHH to tweet whatever the hell he wants, because that's the image he cultivated. That's what people love him for. That's why they follow him on Twitter, attend his talk, buy the books he cowrote.

You can dislike it all you like - nobody's forcing you to read it, nor forcing you to talk that way. But where on earth do you get off saying it's "unacceptable"?
The fact that salaries in the 60-80k range come to mind in discussing compensation suggests that your company does not attract good talent and so the discussion of top of market doesn't apply to you.

Numbers I used do not reflect the salaries I pay. Such is the definition of an example. Also, at no point did I say that these are examples of developers' salaries.

I actually purposefully used the example so far removed from developers' salaries because geography and availability affect the range. And I did not want to get into what should the salary actually be, since it was completely irrelevant to the point. So, instead, I used numbers I can quickly do in my head, if you are really goint to quibble about this.
For DHH to have "embarrassed himself," he would have to feel embarrassed. He clearly doesn't, since he uses this kind of straightforward, salty language all the time.

It's only in your head that he is embarrassed.
Given today's disk capacities it rarely makes sense to create any partitions whatsoever within a disk other than for swap. Partitioning /usr, /var or anything else on the same disk only increases the chances of one or more partitions filling. Admins and OSs who create inter-disk partitions without an explicit need are operating on legacy superstition.
Yeah, that's the most retarded passage in the whole article. And that says something.

Maybe people are not aware that most things are toxic in concentrations higher than natural, including, for example, oxygen. And even if elevated CO2 caused humans to walk around in a blissful high, it would have nothing to do with its impact on climate...
Many, many smaller air services do. Helijet even lets you buy books of 10 flights half off.

stnd air (nyc-hamptons)
harbour air (victoria-vancouver)
helijet (ditto)
There's really nothing unique about that. If you were accused of selling drugs via a restaurant front, it'd be shutdown while you're standing trial too.
In Soviet Russia envelope eat you
I meant that she wasnt in it to make cool shit, I am at my current job because I like what my company is doing, the money dosen't mattter.
Thanks for the feedback :D

I need a good alternative to Arial. Do you have any other recommendations from google web fonts?
This one? http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-5418738/stock-vector-retr...
Symantec: We Didn’t Know in 2006 Source Code Was Stolen
Yeah, I've never actually ended up needing to use Excel either. Which is good, because I'm cheap, and Excel is not.
I understand they want to apologize quickly, but to me the post is so short that it comes off as not genuine. Even the title "Apology to 37signals" seems like they just don't really care.

All that said, it must suck to be in this position.
How is this "confusing"? The other search engine is not called Duck is it? No one uses the term Duck to refer to it?

And when people enter duck.com and go to Google, are people thinking they are at DDG? Doubtful. Anyone who uses DDG knows they went to the wrong site by mistake.
> It's not acceptable if you want to present yourself as the spokesperson for a friendly business.

37signals is very open about being an opinionated company. Their blog is quite happy to take a stance, they've always enjoyed mixing it up, and they've never seemed to have an issue with telling people "don't like it, don't use our products".
That gave me a good laugh. The funny thing is I've actually used this strategy on a few occasions. It's a completely legit critique.
I get consistent feedback that it is confusing people.
It's not unheard of.

http://panic.com/extras/ripoff/
You've never seen a grown man use strong language or call somebody a fucking something-something? Guess you've never read Mark Twain, or watched George Carlin, or any comic, ever, except maybe that guy from Full House who specializes in "clean comedy." Or been to a bar. Or watched a sports game. Or hung out with people who are passionate.

Please, can the disingenuous hyperbole. Nobody is buying it.

Most importantly, not everyone has to buy into your idea of "professionalism." Thank god.
Since when is LinkedIn one of the popular kids? Or Google+ for that matter? Well done buttons though.
Does it seem to violate their "Don't be evil" mantra to anybody else? This was clearly a conscious decision to confuse people.
The very idea of "settled science" is antithetical to the scientific method.

Huh? Theories that are backed up by enough evidence are generally regarded as "settled". That of course doesn't mean they can't be "unsettled" if some truly remarkable data shows up, but it's still a useful heuristic to concentrate on things that are more uncertain.
The only thing not working on an iPhone iOS5 I've tried is the popups, I'll try fixing it thanks for the bug report.
Tips for Putting a Price on Your Work
That's the point though. There's no way to know if it's an outlier or not. The AGW people are assuming it's an outlier.

I guess we'll know in ten years. My money's on serious revisions to the model.
Agreed. Most of the retail JCP outlets near me have closed. They are grasping at straws.
It's more about the people who don't use DDG but do know there is a search engine called duck... Something. What those people aren't looking for is Google search. Google should redirect it somewhere, anywhere, other than their main search page
Twitter? Oh I remember them. They were popular back in the MySpace days right? Silly of them to drive away their users with the lag punishment paywalls like that. As I recall it, folks seemed to be wandering over to Facebook and G+ by then anyway.
Define "consistent". There are over 300 million people in the US alone. If 1% of them are stupid enough to be confused, you could get as many as 3,000,000 such pieces of feedback. That doesn't mean it's a substantive problem.
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Saturn failed because they made crappy cars, not due to any problem with the dealership model.
Pulling all stops and going above and beyond is what I would expect. I would also expect you to slow down the effort after the trial period.

However, if you prove with all the stops that you are worthy of the premium, I will know what you are capable of when push came to shove and that is what makes you worth it.
Adding a copyright statement to a page doesn't change copyright laws. A court would have to side with you, something that's by no means guaranteed.
It really reminded me of the homeschooling family in some small town who named their kid "Hitler" and then tried to sue the local bakery who refused to put his name on a cake. They really seemed to think the whole US would get behind them as a "free speech" movement.

If you're gonna name your kid something horrible, that's one thing. But if you actually think people are going to support you for it? A whole nother kettle of fish entirely.

The scariest people are people who not only do wrong, but who don't have the good sense to realize how others will react to it. They either entirely lack "theory of mind," or it's so out of touch with reality as to be utterly useless.

Whenever you come across people like that in life/business, I've found that it's smart to run as fast as possible the other way.
I actually wish the APS had avoided the statement "incontrovertible", because I think that overstates it. They could have said something along the lines of "the evidence is strong enough that failing to take action is now indefensible". The guy that resigned does have a point in saying that we can discuss whether neutrinos are faster than c, and the uncertainties when it comes to climate change are certainly larger than that.
First:

Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Domain name: duckduckgo.com
Creation date: 11 Nov 2007 17:24:00
Expiration date: 23 Jun 2019 03:59:00

Second:

Domain Name: duck.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Created on..............: 1995-02-22.
Expires on..............: 2015-02-23.
Record last updated on..: 2011-06-28.

Stop with cheap publicity. got guts? beat google fair & square. *google user since 90s
The Other Final Frontier
Show HN: Twerrific- Simple solution for a very simple problem
I'm more interested in seeing what Mr. Milner will do with Zynga than any of his other investments, especially since ZNGA just closed higher than it's IPO for the first time the other day. As an outsider and a game enthusiast, I'd argue they haven't been pushing the envelope in quite some time (if at all)-- and yet he's still backing them. That to me is interesting, and has me wondering what they have in their pipeline.
You don't appear to know how security really operates in federal government software. They hire Booz-Allen-Hamilton for millions of dollars to come in with 200 consultants and produce a massive report declaring their software meets all "certification and accreditation" requirements. This document then goes on a shelf somewhere and government workers continue to email all kinds of PI data around in Word and Excel attachments because the software is so obtuse it's the only way they can actually get anything done.
Im beginning believe that the only way this worldwide tide of destructive legislation will be defeated is by letting these laws happen and letting them discredit themselves, to be hopefully repealed at a later date, once it is clear enough people have suffered.

Looks like defeating US SOPA was the easy bit, and SOPA supporters knew it. What does the US need SOPA for if every one else implements it?

What is pretty sad is that the world community supported the anti US SOPA movement, but no big players in the US want to support all those other countries who supported them. Where are google and wikipedia on the upcoming EU laws, for example? Will they black out European or Canadian users for 24hrs?

Well, if each threatened country does not get world community support and implements its version of SOPA, then its was all for nothing.

Cant help but think that 2012 will be an Armageddon of sorts after all. A virtual one.
i'm making anew startup seach engine called Googol with URL googol.it so google please don't be evil and fuck with me. i got HN to back me up.
It's pretty hard to start a startup while you have full-time employment you're relatively happy with, both because of physical time constraints and reconciling the risk mentally.

In the past I felt exactly like these guys did: apply for incubators, which will provide both validation and financing, which makes a transition a lot less painful. It's one thing to tell your wife, "yeah so I quit my $125,000 job to work with Joe on our startup, which is really just a bunch of unreleased code at this point" as opposed to, "yeah so I quit my $150,000 to work with Joe on our startup, but we're in YC, which is like Harvard for startups, and we're getting over $150,000 in funding, and like half these companies raise venture capital really quickly after the program." Hell, it's a lot easier to tell yourself that.

A few months ago I wrote a post about my experience interviewing at YC and getting rejected, and I mentioned how we didn't continue working on our idea, and a lot of people asked me why. And the most honest answer I could give was, "I felt it was too big of a risk to take off my golden handcuffs without Paul Graham's approval," which sounds kind of absurd but is the most plain explanation I can give.

Well it's been over a year since then and I've realized two main problems with that way of thinking. 1) All an incubator can really do is amplify your ability to conceive of ideas and execute well on them. But if you can do both of those things well anyway, then you'll be successful regardless of acceptance or not. 2) If you refuse to embark on starting a startup without getting accepted into an incubator, then you're limiting yourself to "incubator-friendly" ideas, which is generally something that is consumer-facing and disruptive in some theoretically huge market (or eventual market) (e.g. AirBnb, Dropbox) or is a tool/platform that can improve the startup ecosystem of tools and platforms (which it seems like Keen.io is, if I understand their value prop on their home page correctly).

So congrats to the Keen.io for getting into TechStars, and I'm sure their product will be great, and they'll go on to be successful without having to sacrifice much more than going out to dinner a little less and downgrading their Netflix subscription. But it's very possible they were going to be successful anyway.
The Megaupload indictment reads that they removed links to the illegal file, but did not remove the actual file. To those blissfully unaware of how the internet works, this makes sense.

It has nothing to do with the Internet. In the context of file-systems, the word "remove" actually means to "unlink". Doesn't this technicality invalidate the indictment?
I think this alarm clock was intelligently made. However, I have a question in my mind how would this be really affected. For example, if I set the alarm to 6AM but during that time, my body movement still says that I am deep sleep, how would that alarm works? Then at 10AM, it was the time the clock detected that I am light asleep, is it the time it would alarm? I hope someone can share me how effective this iDreamSaver to stop my wondering.
Interesting comment. I think the Avatars go away in a post-Hollywood world, but the smaller movies will thrive.
This could work in their favor in an interesting way. Shoppers often consider higher priced items to be more desirable merely due to cost. People perceive a $50 bottle of wine to be better than a $10 bottle, for example. So this could be a way for JCP to improve perception of the quality of their merchandise without actually putting it out of economic reach of their customers.
Internet was a general statement on my part, since corrected. It will be interesting to see how the "unlink" plays out in the indictment.
I have 16 experts who strongly disagree with your position.
apt-file search is [also] for uninstalled packages. If all you care about are packages actually installed use dlocate
GHC has a feature very similar to LINQ: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/synta...
What he said. I had a (relatively) similar experience, and if I could go back I'd be: 1. More apt to part ways with founders who couldn't execute on their part of the business, 2. More willing to raise money sooner (it's awfully easy to get focused on maintaining a % of ownership despite how laughably worthless it still is at that point -- we self-funded and that meant we didn't have enough to do what we needed to, but we still spent everything we had), and 3. More willing to adjust the business plan to fit the market, whether that means changing your product, business model, minimum feature set, strategy to appeal to investors, amount of capital needed, ownership terms, etc.

I'm still convinced the model was completely sound, but we could have done much better (and by that I mean actually turned a profit) by biting off less on the product, and giving up more to secure funding.

That said, it was still worth it every penny. Learned far more practical knowledge than one picks up in any MBA program, and the lessons were internalized in a way, and to a degree, that I (personally) couldn't have gotten any other way. Sure, I wish it would have worked out, but I think it did far more for me than spending those years working in some generic job to pad someone else's bottom line would have.
Hell, just start Googling people from the list of contributors. The first is "Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_All%C3%A8gre

> In 1996, Allègre opposed the removal of carcinogenic asbestos from the Jussieu university campus in Paris, describing it as harmless and dismissing concerns about it as a form of "psychosis created by leftists". The campus' asbestos is deemed to have killed 22 people and caused serious health problems in 130 others.

I think I'd pass on his endorsement, personally...
Exactly. When I'm hurt by, and/or furious at someone, the last thing I want to do is spend cycles coming up with how they can make it better. Someone did me wrong and now they want me to figure out how to fix it? Hearing someone ask me that would make me even more mad and hurt.
It says no.