skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the issue is with Chris at all. It's with what he's buying and trying to do.

There's a track record in publishing, where new money has an itch they want to scratch in old media. The last decade, this has happened in magazines and newspapers a few prominent times. Someone gets rich, they decide they want to be a publisher, and they follow their heart in regards to high quality journalism, and spout all sorts of great sounding bytes on how important x y z is.

The new money rarely realizes just how hard it is to stay afloat in the world of magazines and newspapers.

Then reality hits, and the crushing difficulty of running a magazine becomes apparent. Unfortunately, what's most likely to happen is Chris will take at least a moderate financial loss on the purchase. And he may very well not mind, that's understood.
Can't make SXSWi? I started a newspaper, send me links to add alexkehayias
My main concern with auto-adding people is you end up exposing your real contacts' details to all these random people. Spambot812a83 is suddenly a friend-of-a-friend from your trusted contacts.
Loopt Acquired for $43.4 Million
Presentation creator inspired by Prezi in HTML5, Js, and SVG.
The Lytro camera is no iPhone, but it will change our notions about photography
I, for one, don't want movies, music or any other content creation to die. I would like to see the obsolete middle men die off though. They have no reason to be there and seem to be really awful people (going by what they do to stars and real content makers).
(1) You mean like when you do the same thing with Javascript? Why its okay then? (2) If you alter a parent element with CSS that's "action on a distance" as well.

Your argument is not very convincing.
A Simple Social Media Plan For Beginners
Flying Saucers Provide WiFi to Revolutionaries (No, For real)
Not true: ARM can run PNaCL.

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...
http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/arm-overview
> In some countries (e.g. UK) the prosecution service

Which is several layers above the poor bobby actually carrying out the raid. It's more of an illustration to dagw's post than a counterargument.
I don't think you need special plans for established sellers. Here's what would get me on board: Convince me that your social hooks can sell more for me or lower fees at various levels (ie. drop to 4% after 50 sales in a month)
Awesome. I don't have a "proper blog" up yet and assumed a third-party service reading a static text file wouldn't die. Serves me right. I'll work on getting that page forwarded to something more stable, I appreciate the heads-up.
The .net strip #22: Job titles
OEM versions of Vista and 7 have license terms that forbid them being run under virtualization.
Why would a PR flak ever stop a critic from embarrassing and discrediting himself? That would be gold for the TSA.
The only exception would be if the critic is so powerful that even a false story would hurt the TSA. I don't think SmarterTravel is that much of a force. At most, this "caution" is concern trolling.
A First Look At Kendo UI MVVM
The point is that you are able to focus on the emotions and expressions of the character you're watching rather than struggling against an urge to warn the others... to protect the children.

But that can happen after or before the valley, and I personally think they're still before it. It's closer to a cartoon or animated being like Wall-E than to a real human.
We do use the built in speech recognition that's part of Android. We definitely want to do other languages (and luckily Google supports a lot of languages), but are focusing on English for the short term and will expand once we get that right.
ok, what if one customer is emailing me all angry and cursing he claims that another is stealing his work? which one do I respect more? and which one do I believe if both telling me "its my work".
Most Java programmers wouldn't know "light" if it fell on them and pinned them to the ground.
Built an app with the same name last year, also running on Sinatra: http://linkedout.jupo.org/

Very different purpose though. The original (snark) LinkedOut app lets you export profiles as clean PDF resumes.
This one's a pretty good disconnect:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/

(That's "page" as in Larry)
Someone in an earlier post had claimed it is MASM32
Non sequitur. This is like going into one of the TSA threads and saying, "So nobody minds if I blow up their airplanes right?"
I would definitely buy it and use it.
StartupBus LIVE FROM Rackspace HQ w/ @SCOBLEIZER @davemcclure @GuyKawasaki
same, no loady
Technical Specifications Alone Do Not Sell Products
If I were you, I'd go to the best university you can get into and you and your parents can afford, regardless of location. I'd also move into a dorm immediately.

The best school possible, regardless of location, is not just so you'll get the best quality education - it's also so you'll meet more of the most interesting people, and be exposed to the most interesting opportunities down the road.

Moving into a dorm immediately is so you'll make friends. Most first-year students are in the same situation - they're in a new location, they don't know many people, and there's lots of social activities, so they'll make friends quickly. If you wait until your second year to start living in the dorm, you'll be entering a situation where people have already made close friendships, and you'll have a harder time getting to know people.

You don't need to worry about the stresses of moving to a new city, and you don't need to worry about 'easing into' dorms - the dorms are already designed to be an experience that eases you into adult life. Best of luck!
You need general, sure but the TSA management is not Apple, or even a politicians who uses media manipulation to win hearts and minds. It is just inept damage control trying to cover up corruption and incompetence.
LA Noire actually did people pretty well, since they depend on the facial expressions to step through the game. I was blown away by how "correct" the mouth movements were for speaking.
EdgeCase providing $100,000 of development to non-profit org
I respect their honesty, but honestly this kills the idea imho. I would rather "have to" login to LinkedIn to accept someone, or just wait until im logged next time (it will show me remaining invitations) instead of shoving my LI credentials into just another hole, increasing probability that my LI credentials will leak/be stolen.
The YC AA documents have a 1x preference (i.e. they can take their money out before distribution) and they have a right to reinvest pro-rata.

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html
No problem, I was in the same position roughly a year ago and so I know it's tough to figure things out in time.

Most people don't actually apply for visas during YC and instead only once the 3 months are over (that is, if they want to stay in the US). This is because most western countries are a part of the Visa Waiver Program (I'm 99% sure Norway citizens are eligible for the VWP) which allows you to visit the US for up to 90 days at a time for business or pleasure (this means you'll have to go back to Norway for 1-2 weeks during the program and then just fly back). Whilst it's somewhat up for debate whether it's legal to use the VWP to do YC, most people do.

As for a place to stay, there is a fair bit of rental accommodation in the surrounding area of the YC office (Mountain View, Palo Alto, etc) and if you twist the arms of landlords of the properties (i.e. pay X amount of rent upfront), they'll generally let you get a place sorted pretty quickly. The YC network itself can also be a big help (we actually rented our first apartment in San Jose from a startup in our batch).

Airbnb is also a great resource to find a place to stay during your interview.
This is just one point though, taken out of context.

There are many others dealing with restrictive use & ease of use. What if you paid full price for that Porsche, but then all of a sudden, you drive into another country and the engine fails because it was designed to just because you are in another country and some other Porsche dealer owns the exclusive rights to that country?

I take his overall argument to be about consumer rights & ease of use. Yes, content providers don't have to make things easy for us, but we can subvert their system until they realize the mistake they're making. All the legislation in the world isn't going to make piracy go away.
I would add politeness. Not sure about Linus, though...
In a restaurant, the cost of providing you with a warm comfortable place to sit, and someone to bring you glasses of water (the cost of the water itself being deminimus), is covered by the expensive meal you pay for.

Since all unprotected digital goods are approximately as cheap to copy as one another regardless of production cost, all digital goods count as 'glasses of water' in your analogy.

This implies that the cost of producing unprotected digital goods in general can only be covered by selling some non-digital good or service in conjunction with it.
The intimacy of imperfect technologies
Rare went from hitmaker for Nintendo to also-ran for Microsoft. Unfortunately, their recent offerings are not AAA titles:

Notable Nintendo Hits:
Killer Instinct
Donkey Kong Country
Goldeneye

Microsoft Games:
Kameo
Perfect Dark Zero
Viva Pinata

I imagine their Microsoft offerings have sold decently, but nothing on the scale of games-you-buy-a-console-for like Goldeneye or Donkey Kong Country.

As someone who only had the DKC series for the SNES and bought a N64 for DK64, their transition into the 2000's was underwhelming and disappointing.
Apparently Skrivr can't handle HN, so I've put up a flat-file version of the post here:

http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html

[Edit] Looks like Skrivr is entirely down. Not sure it's my fault, but it was working all morning.
Traits of successful founders (and what would you do with $5 million?)
any idea why they need to save it in plain text? no encryption mechanism provided in the world of open source?
Hexagame, the making of an HTML5 game
Thanks! Curtis definitely deserves more credit than I do.

We haven't done iOS before and are aware of these kind of restrictions on SMS apps. We think we can come up with something that will get around them and offer just as good or almost as good of an experience on iOS, although we'll find out for sure when we get to iOS.
Leadership doesn't require politeness. Fairness is probably what you really want.
I don't understand the question. This is about you selling digital goods that you created. Why would your customers argue?
Sounds like they should have a toggle button:

Layout:

[ ] Old School

[X] New Hotness

(I like the new design if you can't tell)
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ is another great example of this kind of disconnect considering they are 7th in the fortune 500 list.
At startups...no one cares (or even usually respects) a uni degree. At large established companies like google or FB that's different.

I have friends that have taken jobs in silicon valley that say that at the interviews no one ever even asked about education.

At startups, they care more about what you can do. I would much rather hire a coder with 4 years experience than a fresh grad. I would like to see an active github account rather than a degree. Show me what you can do!!
Happy to answer any questions I'm able to. Looking forward to the great stuff we're going to do at Green Dot!
If your 3.5 year old had been born 10 years ago, he would have still understood something about gravity at 3.5 with the help of Spaced Penguins. A simple Java or Flash game (can't recall which) about shooting a penguin into orbit around planets.

This is neat, and good for Rovio but it's not anything more than neat.
I wish it had a Github icon too
"...we need to be able to rederive the plaintext"

The use of the word rederive sounds like it may be encrypted to me.
Since you're a VC, you might do well to write an article explaining what the VC hit rate is (so they understand the percentages), IRRs, and what the carry and take are.

It would help young entrepreneurs understand exactly how you are making money off of their work, which would promote greater understanding when it comes time to make tough decisions from both sides.
BangPatterns – Haskell Prime
Vacaville stove repair
Roman's. C/C++ Language knowledgebase
If you look at the site from a certain angle a background image will be visible at the bottom, just noticed this.
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

This is on the front page now, but holy crap is it beautiful. This is everything data analysis should be.
It is also result of lack of strong dictator in user space. Look how Linus use words like "masturbate, f*ck" a lot ( because he has earned right to protect what he has build ) while in desktop world, shuttleworth can not be that strong dictator when whole community is not with him.
It very much depends on the employer. I've hired people who haven't studied Computer Science (or even a science or engineering degree) and found that they can be a mixed bag. Generally they can program, but the quality of their code and the way they approach problems isn't always as good as people who have been taught Computer Science.

Also, and please don't take this the wrong way as you were posting on HN, not applying for a job, but if you don't have a degree I'd expect you to be more than just a great programmer. The structure of your first sentence would ring alarm bells for me. It's not just your technical abilities that are important but all your skills, including communication.
The app looks well designed, but the lack of sync features would be an issue for me. But I'm sure there's a good market for people that don't need to coordinate calendars between devices and people.
Creating data uris would be a good alternative.
Care to link to the bug report?
A cautionary tale. I'm getting a skin graft on Monday after I gave myself 1% full thickness burns with 3 x 9v batteries. I'm a paraplegic and I fell asleep with electrodes on my back so I'd didn't feel anything but awoke to some pretty nasty burns. I completely underestimated the risk of hurting myself.
I think it's great from a technical standpoint.

From a user point of view, my reaction is similar to that for Prezi, which is that while at first the effects are cool, I'm not sure I want to continue to see these effects for too long.

Does anyone know how much traction Prezi is getting in terms of number of users?
MMO's are digital goods without this problem as is Facebook. Also, many restaurants barely break even on their food and make most of their money selling dramatically overpriced drinks. If you order a ten 99c cheeseburger's from McDonald's they make less money than if you order one 1.50$ soda, yet when you focus on the average customer you sell enough soda for McDonald's to become a multi billion dollar company.

http://adage.com/article/news/double-cheeseburgers-working-t...
1 - Would you say you guys were too early to market?

2 - Was your monthly active user base above 2M?

3 - What contributed to Loopt loosing its appeal over the past 12/18 months?
The $1,000 brownie
Amazon S3 can serve static HTML.
See http://svn.tribler.org/bt2-design/overall/trunk/release_plan...

"Our technology increases your tracability. Every Tribler software installation has a unique identifier based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography."

"We are constantly monitoring the Tribler P2P network using spider software. This will allow us to detect inefficiencies in our P2P software. However, it will also show us the occurence of illegal activities."
As a farmer, if I stopped providing easy access to the food I grow, I fully expect that people would start to steal my crop. What keeps my crop in the ground until I harvest it is a mutual respect with the customer. I am not certain big media treat their customers with any respect at all.
If a significant portion of his return is tied up in the retention, he's going nowhere soon.
You were able to focus on the emotions and expressions of the character. The uncanny valley is different for everyone, because it expresses a subjective emotion.

I chose to stop watching about half way through. It made me feel very, very uncomfortable. This has to be near the nadir of my familiarity/revulsion curve. I can't explain why, but that's how I felt.
The Uncally valley has to do with causing "a response of revulsion among human observers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). It's when the robot / fictional character feels real enough that it's not obvious it's a robot anymore, but weird enough that it looks like a real creepy human being.

The rendering being cartoon-like or the shading not being realistic has nothing to do with it.
Early Adopter Recruiting Startup BetaBait Helps Users Show Their Love For Apps
I don't own an iphone but I'm buying it anyways. And I'll be sure my girlfriend (iphone user) will buy it too. Good luck to you!
Step #1: call hospital billing.

Thing is, almost nobody bothers with even that first simple step.
The difference that lets the air out of your analogies is that there's no marginal cost to the producer of a digital good when somebody pirates. Since the pirate provides the bandwidth and storage himself, the creator loses nothing through the pirate's consumption.

I agree that the "why I pirate" guy is an entitled asshole. But he has a valid critique: the people who control content distribution often act like entitled assholes as well. His basic point is that because power has shifted, he can get away with it now and they can't. With a subsidiary point being that he's not a tightwad: he's glad to spend money on digital content as long as they make it easy.

Whatever his (substantial) moral failings, I think his message to content creators is basically accurate: if they want to be in the business of selling content, they're going to have to pay attention to what customers want. That's good advice for anybody starting a business, and especially good advice for people who want to survive a giant upheaval. Their old model is failing; finding a new model requires unlearning much of what they know and starting fresh.
In order to log into a user's LinkedIn account with the password, they need to be able to give LinkedIn the password in plain text.

So yes, they can and most likely do encrypt it in some way, but in order for their server to be able to decrypt it when using it, they must naturally have to have the decryption code/passkey/etc stored on the server.
Mine would have been Javascript.
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
As a java programmer I get offended by this. I was taught programming on scheme, I use django for quick apps, i know a variety programming paradigms but there is no one best tool to rule them all. Different tools are good for different jobs.

For example scala programmers completely ignore backwards compatibility problems they have had in the past. Such a thing would unimaginable for a large app.
I wonder if you or me would want to advertise this way, NASA would agree. I, for a second, though: hmmm.. what if he shoot it and somehow, some way it will gently put firmly enough hit some precious spacecraft component..
Volvo takes care for pedestrians safety
I am a satisfied Dropbox customer with the 100 GB service at $20/month. Having my files hosted with this one vendor carries with it enough concern about security. The prospect of having my files spread across a P2P network landing who-knows-where is another matter altogether, and not appealing to me in the least, assurances of encryption notwithstanding. This particular ‘cloud’ model elicits a no thanks from me at this time.
Equal Pay App Challenge
Was that with or without a current regulator?
We realized that to be really successful, we needed to be about finance and payments as well as location--I think the most interesting things will happen when those two come together. We talked to a number of companies and were most excited about the team and vision at Green Dot.
Good catch! We added a fancy "Searching" when transitioning to the SERP and that broke the back button :|Will find a better solution.
Crowdfunding initiative on its way to becoming law
This reminds me of a friend of mine who talks about wanting to post his linked in credentials to his blog.
Wow! This looks really good! I always wanted to try out Lua, maybe this is a good reason to do so.
one was stolen from another, agreed. but you have to admit to "replace" warriors with crazy looking animals and do it as a major project of a games company needs some balls involved. And it worked out. For that reason and the difference in anything else than "crushing elements" between those two games, I dont think they cry in their cereals.
sequoia made them.
You know, the sad thing is that I've got a Linode server that's more than capable of handling the load of static pages. I just liked the themes on Skrivr and didn't want to let aesthetics distract me from writing up my post, so I just went with their theme and posted. Probably should have set something up on my own in advance.
> just took money out of your pocket

That is a metaphor that only obscures the real issue, because the money was never in your pocket to begin with.

If you're selling software for a living and you don't have a reasonable strategy for coexisting with the inevitable pirates, then you're doing it wrong. If piracy will make or break your business model, you are doomed.

I'm not taking any position on whether that's right or wrong. It's simply a fact.
Why I Do Unsmart Things
I feel like magazines trying to be what you describe is not a new idea. Perhaps best adapted to the web is The Atlantic, but I also read The American and Miller-McCune, and think they'd fall under your description as well. I'm sure there are countless others, too. What's going to set apart The New Republic?
Well I certainly didn't mean to discount your experience. I was just surprised.
I doubt you forgot everything. It's your brain tricking you. You began school with a strong knowledge of the of the things you were aware of. Now you're aware of many more areas so you feel like you learned nothing overall.

Imagine a large circle A with a smaller B inside of it centered on the same point. A represents your awareness of all things computers, the set of things you know about but haven't learned yet. B represents the things you know very well, a few programming languages, some math, etc.

While you've been learning, A and B are both expanding, but A is expanding faster than B. You're feeling intimidated by the things you are aware of, but don't know very well.

It's probably related to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
All given learning examples are about muscle memory. I.e. maybe it works only good for the cerebellum but not so good for learning other things.
Why a Prepaid Credit Card Company Bought Loopt
Tendita: a language-agnostic software appliance for building distributed systems
Just an Afterthought: Effective Peer recommendations are not reflective on the product, but rather the relationship between the product, the person buying the product and the friend making the recommendation. You need to firing on all cylinders for this to influence purchase behavior.

Like all marketing, you need the right Message, delivered to the right market, through the right media. Missing any of these elements will not be effective marketing.
Is the kid smart enough...?
No they aren't - they both keep important parts of their software protected and sell an adjunct service.

The MMO server software is heavily protected, and you pay for access to the data center where they run it. MMOs are therefore both protected and funded by the selling of an adjunt service.

Facebook's client software is free but the server software is also heavily protected, and the operation is paid for by selling advertising, also an adjunct service.