skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, this is probably the first set of downvotes I've recieved that I can point to as being plainly hypocritical.

This is a social media site after all.. So I've somehow committed some kind of error for saying it's a bit extreme to want to cut the influence of social media in our daily lives?
What about some kind of model where the artist gets paid before a work of art is created? Say in the style of Kickstarter. The artist does not create the work until their desired threshold is reached. Or another alternative is to create an adopt an artist program where people can sponsor artists to create their work--the more sponsorships an artists gets, the more and better work they can create. In either case, once the work is produced it can be distributed for free.

Perhaps this might make it difficult for new artists to get off the ground or discovered. But maybe some ways around this would be for producers to invest in new artists they believe will be successful, and then collect a royalty on future work.

Anyway, I'm just throwing out ideas for discussion.
Yes, that is a good point. Some research suggests that today only ~35% of Valley Series A are part preferred(according to recent legal reports), but Crunchbase suggests that Loopt took series A in 2005, Series B in 2008 and Series C in 2010. Total capital raised (according to that post) was $32MM across 3 rounds. Not sure how much was primary or if any of it was taken out by later rounds, of course. Anyhow, I don't know for sure, but I suspect there were some protections around the securities, given the timing of the early rounds and the total amount invested. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/loopt
Check out the "bubcap", it's a hard band-aid like thing that you stick over the button, and it stops little fingers from pushing it but allows adults to still work it.

http://papercliprobot.com/
Yes. The question is: if the code gets snuck out, do you really think IP laws will actually prevent people from distributing it?

Yeah, it's certainly working fine:

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7087027/Symantec_Norton_Anti...

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4149808/Windows_NT4_source_c...

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3497574/Windows_2000_source_...
I have a profound regret for what was lost in the transition to the Windows/Unix & C worlds. We've gained in the transition, but what was lost is so much disregarded with the `popularity=useful` metric that is so common.
You've simply replaced one problem with another('umm's with pauses).

(assuming you see this as a problem. I actually think this is an overrated problem IRL.)
Giving analogies mean 2 things: Either the receiving person is stupid or the one giving the analogy is bad at expressing his ideas.
This would mean that prior to this acquisition, Twitter was preposterous.

</ducks>
This seems like it may be the worst patent lawsuit in history. Why the hell did Yahoo think this was a good idea?
They would have just been through a negotiation process for acquisition. Of they didn't seek out assurances or none were given I find it highly unlikely there will be any result but a shutdown. If twitter was interested in posterous the product, it would have been front and center in the announcement.
> I'm convinced that watching TV is harmful to a child's intellectual development

Is the TV having a negative impact? Or is the child just suffering because they arent having a positive impact from other experiences? I think an hour or so in front of a good educational (in the broad sense) TV show, game or iPad app could be great, but repeated days with no other stimulation/interaction is the real problem.
We did a similar thing in debate. When one person says 'um', so does everyone else. Stops the habit fairly quickly.
>organic or paid then use compare to past in the timeline.

and get a useless total number(!!) - which you have to translate into percentage trends via the calculator.app

analysis is never about total figures, it's always about trends.

>Site Search tracking
existed before
>and Site Speed are great as well.
a nice feature, these new featured (if they work bug free) are great, but most of the time they have bugs - and the stuff that the old version did good, do not work anymore.

the new GA is a textbook case of "second system syndrom"

oh, and not forget that they stop basing the x-axis at 0, but at at the lowest figure of each chart, meaning you can't visually scan different graphs for visual patterns.... and so the tour the force that the new GA is continues.
Heaven & Earth in Jest?
Why do you even let the user send an empty email? Sounds like a programming error as much as a UI blunder.
Exactly. Having seen pg speak many times, I can say that his 'umms' actually give you the feeling that he is thinking hard about the topic versus just rattling out some predetermined idea.

As I stated in my earlier comment, I think 'umms' can actually help the speaker establish genuineness with the audience.
Thanks! The presentation was pretty good (it has fallen into the category of things I wish I had been aware of 8 months ago, along with the litmus test from Mary Poppendiek[1]).

Unfortunately this required one more upvote to get to the first page (now it is too late for HN). You should try resubmitting it some other day (adding / or ? to the end of the url if needed, or better yet writing a blog post linking to it), as it is really insightful.

[1] http://www.inbox-online.com/page/blog/en.html?view=post&...
Thanks, Abbas!

We're actually soon going to roll out a big, new feature that will take this notion to the next level. We're really excited about it. Stay tuned...
I got the feeling that despite being somewhat different to tumblr they were on somewhat of a race with them. They were losing that badly so they kind of reinvented with spaces. I think the tumblr model is certainly more mass market and on the absence of a business model that is turning in more than probably cents per user per year your going to need a crazy large userbase.
The middle ground probably involves drawing a line at commercial exploitation of the work. If you want to see a movie in the theatre - some of the money you're paying should go to the studio. If you don't feel like seeking out p2p software, curating your own music collection, and independently supporting the artists to your satisfaction - some of that music-store money should go to the artist. One shouldn't find commercial streaming sites charging money and then not compensating the creator.

But note that PG's essay mostly comes from pragmatism, and what I've described is similar to the way things are today. It's a hard fact that copyright enforcement on individuals is fundamentally incompatible with universal computation and ubiquitous Internet. I, for one, am much more worried about the Internet dying out (where "Internet" implies common adherence to the seminal End-to-End principle), than politicians suddenly deciding to legislate away the studios' box office revenue. As such, I will continue to oppose copyright in a non-nuanced manner, and work on Internet-preserving software.
Is there, seriously, fucking nobody in that government with the brains or decency to step back and say, "Wait a minute. This is what Iran does. This is what Syria does. This is what the Libyan government tried to do. We cannot and must not go down the road of persecuting people for their speech or their beliefs."
Regretsy is reporting the problem with PayPal CS in this instance, not suffering from it. It appears you commented without reading the article.
Can you send the keywords/games which didn't work to support@appcod.es? And how did you check whether the keywords worked? This result seems below our average.
Pauses are the opposite of "a problem". They're one of THE MOST effective tools you have as a speaker. Listen to any great speech. Look out for the pauses. Imagine if the impact would've been the same without them.
Why hasn't anyone ported (Open)Genera to modern architectures? What are the barriers?
Ray Kurzweil Talks Entrepreneurship, Apps, And The Future Of Education
I think it's the reason that Amazon sends me partial shipments even when I didn't ask for separate shipments when I order several items at once.

That might be one of the reasons, but I'm sure the usual reason is that the items are coming from different warehouses and the logistics are easier (/cheaper) for each to ship to you directly than for them to shuffle their product around so they can send everything to you in one box.
"That which is not seen" is a great deal of other software that otherwise might be out there were there not laws against that sort of thing.
Seeing the title, here's what I was expecting to read:

"They think illegal downloads happen because people want to steal, we think they happen because people what better digital distribution. Send them money [real, actual payments] so they think 'holy shit, look how much money we just got sent, think how much more we could make by offering good digital distribution'."

Which would be a more interesting, more thought-provoking campaign, in my opinion - though one with obvious flaws, and I certainly wouldn't personally endorse it.
What's the equivalent for emacs? I usually just M-, til I get back
That section doesn't appear to exist for me. The "Miscellaneous" section has the subtitle "Wells, badges, and close icon", but only wells and the close icon are actually there.

Edit: Whatever cache was holding this appears to have refreshed, I can now see it under its separate section, along with the rest of the updated docs.
Not sure why you are using the words "you" and "your". I'm not the OP and never had my PayPal frozen. I just think they are being unreasonable. :) Also not sure why that opinion is being downvoted, but hey.

I reiterate: I don't care what their T&C says. It's not good business practice to freeze an account for months with no recourse. Period, paragraph.
Yeah was thinking about that campaign when I saw this thread. Sure it was arrogant and bent the truth but was probably effective at exposing a greater number of users to the platform.
Congratulations. You've just discarded about a century of fascinating science fiction literature.

We're bound by preconceptions, prejudices and simple lack of experience. Analogies, parables and other like tools exist to let us break free from those limitations. They help to see from a fresh perspective. They're valuable in persuasion and as storytelling tools.
Is there any early videos of him speaking where he exhibits stuttering (or other speech impediment)? It sounds like when people who "self-treat" (intentionally or not) and substitute one impediment for another, ideally one less apparent.

Then again maybe it's one of those habitual things, for example when someone says "Knowwhatimean" repeatedly.
But in the case of copyright, that extra commercial value depends on us already accepting some copyright-like notion.

One can only expect to command a copyright-level price for a copy if other people obey a copyright-like law to not make other copies.

But that is just going in circles. One cannot justify something based on itself.
There is a multi-billion dollar industry based around making smells property, perfume.
"I would much rather see people spend time learning a Lisp language rather than fiddling with very old environments."

As a general rule learning is better than repeating, however there is value in those old environments. Primarily for a long time software was getting more complex than hardware could support and so there are a lot of adaptations that were made in 'old environments' to support better performance on under-performant hardware.

As we enter the 'post PC' era and get a wider spread of machine capabilities in the market place, it is always useful to have a few 'tricks' in your pocket for getting better performance out of your system.

Knowing that you got those tricks from systems that are now > 20 years old provides a pretty good patent defense if you get trolled. Especially if you can show that you, being reasonably skilled in the art, learned to do what you did using exemplars that are greater than 20 yrs old. That is a strong case for prior art.
Copyright is a form of rent seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

It's not a tax per se, but a cost imposed by the state solely for the benefit of a private party. The original US copyright act allowed for 14 years of protection. Of course, a portion of the rent-seeking copyright cartel's revenue goes to lobby the congress for ever longer copyright terms, making the original intent of the constitution mangled beyond recognition.
He's talking about sending DIGITAL copies.
Make your own capacitive gloves
Also begin countdown until potential customers/users/regular people start saying, "I'm not signing up for another service that I can't trust will still exist next year."

Sad to say, but every time I find myself using a tool or site regularly, this crosses my mind...
This is true however they were able to do this in an era where there was no real competition to the PC. It's a very risky move to make now. I think a lot of people looking at buying a new PC in the next year are on the fence about buying an iPad instead. Windows 8 has the potential to push massive numbers of people towards the iPad. Maybe Microsoft's gamble is it will push some of those people into Windows 8 tablets instead. I really don't see how many consumers are going to willingly buy Windows 8 PCs. The backlash is going to dwarf Windows ME or Vista unless they make some major changes over the next couple of months in my opinion.
I agree with the sentiment that what matters most to the customer is what should be front and center in marketing. In my opinion what is shown to the customer is a direct indication of the respect level that a company has for their customers. Ever try to buy a domain name at GoDaddy? They bombard you with offers for email, hosting, SSL certs, page builders, etc... To the point that it's amazing they have any conversions at all. I didn't need SOPA or elephant incidents to want to leave. I left long before that because I was sick of being treated with such low regard as a paying customer.
Try Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) out. It allows you to run your own personal cloud using your storage and computing resources.

We have been educating our customers about these scenarios since our inception. Finally it is happening in accelerated fashion.
So if someone did get access to your source and data, by whatever means, it'd be fine to spread it at will?

Not if they're bound by contract OR if they conspired with someone who was. In other cases, yes. But what we think of whether it's "fine" or not is irrelevant: it'll happen anyway (try looking for Norton source code on TPB). What it matters is whether we want to fund laws to fight windmills.

And for that matter, why should there be information security laws if there's no intellectual property?

There are many laws under that "banner". What laws do you mean?

If you mean Data Protection, those are essentially mandatory contract terms. Regardless of whether they should exist or not, they're very different, because you're only bound by them if you enter in a contract (implied or not) with the person or company providing you with the data.

Whether that data is "property" or not is irrelevant.
I am a UX guy. I care mostly about the user's perspective. From the user's perspective the end content is what ultimately matters. It doesn't matter who makes it. I think there's an argument to be made that the well could dry up, but I don't think it's a well substantiated one.
If you wrote the book in order to obtain an exogenous financial return, then your creation of the book was a capital investment. Capital investments are speculative by nature, and inherently entail risk, which is the investor's to bear.

Using statute law to impose restrictions and obligations on others in order to protect some imagined entitlement to a positive return amounts to externalizing your risk and forcing others to bear it for you.

You're completely entitled to enjoy the fruits of your labor after applying your energies to create the book, those fruits being the book itself and the utility that owning it provides to you, which you literally cannot be deprived of due to the non-rival intangible nature of the product (considering that 'book' refers to the conceptual content rather than its physical encoding).

The financial return that you obtain by selling your book to others, however, is entirely dependent on their willingness to pay you, which they have no obligation to do in any case, and for which it can't be said that you have any inherent right.
While we're at it: "both are grammatically correct", would be grammatically and homographically correct, though counterfactual.

But yes, the license does raise some rather intractable problems.
OK, let me illustrate my point. Let's say you, a US citizen, renounce your citizenship and vow allegiance to this new entity which doesn't hold any land, but with which the US has generously agreed to a permanent residency status for any of its citizens (however unlikely such an occurrence). You run your online business from the US, and a judge in, say, Thailand rules that your product is in violation of their laws incriminating insults to the king. The Thai embassy files for your extradition, as the country has an extradition agreement with the US, and since you are not a US citizen, you are placed in US Immigration & Customs custody until your residency status can be determined. Now, why would the US ICE administrator or Justice Dept. official in charge stick his neck out and prevent your custody from being transferred to Thai authorities? What could your "ambassador" possibly offer as leverage comparable to what his Thai equivalent brings to bear?
To an inexperienced computer user, that help screen would be beyond incomprehensible.
Sure, there were great people working there, but my question was and still is "are these people not flocking to google/facebook?"

If not, why? If so, in what numbers?

Are facebook and google not inundated with the yahooligans applications?
I feel like you're not paying attention here. The original comment that you replied to said, essentially, "The bad thing about these sorts of acquisitions is that orphaned customers will be gun-shy about relying on another startup like this, even if that startup is aiming for a sustainable business rather than a liquidity event."

Our fear is that bootstrapped companies aiming for long-term reliability will have trouble finding customers because the customers have been burned before by a company that, from their perspective, looked very much like yours but turned out not to be reliable at all. That's where the difficulty finding customers comes in. Imagine setting up a plumbing business in a world where 75% of plumbers were actually armed robbers. Sure, you have the nominal advantage of actually being a real plumber, but how many people do you think will take a chance on you after the last three plumbers cleaned them out?

And bootstrapped companies by definition don't take a lot of funding. Once you get into the VC game, a reliable business with steady income income is no longer enough, because that isn't how investors make money. Once you take venture capital, your goal is some sort of liquidity event, like this sale.
This would also appear to violate the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), clause 6, and possibly 5.

http://www.debian.org/social_contract

... and there's a reimplimentation, jsmin.py:

http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code#comm...

(Joey Hess is a long-time Debian developer).
Thanks! Really well put.
I don't see the connection between Lisp machines and JavaScript. JavaScript (in the browser at least) is a heavy-weight C++ system utilising huge amounts of library and operating system code with some weak scripting capabilities a the bottom. What relation does that have to Lisp machines or Smalltalk type environments where everything is built in a simple an transparent manner?
I'm not sure why an OS has to retain a 20 year old UI paradigm if a nicer method appears to replace it.

If Metro actually replaced Windows classic I would agree but it doesn't. It just sits there on the side and randomly throws you out of a comfortable environment. Running two entirely different GUIs in parallel is infinitely confusing to normal people. Microsoft could have probably got away with this if they did it 5 years ago when there was no competition to the PC. People would have had to just deal with the change but that's no longer the case. A lot of those PC buyers are just going to end up with iPads instead.
I wonder if he had replaced the toilet with a sink if it would have seemed less rude or not.
I knew ClojureScript is generated via Clojure, but I thought it wasn't quite a complete implementation (no eval, etc.), and that there was still work to be done to minimize the Java required to host the original implementation.

I'm really excited by everything happening in the Clojure implementation space. This is an excellent addition to the Clojure tool box.
This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks.

Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.
The 1000x figure is probably an overstatement, as is the 50,000x figure.

The Alto's main memory had a cycle time of about 850 nsec, and could transfer 2 16-bit words per cycle: http://www.computer-refuge.org/bitsavers/pdf/xerox/parc/tech....

This gives a main memory bandwidth of roughly 5 MB/sec. A top-end single CPU system today has probably 25 GB/sec available to it, a factor of 5,000 more. Moreover, much of that is achieved through optimizing burst reads--actual sustained random access throughput is going to be much lower and the delta much less.

Given modern implementation techniques, the actual efficiency loss is probably on the order of 10x rather than 1000x. And much of it is the result of the memory wall, which has been driven by DRAM physics rather than micro-architecture. Doing a couple of memory lookups to support dynamic dispatch is a hell of a lot more expensive, relative to an ALU operation, these days than it was 30 years ago.
> they'd have liquidation preference anyway so they'd get their money back first

Liquidation prefs are rarely exercised, at least when the acquirer is clueful. (The company spending the money wants the incoming employees to be reasonably incentivized, often that takes the form some delayed payout. They really don't care if the investors make their money back or not.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk <- you mean this guy?

He doesn't strike me as the Mafia type. The founders of paypal have long gone. Initially paypal wasn't all bad but the got worse over time and after the sale to ebay the customer relationships (or lack thereof) dropped through the floor.
Wrap Bootstrap is a nice find. Here's hoping they grow as large as ThemeForest.
So basically use em, like we should have all along?
That's incorrect. A number of other sources say that it also means exactly what I mean: "to pursue an unrealistic, impractical, or impossible goal". E.g.:

http://www.word-detective.com/2009/03/10/tilting-at-windmill...

A quick peek at Google News also shows plenty of people using it that way:

E.g.:

http://articles.mcall.com/2012-03-08/news/mc-pat-toomey-jobs...
http://jurist.org/forum/2012/02/brian-landsberg-affirmative-...
http://www.idahoreporter.com/2012/barbieri-wont-run-anti-tsa...
> Post-scarcity has already arrived for every resource that has a marginal cost of production equal to zero. That includes every digital product.

I must be doing it wrong because I don't know how to copy bits for free, let alone distribute them for free. I'm in good company - neither Amazon nor Apple knows how to do those things for free either. (The fact that their current costs may be dominated by billing doesn't imply that billing is their only cost.)