skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thought was also: "Would. Not. Have. Guessed. That."

But, in light of (EMC subsidiary) VMWare's acquisitions, it makes a bit more sense. They've been beefing up on all sorts of software-development teams and tools. They own SpringSource, and picked up a bunch of other companies last year:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/12/a-year-of-vmware-a...
Problem is that you need to be able to re-import it elsewhere , so you are relying on another company popping up that is going to target customers who are leaving the last one.

Also you still get some problems with desktop software too, for example if you are using a proprietary desktop app that has an unpatched security vulnerability that will never be patched because the vendor went out of business.
Wow, NY has a minimum tax? That's crazy. I'm also glad I live in WI, our fee is about $180.
The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)
"So what does Google do? They evaporate the water! What a waste."

Quite literally a drop in the bucket. The back of my envelope has too much written on it at the moment, but if you look at the total water flow in that watershed and multiply it by the heat of vapoization of water you get a staggeringly large energy flow. There's no way; absolutely no way at all a few megawatts of server heating would be measurable at all. None.
That's when open-sourcing vs. closing it down (if that were to happen) would be fantastic. (cf. one HN discussion from today about that)

If Pivotal Tracker were to disappear, that would be quite the disaster for a lot of people.
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Wouldn't it be easier to answer the questions in a friendly manner ?
Great, another useful service for them to destroy. Mozy was very good, but went downhill after being bought by EMC.
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One person says "Maybe it shouldn't...but that makes me think a little less of this guy.
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but now I think I will redouble my efforts to fact-check and look with a critical eye, at issues that come to my attention via 'Clicktivist' campaigns."

If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness, well, you shouldn't think less of him. That's like saying you'd think less of someone if you found out they were Jewish, or that they used a wheelchair.

Another person says "I have a hard time believing that after putting in all the effort of creating the video and getting it out there that this guy would do something like this [...]"

If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness he either has less control or no control over his actions and thoughts. That's not an excuse to just let him do it, but it shouldn't affect the campaign.

Frustratingly I thought there was lots wrong with the KONY video, but my stigma-reduction for people with MH problems is bigger than that.

Obviously, maybe he was just on drugs, or is a weirdo. In which case he should get what he deserves.
Apple's market share in tablets has now fallen to 54% and Android sales are picking up, particularly the fire. I expect Apple will remain the top seller in this market for some time but their era of dominance seems to be drawing to a close.
When exactly did "startup" come to mean only "social web-oriented startup that has access to user data in the first place"? I mean, come on, I know that's the kind of startup the YC folks specialize in, but there are other kinds. There's software that doesn't run in a browser, doesn't require a login, and doesn't serve ads . . . but you wouldn't know it from articles like this, which say you shouldn't trust startups because of a phenomenon specific to only one kind of startup. Is it too much to ask that people who write about startups not limit themselves to one kind?
Agree totally, also I generally hate the ad supported model for software (there are a few exceptions like stack overflow).

I have downloaded android apps where the only option is a "free" version supported by ads, this makes the UI messy and means that I click ads accidentally when using the software. Often the software itself is actually useful and I wish they would just give me the option of paying them $x for a copy without the ads.
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A few reasons to do this are:
• Many Startups are working on the same idea as each other but don't know it--this could help you find your competition before you start, and even alert you to competition as they emerge.
• Many startups are looking for specific things that they cannot really communicate in a clear way to everyone else. Examples:
-- "I'm looking for a business development cofounder." Currently, I had to post on a bunch of startup forums. With a global database, I could just raise a flag that says "seeking business cofounder", then anyone who IS a potential business cofounder could simply search for that, and my startup would appear in the results. No such search exists today. Or they could simply select "Please alert me if anyone is seeking a business cofounder." Incidentally, many sites make money charging $50-100 for this privilege.)
• Seeing the bigger picture of Startups is becoming more important as millions are jumping on the bandwagon.
-- Where is most of the value and money being made in Startups? What are the trends?
-- Who's geting funded? Who's failing?
-- How many new Educational Games Startups in North America are in the Beta or Growth stage?
The tech to make this happen is close (~2 months) to being done. I just need someone to help manage this process from the business development end. My only requirement is that it has to be open source. I think it can definitely make a profit.
I'm looking to share a large equity stake in this idea, with vesting of course.
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Reminds me of Bing Gordon's talk at CEO summit about how professional ball players go out to the field and deliver consistently in comparison to rookies. Consistency matters. This is the single most import thing which sets them apart. They bring in the goods every day. It is a marathon not a sprint. To do marathons, you need discipline, be balanced and be grounded. Experience teaches you a ton. You learn how to balance, keep your sanity while hitting the ball out of the park consistently. When I was young and felt invincible, I would code all night, had lots of unhealthy food, had irregular sleeping patterns, and looked down on old-experienced developers who balanced work/coding with everything else in their lives. As I got older, I realized how naive and stupid I was to have such a skewed perspective.
This seemed promising, but I stopped reading after the second "lol".
They've already been in services ala IBM for a number of years.
I can see the just world bias there, in the idea that "you should be able to afford it, tough luck if you can't". I don't see cognitive dissonance; how does that come in?
I think one over-estimates the degree to which a company with pots of money can bring that wealth to effectively bear against acquiring marketing data like this (customer dates etc).

This possibly makes obtaining that data faster and simpler and hence the acquisition.
It is not managable to have too many binaries changed in each commit that are under control git synced with Dropbox. (I know Git is not the best suitable vcs for binaries!) I'd always prefer Bitbucket for that reason. It's an Atlassian product and it is reliable, has no difference than github for private repos. Your files will be on the cloud, is your Dropbox more secure and permanent than Bitbucket? Hell no.
What really is this "Managed Market Place" anyway?
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That's specious reasoning. All Walmart had to do was decide that the data was worth buying. This is no indication that the analysis they are already doing is ineffective, only that they think their analysis would be more effective with this data.
EMC could have just hired them as consultants to teach them the ways of being 'more agile' with their product set. hard to find a business reason behind this other than buying them for their non tangible 'processes".
Anyone know of any examples of overnight success or close to it?

Edit: Maybe Hot or Not?
Please stop replying to threads if your comment is unrelated to the parent.
I'm noticing a trend on HN of commenter's replying to threads even if their comment isn't related specifically to the parent. It breaks the flow of comments and makes it incredibly difficult to discern who's responding to what.
This seems like a great way to limit the damage from a security hole in an extension. (It prevents web content from loading arbitrary code and running it with the extension's privileges.)

But it doesn't appear to address the sniffing issue at all.

UPDATE: Sniffing is prevented in manifest_version 2, but not by the CSP. See my reply to andrewcooke below for more details.
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Fucking hell yes! It's so easy not to know about this kind of thing.
Something like iFart perhaps?
I guess facebook was also a very quick success.
I bet the dozen people that used eWorld were pretty PO'd. ;)
I replied to your comment below (where you said the same thing), but it's not clear to me that CSP changes anything.
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Glad to see you back in the early-stage startup life again!
That's not been my experience, but the D3 work I've ran in Chrome has been on the small side.
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Interestingly the "enumerator" tool doesn't list all my extensions, and it lists even less when testing on the machine running the beta channel (18).

Similar behavior Firefox exhibits regarding: http://ha.ckers.org/weird/firefox-extentions.html
I like it, but it has my location wrong by about 50 miles. There absolutely needs to be a way to enter the local address.
it says "Extensions can no longer use inline scripts, such as <script> ... </script>. Instead, extensions must use out-of-line scripts loaded from within their package, such as <script src="foo.js"></script>."

to me that sounds like it will block this sniffing, which works by loading code from outside of the extension package.
Haha. Definitely not for me, but you are correct given the impetus brew is more apropos.
it needs a list of extensions to test for (see the description). so all this shows is that the list is not exhaustive.
The enumerate demo uses a list of popular extensions; it will only detect extensions on the list, though any Chrome extension can be added to the list trivially. See the list here: https://github.com/koto/blog-kotowicz-net-examples/blob/mast...

The Firefox version is a little more interesting; it relies on knowing a specific "chrome:" URI exposed by each extension, so it takes a small amount of work to add new extensions to the list. And I believe that many newer Firefox extensions do not expose any chrome: URIs, so this technique might not work for all Firefox extensions.
It's not "just keep going and you will eventually make it". It's a question of continuing to learn and make progress towards your goal over a long period of time (in this case, how to build a successful startup). Malcolm Gladwell calls it "deliberate practice".

For whatever reason most people can't do it, and that's okay, startups are not for everyone. But if you want to be a Pinterest type success, then that's what it will take.
Pivotal Labs doesn't really have assets beyond its people, so unless this is a very large deal with strong golden handcuffs, I see it being a losing proposition as all the Pivotal guys go to Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/startups.
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I've flown to Nice many times and it's fine. Although, on the way out last time (when I had a proper beard) I was pulled aside by the security guy and had the following whispered in my ear:

"I know who you are…"

panic. heart in mouth. I'm about to be locked up

(beat)

"Nice to meet you Santa Claus!"
Could you give me a link to the forum thread?

We now have an official channel on Roku: http://blog.roku.com/blog/2012/02/28/get-inspired-with-the-o... - but I'm not sure if the quality is still terrible?

I'll test it out myself, but any feedback/steps to reproduce would be more than welcome.
in my experience, people (and distros) will update minor versions in mid-life patches/updates. so backporting gets this fix to "legacy" installs, where a new python version is not acceptable (i have clients with python 2.5 - 5 years from now the same kinds of people will be stuck on 3.1).

and i'm not sure why comparing three digits rather than two is so much more difficult. can you expand on your logic there?
What it thinks is my location is not my actual location.

You should give me an option to enter an address.
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Zuckerberg was already a great programmer before Facebook, and had a number of successful projects under his belt. Facebook also took years to build, its growth was not anything like what Pinterest has been experiencing.
Quota is based on domain, and in your case you're serving up everything from dl.dropbox.com. Maybe these users already have stuff in their localStorage from other sites that happen to use that domain?

Seems like the fix for that would be to serve up the html on your own domain so that other sites, eg dropbox, won't mess with your quotas.

Also, that would fix the location permission dialog that says "dl.dropbox.com wants to track your location".
The Nexus One won't be getting an official ICS update from Google because the hardware can't support it, not because Google are too lazy to push one.
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It's a marketing term. That's just being pedantic.
You have recordings and accounts of the game that can be published or resold, and potentially fond memories of an enjoyable experience. The same criticism could be made of live theatre or concerts. Is the presence of physical artfacts after the fact your criteria for a "productive enterprise"? How do you reconcile this value judgment with the fact that experiences, rather than possessions, tend to be a bigger factor in human happiness?

It's very hard to justify that something is "frivolous" or "non-productive" when it contributes materially to the happiness of a lot of people. People can deeply enjoy football, it can strengthen family and community bonds or just make for a fun evening. We don't live in a bleak dystopian society where we do nothing all day but provide for each other's physical needs. Football is no more frivolous or non-productive than easily most of the economy.
The new default CSP stops pages/scripts inside the extension from loading resources from outside the extension. It doesn't stop pages/scripts outside the extension loading resources from inside the extension.

And besides that, the default CSP does not include a "connect-src" policy so it does not place any limits at all on XMLHttpRequest, which is the method used by the sniffing demo. It includes only "script-src" and "object-src" policies, which affect only the src attributes of <script> and <object> elements.

(If someone here has an example Chrome extension that uses manifest_version 2 or an explicit content_security_policy, then we can test this directly...)

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UPDATE: I tested this locally with a bare-bones extension, and adding "manifest_version: 2" does prevent sniffing in Chrome 18.

I also tried adding { "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'" } explicitly to an extension without bumping the manifest_version. This did not prevent sniffing. So it looks like there's no way to prevent sniffing in extensions for Chrome 17 and older.

So while it's not directly related to the new default CSP, it looks like the sniffing issue is in fact addressed in Chrome 18 for extensions that opt in to the new manifest_version.

UPDATE 2: See abarth's top-level comment for the details of the fix.
James O'Keefe.

His "investigative journalism" of ACORN was shown to be edited to the point of nearly complete fabrication. No retraction from Fox.
Agreed. Crashing on couches is way more legit - practically a SV tradition. Living out of your car on purpose is a little weird and it will attract attention from weirdos and repulse legit people. It's a fine way to get a foothold in the area, but he should look into sleeping around as soon as possible.
It was a joke. I've started (TEDxCMU) and also advised a few TEDx events, and its funny how there's always someone who asks that question.
The Nexus S received the update. The Nexus S 4G (on Sprint) did NOT YET receive the update.

-- Nexus S 4G owner.
Sounds like a great way to get acquired.
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Just a suggestion. Have you thought about freelancing? I've seen threads here where freelancers seem to be able to make a decent amount, provided they know the right technology and spend some time carving out a niche / getting to know clients. Maybe you can try searching for those threads and see what technologies are in demand?

Freelancing could be something you try to get into while looking for a job. And it would also be a way to build your resume.
> Because the fruits of my (intellectual) labor are the (intellectual) property of the book itself--the unique arrangement of words and images and so forth. Since I created that arrangement, since that arrangement is the fruit of my labor, by natural law I have property rights to it.

And since it's quite literally impossible for you to be deprived of that particular arrangement of words, images, etc., it's physically impossible for your right to be violated.

But you're not claiming just that limited property right; you're saying that you ought to be entitled to restrict others from independently creating their own replica of that arrangement of words, images, etc. which goes far beyond the scope of property rights.

> Property rights extend beyond private enjoyment. Asked and answered.

Into what other areas, then? I'm construing 'private enjoyment' here as the ability to direct the disposition of the associated property without restraint; but how does this extend to directing the disposition of other people's replicas of your property? How does it apply to inherently intangible and non-rival goods?

> I never said there was a "positive right to a market return"; that was the entire point of the house example.

The house example was a non-sequitur. In your example, the state seized your house from you and rented it back to you; they took something that was physically owned by you, and imposed their own constraints on its use and disposition. This is a clear violation of your rights. Again, I'm not seeing how it at all compares to other people independently creating a replica of something you own without imposing any constraints on you.

The only effect third-party copying can have on you is the alteration of external market conditions, potentially reducing the financial return you can obtain from selling copies of the work yourself; but again, you never had any right to guaranteed financial returns, so no right of yours is actually being violated here.

> All property rights require some legal mechanism to be enforceable.

Absolutely false. Physical property is inherently tangible and rival, meaning that only a finite number of individuals can control its disposition at any one time; it's therefore impossible for physical property to exist without someone establishing decisive control over it (or it being abandoned, in which case you might say it's not 'property' at all).

Now, people may seek to embody the process by which people establish decisive control over physical property in some sort of deliberative or judicial context, in order to reduce the possibility of disruption of their social groups arising from property disputes, but it would be inaccurate to suggest that without such a system, the concept of property would simply not exist.

> Without deeds and titles I couldn't even own my house.

No. Deeds and titles are post-hoc formalizations that recognize property rights; they aren't the primordial source of property rights.
I've noticed the BBC has been headed down that sloppy slope for about the last five years.
Trust me--shoelaces provide a substantially better fit, support, and closure, despite being somewhat harder to use. Shoelaces are also replaceable in case of wear. Also, shoelaces are a standard and one might not be able to find the right shoe with a Velcro closure.
can't wait till we get a native Ubuntu tablet. Canonical says they are in the talks with hw vendors.
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It's absolutely worth it to be here, that's for sure. I never would have met my cofounders otherwise. Warning - it took me four months to meet them after I moved here.
Presumably to reduce latency for nearby users. People in warm climates deserve fast Google results too! :)
Remember, when you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.

Everyone using all the "free" social networks needs to understand this.
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This is why I prefer to use the services of companies that have a viable and long-term business model, such as charging me money for a service.

I didn't want this to be a barrier to people using LiveLoop (my startup) for PowerPoint collaboration, and have to worry about their files going missing, so we offer customers the option to run their own server.
I read this and thought "strike-breaker", was hoping to see some lurid tale of how he went from being a corporate thug to a creative hacker.

Turns out its a video game. Respectable enough hacker hobby.
"This is hardly the first piece of evidence suggesting that factory conditions in China aren't great"

It's funny how people want to whitewash how Daisey slandered Apple here. He wasn't speaking generically about Chinese factories -- the entire piece is built around a crucifixion of Apple. Apple, the bad Chinese sweatshop exploiter, that's what tens of millions of people who read the wave of publicity from this story took away from it. Each piece I've read has a few bits tacked on about "the rest of the industry" almost as an afterthought.

Maybe Apple's the worst and deserves to be raked over the coals. But if the truth is that Apple holds it's suppliers to higher standards and should be held up as an example for other companies well you wouldn't know it.
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Does anybody know what will happen with Pivotal Tracker? Will it be shut down?
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