skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I note Curtis also posted about the OMGPOP sale, the value of which is based on a game that is at its core a clone of a game that existed on the web over 5 years ago (which is probably a clone of another game from earlier). I wonder if he'd be similarly outraged knowing this. (I find it quite inspirational to know you can take an old concept and make millions modernizing it.)

Fact is, life gives you no guarantees about "fairness". You can try stacking the odds in your favor, e.g. don't announce your easily reproducible idea before you have a significant head-start over competitors. Relying on notions such as "fairness", "ethics", "class" etc., all based on personal beliefs, to protect your idea is quite simply naive. Somewhere out there will be somebody who subscribes to a different set of beliefs.
Okay, perhaps not a 1:1 clone, but definitely a rip-off. Mr. Wienert posted examples of his other work in this thread, and I think it's safe to assume he wouldn't have come close to the Svbtle UI if left to his own devices.
Sounds like a great idea. If anything it could be a really interesting augmented reality game.
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That's not correct. I've used my phone on multiple carriers just by swapping the SIM card - and when I upgraded my phone, they used my existing SIM card.
Hard to call it a failure, because it is not over yet. They are happily failing for 20 years now. :)

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
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Flipkart & other ecomm portals are not offering any technology. They are using a fairly simple website to let people order everyday goods.

This is almost like saying Amazon is useless.

Flipkart is doing absolutely amazing job by delivering things at people's door step. And that's not easy.

Code is not an answer to everything.

This is precisely what I said before.

Understand what value you bring to your customers

Don't assume your customers should buy from you just because your webpages loads 0.001ms faster than Flipkart. Understand the total business proposition. Technology is one aspect of it, there are many aspects to business.

Unless the customers feel some value in your product they are not going to buy no matter what hipster technology its built on.
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I'm been curious about this, it seems they can can do it over SVDO, but for some reason only HTC seems to actually support this.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1012752.
copycats are not cool cats
(1) Apparently many people, including you, are up in arms about this too.

(2) It's pretty confirmed that a lot of our intuitions regarding "theft" require us to see "profit" as a component -- and therefore we are much less likely to see theft in a general design that has been open-sourced. Maybe the clearest way to see this is BSD's libedit, which replicates the GNU Readline library so that you can use it without selling your soul to Stallman. It's an idea rip-off, but it serves a very important charitable function. Startups trying to push product just seem more skeevy.

(3) It is also harder to see something as "theft" if it seems too simple. Nate said, "I whipped open terminal, typed in rails new obtvse, and a few hours later I'm here." That's pretty lightweight, if you're creating a fresh copy from an idea someone gave you.

Edit: (4) Also it's often harder to consider something theft when you cite your sources and say, "okay, this idea comes straight from X, who is awesome -- all credit to them please."
One of my pet peeves is seeing other drivers tailgate. My hypothesis is that all congested would be alleviated if everyone followed the 2 second rule.
Talk about late to the party. LOL .
No, it would be like if a restaurant passed out flyers advertising its great food, decor, and excellent ties, with a footnote at the bottom saying "PS: only beautiful, successful, wealthy people are allowed in, and that doesn't include you."

When the second restaurant opened, promoting its inclusionary nature and affordable prices, I'd eat there every day for a week, because fuck those first guys. Fuck 'em for thinking that their making something halfway interesting entitles them to superiority, and fuck 'em for thinking the right way to show off something interesting is to emphasize how you're not allowed to try it out.

David Karp wanted a blogging interface that made blogging easier and more beautiful and more diverse. Several years later, Tumblr is one of the largest sites on the Internet. I don't like the direction it ultimately took, but I admire the hell out of David for releasing his cool idea to users who then turned it into something incredible and wholly unpredictable.

I also find it amusing that we're calling Svtble "great", when it's just a simple, well-made tool with one neat organizational technique – it's like Quietwrite with a todo list attached. Simple and well-made is much appreciated, but you don't get to be a douchebag until you've actually made something significant. Or you can make that thing and remain a nice and humble guy, because the two are not mutually fucking exclusive.
Obtvse looked identical when it turned up here a few hours ago; the author has been trying to make it look more different ever since
After the slide effect, the page always scrolls at the top. Not cool.
To the Brotherhood of United Robotic Raftsmen, Innkeepers and Taco Overlords.
I hope support for git continues to improve for Windows. Git Extensions is not bad, and works well for me, but I imagine it's still strange enough to put off developers that don't have nix experience. I love nix, but Windows is a reality in my life, so I am happy when I see good tools move to Windows.
That's remarkably chaotic.

And slow, even on pretty decent developer hardware.

Please don't let HTML5/CSS3 turn into DHTML, <BLINK> and <MARQUEE> all over again. Please don't let HTML5/CSS3 turn into DHTML, <BLINK> and <MARQUEE> all over again. Please don't let HTML5/CSS3 turn into DHTML, <BLINK> and <MARQUEE> all over again.

My jokes about a possible NoHTML5-extension is slowly but surely turning more and more into a viable idea.
If you are currently using Rhino to run Javascript then PhantomJS makes for an excellent and more functional replacement.

In addition to running library unit tests in a 'real' browser environment it can also be used to test apis and visual components, and then save results as files and screenshots for use with other systems such as Hudson.

I use it extensively for our web app build and test cycle at work (Causata.com) and to save time for anyone interested in rolling their own have made the code available on Github at https://github.com/metafeather/phantomjs-yuitest
Ask HN: Should there be an incubator for ideas only?
Considering that you can apply to Y-Combinator with no idea. Do you think an idea only incubator can be successful? Maybe idea guys can go through a vetted process that if completed will give them a better chance of finding a co-founder.Being certified by select industry experts in this idea-only incubator should help when looking for technical co-founders.
Right, so if I built an Augusta National for the public, I'd be considered a scumbag.
Seriously? It's a two-column interface with extra heaps of whitespace and thick borders. Yeah, Obtvse imitates Svtble – that's the point. It's not like it was imitating anything especially unique or difficult to conceive.
You're kidding, right?

http://briefmobile.com/images/articles/galaxy-s-vs-iphone.jp...

You are on the left.
What is this 'not nice'? What is it really saying?

It seems, for want of a pleasanter term, a bit weasel-worded. It is trying to say 'you should not do that' but while pretending not to be so strong.

If it has any real meaning -- any moral force -- it is saying 'you should not'. But demanding someone behave in a certain way, and so lose their own freedom of choice in the matter, really requires some justification.

So what could be the justification? Merely that one person might feel a little dislike seems insufficient. The thing in (putative) 'contention' is information, but that is nonrival: one person's use does not limit another's. That really seems to reduce the grounds for restricting someone else's freedom here -- 'my freedom ends where your freedom begins', so if there are no substantial limits on the material of our actions, why should it be any business of either to tell the other what to do ? . . .

The new project credits (and links) the previous, and builds on it. That is pretty much everything we should want -- that is the core basics of information culture. (The problem is, our half-conscious social conventions still have not yet grasped the proper ethics of information.)
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Correct. The shaded version makes it very clear; it's merely an H with a twist.
http://briefmobile.com/images/articles/galaxy-s-vs-iphone.jp...

Mr. Curtis on the right. Mr. Wienert on the left.
These two have admirable goals but I don't think I'm alone in finding it hard to justify the terms 'nuclear reactor' and 'startup' in the same sentence together. It's incredibly judgemental I know, but I have a hard time taking those two young PhD students on a stage talking about nuclear power seriously... and I'm a young person myself. It just makes me think, will anyone take such a business seriously if they brand themselves as a tech startup? IMHO they would do better to actively steer themselves away from being seen in this light.
No, we were discussing whether Obtvse is evil. You said that although you did not disagree that Dustin copied drawar.com's design, the important contribution of Dustin is the drafts & closed community, and by implication that the evil act of Obtvse was to copy (a subset of) these concepts from Dustin. That is what I was contesting.
It honestly perplexes me how you can in the same breath admit that someone has done hard work and imply that you owe them nothing for using it.

I realize this is not the mainstream HN view. Accepted wisdom says if you can copy something, than you may copy it. But I just don't get it. If you value someone's work, I think you owe them some form of compensation.

There's a line I read on 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son, "If a street performer makes you stop walking, you owe him a buck." I tend to agree with this, both literally and metaphorically.

I agree that good ideas shouldn't be trapped or left to wither in isolation when they could benefit society at large. I just think this has to be tempered with some form of compensation to the person who introduced the idea.

But I'm open to being convinced otherwise if anyone has a good argument to the contrary.
We would love to meet people that helps startups with their feedback!
that depends on your priorities
Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica is a better literary reference. The tl;dr for Wikipedia is not "Don't panic."
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You used Python for what?
From the Boston Python Meetup group last night - @jtauber presented a few different projects, including an Apple ][ emulator in Python!
While an interesting read, its pure idealism on the part of the author.

For SIM cards to die as the author imagines the carriers would have to accept that in the future they nothing more than dumb data pipes. This would be excellent news for all consumers.

The US carriers have spent billions in marketing and lobbying to avoid becoming dumb data pipes so they will not accept this future.

And until the US regulator wakes up and starts regulating the carriers, then the status quo will prevail.
There's actually quite an open market for imitations of great art. They're not nearly as valuable as the originals, though, because painters like van Gogh created astonishing works of art and part of the value is being able to gaze upon original proof of astonishing human achievement.

I would never repaint van Gogh, because I'd rather paint my own things. On the other hand, if I were to want a Thomas Kincade painting (for some ghastly reason), I'd definitely buy the cheapest reproduction I could find, because the original painting just wasn't that valuable to begin with.
It will be a dream come true if Waterloo taught CS with Python.
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Jellybooks breaks all the ebook store rules
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I want a phone that tests network signal strength for each call-- and uses the best network each time. I might use Verizon in the morning, AT&T at noon, and Sprint in the afternoon, depending upon how many real bars the phone is getting. For each Latitude/Longitude the carriers should have a realtime +/- score of how well they support that area.
'The mice “quickly entered a defensive,
immobile crouch,” strongly suggesting the
fear memory was being recalled.'

Yes, possibly. Or maybe it had something to do with the hole that had been drilled in their skulls and the frickin' laser beams being fired at their brains. Pretty cool stuff though.
They didn't 'discover the location of memories', they simply discovered that they can trigger a reaction that looks similar to that of the original incident by focusing energy on parts of a mouse brain that were actively stimulated during the incident.

This is Pavlovs dog with optics, not revolutionary science.
This seems similar to Ghostery [1] for Firefox. It currently blocks 852 3rd part elements (371 advertising and 207 analytics) and 434 specific cookies. It also allows you to delete flash and silverlight cookies on exit.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
Wrt to point 2: was that before or after the nets?
MIT scientist Sebastian Seung talked about this possibility in his 2010 TED talk, "I am my connectome" (http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html).
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iPad 1 crashes s well.
Safari vulnerability in iOS 5.1 allows URL spoofing
Sounds like there is more to this story. If they are adding hundreds of new clients, why are folks heading for the door?
While minor, the name of the platform itself, Obtuse, is an antonym of Subtle. If that isn't a shot at Dustin, what is?
It has incredible bearing. Let's presume it took him 1 hour to design the site. (It surely took dozens or hundreds, including modifications and improvements, but play along.) That 1 hour isn't just 1 hour. It's 1 hour, plus the 5 or 10 or 15 years he has spent living and breathing design, refining his abilities and sharpening his understanding of the craft. He can do a singular design faster than a "layman" because he has spent a significantly greater amount of time on Design in general.
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How Many Visitors is Enough for My Website?
Have you not heard of a closed beta? Also, like I mentioned elsewhere, exclusivity is not a license to rip off.
B2B Content Can Support More Than Your Blog
What would you do with a million dollars?
I there people. A friend of mine asked me what my dream would be if I were to win the lottery. This made me think; what would the hacker news' readers do with it? Someone certainly has a great idea or a dream she/he could accomplish.
Use Round Robin Databases-- they're made for high volume timeseries data. They're fixed in size, so they won't grow after you create them. They also support automatic rollup, so you could save 1 datapoint per second for 10 minutes, then save the average of 15 datapoints for the past day, etc.

Caveats:

1) You can't change the schema once you create the file. Adding new fields means adding a new file or recreating your existing file

2) With heavy I/O you may need to put these files on a RAM disk, and then periodically flush the persistency.
>He wanted to make us dream, and in that he succeeded.

I think all he succeeded in doing was increasing peoples cynicism. Next time you see an amazing video, your doubt will be that little bit more compounded thanks to 'Human Birdwings'
I take it you're not a designer.
1. Android, clearly and by a wide margin. It is why my mom has a smart phone.

2. None of them. Google's products are usually knockoffs designed to sell more ads.
This seems crazy. Business are built to make money not to be logical. This would make customer happy, but I think that aspect is secondary to making guaranteed money. Plus if we lock people in this way it would make it hard for new smaller companies to come in like a Metro. They are smaller and cheaper, but we should give bigger companies control over if they can compete. I don't dislike big companies, but I know they aren't good or evil also. They are greedy as they should be.
Obtvse removes the two worst features of Svbtle: exclusivity and condescension.
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Information is free. Knowledge is not.
@54mf: What if the restaurant in question told you that the reason for excluding you wasn't a "closed beta" but rather that you aren't witty or intelligent enough?
Right, and as Mr. Curtis said, the author copied his design work. Mr. Curtis isn't crying fowl that someone built an open-source blog engine.
This is already here with WiFi networks and VoIP systems (e.g. Skype). You can log in to Skype from any phone and your calls will be billed to your account. You can even log in to Skype on your friend's phone or you can choose another VoIP provider.
Maybe he's always been just an arrogant grad student:

>Re 2: your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. I can only hope (and assume) that Amoeba doesn't suck like minix does.
I've got one of these too, and really like it. We take it when traveling, so if we find ourselves at, say, a Civil War battlefield, we can look up the story behind it.

One might think that you'd just use the browser on your phone. But very frequently, places of interest are also places with no cellular coverage. Having this data offline is great.

They also provide downloads for a bunch of other-language Wikipedias, as well as Wiktionary, Wikitravel, and Project Gutenberg

I tried to do this. Bought a card just for the purpose, downloaded the GBs of torrents, and set up the card as they suggest (as best I could decipher). I was never able to get it to boot up with my substitute data card.
He didn't steal anything. Similar, yes. Stolen, no. This is certainly not mocking anyone, if anything it's flattery.

> I'm done. I'm done with Hacker News and I'm done with the open-source community. I can't in good conscience support either anymore.

Clearly you're not the type of person HN targets, you know, hackers. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
That still doesn't make it right to rip off someone else's work!
54mf: It's not a closed beta though, It's a closed network.
I'll take this one step further, and say that one of the reasons people attempt to be kind and pleasant and, you know, not a prick, is that people respect and like you and want to help and support you. I bet this thread wouldn't have happened/would've gone differently if Dustin's much-cherished "brand" didn't revolve around his being a dick.

I mean, he announces the platform and his intentions to make Svtble be the online equivalent of a newspaper but without all the bad parts, suggesting in the process that he doesn't have a clue how hard it is to be a good writer or even what newspapers do (hint: it's not all editorial). Then he markets his service as being somehow for the "elite" (read: "people who design pretty email apps") and when people complain about the tone his response is, "but it got a reaction and that's all I wanted I AM A MARKETING GENIUS".

If he'd even been a degree less douchey (say, announced Svtble as a "private beta" or said that he wanted to promote good writing without suggesting that a minimalist blogging platform was gonna change the world), then maybe nobody would have felt the need to insta-replicate his code, and if they had, they wouldn't be receiving the support they're receiving in this thread.

I know we geek types like to turn everything into statistics and easily-parsed data, and I know that "being a nice person" is a little bit tricker to analyze than "you should follow me on Twitter here", but I promise that there's a reason people try to be decent and nice, and it's not just that they're too weak to appreciate Ayn Rand.
I don't understand your reference to Pavlov's dog, it's more comparable to Penfield's work with stimulation of specific points of the brain. Also the ExtremeTech headline is a bit misleading. The related MIT article is a little more clear that this involves memories in a small cluster of neurons, not one memory per neuron as is implied by the heading above. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/conjuring-memories-artifi...
That font is almost impossible to read.
Apart from other good points mentioned in comments, there's also this thing that in free-fall scenario (h = how high you object is above the ground, v = velocity, Ek = kinetic energy),

v(h) ~ sqrt(h)

thus

Ek(h) ~ v^2 (h) ~ h

Which means, the higher something starts, the more it will hurt when it hits your head.
I know this is early days for Flipkart's music service, but are there any numbers available on how customers have responded to it.
I think this is a bad comparison. Yep, if I repaint Starry Night, I will not be Van Gogh; but the case here is different. dcurtis' idea was public influencing. The idea was a blogging paradigm which would effect the writing approaches of the people. It was a great idea, but it's different from a personnal artwork. It has a broader domain than it. I think the society is allowed to use the idea. I agree, perhaps obtvse creator could do a little innovation and use a little different CSS and HTML design.
Agreed. If only the landing page said: "This is a network of bloggers by invitation only while we iron out the kinks. Sign up to get notified when we are open to the public." Then this would have turned out much more differently.

Whether he wanted to open it to the public is another question though.
I think the bigger misunderstanding is people screaming that it's better for Google customer if they delete the data. People forget with all google does it's still a business. Forgetting that businesses aren't good nor are they evil. Businesses are greedy which they should be. Google being the worlds largest advertiser uses your data to make the money that their businesses is built on. So why would they delete the core functionality.
I have 2 words for someone in that situation: tough shit. I can understand not liking new competition but that's business. Innovate, compete, or die.
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It's not like anything actually changes for most people. Judging wrongly carries virtually no cost at all.
Amusingly, he's gone from being a "superhero" to a "villain" according to his tagline at dcurt.is