skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I'm getting at at all. This might be the most misunderstood thing I've written. If this keeps up I'll likely rewrite again.

Read my last paragraph in my post again, please. What I'm trying to get at is that if you want to really squash an issue let's do more than the easy thing of "awareness". Why don't we actually get involved somewhere else? Help out in the places where this type of crap actually originated and keep it from happening in the end. Try to prevent the problem, don't just suppress it when it arises in certain cases. It seems the better long-term solution; IMO it's easier to correct less-formed opinions and put people on the right track then. "How to correct sexism in Silicon Valley" isn't just "hey, get mad at people when they say something out of line", it's also "hey, let's try to get people to understand why this hurts us in the first place".
A better video http://duckandroll.tumblr.com/post/21202051257/hologram-cg-t...
It's part of the base script that I've modified. I'm keen to keep advertising off the site.
Maybe the Diaspora project qualifies as a failure or, at least, as a disappointment.
> What is hackish about a potential business?

If you make a business by implementing a (reality) hack...

Also, this website is HN-users-targeted.
no official statement or anything like that. the website does not look very trustworthy. the "why" they post is pretty much what everyone else is speculating too.
The same factor seems to prevail everywhere from Europe, Russia to Japan. Everyone thinks it would be easy to ignite a Silicon Valley by government will. The truth is that a lot of forces are in place which makes a startup culture a difficult thing to create.
Really? Google circa 2002 had nothing but the search engine. You call Gmail, maps, youtube, docs, analytics, cal and Android "lack of innovation"?
The original guardian article is pretty poor (not much of an "interview", it's pretty much just a regular story with a few quotes from Brin in it), but both the Wired article and this cnet article are really playing up the Facebook/Apple thing (and maybe that's why those stories are on the front page and the guardian article isn't). Notice, for instance, no mention of Facebook or Apple before the "it's scary" quote in the guardian article, but cnet makes it seem like he's referring specifically to them when he said that.

On your larger point, I have to agree. If you think about preserving a universally accessible, open web, balkanized data in proprietary app datastores and a privately controlled internet within the internet are definitely two big threats (of course, China's censorship and Iran shutting down internet access and making their own are probably bigger threats, but that doesn't make for page views).

Private data should remain private, but requiring a particular app, or a Facebook account, or a google+ account, to view what is supposed to be public content does actively work against the open web.
That's a very good point. I will work on that next after the comments are implemented.

As for the posts on there, they're not added/moderated by myself. They'll be downvoted over time if they're not appropriate and so it shouldn't be an issue.
I'd vote for Done Already that shows a link box. And, of course, comments.
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Northgate isn't out in the suburbs, it's quite well inside
of Seattle's city limits.

?

I live at 9th and Madison, and I don't own a car. Northgate is way the hell far away from downtown: probably 20 minutes by bus.
You're probably right, but I would recommend keeping an eye on it and making sure it doesn't become an issue.
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How to build a pep8 like static analysis tool for Django?
There are tools like pyflakes and pep8.py, which tell you if the code you have written meets certain standards. I want to build a similar tool which does static analysis on Django and tells things when they dont meet standards. (Eg models should have a `__unicode__`.)

Questions:

1. Is it worth doing this? (Are there enough common things which an be tested for?)

2. Is there a good starting point? (Eg some app I can contribute to instead of starting my own.)

3. How do I proceed? (Eg. is using ast module a good idea for this?)
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Another one is Open Pandora, the game console. It didn't use Kickstarter (it started before that was popular), and it took a while to get going. Go read their blog about the ir production difficulties. The last I checked, they had shipped only about 4K units. They started with a high-end mobile processor, but that was years ago, and the latest gen phones and tablets have eclipsed them. They've had quality issues too, because they didn't have good production line testing.
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There was a thread a while ago with a google engineer taking bug reports on this. At the time both iOS and Android browsers were redirecting to a login page (on Android you could request the desktop version of the page and it wouldn't prompt you to log in). Since then you no longer get redirected on Android, but maybe it hasn't been fixed in mobile safari?
I don't agree with having a five-point scale. The reason for the success of sites like FML is the simple yes/no voting system.
There was a "Sign up for more" link hidden behind any + button next to any idea. I clicked it, and a registration form popped up, which asked me (among other things) for gender.

BTW. still didn't get a confirmation link :). Also, can't see any indication that I'm logged in, but the "Sign up for more" link got replaced by "Add to favourites". Did I break something? :D. I guess you're working on this site as we speak.
It looks better than Celestia[1], but it will need a lot of time to reach the same complexity and data[2].

[1] http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
[2] http://celestiamotherlode.net/
As a male geek all my life the "boys' club" atmosphere bothers me. I think that's a little funny and a little sad.

I've noticed that pointing out the problem correctly usually works great, because nowadays most people don't do it out of spite, as the article said.
how is that at all relevant?
From a business standpoint this is absolutely brilliant. Everyone should be doing this, doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or selling real-world goods & services.

> 2) Having Extras at checkout. When we first started, you would checkout online and just order your home cleaning and pay. Then I had the brilliant idea (seems so basic now) to have other options for people to choose extra stuff at checkout like "cleaning inside the fridge", "cleaning inside the windows", "cleaning inside closets", it was just extra money that I was leaving on the table. It took my average profit from about $45 to closer to $60 per client.
On the contrary I think Apple has had a possitive effect on the web:

1. Most of those native clients use public Web-APIs

2. The iOS platform was one of the kick-starters to get rid of the closed Flash environment

3. And one of the kick-starters for better video standards, h264

Maybe Brin mentioned Apple to generate more headlines.
May be do an IBM and go after niche markets that pay well?

I hate to say this, but they have an good research department. Some products, like the kinnect aren't half bad. They may not make the billions a year they do now, but they sure as hell can go do something useful and awesome than be jerks going around suing people.
There was MSN, which was a walled garden that did not even run IP.
100%! You'll find a lot of the PSDtoHTML companies do this extensively.
While I kind of agree with you, I have to add a few things. Especially concerning the startup culture in Japan. Yes, it is looked down upon by most, however, it exists. Compared to SV or London or Berlin it is fairly small, but it is there.

However, the exposure they get is very limited. It seems to be somewhat shut-off, mainly caused by a language barrier. Nearly everything is in Japanese, with little incentive to go international. Also, many people do not understand english well enough to participate in international communities or do not feel the urge to.

For example, look at mixi (it's a social network with roughly 15m members in japan, exists for i think 7 years+, mixi.jp), they had a huge userbase before facebook was popular in japan, even before facebook was really popular anywhere. however, their website is still only in japanese and to sign-up, you have to have a japanese cell phone email-address (for account confirmation). They are artificially locking people out and considering that japanese people increasingly go abroad/have friends outside of Japan, they migrate to facebook. Still, mixi does not move.

What I think is missing, is obviously the acceptance, as you mentioned, but also the incentive to go international(, unless the service involves billing). It's the internet and not a local sweets shop. By the way, there are also Japanese investors looking for startup and there are websites where they exchange ideas and whatnot, but it is all in Japanese.
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So to tie back to a recent HN Story... The Polymer money was developed by the notorious Patent Troll CSIRO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote )

* That being said -- while I think the technology is good -- it feels like the selling process is pretty average: http://www.smh.com.au/business/police-refer-securency-eviden... )
Or go through a redirection page for most of the top Google search results. Just a matter of time before that starts to be further tweaked.
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Actually Instagram had first to be Burbn[1], which was failure, so that it could learn how to succeed.

[1] http://blog.spark59.com/2012/instagram-case-study/
This, basically. I thought it was patently obvious from the article that high-end manufacturing was something Japan would find to be a good fit.
@madao: Lol! Thats sounds a lil too drastic! We are less evil & play secret santa mostly! :)
Same reason no one talks about sanitizing their urine and drinking it.
If we didn't want them to do the most obvious thing they could to monetize their business, then we shouldn't have practically cut them off from public funding. Frankly, I'm on the USPS's side on this one.
He's essentially figured out that cleaning is one of many services which would have lower barrier to entry if it were not regulated. He is, of course, right. I sincerely hope for his sake that he reinvests profits into bringing himself into compliance with e.g. employment taxes, workers comp, etc.
filesizeformat (1234567890 = 1.15 Gb)

This should be either 9.20 Gb or 1.15 GB.
I think Brin is being somewhat of a hypocrite.

User data should roam freely between services and shouldn't be locked-in.

But asking Facebook and Apple to open-up their core products is like asking Google to publish their search algorithm or publish the profiles of all their advertisers.
noahth: Im assuming people love suspense. A message like this "Hello X, Someone close to you wants you to quit smoking. You'll know who it is after 1 week of you quitting you habit!" should only make them curious rather than being displeased. Worse case, they could simply unsubscribe & forget ALL ABOUT IT! fair enough?
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Sexism doesn't even have to be the issue here, it's just breathtaking how unprofessional some tech presenters are.

The real solution is to be ruthless and fire or eject anyone immediately for doing as something as incredibly fucking stupid as putting sexually provocative pictures in a presentation. The level of professionalism that conveys is indescribably embarrassing.

The author of the post was way too nice. I would have stopped the presenters in the middle of their deck and humiliated them publicly in front of everyone.

Can you imagine if a presenter did this at a sales meeting at a high end client? Say a financial institution, or Google? It would be the end of their career.
Well, but they will get some amount of money from the initial batches and then they might grow, get bought by someone, or who-knows-what.

But the point (for me) is that they're developing a piece of consumer electronics that is actually useful. Right now there's (AFAIK) nothing there comparable to Pebble (wearable, nice-looking, programmable e-paper interface to smartphones). It's a hacker gadget, something that is heavily useful and can be made even more by anyone with a bit of free time on their hands. It's a very rare situation in consumer electronics market (Android is kind of new here, and vendors are going out of their way to break it anyway).

So yes, let's have Samsung jump in with a competing product for $50. And then maybe Nokia, or someone else. I would be happy to see that, because an useful tool would appear on market, and it doesn't really matter who provides it, as long as it's not crap.
The Yelpification of everything happened pretty quickly
I'm imagining a hypothetical News.YC frequented by primary school teachers, getting worked up every few days about that field's lack of men. Or nurses. Or librarians. Or maybe gender imbalances in certain professions are actually a complete non-issue?
I just voted on Sheldon vs Priya. "The Big Bang Theory" flashback ^^
(see post for the relevant xkcd cartoon)

There’s no shortage of startups and entrepreneurs trying to give us recommendations, star reviews, ratings, user generated feedback, expert appraisals, and extensive analysis on what we should and shouldn’t purchase/patronize.

I’m neither arguing that this way of decision making is good nor bad, just amazing to think how quickly (less than 10 years) our habits can change given the right catalyst (In this case, online reviews).
This coin is cool, but it isn't intended for circulation so one wonders how durable the design is.

I actually think the 'poppy quarters'[1] are a bit cooler, because they've been in use since 2004. At the time they were the first coloured coin in circulation. They were unusual enough that American military contractors visiting canada even raised an alert that they might be espionage devices.[2]

[1] http://www.canada.com/poppy+coin+introduced+Canada/3806046/s...

[2] http://www.thestar.com/news/article/211189--u-s-feared-poppy...
Can we please stop with the misinformation.

As it stands today. Facebook has more complete APIs and is much easier to get your data from them than Google+.

And don't forget that Google makes significantly more profit from its users than Facebook does.
"since on their part you need to be managed"

You have been very lucky to get reasonable officers. Most I have talked to (or seen in media / documentaries) have been trained to escalate with force if you are not submissive - get out of your car leads to "GET BACK IN THE CAR NOW HANDS ON THE WHEEL", answering back ("Why? I'm doing nothing wrong") leads to verbal escalation/shouting, shouting yourself leads to handcuffs, resistance (even passive) to physical force or (according to media accounts) tasering. Granted my sample size is potentially biased, but I thought this was the norm. On the other hand, when I've been relaxed, calm, and collected while remaining in the car I've had no issues and otherwise pleasant conversations with officers.
Checking extensional equality of programs is a task that is impossible to perform. If code is not well written, there ARE bugs lurking in the sourcefiles that just are unnoticed. Only computer scientists and mathematicians seem to understand this and try to prove correctness of their programs/results.
Funny; I only discovered that there are non-tech projects there quite recently. I found out about Kickstarter via HN, so most of the projects I saw were hardware and software ones, and guess what... I think it's what was needed.

There's lot of creativity to be unleashed in building new technology, tools and practical gadgets (as opposed to what typical commercial gadget is). And Kickstarter tech projects are definitely awesome-first, money-next type of projects - maybe because people involved are often building them for themselves? I hope to see more such projects, I will be happy to back them.
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Openness and freedom are really subjective terms to people.

The common person doesn't give two hoots about all this. Just like how we don't give a damn about openness in the design of car or a truck engine or the chemical composition of engine oil.

I don't get this cry at all. Your data was never personal. The day you used your cell phone your location could be tracked and was tracked I suppose(Even if for merely billing reasons). The day you shopped you were giving away information on your buying habits, spending trends and contributing data to larger data sets used by corporates. All that happened by merely using a credit card.

Nearly everything related to a person is track-able.

But do you know what is bigger threat today? Its massively big monopolies controlling everything about a particular business like online advertising, payments and access to information(search).

According to me that is a bigger threat. Coming to openness of computers in terms of hack ability. For a common man a computer is no different compared to a washing machine. And people don't tear down their washing machines to hack on it. Just like how we don't hack our cars and mixer grinders.

And there is basically nothing wrong with that.
Kickstarter ay have started as a growd funding plattform for art projects. But by doing that, they lay ground to a new way of funding, well, virtually everything. And since funding can be a major pain in the ass, Kickstarter has a opened up opportunities nobody would have ever dreamed of.

When they now get a banking license or an other type of SEC "enter random monetary regulating body" blessing, the finacial industry should worry! ;-O)
Google is not just an index and search engine for other people's content.

It also provides a range of services e.g. news, maps, social networking which it preferentially sorts above others. If you were trying to compete in these markets you would be at a disadvantage.
European Rating Agency Short on Cash - Experiment Failed
"Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH doesn’t have enough money to introduce a planned European ratings agency, Financial Times Deutschland reported in a preview of an article to be published tomorrow, without saying where it got the information.
The company has failed to gather the 300 million euros needed to start the agency owing to lobbying from the Federation of German Industries, according to the FTD."

How about a kickstarter project on this? ;)
Most of the mobile internet providers try to do this already in the uk. They do have lots of false positives, so you have to enable it to use the internet.
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Is there such thing as a "do not mail" list? If it is possible to opt-out of private (tele)marketing and block spam, then logically it should be possible to opt out of this service too.
I've gone with FB comments. Up now.
There is a real threat, but Google could answer to it in a much better way: By positioning Google Plus as "the open web alternative to Facebook". To do so, they should make G+ the identity/social graph platform on which third parties want to base their own services instead of FB connect. I'm sure they could do that, because Google can profit from people going around in the web, while FB needs to keep people as much as possible inside its walled garden.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like G+ is moving towards that direction.
Are you saying you think it's illegal for the maids to be 1099 workers?
Thanks for that one. I've no got rid of that link and replaced that space with the comments.
I really can't judge this as none of the original "offensive" material is accessible.
Comments are now in. Just click the little + button (creating a more obvious link in a minute)
FACT: Facebook allows you to get all your data. Google+ doesn't.
I'm an interested party (building an app in Django) but have next to zero knowledge on the topic.

1. Sounds like a good idea to me, assuming it doesn't already exist.
2. Do any of the existing tools have a plug-in/extension framework. Surely there's a lot of mechanical code to leverage.
3. Probably look at what the other projects use... convention will help gain support others who already have experience with similar analysis packages.
Launching Movies Genome Project
Hey gang

I'm launching a new startup here in SOCAL and looking for folks who has connections with Hollywood, like content owners, studios etc.

Also need suggestions for domain name.
For now it is here
http://signup.broadcastic.com

Short pitch:

What if Harry never met Sally?

Movies Genome Project magically converts your favorite movies so you become a movie re-maker!

Edit the story line as you see fit! MGP will convert existing/old movies into 3D Software Scene Format (3DSS) movies, allowing manipulations of original movies, including such changes as camera angles, script changes, mixing two or more movies together, generate alternative endings, swap characters from different movies etc.
Since you're on Hacker News, I believe in your ability to search the web (using Google or otherwise).

> defensively protecting themselves

Not everyone agrees with your point of view, to say the least:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/02/after-apple-microsoft-als...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/03/eu-opens-two-antitrust...
mark suster wrote a good post on this: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/04/14/dont-try-to-pu...
You could make the same exact argument on the same exact basis about the stock market. Yet it looks like kickstarter is far, far and away superior to that model in terms of translating initial funding to successful projects.
Up-sells aren't exactly new, but it can definitely be creative.
It's a nice personal achievement, but I can't help myself cringing at business models of this kind. It's plain old extraction of surplus-value, adding very little to the economy as a whole. The workers would be better off operating as a cooperative, I wish they had the education to know that from the outset, and the means to implement it.
USPS has been in the spam business for decades.
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Why are there so many articles from torrentfreak on HN lately? Every time I visit there's a couple on the front page.

Can we please get some non-biased news if we're going to continue talking about Megaupload?
To delete the contents on the servers, or not to delete... I hope they won't but, heck, the US Government doesn't seem to mind if they do.. But if they do, where's the evidence?! You can't really sue people from screenshots, surely? This whole Megaupload case is just one big joke all together.
They're unambiguously employees - classifying them as independent contractors is illegal, and both the IRS and their state's labor board will take violent exception to it.

This isn't the only problem: the post would make a great issue spotter for an employment law class.
Our little 2 crew 303 had a shitload of foam inside the front of the hull. We used to tip it over all the time when racing.
Once we sailed back to the club with the hull almost completely submerged (but not sinking).

It was unsinkable. But it wasn't a ship.
Everybody says that.
> Facebook has more complete APIs and is much easier to get your data from them than Google+.

Can you please quantify this?