skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not, since the point is to aid in accident investigation. Wouldn't want to give people the option to scrub incriminating evidence.

I wonder how much data these devices can store...I doubt they're putting a 100GB HD in every car to create a full historical record. It seems to me that all you would need for accident investigations is a few hours prior.
You Are Probably Not a Hacker
Indeed, this does cover the first part, they need to work on getting their name out there cause I've never seen this website before... Now for the 2nd part!
Imagine a PHB-engineer conversation something like "What are you working on?" "The jQuery plugin we're using doesn't have full support for the latest Chrome nightlies so I'm trying to write some Javascript to achieve the same effect." "Why are you wasting time? I don't know all that much about jQuery, but you can use an iPad to do it."

We can all appreciate that that sort of conversation is pretty exasperating for the engineer, but if he were a nice guy, he'd want to try to explain at least enough engineering to the boss such that the boss understood why "Use an iPad" is not a compelling option there. But he might be disinclined to start that conversation at 2:40 in the morning because it would take a while.

It is 2:40 AM in Japan and improving your understanding of A/B testing would take a while. There exist many comprehensible beginner's guides to it on the Internet. If after reading them you still don't understand why you need two more pieces of data in your hypothetical and why it is not extraordinarily likely that the 7% increase you measure in it reflects an action change in user behavior, I will be happy to explain it to you some day when it is not 2:40 AM.
Mix of both, we've got some pretty epic profiles-- but the majority comes from others sharing our stuff w/ their friends. Strong believer in this as a trend (Buzzfeed talks about this, too: http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/content-shared-close-fr...)
Are you serious?
I would never give some random supplier unlimited access to my server and internal network. Such a requirement is an absolute show-stopper.
Get ready for volume. This will blow up fast. I'm willing to bet you get a call from FB shortly to either shut it down, or buy it outright.

Nice work.
Altius unveils storyboard-based learning system & plans for online U
Excel Software Ships QLRT Xcode 1.1 to Protect and License Mac Software
QLRT Xcode 1.1 is a static library file for protection, activation and license management of applications created with Apple's Xcode development system. Developers use QuickLicense 6 to configure Trial, Product, Subscription, Floating, Try/Buy or Educational licenses that present a manual or automated activation process.
English is a big toolbox. We don't need to repurpose words for completely different definitions. The suitably dramatic terms you're looking for are demise and downfall.

"The demise of RSS"

"The downfall of RSS"

Or if you want to get superdramatic: "The silent acquiescence of RSS to an untimely demise"
This is why AWS Marketplace Sucks
The 2011 Review of Books
Question: Are there any software which can to obfuscate / protect RubyOnRails, Phyton, and PHP application code so it packaged and sold via AWS?
I'm glad you had the balls to say this. It really stumps me when I see everyone basically saying they know better than HBO how to make money. I don't doubt the logic and stats behind everyone's reasoning but I do doubt that they know something HBO doesn't.

HBO I'm sure has more people working on how to make the company profitable than there are comments in this discussion. There's some entitlement floating around here masked as "better ideas". I have no doubt that HBO wants to make paying for their content as easy as possible but...

* they might have done the math and found this way to be more profitable, losses to piracy be damned

* it takes a lot of different entities to make a show like Game of Thromes and you better believe that there are pre-existing contracts galore. These pre-existing agreements may be what's keeping the situation as it is now

If scenario 1 is correct then that's just tough for us. We'll have to wait or pirate. If we pirate then HBO probably doesn't care anyway or they wouldn't have made watching GoT so damn hard.

If scenario 2 is correct then we're placing blame and frustration in the wrong place. At the same time this scenario can vindicate popular opinion around here too.

Whatever the case may be, I sincerely doubt HBO doesn't know what they're doing. They absolutely cannot be so incompetent as to not understand that making it impossible to pay for the show will drive people to piracy. As for inconveniencing current customers, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they had a deal with Dish and Cable companies and expected all boxes to be replaced by the time they made this change in their broadcasting.

I could be wrong but if HBO truly doesn't get it my head might just explode.
Willpower is a finite resource
Fexl now has a top-level library written in Fexl itself.
BCC doesn't need to look very good -- it sold $200k of software on the backs of either a template or the uncoordinated mishmash of the previous designer's work being slowly butchered by myself. I just was willing to experiment with whether turning up the pretty a few notches would move the needle.

As to cost/benefits: I'm at a point in my life/business where "Spend a week hacking a template to save < $2,000" is an astoundingly poor use of my time.
Does Paypal still have the restriction that if you use them for credit card processing, you must also offer a Paypal checkout? Offering Appointment Reminder though standard PayPal seems like a giant additional headache.
Fexl now uses /usr/share/fexl/top.fxl as the standard context for all scripts.

This gives Fexl a potentially large library of built-in functions written in
Fexl itself, in addition to the functions written in C (in the form of routines
named fexl_X, where X is the function name).

The directory structure for the installed fexl is now:

/usr/bin/fexl
/usr/lib/fexl/
/usr/share/fexl/
As a user I love paypal because it is really, really easy to end a subscription and there is nothing, whatsoever, the merchant can do about it.
* I think they'd make more money than they do now. But that would likely upset their current deals with the cable companies, and it would be a fundamental business model change.*

They've done the math, and they wouldn't make more money than they do now. That's why they haven't done it yet.
It's not just pure subscription numbers that matter -- it's the millions in free promotion that cable/satellite companies provide that must also be factored into the cost equation, as well as the millions in costs they would incur by expanding their streaming options.
I wonder how much revenue you'd raise on Kickstarter if HBO agreed to release The Wire into the public domain for a certain sum. Enough to make it worth their while? I think so (especially if they released the source material so people could get it in HD, not currently available)..
Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites
I hope not. Samuel found a perfect niche market for a bootstrapped start-up, and acquisition by a big company would probably mean the end of NewsBlur. If you really like it, make sure to buy a subscription.
hmm.. this is actually pretty fun
From my perspective, we should not talk ethics because we can talk business.

Our purpose, obviously, is increasing the amount of wealth available to each and every human being on the planet.
For that, we want HBO to exist and produce content.
We want people who consume that content to pay HBO to make sure it exists.
But that to do with people who want to consume the content but HBO behaves as if they didn't exist?
What about letting them watch the content for free? The upside is, they have more wealth, and the downside is, I struggle to figure out any.
But wouldn't there be big gains initially and then, as the easy fruit was plucked, the changes would give less and less and the successful tests would become fewer and fewer?
Another great resource is Pimsleur. I've used their courses to learn Italian and German.

It's a half hour of audio each day. The key is that you speak out loud. You can do it while cooking or driving, or any other activity that is routine and non-verbal.

They teach you to pronounce phrases very well, and you learn the basic structure of the language. Once you can say "I would like a glass of wine", you can easily learn to say "I would like X".

When I got to Italy, people thought I had been living there for a year.

There are only two things you MUST do:

1. Do a lesson every day.
2. Speak out loud, in a normal conversational tone. The program is teaching you to have conversations.

I love these courses so much that I'm compelled to gush about them whenever language learning is mentioned. They won't make you a native speaker, but you'll quickly reach a level where you can advance rapidly.
I keep missing out here somehow. the Senate bill includes law that says you can't exploit it. And yes the FBI will no doubt try to use this to 'fix' the issue of having to get warrants for gps tracking, which folks will watch out for, but the 'good' parts of an EDR are that you can find out just what the heck happened post 'event.' As a consumer you will be a lot happier if you know that your 'to spec' inflated tire just blew out and rolled you over causing a couple of million in damage isn't going to be your fault.

So there are benefits here, and the public is more educated about the risks. Another benefit of the Senate legislation is that it applies to all EDRs in cars, so folks who put EDRs into your car today and do sell information to third parties (I'm looking at you OnStar) will also be bound by this.

So a more reasonable story might have been:

EDRs are in a lot of vehicles now, they represent both a privacy threat and a potential benefit. There are no explicit rules around what folks can do with them. Your government is 'fixing' that by making explicit what can and can not be done. Generally that would be an encouraging sign, and participating early in the process will help ensure its done in the best interest of the consumer rather than the installer.
Ask HN - Where to find startup advisors / mentors?
##TL;DR

I'm a long time programmer but a newbie entrepreneur. I'm unsure how to get started with this startup thing. Where can I find advise, advisors, mentors, references?

## The Long Story

I saw the possibility of simplifying and redoing enterprise collaboration specifically in the decision making space.

So I did the easy part.

I've put together a minimum product -- Review19.com -- which BTW got not so much traction when I shared it on a "Show HN" thread :-( Anyway, I want to now solve the next part of the puzzle.

I've done a basic market survey, I know the big guys I'm up against (the SAPs and the IBMs). I know what's good about their offerings, and what sucks.

From the team perspective, I'm the engineering / technical founder and I have marketing co-founder in the wings. While the product can be used by individual users, I fully understand the major market will be the enterprise users.

I acknowledge that a majority effort will be marketing, selling, pilot tests, gathering feedback etc. and I concede that engineering may have to play a limited role.

My next milestone is to attract some seed funding so that I can put together the team, prepare resources and reach out to potential customer. The problem?

I don't know how to go about this.

Where can I find advise, advisors, mentors or any other kind of references?

How should I go about this?

Thanks,
Sri
Actually there's extensive case history on this topic. In the US where I'm familiar with it, most generally, books and course materials produced by professors while employed are not considered work for hire. Research results such as patents coming from work done in university research labs are much more likely to be considered work for hire. It depends a lot on the contract the professor has agreed to though.

Pro professor citations:

http://www.aaup.org/NR/exeres/517C85B6-CC13-4A47-AE3E-5C1763...

> Generally, faculty scholarly work is not considered work-for-hire. "[I]t has been the prevailing academic practice to treat the faculty member as the copyright owner of works that are created independently and at the faculty member's own initiative for traditional academic purposes." Statement on Copyright, AAUP Policy Documents & Reports 182 (9th ed. 2001).

More generally Pro-university or ambiguous citations:

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/copyright-ownership/...

More neutral legal analysis of concepts:

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/owner.pdf
I doubt theres much bureacracy, there are not that many core developers - probably going onto the mailinglist and providing some patches might be a start.
Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs
This week we whittled down the small but growing list of "big name" universities that are helping to solve the big data technologies talent gap. From degrees in data science to more specific certification programs for current IT professionals, these six schools
I agree. I think perhaps, a better point to make is that FP makes certain things easy, or the default, while doing it in am imperative language requires discipline, which I think is a mistake to rely on at the industry level.

It's a bit of a reductio ad absurdum, but remember: technically everything could be written in assembler. Languages and their idiomatic usage matter. Any C++ person could point out that, yeah, everything you can do in Java can be done in C++, but the fact that Java does automatic memory management still has value to many people.
Deciding who to sue is up to them though, right? Just because they can doesn't mean they have to. Or does it for this to hold up?
Actual example of financial unavailability. One of my wife's favorite kids books, "The 14 bears in summer and winter" was out of print for years. It was a collector classic and was fetching upwards of $300 in the secondary market. We didn't buy a copy, we didn't "pirate" one either.

The publisher saw the high price as proof there was still a demand for the book and produced another printing. We paid full price for it, around 15 bucks, I think. It's a cute book, I'm glad I have it, I wouldn't have wanted to pay $300 for it, though.

One could make the case that if everyone could just "pirate" the book because it was financially unavailable, then the publisher would never bother doing a re-issue.

More broadly, I think that respecting copyright holders (and the rule of law) means that sometimes you don't get exactly what you want exactly when you want it.
How to suck at customer service: a case in point with Interflora UK
Yep, the project tracking module needs some tightening up. Thoughts on the collaborative decision making module?
Your repacking and selling of the data is hugely interesting. This would give fantastic insight in to consumer behavior, not just for the obvious marketing potential but also for companies like UBS to get market info on retailers like walmart (http://classic.cnbc.com/id/38722872/).

I'm surprised this isn't being done already by cell phone providers.
The quotes from, uh, Larry Ellison, uh, seem to be, uh, primarily there to anger Larry Ellison.

...or to make Oracle look like a purchase and litigate company with "limited internal expertise to make smart decisions".

Not a very good strategy IMHO, but I would hazard a guess and say Google feels very comfortable about their chances.
I'm not sure if I have high expectations, became too damn good at it, or this is just a bad designer.

So take this as a constructive criticism and I have nothing against the designer, nor I know him.

I'll begin with the HTML/CSS parts. He is a Web Designer, and not simply a designer; so he should use the best practices

1- Use the HTML5 Doctype

2- Removes unnecessary space (empty lines and spaces). Why the extra bits?

3- JavaScript, I see that you are loading a good chunk of JavaScript in the HEAD and you are loading a bunch of it in the end. For example the Amazon JS file (http://s3.amazonaws.com/new.cetrk.com/pages/scripts/0004/737...) is certainly not usable, and is yet a whole HTTP request.

4- In the JavaScript file (http://images2.bingocardcreator.com/javascripts/bcc-all.js?1...), you are loading a ColourPicker and other unused stuff. This is a waste of bandwidth, latency, memory and speed. You don't need JavaScript in your main page, apart from the analytic and maybe A/B testing stuff.

5- Unobtrusive JavaScript. (line 181 of the HTML)

Enough, though there are endless problems with the coding part so don't take this list as an exhaustive review. For the design, it just sucks. I agree that simple designs (K.I.S.S) are better, but they should be crafted. I won't complain much, but here are two snapshots of what I'm talking about

1- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2777218/shot1.png

2- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2777218/shot2.png

Again, take this as a constructive feedback and I have nothing against your business; and what matters finally are the sales/$$$.

Take a look at http://www.premiumpixels.com/ if you want to see some carefully crafted designs.
It's still there, right at the foot of the page:

In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operating system leading to the largely exploited Linux kernel. The free availability on the Web swiftly caused a chain-reaction leading to further development and fine-tuning worth the equivalent of 73,000 man-years. Today the estimated number of users is 30 million. The achievement of Linus Torvalds has had a great impact on software development and on cultural and ethical issues of networking and openness of the Web.
Well, WebSockets are somewhat more efficient in terms of overhead, the latency will probably be a little better, can be handled more efficiently/easier on the server-side and it doesn't have the other drawbacks Comet has (AFAIR in some browsers, say, opera, if you use comet, you've basically used up your quota of allowed connections, so making additional XHR might be problematic.)
Looking for designers: good places other than 99 designs or Odesk?
My co-founder and I are looking for a designer to completely re-do the look of our site. I have a pretty specific idea of what I want, but the design is far from "web 2.0" looking. My partner knows code but nothing about design (or where to find them), and I am just as clueless. One entrepreneur I talked to recommended either 99designs or odesk, but I was curious if, in addition to these sites, there are any other good web resources to find designers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_only_memory
I've never returned something because of buyers remorse (I don't purchase something unless I've thought about it for a very long time, and have the money for it) but I will return items when they are broken.

For example, Costco's return policy is absolutely amazing. I purchased an air bed from them and after sleeping on it (ahh, being a college kid) for 7 months one of the ribs holding the form together broke and it had this weird bubble in it. I brought it back to Costco, and replaced it with another one.

I don't abuse it, but I don't think that a product should have to be replaced at 7 months in. I've done the same thing with a foam mattress I bought from Costco, after sleeping on it for 2 years the manufacturer refused to replace it even-though there was a huge "dent" in the middle so that sleeping on the bed meant you rolled into the middle automatically (made it uncomfortable to sleep with my girlfriend, now fiancée). Brought it back and we bought a mattress with springs.

The amount of money I've spent at Costco far outweighs the cost of them doing the replacement for me, and the cost for dealing with the manufacturer.
Yeah, if you had a car you might think about driving it across a state line and buy gas in another state, therefore it's interstate commerce or something, and thus the government can do whatever it pleases.
How to legally watch Game of Thrones:
1) Turn on the TV.
2) Change channel to HBO.
3) DONE.

That is infinitely easier for most of the population than downloading a torrent; it takes at most 4 button presses. If your TV is too old to handle the new content protection scheme, buy a new TV. If you can afford HBO, you can afford a new TV.

The type of people who would prefer to download the show via torrent are generally the type of people who wouldn't pay for HBO to begin with, so HBO doesn't care about the mythical money to be made off them.
I don't hate anything. I just love Stripe. Have you taken a look at it?
Guiding people to products, tools, and services that are as high-quality as our content & will help them achieve their goals

So, advertising?

edit: also, what are your sources of traffic if only 6% google? I mean, is it diversified or all coming from a big single non-google?
I've used pointer events ages ago - surprised it's part of CSS4… (the nav bar on http://www.splashdisplay.co.uk/ uses it so the nav can be behind the curve)
Thanks! It was pretty easy to make with Meteor and the Youtube API.
With only 13 purchases on each side of the test, a test of statistical significance is only going to pick out very strong effects. Ones that bump conversion rates more than 10%, typically, which is a pretty huge change.

For more subtle effects, you need more observations, plain and simple; it doesn't matter how you do the math if you don't have the data to reach the significance levels you care about.
I understand that Best Buy has to pay to keep their stores stocked, having physical space to showcase products and let people play with them requires a huge investment that Amazon doesn't have, yet at the same time they charge 2x sometimes even 3x more without giving me anything but the convenience of testing it out without having to receive the product and sending it back to Amazon...

If Best Buy dropped its prices to something reasonable I would be more inclined to purchase my electronics in their store right there and then because there is something to be said for the convenience of instantly having the product in my hands rather than having to wait for something to ship from a warehouse, it just isn't worth 2 or 3 times the price.
More than Money... Matter.
And in the meantime, HBO Go gives them a great opportunity to learn how to build a great service, so that once it makes sense to fight with the cable companies, they already have a great, mature product.
so how could they possibly "do the math" and figure out the size, demographics, and potential conversion rate of this group?

Honestly its not that hard. HBO just has to look at how offering HBO GO as a standalone service would cost them from whatever punishment would be handed down from the large cable operators. This is likely a very known quantity (We'll call it X). Then they just need to do a little market research to know how many people are 1. not buying cable. 2. Would by HBO Go as a standalone service (We'll call this Y) if Y is greater then X then it would make sense. The Piracy conversion angle is pretty meaningless since its a subset of the actual target market.

I have no idea the actual numbers but having worked in the industry for sometime I'm guessing that Y is pretty much a rounding error compared to X.
If you work 60+ hours a week, you miss your kids growing up. If you work 100+ hours a week, they're not really your kids anymore, are they?
Another hypothesis is that Best Buy can't afford to match Amazon's prices on bestbuy.com because they are subsidizing the online retailers with their in-person show rooms.

(I'm not a Best Buy sympathizer, just a hypothesis)
Question for those who have used Splunk and alternatives:
How much of what can be done in Splunk, is not possible with alternatives like Graylog2? http://www.graylog2.org/