skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 400 laserdiscs and 700 DVD cases (some are TV shows with multiple discs or films and their sequels). I stopped buying DVDs many years ago, but then again Netflix hasn't been acquiring recent films either - one example article http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2011/02/02/netfli...

I also haven't had TV service since 2003 and don't torrent or similar - all my viewing has been by buying DVDs, seeing things at the cinema/on planes etc or on Hulu.

And once I did sign up for Netflix I did catch up TV shows (eg the new series of Futurama). Out of your examples I already own BSG on DVD. The others don't really interest me as I'm not a particular big fan of them. (I'm British and have lived in the US for over a decade, but my tastes don't really go for the things you list.)

To be clear there is a heck of a lot of stuff I did want to watch. When I first signed up for Netflix I spent several weeks typing things into their search engine only to get responses along the lines of available for mail order only, or doesn't exist. Following recommendations etc did mean I ended up with a queue, but it is mediocre stuff. So I gave up and read more books instead.

Two random content examples for you. Try to find "Northern Exposure" (TV series) or marvel at how Netflix thinks Keanu Reeves has only ever done 6 films.
...9 years after the iMac and 6 years after the iPod. Apple doesn't exist to release the iPhone without first being resurrected by those two products.
Sorry but what on earth are you talking about ?

Why would companies like IBM suddenly start suing Apple and for what possible gain ? And Apple is nearly 40 years old with patents that extend across a wide variety of areas given that they design their own software and hardware.
Our main weapon is facebook users and dedicated social gamers. Our two main weapons are facebook users, dedicated social gamers and micropayments. Our three main weapons are... I'll come in again.
Should You Wait for the iPhone 5?
Has everyone forget about inherit?
Actually almost none of them.
I hate to ask this ... but is there a graceful fallback for IE7 clients?
~20x isn't close in the pantheon of record venture deals, especially when normalized to an IRR (annual return).

Benchmark Capital is often cited since their $6M investment was worth 500M+ at IPO less than a year later and then eventually ballooned to being worth $5B as shit got crazy.

the 12.7M Accel invested into Facebook in the A was worth ~$10B at IPO. I think even that is less on IRR than the ebay deal
I question your qualification to advise people on interviews if your own theory knowledge tops out at "casually skimmed a wikipedia page."
If you're already authenticated then it redirects to your profile page.
Intentional Code. Offline NaCl extensions + Web Intents = IDE?
Routing packets based on MACs would be impossible. That's why.

My laptop has the same MAC whether it is connected at home, at work, or in the airport. How would ISPs and the internet backbone routers know where to send the packets to reach me?
Well said, why not learn one framework and high level language and launch your own startup. In the beginning Facebook needed only php, twitter needed only ruby before moving to Java. Instagram is 98% python. When you begin to gather traction, you will employ the alpha geeks who use C, some of them are in Facebook and Twitter today. So just focus on building a product that succeeds with one or the only single backend language that you know in addition to some javascript and then use twitter bootstrap for design.

Why burn all that learning time to get a startup job, probably with reduced salaries and equity that might amount to zero if it fails. This is thesame risk you will face with your own startup but the difference is that the upside or equity is bigger if your startup takes off and you are doing it with the one language you know.
> Pincus is quite directly attempting to mimic Bezos' strategy with Amazon

Well, that's a terrible strategy if that's what he's doing. Zynga has almost been entirely dependent on acquisition throughout their history in order to grow their gaming lineup. Without a strong stock, they won't be able to make those deals without paying out cash. They have a bunch of cash right now, but that's only sustainable for so long for them.
Which doesn't change that we don't know yet and there is nothing in the article that indicates what it writes.

I am not a big fan of the revisionists that are roaming HN but the title is flat out wrong.
Weird, that version isn't displaying for me. This is all I get: http://cl.ly/image/411o3o252t3E and none of those versions work on Mountain Lion :(
This is the first time I am coming across this, and I wonder if it works on mobile (saw the webcam feature on the site). Also, as an sdk, integration to mechanical turk would be great so you could workflow it through moderation. Also, document format conversion (not just images) would be great if you piped them through Google drive somehow...
From quarterly report:
As of June 30, 2012, cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $1.6 billion

This is out of their current market cap of ~2.5B. Facebook down 7% after hours too. Honestly looks like an over-reaction that shows investor worries about new business models.

Dangerous time trying to exit a social gaming company methinks.
Common Lisp has more in common with Python and Ruby than Haskell. Perhaps you should study some of these languages before encouraging other people to.
Well, there's little reason to defend apple when all it gets you are downvotes.
But amount tells you nothing, particularly when making comparisons across different generations of electronics. Besides, a lot of electronics can mean shit-ass deinterlacing hardware, or far too complicated OSD functionality, or pointless A/D conversion. None of which has anything to do with build quality or picture quality.
Genuine question: has anyone here actually ever used Safari for Windows, except for browser testing? I've never met anyone.

So this doesn't really surprise me. Looking up the numbers says Safari is used by 0.46% percent on Windows users -- and it doesn't seem to have ever gotten much higher than that. Why waste resources on it?
What you are getting at is that Netflix doesn't even provide you with the option. For example if you want to watch a Keanu Reeves film (that isn't one of the 6 lame ones they list) then tough. They provide absolutely no way to view them, or even indicate an interest in wanting to do so.
Indeed, I couldn't agree more.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason Grubwithus's user interface just doesn't click for me. I'm talking about this from a dinner organizer point of view, from the average user perspective, everything seems to work fine.

I've tried to organize dinners, but for whatever reason I haven't figured out how to get people to come out.

This is just my personal issue because I am lazy and I need to spend more time on the site, but...if it were smoother I would have already organized a lot more dinners.

I wish grubwithus the best of luck, what they're trying to do is definitely the right direction.
Facebook will share ad revenue with users
Grant Funding Announced for Greening Small Businesses
Gittip is designed to pay the mortgage for donees, and mortgages are recurring. I expect we'll mix in one-offs eventually. Here's the ticket for that:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5

Donations are anonymous in the particulars but public in aggregate on the homepage by default.
Your price (much more than free) is not competitive. This one is free, and it's from Stanford:

http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev...
FWIW it says "falling" not "failing," although FB actually rose +0.89 today.
In Techcrunch's defense, they have published a very good article on these kind of numbers[1]. Actually, they have published a lot of articles on this[2].

What is more insteresting, is that Paul Graham reiterates the Power Law of Startups he talked to Peter Thiel recently[3]:

Peter Thiel: Do Y-Combinator companies follow a power law distribution?

Paul Graham: Yes. They’re very power law.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/vanity-metrics/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/search/vanity+metrics

[3] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels...
Raima Database Functionality Tutorials - 5 minutes or less
Which is my point. I have a truckload of -10's from a year ago to show you where I was expressing misgivings about Apple's behavior. The voting, like the posting, is part of the zeitgeist. And it's moving hard in the "anti-Apple" direction.
I started reading the article expecting to find some sort of description for a new file system and couple of paragraphs in I discovered that it reads like the how to frame yourself as a opinionated clueless twit manual of the year, I am going with link bait. Priceless link bait.
FB is also down after hours, about 7% so far. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB
Looks like Facebook is down almost 8% as well.
Is memory management the key to why Linux always seems to handle much better than OS X on the same machines? I'm puzzled this problem still exists (with 10.7).
I actually laughed out loud at:

"Improve your Theoretical knowledge"
...followed by...
"Learn C"

I obviously have a completely different idea in mind when it comes to computer science theory than the author does.
In general, tech companies probably shouldn't do any preview videos at all -- they should just show a product demo when it's ready.

I do think a video like the one described in the link could be done in a way that it was clearly so far in the future that everyone would know it was an imagination thing, like the concept cars at auto shows, that could turn into a real product in 5-10 years. And it would be worthwhile to get people thinking about augmented reality. But those kind of far-off concept promotions are really hard to do well.
It's a good metric for power supplies, and not much else.
Steam's Newell: Windows 8 "catastrophe" driving Valve to embrace Linux
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-8-catastrophe-driving-valve-to-embrace-linux/
Same here. I was able to get it to work via the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329243/xcode-4-4-command...
It's a catastrophe for Valve if third party markets like Steam don't fit seamlessly into the future of Windows.
I know this sounds lazy, but it would be really nice to stream line the process of 1) Finding a project 2) Getting a list of the top contributors to a project.

For instance, I'd love to go to a site like this and give $100 to whoever is the most active contributor in glib who is accepting contributions.

I generally don't know people's github account names. Digging it up is a pain.
It's pretty close, but it has a few improvements. For starters, the Pivotal setup used Ikea Galant desks, which are a bit large. Instead of needing to cut that in two, we've got two Galant extensions. This eliminates the need for the desk staggering pattern shown in the pivotal post.

Second, the pivotal setup is based around an iMac with a second screen. We've found this somewhat odd as everyone has their own laptop. Therefore, this setup is driven from a laptop with the key addition of an hdmi splitter to make driving two screens from the laptop cost effective.
In your defense, it took the author a few pages to even get to that fact.
Gameful Design
I happened to be reading Norvig's "Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style" (http://norvig.com/luv-slides.ps) just now.
Ask HN: What format of startup founder interview is most valuable to you?
We are relaunching a founder interview site with questions focused on strategic, tactical, and more general Q&A. Our goal is to provide a more tactical and comparable set of information that might be useful to others starting their company (e.g. What language was your software written in?, What email system do you use? Do you use Adwords? etc.)

Do you find value in this type of approach?

Here is an example of the new format we are considering: http://www.startupproject.org/2012/07/bizbrag-interview/
I stopped reading at exactly this line. With it he established that he's merely speculating, and quite frankly I'd rather live with my own speculations than his.
This is actually pretty cool! Nice work.

I don't have any clue about launching but I'd try posting to popular sites and maybe see if some tech sites will cover it.
The internet and need to transfer files between systems killed any concept of this sort of thing remaining working.

The AmigaOS had it decades ago. Making it work when transferring a file to different OS's or even between the same OS using standard protocols makes it a really hard problem.
I thought that influence was common knowledge?
XY Combinator is "Y Combinator for dating."
Just to be clear, this is not Quake 4 running in WebGL, this is a WebGL engine using Quake 4 assets.
There is a huge downside for this to the charity: they have to waste time training "volunteers" who will probably never come back unless they're paid to be there.

Volunteers (as in, real volunteers) are much more likely to come back, minimizing the amount of time wasted on training. Volunteers are also more likely to have knowledge or experience in the area of the charity, whereas Exec's [gophers?] are likely to know nothing at all.
Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux
Agreed. Working on it:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27
I think the stock of people who are comfortable with Lisp but know nothing about C has dwindled to be almost non-existent.
Safari for Windows was released more than a year before the first Google Chrome beta. Before that, Webkit wasn't available on Windows at all and it was impossible to test websites on Webkit without a Mac. Google Chrome is now an excellent and widespread browser on Windows so there's no point maintaining Safari for Windows anymore.
Thank you for summarizing the answer in the linked article.

You may now proceed to posting solutions to FizzBuzz in Jeff Atwood's blog.
Okay, should give you a message now if you're anon.

https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html
No. An IPv6 address can be partially derived from a MAC, but a lot of the time it won't be. For instance, none of the VMs we operate (which all have an IPv6 /64 assigned) have real network hardware, so it makes no sense to generate the IPv6 address from a MAC there. And you can still multihome a single IPv6 address across more than one physical interface, so again, that's not somewhere you'd want to put a MAC into an IP address.

> On CircleID someone recently pointed out that IPv6 will make this sort of "job" meaningless.

Er... not sure how that follows. If routing tables aren't going to grow without bound, there's no less need for central allocation authorities than there is with IPv4. The important job isn't rationing, it's keeping allocation as contiguous as possible so the network hardware can keep up.

> Back to your point about MAC's: This is also why the "we're out of IP addresses" meme seems silly. Because we don't see the IEEE complaining they are "running out of MAC's". And IPv6 addresses use MAC's.

Not quite sure what you're getting at here. When people say "we're out of IP addresses", they're talking about IPv4 addresses. That's not silly at all - it's real, it's happening now, and IPv6 still hasn't quite got the penetration to get us out of the hole yet.

The rest of your post would be more useful with some specifics.
Zynga's Mark Pincus: Real-Money Gambling Coming in First Half of 2013
I'm all for linux support, but clearly he's more worried about a future with microsoft taking their digital delivery business, not usability.
Oh, yeah I know. I just didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was doing something manually and it sucks. This makes it a lot easier :).
Arguably, so does Scheme. My impression of Ruby is that it's sort of a bastard of Perl and Scheme.
The advantage of a same-filesystem move (usually to a subdir or alternate directory) is that it's a fast action. You're renaming an inode, not copying data around. When you're dealing with many, or large, files, that's an issue.

(Assuming Linux) If you're concerned with open files, you can do an 'lsof' and screen for files of interest. 'fuser -v filename' will show the process using a file, 'fuser -vk filename' will kill it (xargs or loops for many files, obviously).

And not everything that you're cleaning up is necessarily files, so adapt methods accordingly.
I do wonder how many (if any) successful YC companies have bootstrapped (except for the YC funding).
isn't there provisions for realistic royalty rates?
FB is down 7% after hours, and the most likely culprit is this news, as the two companies' outlooks and stock performance have been tightly coupled after past quarterly reports.

The title looks factually accurate to me.
I wonder why this was flagged. Do people feel it was wrong, or inappropriate? Not getting any votes and sinking without trace I understand, that's the luck of the draw. But getting flagged is different.

I'm puzzled, curious, and generally a bit confused by HN at times.

Oh well, c'est la vie.
Unless there's some very specific reason, with consideration, you're not naming and shaming them, I'm a little surprised you aren't still. That's quite a hit.
Bezos has a product that has incredible staying power and enormous infrastructure and capital-intensive advantages over its competitors, making it very, very hard to clone. Many have tried, all have failed.

Zynga, in comparison, does not. A 10-person team can execute just as well as their behemoth of a company, and that makes their market a hell of a lot more competitive than online retail.

> "Zynga is in the best position to profit from the rise of social/casual gaming. "

Zynga is not casual gaming. PopCap is casual gaming. Nintendo is casual gaming. Rovio is casual gaming. Zynga is gambling under a thin veneer. Zynga is "social gaming" in the way we've redefined it in the last couple of years.

And even there, I'd argue the "rise" of social gaming is already behind us. Remember when everyone was playing Farmville? Like, everyone. Now, it's completely dropped off the mainstream consciousness. Sure, they have plenty of players still, but it's a sharp decline in mindshare from just two years ago.

The world had its turn at the "glorified slot machine" formula, and most people have moved on. I heartily argue that Zynga's best days are already behind them, short of pivoting into a wildly different formula for social gaming.
True, but probably >200 of those companies are still active, and its only been 7 years. Would you bet that that 20X return so far is going lower?
Love the fact that he votes with feet.
On Client Components for Web Apps
Yet, they consistently ignore this input. This has also been pointed out dozens and dozens of times.
I know plenty of charities who would prefer the money. Manpower is freely available for most charities at least down here in SoCal (maybe people have less time to do good works up in the Bay Area?). Money, however, is the primary factor limiting their capacity to perform their charitable activities.

Let's put it this way: with $100 but no volunteers, you can still acquire supplies, services, or manpower. With 10 volunteers but no money, you can twiddle your thumbs.
Deadmau5 studio pictures.  Oh. My. GAWD.
They could be - lots of monitors, and especially IPS panels, do well when calibrated. The review is somewhat akin to saying a computer "boots Windows quickly" without ever mentioning the CPU clock speed or hard drive, but complaining the glossy front picks up finger prints and it doesn't fit under your desk nicely. Those may be important, but they aren't quantitative. This review falls into the same trap: adjusting color via on monitor controls and saying the color is "good" is not in any way a reasonable way to do a monitor review.
Don't underestimate being the dominant startup accelerator. While probably well deserved, it's also kind of a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
Not the same exact software, just the same way of representing comment threads.
[note: I wrote the Warcraft article]

/agree

If the patent-standards for the 80's and 90's were as awful as today, I'm sure that some CAD company would have locked up the idea of drag-select, and the Macintosh WIMP interface (and hence MacDraw/MacDraft) would have been legally impossible to create.

On a related note, after Blizzard Entertainment was acquired along with Sierra Entertainment in a corporate merger, I got to meet one of the principal developers of some of the old Sierra-style adventure games. One of his first questions was about the Warcraft path-finding algorithm. When I explained how I had written the algorithm (which I invented independently -- never having done any reading on path-finding), he said (more or less) "yeah, Sierra has a patent on that, but we don't enforce it". Incidentally, the algorithm was awful but functional -- it's apparently known as "crash and turn", but was clever in using minimal CPU since it had to run on the limited computers of the day.

The fact that it was possible for Sierra to patent something that a junior programmer like myself (at that time, 3 years of professional experience) could invent from whole cloth shows how weak the patent system is for software engineering.
It's unlikely that Andressen Horowitz would make an investment because they anticipate the company's services will increase the value of their portfolio. I think it's far more likely that they're looking for a positive return on Meteor.
smaller and 16:9

yes, 16:9 are cheaper than 16:10
Put three screens in portrait and never look back.
There is a way to cancel later right? I mean, even if you intend to give every week... eventually there will come a time where a person will need to stop doing that. We've all fell on hard times at one point or another and forced to make cut backs. Unfortunately, that often means being less "charitable".

If you can't turn off a recurring donation, then that just upped the giver's commitment level from "chicken" to "pig".

If you can turn off a recurring donation, then at least there is a work around for much shorter runs, like... 1 week. :)
Well, with the first one you'd make money and do less tech support.
Well, what kind of discussion would you expect for an article like this?

Perhaps you should spend your time revising your HN bio instead.
I sorta know both, but I'm generally more comfortable speaking in terms of Lisp than C and if an interviewer forces me to speak in terms of C I'm likely to be less cogent.
Yup - drag-drop disappears on IE but the Cloud upload still works
Odd. Tried that too, got an access denied message. I see others are having issues too https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4136828?tstart=0 can't see to get past this.
I'm a heavy Common Lisp user, but I'm only casually familiar with Scheme, so I opted to leave deconstruction of that aspect to others--such as yourself!
Obviously, he cared more about quality than size.
I used Safari for Windows when it first came out, it was pretty good actually, but the later versions were a disaster, I don't know how but it ran like hell.

Somehow Apple managed to make Safari 5 slower than previous versions on Windows.

I can't exaggerate how unstable it was, it crashed all times and for no reason.
No, but Google Groups brings the innovations mentioned above to email lists, so it's an analogous comparison.
I don't understand this sentiment. If you don't like Metro, launch the desktop and forget it even exists. For rarely launched apps, hit the Win key and start typing the name and for frequently used apps, pin to your taskbar. Steam still works exactly the same on Windows 8.
We have full native mobile SDKs as well for iOS and Android. Turk and Gdrive conversion are neat ideas - thanks!
Converting C# Enumeration to Java Enum
Then that explains the hesitation I felt when I typed that.
>This is not a quick read, so it’s a good opportunity to try a read-later method such as Safari’s Reading List, which Apple invented completely on their own.

...was what did it for me.