skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Generally, the guy is sitting on top of a monopoly and is actively choosing to do nothing with it other than collect money, and prevent anyone from usurping his throne."

There is nothing stopping somebody from coming up with a site that beats craigslist, nothing at all. It will be hard, for sure, but it can and will be done eventually. So it isn't really preventing anybody from usurping his throne.

"But when you add that monopoly, and then stifle innovation because you are either lazy or incompetent is not doing the world any good. "

I hear this argument over and over, that CL is stifling innovation and I just don't see it. It seems like a bunch of would-be competitors want an easy in. There is nothing stopping a competitor from taking over, except a large amount of work. Just because a company won't let anybody use their data, doesn't mean they are stifling innovation. It would be a different story if CL tried to claim IP protection on internet classifieds but that isn't the case.
If Sony is smart, they would get this to compete with Kinect, and use it as a default accessory for PS4. The Gaikai guy seemed to like it, and Sony bought Gaikai recently, so I assume they've already heard about it. I also think Sony was already working on VR headsets, but it probably didn't work as well, and cost like $700 or more.
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Holy crap, I started watching the video at $188,000. Before I finished it had incremented to $190,000...$192,300..$195,490. This has some serious momentum right now.
Ok. I guess I was the only one who enjoyed the site and soundtrack. I thought it was rather creative.

My only complaint is the scrolling is a bit broken.
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First, as others have mentioned, this guy has already rejected buyout offers.
Secondly, these are game developers, not gaming system builders. These guys want this headsets in every house, but don't want to sell them. They want to build the games that everyone plays in these things.
The point is that, due to network effects and first-mover advantage, it's way harder to displace craigslist than building a better product.

Now, that's not illegal on craig/craigslist's part, but he can either be an openness-advocating philanthropreneur, as he tends to brand himself, or he can be a lockdown value extractor with a legal team, as it seems they're on their way to becoming. Can't be both.
My co-founders Mike (http://lazerwalker.com) and Ricky (http://rmondello.com) collaborated pretty closely on most of the JS. Usage of .on appears to have been introduced by Ricky in January.
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I had similar results, and I never even learned to type very fast on Dvorak. I think the key detail is that it forced me to break all of my bad habits I'd developed, and that carried over to qwerty.
Kinda interesting using a xxx domain for a personal, non porn blog.
My favorite picture is the one of Dan!
He's already a backer...
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People that say Craigslist is broken are utterly, incomprehensibly, wrong. Its an ugly website. It lacks features people on this website think it needs. But average people love it AS IS. The tone of this article makes it seem like Craigslist killed the newspaper industry-and paints Craig as the bad guy. Newspapers failed to adapt. Full period, stop. Craig invented a tiny website for his neighborhood and it went crazy popular and spread across the country. His product isn't what we want-but it is what he and most of the people using it want.
Here is a good USA Today article that provides a bit of background about how this works:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-08-01/twitt...

I was very surprised to read in the article that:

"The Twitterverse isn't particularly politically biased, say the Republican and Democratic pollsters who worked on the project, because while Twitter users overall may be younger and therefore more likely to support Obama, conservative tweeters tend to be more active."
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Do you realize that UPS and FedEx couldn't deliver to remote locations without USPS - they use USPS for last-mile delivery in many cases, because they don't have the footprint.

USPS could be more efficient - they deliver lots of junkmail (that I can't filter out/decline) and they should be running more efficient vehicles and perhaps less frequently.

However, I submit that if the USPS disappeared overnight, the country would have a minor crisis as many private companies (even shipping companies) depend on them.

We need to modernize the USPS, and expand it, not cut it.
I question how seriously people would have taken this website if it was designed based on "ransom note" 1990's design standards. And wasn't operated by the age group that has taken up these causes.

It draws attention to the "Center for Rights" http://fightforthefuture.org/ and on that page there are a bunch of hipsters http://fightforthefuture.org/#staff who know how to play things to the media and get taken seriously.

Certainly a case at the very least for the importance of good design.
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Just today I had a discussion with one of my colleagues. There are tons of people (most of whom matured when Windows was hot), who simple weren't exposed to the command line ever. Teaching Git to them is torture for both the teacher and them. Anything about scripting is magic.

It's tough.
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I been to the forum of this project, and it's nothing like the ouya.

Why? because the Oculus exists, there are prototypes running Doom3 since E3. Granted, those units are held together by duct tape which is not exactly consumer-grade, but.it.works, and that's what matters here.

Valve and Epic support probably (I hope) means they are going to use the Oculus SDK so that most Source and Unreal-based PC games could be patched and thus used with the Oculus.

Now consoles, the problem with MSFT/Sony using this for the Durango/PS4 is that they would have to include one with each console sold, else you have the chicken and the egg situation where developers don't support it because it lacks an installed base and gamers don't buy it because it only has a few games.

The Wiimote for example was meant to be an accessory for the Gamecube, but Nintendo knew that was a possibility so they decided to wait and launch it with the Wii instead.
Oh, you meant the peanut gallery on jwz's blog, not the app store asshats. Yeah, I wouldn't act like that, OTOH I don't have what it takes to write enough insightful and entertaining rants to become net.famous.
Does that calculate the way between keys or guess a common hand/finger size to calculate actual hand movements?
Nice location! Is that still the Journalism school? I worked in the Heinkel building when it was there on 7th and Elm, just a couple blocks down. I guess it's a parking garage or something now?
No github icon D:
And then the 20,000 employees of Apple corporate will walk around in a daze and then collapse to the floor and curl up and die because obviously they couldn't possibly understand what makes Apple special or be a part of how it works or be a critical factor in the success of the most successful consumer electronics business of all time.
facepalm ...we'll add this for sure
> Apple doesn't design the CPUs, they license the IP

[citation needed]

I know someone who works on processor stuff at Apple. More detail would obviously be bad for him, but they have digital design expertise which they are actively using to design (presumably) their future generations of chips.
He's in charge: he owns the place.
Craigslist isn't saying you can't post the same information elsewhere.

They're saying they have exclusive license to your post on Craigslist.

It's a seemingly subtle distinction, I'll give you that, but it in no way prevents the user from posting the same info elsewhere.
Your language reveals much to confirm my initial suspicions. Good luck in your adventures.
My personal favourite is the one of Kat picking up pennies!
Well that's no good. Thanks for letting me know, I will take a look.
One might argue they didn't invest -- or the company said no! -- for the same reason corporate VC is sometimes frowned upon. Taking capital from corporations with related products can scare future partners or customers. Moreover, why sell equity if you can simply sell pre-orders?
It suffers from the same defect all html spreadsheets do (even google docs): if you zoom/resize the screen, row/col alignment breaks.

Unbelievable how in this decade it is still almost impossible to make a table work like a spreadsheet in html. How hard would it be to just enforce a couple of css properties in tables to make them behave? Like:

tbody {overflow:auto;}

That would be a great start. Then:

thead,tfoot{position:fixed;}
tbody td:first-child{position:fixed}

That'd be all, add a contentEditable attribute and that's it. Everything else is just a matter of coding tricks to format cells and formulas.

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I've been a big proponent of stereo 3d gaming for about 10 years. ever since I got a pair of the eDimensional shutter glasses. The first time I played quake 3 in 3d it instantly made me twice as good. I was actually able to see the vectors of the rockets flying through the air and gauge exactly when and where they would hit. I was able to hit people in mid air with rockets and grenades way more.

Sadly Nvidia stopped including 3d support in the drivers for their new cards beyond the 7900. LCD monitors also became popular and didn't support the higher refresh rates needed for shutter glasses to work. so my glasses went into a box and eventually broke.

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I'm also super stoked that the biggest rock stars of game dev are pledging their support in upcoming games.
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Having been in on the company's leadership meetings where departures were noted with a simple 'regret yes/no' flag it was my experience that no single departure had any effect. Mass departures did, trends did, but one person never did, even when that person was a founder.

The rationalizations always put the issue back on the departing employee, "They were burned out", "They had lost their ability to be effective", "They have moved on", "They just haven't grown with the company" never was it "We failed this person, what are we going to do differently?"

Now an individual manager might do some introspection, but even then the change impact of the departure is insignificant compared to the change that can be wrought by being there and honing your persuasion skills.

And given that, the exit interview is a nop.
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Thomas, it's really hard to believe that it's not easy for you to find developers considering what you have to offer. I wish I had an interest in breaking things (I would rather build great software), I would have definitely applied.
What does that have to do with future designs though? I'm under the assumption that the roadmap is 18 to 24 months out.

In that time frame, they could have already selected a future Intel SoC.

Why would they need to continue upgrading the hardware at this point? It seems like a useless effort given that they have a software technology advantage and marketing brand advantage.
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I don't know how oauth is funded currently: if someone can't be found to oversee fixing issues that is holding everyone hostage to a difficult spec then a fork maybe necessary, yes.
Domain purchased 7/30/2012. This is 2 days old. This does not sound like a well-thought-out Big Idea.
That's a big editable table, not a spreadsheet. But as an editable table, it's nice.
sadly, that 3rd party site is woefully out of date and generally used for seasonal and events people.
Any article instructing people to lie should not be circulated, let alone on the front page of HN.

Glad to see this didn't last long.
I can't bring myself to click it right now while I'm at work, just in case.
generally that site is for clubs, and some of our events people.
It looks very nice, but isn't this the wrong way to do vector graphics online? The purpose of a font as I see it is to give text certain style. This looks like a hack - using one thing in a way it was not supposed to be used. Editing the source code of a web page using this must be very unintuitive. We have SVG and while it is far from perfect, at least it is supposed to represent pictures. And can use more than 1 color...
I just want to look at the source for something like your example image to see what you need to do to line up the icons with other fonts.
This plus the leap motion could be really amazing. Imagine wearing the headset and having it track where you look while the leap tracks your hand holding the gun.
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Unfortunately, we rarely have an absolute scale upon which to judge X. Everyone always claims the moral high ground, justifying their attempts to be deceptive with the same defense you provide there.
To me Apple is in a weird place also as far as Mac sales go because Macs fill two niches: (1) people like you (and me) who like to run OSX because its the most stable way to run a modern UNIX system, and (2) people who want a computer that "just works" and looks pretty and are willing to pay for it.
This results in some weirdness for the techies because you're constantly having to fight Apple's "user friendly" features in order to get the system to behave the way you want, but you don't really have an alternative except jumping to Linux and all the issues that entails.
I like the "<iframe> != innovation". How a company responds to criticism says a lot about their culture - and these guys have a sense of humour!
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From a TechCrunch article published yesterday, following an interview with John Borthwick:

"According to Borthwick, it would have cost “hundreds of thousands per month” to keep the site running on its old platform. Even though the site was state-of-the-art just a few years ago, most of the infrastructure would be considered legacy technology by a modern startup."

That's why. SF Weekly, and the author Keith Plocek, obviously did not reach out to Betaworks before running this article.
I got over unattainable concept design porn years ago. My childlike wonder now requires actual shipping product.

Attention to detail matters - sometimes more than the grand vision. Microsoft needs to get down to brass tacks - show success stories and tell us how the tablet/laptop scenario would specifically work with Windows8.