skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentives are A) to hedge against future developments of Twitter throwing you under the bus for $0.50 and B) joining a social network of people who explicitly value that network who you believe will have a generally higher signal to noise ration than the unwashed masses.

Today you can follow those 12 people, but if this takes off then it promises a return to the nostalgic '06 and '07 of Twitter when the community was small and everyone there was "interesting". The cognoscenti of tech may well abandon Twitter in favor of this un-walled, membership-only garden.

Now who really should care about this? Certainly not most people. It won't compete with Twitter, but it won't have to because it will have a fraction of the infrastructure costs, and it will avoid the eternal september that plagues every popular free service. This will be a niche product, but if successful it will potentially be highly valuable to that niche, and also it will be quite novel as a paid product of this type has never taken off as far as I know. If you really buy into the hype, you might even think that the success of app.net could signal the high water mark of free services as it becomes apparent just how much better a service can be created when it's paid for directly by users.

I'm not saying I believe any of this, but I do see the potential.
Ah yes, exactly my thoughts then.
I know this probably isn't super popular these days, but what about a Mini? That would get you the environment you need. Suppose you couldn't scare up a monitor (which most tech people probably already have), you could always run it headless via VNC or something.
I believe Dustin Curtis is the author: http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle/
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As usual, TechDirt completely fudges the facts in favor of mob justice.

Nothing to see here, folks.
That's exactly how I felt at 7 in 1975 : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking/viking-20060714.htm...
Are you suggesting licensing penalties for content owners?
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The vast majority of Twitter users today use the web interface or Twitter's own apps. These are ordinary people, not tech geeks. They don't care about APIs - they don't even know what that is. Twitter doesn't hurt them by restricting their service to their own apps. It's pretty unlikely that these people will ever want to pay $50 a year for a micro messaging service like app.net or care enough about not being a product, so they will never be the focus of app.net.

Twitter enjoys a tremendous popularity because of all those celebrities using the service. I mean celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, not like John Gruber. And that keeps the masses coming to Twitter. It does turn away the tech folks though, the people who used Twitter in its very beginning and which are now turned away by its politics.
Completely possible, but the method used is wrong, instead what you'd want to do is flood the market with sell orders for stock that doesn't exist. If you do it for a prolonged period of time it will destroy the value of the companies' stock.

Talk to the CEO of Overstock about how it works.

Alternatively, talk to the Porsche family about how to turn the tables and have the bank eat the losses instead of your stock.
Yup, probably got to keep half of it after taxes, and of course once you're no longer an insider it becomes easier to sell any remaining holdings without triggering SEC rules.

I think he is still named in a couple of the class action suits though, so its not like he will have a lot of free time. I am morbidly curious about how lawyer's fees are handled. Normally if you're being sued in connection with something you did for the company, the company hires a lawyer to represent you, but how does that work if you're not working the company any more?
You said "ZFS isn't for the typical enthusiast/home-user". I don't think that's true (or rather, while there are problems with using ZFS as such a user, the problems with all the alternatives are worse); I would advise such users to use ZFS.
Microsoft is blocking gmail.com in the MSN Messenger
The link you tried to send was blocked because it was reported as unsafe.
http://www.gmail.com

The link you tried to send was blocked because it was reported as unsafe.
www.gmail.com

I get that for both of them. Surprisingly, www.outlook.com seems to be working.
Google to include people's Gmail in search results
Agreed. It's clear, it kept me interested and I made sure I read it thoroughly instead of just skimming
Oh and people who keep suppressing honest criticism by marking comments dead are also quite annoying.

But go ahead and keep it up, whoever you are. As they say if the facts don't support the theory, they must be disposed of. My original statement:

People who misrepresent their part in successes and obscure or gloss over their role in failures bother me, especially when said individuals go on to offer advice such as yours about something as difficult as finding the right problem to solve and solving it in a practical way.

I really don't have a dog in this particular race but anything that could substantiate those numbers[1] or your other claims would be much more convincing and satisfying and go a long way to quelling my objections to your earlier comments.

[1] Millions of units? At a few thousand each that would mean FreeGate would have done around a billion dollars of business. Odd for a company so few have heard about.
Sure, sometimes you don't have a choice. But saying progress cant be made because it cant accommodate the edge cases is absurd. Dont like Steams DRM? Dont use it. But dont bitch about it because you cant use it properly.
Would it work if the 3rd-party devs were the customers? I.e. anyone using XYZ's app gets in for free because XYZ company pays the usage fees (out of it's ad revenue). That would avoid app.net trying to shut down services that customers like. It would also improve user adoption since it's free to the user. But how does this model compare to the customer-centric one?
Why do load balancers need to evolve to match the cloud paradigm?
Since the patent is the property, there is therefore no need for a market.
... well, you know, except for the size, and those extra buttons. Of course, that takes us back to a black rectangle with rounded corners.
It's not a good example though, because no one knew what the hell to use Wave for anyway. It was just a conglomeration of product features that had no clear place to fit into existing workflows.

Twitter on the other hand fits in everywhere. People just love to crap out little 160 character nuggets in between everything else they do all day long.
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So does this mean that Starbucks will use the same Square interface that we layfolk use? I find it impractical that they use this, and not something that integrates with their existing systems, but then that would mean that Square has opened up some sort of API to them? When will the rest of us get to see something like this, if so?
Crowdsourced line wait-time forecasting of coffee shops using smartphones
John Siricusa blatantly stated that he funded it before even fully understanding what it was. His support was based on Marco and Grueber (among others) supporting it.

Marco is supporting it but has blatantly said he doesn't think it's going to work out.

Dan Benjamin has echoed Marco's statements and implied that he specifically bought in to reserve a specific user name, which I imagine is just a precaution to protect his business name on a potential new service.

And Grueber... I don't know. I haven't listened to him in a long time.

Anyways, I wouldn't call that overwhelming support. I think it's a lot of tail chasing from a few people.
A drug dealers dream...
Except software is really easy to copy. That should maybe enter into the calculation.
It would be very to get reports for these kinds of questions across many industries and company sizes. I especially like the forward-thinking questions such as what do you need. Does anyone know if Gartner or some other company provides this? Otherwise it seems like it would be worth a lot of money to many people
The iPad version is on its way, but it's a bit off yet. There's a vastly improved iPhone version that's going to come out first, plus...something else...that the team has been working on.
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the fact that anybody can steal somebody's Amazon account and publish their private purchases is reason enough.
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The NYSE datacenter is in Mahwah New Jersey: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/30/nyses...
I think it's Apple playing catch-up with Android for the past couple of years. The MPB is a big jump ahead for Apple with that screen though.
I'm not on the Trello team, but I've spoken to them about this, and the short version is that it's tough as nails to do this in a sane way that also works across a wide-enough cross-section of browsers to be worth the dev time at the moment. As far as I grok things, that's part of why they're focusing on native apps. I'll hope someone actually on the team, like hamidpalo, responds with more details.
One of the first thing pg tells everyone in YC is that YC founders aren't treated any differently by the Hacker News software and moderators.

A lot of the upvotes come from the fact that people share TechCrunch stories with everyone they know. There seems to be a big feedback loop effect with TechCrunch.
Do you still dislike Steams DRM on 30Mbps?
In cased you missed this released by NASA in July, it's also amazing: HD panoramic view of Mars by the Opportunity rover: http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
I'm really looking forward seeing how this app is used to live broadcast interactions with police. Confiscating a phone and deleting it's contents will no longer be such a hot option.
This seems like it has the potential to replace a great deal of what "news" does for us now. We can literally see what is happening, when it is happening, with no editing.

Building on fire? 10 phones point at it.
Major disaster? 10 more phones.
Amusing thing, anywhere? 10 phones, and it's archived for anyone to watch later.
Just a heads up - it's Marco Arment (no i on the end) and John Gruber (no umlaut, so no transliteration of ü to ue).
Are CID publishers subject to claims from other CID publishers when they both wrongly claim the same video (like the rover landing?) Or are there first and second class citizens on Youtube, with the first class citizens not subject to such things?
I never suggested that the work of Ruder, Brockmann, or Rand was the highest echelon reachable by a designer. I never meant to suggest that theirs is the only aesthetic worth emulating or admiring. They are merely prominent examples of design that takes no queues from physical phenomena.

If the existence of a physical referent was as important as you claim, then I suppose the use of white (#000), red ( #f00), and countless other colors that aren't found in the physical world should be similarly avoided.

I never suggested that you were unsophisticated. I am merely stating that design is something far to sophisticated to apply broad dogmatic generalizations to. The suggestion that the usage of black is to be universally avoided flys in the face of the very history you seem to be concerned with.

I am still interested to see some research suggesting the the very usage of black leads to "strange" design. I see it used daily across many different contexts, for vastly different audiences. Has there been some trend away from black that major organizations such as the AIGA[1], TDC[2], and leaders of field such as Bruce Mau[3], Jennifer Morla[4], and Michael Beirut[5] have all been unaware of?

I'd appreciate you refraining from the condescension. I am very aware of the critiques that have been made of their work. I haven't seen it related to urban planning however, and would be very interested in reading about it further.

1. http://www.aiga.org
2. http://www.tdc.org
3. http://www.brucemaudesign.com/
4. http://morladesign.com/
5. http://www.pentagram.com/
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To add to 2), most games also back up your saves via Steam Cloud now. Not necessarily something you'll always use, but after a reformat, I greatly appreciated it.

However, I have noticed that Steam's offline mode is rather fickle. I try use it when I'm at my friend's house (lack of wireless and a lack of an ethernet port. Weird, unusual scenario, I know), and half the time "Play offline" simply doesn't work. It's put me in the weird position of considering downloading cracks for games I legally own so that I can play them.
To me seeing Mars looking like somewhere on Earth just changes everything.
FWIW, I have the source up for usesthis.com, if that's useful to anyone:

http://github.com/waferbaby/usesthis/
Not at all. He thinks his personal barometer of what makes a post "useful" is an absolute that everyone else must adhere to. Nothing in the post he's reacting to was agenda-driven beyond being a personal opinion--which is what comments sections are for.

It's a bizarre, embarrassing reaction to criticism of Android, which he has a history of defending here.
How would a space vessel be more hospitable than a planet with water, a partial atmosphere, caverns below solid rock, a small magnetosheath, and 62% of Earth's gravity?

*Edit: Instead of sending tonnes of metal into Earth's orbit from Earth, would it be more efficient to set up shop on Mars? Mine Mars and build space vessels in Martian orbit. Launching materials into Martian orbit should be relatively trivial compared with Earth.
To be fair to the GP this is typically viewed as an entrepreneur's forum and does not typically focus on finding freelance or contract work. Apps can therefore be sold directly to customer by the developer as a sole-proprietor using Apple or Google's distribution platform. Nevertheless, Android does appear to offer its users more in the way of free apps in the anything goes environment that is Google Play.
How does the author control where this image appears? If there's no visual confirmation/representation, how can they be sure they put it in the right place? Are they inline? Some controls will be needed.
Actually, the set of all whole numbers and the set of even numbers are the same size, since you can construct a one-to-one mapping between them: n -> 2n.

Cantor famously showed that the set of rational numbers is the same size as the set of whole numbers. However, the set of real numbers can be proven to be larger than the set of integers.
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Another thought is: how "wet" are a lot of the equipment being sold/marketed to "home"/"bedroom" synth biologists? IIRC from college days, there was a huge overhead in terms of, not only the apparatus (which I gather is coming down in cost), but also the chemicals in use, which require all sorts of safety regs, OSHA compliance, etc etc. How much of a barrier is this nowadays?
You can buy a handset through an electronics retailer. But:

- Every cell carrier in the US has its own frequencies, so you generally have to buy a handset specific to a particular carrier. (The GSM carriers, T-mobile and AT&T, share the voice and 2G data frequencies, but they have different 3G data frequencies. The CDMA carriers share nothing.)

- With most carriers, when you start service you are paying a baked-in surcharge designed to pay for the discount on the handset you got from them. You pay this whether you bought the handset, or brought your own. So if you buy a handset and then set up a plan, you're throwing money away if you don't buy it from the carrier. (There are some carriers for which this isn't true.)
There are already a number of libraries in R that do this (including reverse portfolio optimization and Black-Litterman optimization)!
When you say neutral solutions, you are assuming that the API developed by Apple and Microsoft can only be accessed from these platforms. I know that that's not true at least for SkyDrive API.

Given these why would I choose a neutral API?
I grew up in Buckie myself and can't disagree. Elsewhere I've actually increased my tap water consumption to drinking it exclusively, but via Brita jugs.
I don't think that was offensive. I think it was a pithy, vivid way to get his point across.
Nice! You can actually use those to make pairs of stereoscopic images. You can even see features not otherwise visible from the raw pictures. It's a shame the left and right camera distances are not the same as a human eye ; it makes the 3D effect a little too strong. I guess it gives their nav software a better depth resolution that way.
Well, people who misrepresent their part in successes and obscure or gloss over their role in failures bother me, especially when said individuals go on to offer advice such as yours about something as difficult as finding the right problem to solve and solving it in a practical way.
I really don't have a dog in this particular race but anything that could substantiate those numbers[1] or your other claims would be much more convincing and satisfying and go a long way to quelling my objections to your earlier comments.

[1] Millions of units? At a few thousand each that would mean FreeGate would have done around a billion dollars of business.

Oh, and please stop deleting this comment whoever you are. It's really annoying.
Im not attempting to single anyone out, your comments are 3 amongst 200+ (the link u send is actually a useful opinion which could be acted upon and something I'd agree with). So I and you shouldn't take yourself representive of the entire HN community right?

That said...

I responded to the OP who seemed to be making a general observation, based on a particular post. My reply was to be in generalisation too, so it may not be a correct view of the state of HN
I have two use cases for Excel:

1. Number crunching with the goal of creating charts/tables to be placed in either documents or presentations.
2. Detailed analysis of a given data set.

I think the former is ripe for application in the tablet space; most of my presentations, at the very least, tend to be 'here, let me talk and rely on visualization for the things that aren't easily conveyed with speech' -- honestly, an app where I can create multiple charts and broadcast them will be great.

Grid seems to be eschewing this use case in favor of having spreadsheets as tabularly organized content. While I don't have any specific issue with this, I don't see what problem or opportunity it addresses beyond "hey, nobody's done this!"

I can see it having merit with the few times I'll use a GDoc spreadsheet for organizing, say, who brings what to a party (and I do suppose that GDocs is a fairer comparison to Grid than Excel, at this stage), but being tablet-only hamstrings that effort.

I guess, overall, my question is: "What can I do with Grid that I can't do with anything else?"
The geographic aspect of Tapin is one of the things that I like the most. It makes finding video relevant to me so much easier, and it's something I really haven't seen in other sharing contexts. I'm pretty excited for Tapin.tv
When I bought the games I did on Steam, I was under the impression that it had a functional offline mode. After all, when I'd used it before, it was reliable. But since, the few times when I've tried it, it's failed. It's made me partly regret the purchases I've made, because I thought they would be available offline but now are not.

Again, you don't know people's situation. It's arrogant to criticize (edit: without having better information). "Bitching" about a poorly implemented system is entirely valid. Pardon me for foolishly believing the "Play offline" button would allow me to play my games offline, but it is labelled exactly as such.
Since most people (probably) just stay logged-in, would it really be worth the effort?
Race, gender, class, etc. are inextricably tangled up together. I'm not sure why you (seem to) think being underprivileged and Caucasian somehow means you will be trampled on or have your rights taken away. (How exactly?)

These "wedges between various groups in society" have existed ever since we've had an amygdala. They are innate, in that sense. We ought to accept that people as individuals, and more so as groups, are too biased when it comes to things like race, gender, etc, and we should address these problems in honest terms, as opposed to presuming that everyone is a rational actor who will realize that Racism Is Bad After All if only we did/didn't do X.

> Maybe you aren't obsessed with driving wedges between various groups in society, causing them to become factions with increasing animosity towards one another, but you're doing it.

Most of the animosity you might be referring to, has existed since day 1, but is just getting more attention from the media. Ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

> It's odd: No group hates underprivileged, unattractive whites males nearly as much as privileged, attractive white males. It's a cruel form of preening.

It's easier to hate people that you can relate to. Nothing odd about that. It's why you often see nerds making fun of other nerds with a ferocity greater than a non-nerd would ever muster.
I can't think of a single OS X user that would even begin to consider using Steam as an app store or launcher for anything but games.
Note that the emails that will be blended with your search results are from your inbox. This feature does not blend Alice's emails with Bob's search results, if Alice and Bob have not communicated.
I believe their new datacenter is in New Jersey now. They still have a Manhatten Datacenter but that is not where the trades are matched.
There's a good stitched together panoramic view of all those images at Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5932952/curiosity-opens-her-eyes-for-the-...
I don't think the system is technologically broken -- I just think companies should be subject to big fines for wrongly claiming ownership.

I mean, fines like $5,000 per false claim.

That will stop abuse of it, real fast.
not exactly that, but related: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
JavaScript is not a real solution to this problem, since it takes the control away from the client and condemns web developers to maintaining those horrible hacks forever as clients with unforeseen capabilities or expectations emerge. We need something that allows developers to add support for 2x images without having the server make any assumptions about what the client wants. If the client wants 1x images for whatever reason, it doesn't matter what their screen resolution or pixel scaling factor is, or whatever your script is using to determine support for 2x image display.
You're right, I was very unclear.

This "redesign" is horrible for reasons that everyone gives in this thread. I agree.

There are some design changes that could be made to Wikipedia to make things easier for editors (and for regular editors) - see, for example, the wall of text at the head of some meta pages such as the main page, or ANI, or etc.
1. if there was a hostage situation inside the exchange. they'd stop trading for all securities pretty much instantaneously. nobody's trades after the start of the hostage situation would be honored.

2. the exchange's data centers aren't even on wall street! most of the data centers are in weehawken, nj. breaking into the NYSE would be about as effective as breaking into a bank of america.
It's not a train in the classical sense - it has rubber tires. More like a truck confined to a rail.
Well, black is not black, it is simply the darkest color your medium (paper, screen, etc) can display. Not using it would effectively reduce the dynamic range of your medium.
You could use the same logic to justify wrecking the environment.