skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, as a developer I can say that I wouldn't pay Twitter for access.

I probably also wouldn't take any paying jobs any more working with the free Twitter API as it stands now - too many restrictions.
Ask HN: Best way to hack TC Disrupt SF as pre-launch consumer ecommerce startup?
Sharing a booth (with another startup) in the startup alley and wondering the best strategy to maximize the experience. Not seeking funding now; the general aim is to connect with potential cofounders and advisors.

</br>Are you expected to man your booth all day or only after certain events (if so when are the most crucial times)? I realize TCD is more focused on tech-centred startups, so also wondering if alley visitors will generally be interested in viewing an ecommerce site and what/how much to show as a startup in closed beta.

</br>Would appreciate hearing from past attendees, including startup alley participants.
Actually, karma is very good market indicator for any board and filter bubbles tend to be specific to filtering out certain types of content. This won't be filtering anything by content.
Modes and commands in vim are well designed and useable for an expert, which is the entire point.
yeah, blogger ping-pong.
Oh definitely something more like that. I was not serious about the exact wording I used, I just wanted to convey the point.
We can always make the understanding of metaphors a required step for signing up.
This proposal would give a relative penalty to people like me who get into lengthy discussions, and who reply in older threads.

Whether or not this is a good thing is a matter of preference. (My preference should be obvious.)

Though, truth be told, I've never worried much about karma.
The other thing is that his proposal was a proposal to "improve" Hacker News, not a promise to "fix" hacker news. Trying to do a grand massive "fix every problem" is more likely to introduce new problems than just making relatively safe improvements.
Average votes/submission seems a better gauge than raw number of submissions. Maybe there are people who are just really good an finding and posting a lot of stuff that's interesting.
Then this will reduce the amount of impact they have on the community as a whole. They will be doing us a favor by starting out ruining their karma.

Also, to state the obvious, every member here was a new member at one time and I'm not ready to say that is "typical" behavior. It's just very memorable behavior.

The whole reason why I submitted this was because PG said it wasn't the comments that cause issues but that bad comments were getting upvoted too much.
We all knew that the second someone started wielding their "defensive" patents the whole system was going to fall apart.

Well...here we go I guess.
At a glance, this looks so very awesome. I've definitely wanted something like this a number of time now!
Here's what (relatively) high karma netted me on my YC application: a personalized rejection email (and brief ensuing conversation) from pg.

High karma does not make up for an application that does not resonate with the reviewers.
>our car-based society allows us to geographically isolate us from the poor

You think that a society needs cars to be geographically isolated from the poor? Ever hear of a thing called history? by this statement I can see that you have not. History tells us that our car-based society allows for more opportunity for the social underclass rather than the opposite.

If you think that funding for schools in poor areas is the problem with our education system - you are out of touch with reality. I grew up in one of those areas and observed first hand the problem. It is not that the children do not have the opportunity to study and get good grades, go to college and get out of poverty.... The problem is that the kids are lazy and they aren't pushed by their parent(s) to do their homework and study. They get into trouble on the streets or play video games instead, girls get pregnant and go on welfare as single moms, guys do drugs and join gangs ending up in jail. Then they blame white people for their problems.

I know this by observation. Why isn't anyone asking the students who come out of these areas with decent to good grades and make something out of themselves. Everyone has their theory but no one wants to hold the parents of these kids accountable. I personally think that parents should be punished if their children don't do well in school, have continual behavioral problems or commit crimes. Cut off the welfare and restrict these parents and their families to living in a shelter and eating bread and water (no money for cable tv, alcohol and ciggies). It is not a good solution, but it is the only solution that will work. No amount of money via welfare or social programs will ever bring the black community out of the continuum they are stuck in.

The Hispanic community has another problem. Most of them are from Mexico or are second generation. The immigrants are usually much better off financially than they were in Mexico even if they are making $6 an hour mowing lawns. Their kids often cannot speak English very well and don't think that that they should have to put in more work than their English speaking counterparts to stay at the same level. Often their parents both work very long hours and do not appreciate the value of their kids education. They like the black parents (but for different reasons) do not require a high level of effort from their kids in regards to education. Again, their has to be consequences for these parents. Investigate the parents of children who never do their homework or are clearly not giving much effort in school. Warn them, then if things don't improve - deport them. I think that we would see quite a lot better grades from Mexicans overnight if this policy was implemented.

If parents don't know how to motivate their children - offer them parenting classes.
For anyone interested: cPanel doesn't officially support PgSQL, and Plesk charges $6-15/mo for their "Power Pack" addon which adds PgSQL support.
I tried loading my clojure project (https://github.com/dmix/documeds) but I'm only getting a "Connecting" loading screen for 30min.
The Cost of Friendship (between venture capitalists)
It could be too radical, but we could end anonymity in the sense of keeping public track of who upvoted, downvoted or flagged what.
Yeah, I like to see my absolute Karma score tick upwards (it's how I know that I'm adding value to the community) but I don't stress out about saying something that might not be a huge hit to my average karma.
There are numerous obvious examples that are exposed to non-lawyers. Lifetime has legal force in everyday contracts and agreements in addition to the "lifetime guarantee" that upstanding organizations such as Sears/Craftsman uphold.

Trusts can be created that have a term that expires a stated number of years after the life of one or more named individuals, and can benefit an individual during their lifetime, with a trust remainder interest going to someone else.

A life estate in property, typically created via a will (to a spouse for example, with the children becoming owners of the remainder interest in the land), or created by a simple deed, allows a person to live on and use the property during that person's lifetime, but not sell the property, because they do not hold the land in fee simple (fee simple meaning they have a full interest in the land).

Life insurance is a contract describing payments relating to a lifetime, and annuity contracts are the inverse contract, payments during the lifetime to the beneficiary / owner.

These are common and everyday uses of contractual English that mean "lifetime".
Anyone know what the eventual end game of all these lawsuits will be? Will everyone just end up carrying on and suing for the next few decades?
Wouldn't that just cause a lot of spam comments?
Hopefully they don't try to screw them out of COBRA continuation coverage.
Twitter actually played a notable part in taking down several repressive regimes over the past year or two. I no longer trust Twitter to be reasonably available to the oppressed in a year or two, given their crackdown on third-party clients (like mobile clients). App.net is intending to be a platform for everything, and "everything" includes "bringing communication and openness to purge corruption out of the darkest corners of the world".

Yes, "everything" also includes "taking hipster photos of my meals and sharing them with my hipster friends", and that's closer to why I actually signed up, but the implicit claim that $50 towards a project as ambitious as App.net does _nothing_ to solve the world's social ills is very questionable.
Wow, thanks for the reddit link, I would never have found that.
There are an infinite number of ways that common stock (and the associated options) can be rendered worthless in acquisition or winding up a company.

Simplest way is to sell the company for enough to pay off preferred shareholders, and use "personal service contracts" to compensate insiders. They get paid well, shareholders get zero.

Most of them would not stand up to a lawsuit, but if you suddenly have no money coming in, are you going to be willing to pursue an expensive, years long legal process?
Yep, someone decided that MAD was worth it or that they could win. It certainly looks like it's going to be a fun time for the lawyers and people with popcorn.

So far we've got Apple suing Motorola, Motorola suing back. Apple suing Samsung, and now Google suing Apple. Any others I've missed?
I really, really want to implement OStatus in my CMS.

However, this page is a joke:

http://ostatus.org/2010/10/04/how-ostatus-enable-your-applic...

And I couldn't find anything better, much less in-depth and comprehensive yet. What a shame - the protocol exists and works, yet is mostly enjoyed by the few people who, I dunno, hung out on mailing lists when it was created? Or am I missing something? Where are the newbie guides for OStatus? Where is the example mini-blogging-app, etc.? I cannot help others understand or use something that is a book with seven seals to me.
If you read "Kingpin", even though the owner of one of the top carding forums could have just traded digital goods and been fine, he choose to dabble in physical goods for the money/whatever. That was how he was caught. I'd surmise the predators are not too different, though perhaps decidedly more cautious.
I paid for app.net, and I'm a human, and I haven't posted anything because I don't have anything to say yet. Note that you don't automatically get into the alpha if you pay -- you have to request, presumably because they guessed there were people like me who care about supporting app.net more than they care about saying anything quite yet.
I guess in the end IBM would come into the room and shut everyone up.
It's likely those investors have liquidity preferences anyways. In a fire-sale situation that equity is likely worthless.
I feel like a wimp for liking nano (pico)

Vi reminds me of the crazy-old wordstar days.
The site was originally called startup news. I think that in retrospect the rename to HN was a bad idea, because it changes peoples expectations of what the site is for.

Regardless, what you are describing would be much appreciated.
Oh, I'm not either. But you'll note that Nokia runs Windows and Symbian, which are pretty much both all-business. They also carry a lot more models, which broadens the scope for the hardware.
Did Google acquire Motorola just to prepare its patent arsenal?
This is true, but it is a problem that currently exists.

For orthogonality's sake, I would suggest that if most of your posts come from 1:1 conversations, post by post, then perhaps there is a better medium to communicate with that person than through a board like HN.
It's good to be a patent attorney these days.
Just to be clear, this Motorola suing Apple, and it's not the first time they've done so. I think The Verge has a much less linkbait-y headline for this: "Motorola files new patent case against Apple with ITC, wants import ban on iPhone and iPad" [1]

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3250656/motorola-files-new...
Why do I get a feeling I am living in a Matrix as a data storage device?
Yet what other way is there to integrate texture effects besides using images of familiar physical materials? Images of physical materials leverages our intuitions of the physical world.

How do people acquire their intuitions of the physical world? By interacting with it. Likewise with computers and software.

Better to to develop appropriate intuitions based on the thing you're actually using than to rely on increasingly outdated analogs.
I don't find this distinction very useful, and I disagree that it's harder to get screwed over. It's in fact, just as easy.. we're only talking about degree. I think your argument is that instead of your shares being worth zero, they can only be diluted to any positive real number... which brings me little comfort.
This is Motorola suing Apple again, for the record.
It's impossible to know from the outside, but there was a lot of conjecture about that.
I think people are making some interesting proposals. I have a controversial view: maybe things aren't that bad? I usually see nasty comments downvoted. We want civility but I don't think anyone wants Stackoverflow level sterility.

Also I think the community still praises and gives great self-esteem boosting comments. I can't tell you how many postings of "look at me project" that seem like 3 hour mashups for which I don't undestand the point at all, but the comments will have snark at all. Of course, this is just my anecdote.
So you don't have any examples or know what you are talking about. Got it.
Here's some analysis of Metro's alternative approach.

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/493

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/526
Mine have always had "you have 30 days to exercise your options after you quit or are let go for any reasons". Which is more common?
Why is it okay for Google to do it but not say, Oracle? It's ridiculous no matter who does it.
OK, making me watch a Flash video to find out what your company does and who you are is counter-productive. I opened your home page, looked for information on why I should be interested and found a big, lifeless box (I run Flash-Block). The result was that I quickly closed your page and probably won't be back.

My advice is to remove the Flash video from your home page or at least supplement it with words.
The company build up value (patents etc.) and the employees get zero of that. Maybe the VC's are the problem, when they dictate terms when they have a higher preference than the employees (what is unjust to begin with), but also a CEO who allowed that. In this case he got nothing either, but has still some responsibility.

Gaikai was bought for 380m, i just don't get how OnLive can be worth less than the 50m investment.
This is essentially the old argument over whether it's better to patch old bad code, or whether it's better to rewrite old bad code. I think all of the same responses would apply, i.e., whether or not new problems might be preferable to the existing ones. Since much smarter people than I have written carefully-considered essays on that argument (and without coming to a clear conclusion), I'll just let them speak for me. :-)
Because Apple attacked first
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
If the company ceased to exist, then it died in an asset sale and the founders got nothing while investors got cents on the dollar.

If the company was acquired and common stock holders cashed out in a positive way, then it was a proper acquisition and OnLive was required to disclose its stock optionees and the buyer would have been required to set aside cash/stock in escrow to pay them out. Otherwise yes they would be subject to liability and lawsuits, which would be dumb to expose yourself to.
hmm I thought a better way to implement this is to say:

tweet.proto.where = function...
Why don't they just block all 3rd party apps that emulate the official Twitter app experience?
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those applications ended up being "test" applications. I know each developer at my last job had at least one test app of their own, with many of us using at least 4-5 test apps.

addendum: This was for 2 actual production applications.
I got a beta invite about a week ago, but after reading how they only want you to use JST templates and such I avoided it. Is this actually the case or is that just the standard template (and documentation) recommendation?
I've been using it in production as the primary datastore on a news website with fairly high traffic (10 million+ monthly uniques, 1000s of queries per second). Have not encountered any issues since switching to MariaDB over a year ago. Monty's organization places a high value on well tested and stable releases.
Wait, Apple sued Google?
To get access on users webcam while webrtc isn't ready.
Maybe he cares first about portability, e.g., easily moving a binary from one BSD-based device to another. Not all devices have the same space limitations.

There might be other reasons, too. Static binaries fork faster, but this works best if they are also small enough to remain entirely in the OS's cache.

There's nothing wrong with dynamic linking per se. Nor is there anything wrong with static linking per se. ("Per se" as used here is intended to mean "in all circumstaces".) The use of one or the other is simply a choice. There are advantages and disadvantages with each method, based on the circumstances and whatever the desired result(s) is/are.
I'm not clear on how changing the user interface isn't a technical solution, especially in contrast to such a low-tech thing as a community manager.

I didn't mean to imply that technical solutions wouldn't make a difference, even dramatic ones, just that they could not completely take the place of some manual effort.
If Google owns Motorola, they could put a stop to this if they wanted to, no?
OT: I like OAS' birds-eye view logo
Maybe I'm reading too deep into the logo but the symbolism (the the outward pointing spear-like flag poles in a circle-the-wagons type cluster) seems aggressive and appropriate
Does anybody else feel all the tech giants standing around with their patents in hand is like all the characters standing around with guns like at the end of Reservoir Dogs?

"Nobody innovate or we'll shoot!"

It's intriguing at first, but you can only keep it up so long before the plot line gets annoying because no one is doing anything (or innovating), or someone gets shot.
I don't think you can simply toss one of the strands. DNA is so compact because of the way it coils, and you likely lose that if you only have one strand.
In my mind, the difference is in the legality of the material, and the degree to which said material can be effectively simulated. Due to the illegal nature of the material, and the limited number of people who are interested in it, there is not a developed profession of experts in simulating child abuse. As such, the majority of images of child abuse are created by actually abusing children. Combine that with offenders use of trading mechanisms, and the the desire for "new" images, it's easy to see how demand for images of child abuse increases the number of children being abused.

On the other hand, violence is not illegal to depict, and there are many professionals who are experts in simulating violence without actually causing harm. This results in violence and rape in this country going down. If violence was hard to simulate, and the only way to create images of violence was to hurt or possibly kill someone, I think we'd be much more likely to treat images of violence in the same way as we treat images of child abuse.

In the end, I think your argument may hold for fabricated or animated images of child abuse, but fails to do so for images of actual abuse. AFAIK, most images in circulation now are of actual children, and as such, we prosecute all images as if they were.
One Thing is For Sure — Twitter Wants Nothing To Do With The Enterprise
Another technique could be to split the ranking into two modes, a general mode and a power mode(where rules are much strict and biased towards a filtered set of core community users). Using the power mode, readers would view the community core (who defines the site ethos) but may not be able to interact (vote,comment and submission not appearing here without upvote from core members).

Such an approach should be taken with a goal to gradually adhere the general user behavior towards the community core. May be add a tab for this.

The thinking is based on the premise that the site still has a lot of its core users and community values have not changed over time.
The people that I have those conversations with are people I only know through HN, and the discussions come out of what happened here. Those discussions would not have naturally happened in another medium.

As an example I give you this discussion. In this thread I have 2 posts, both with 1 karma right now. I do not expect them to go up much if at all. Where would you suggest that I should have gone for this conversation with you?
That acquisition made a lot of strategic sense for a variety of reasons.. Not the least of which is their core business in producing phones and even for that matter cable set top boxes (see Google Fiber). That being said the IP was surely a significant factor.
This is a thing that happens. Be careful who you pick as your business partners.
Your parent asks about simply storing data in DNA-form, and splicing it into an organism. Splicing computer data into your DNA does not immediately fill your head with knowledge.

If it did, why, you'd never have to study protein sequences- you'd already know how to make hemoglobin!
Wait, 1.5mg per petabyte at large scales? Wouldn't that mean a gram could hold (1000/1.5) 667 petabytes and presumably scalable to many grams (eventually)? I understand it's only 650kB right now, but the density is obviously still incredible.
I think it is part of a plan to destroy western society by locking up all the courts and government with unanswerable questions such as "Who first thought of the rectangle?".

Soon, there will be nothing left but a wasteland and some lawyers arguing over who gets to own half a dead cat while they warm their hands on oil drums full of burning currency.
Yikes. That's confusing (malicious?). It left me with a sense of distaste for heello. You guys may want to clarify.
They do, and the price is $0.0001 per tweet.

Search rate limits through the normal API can be prohibitive for many use cases like news/brand monitoring. Or even citizen monitoring programs for local police. So they resort to datasift and gnip and are charged volume-based amounts on behalf of Twitter. And presumably, at the end of every month, a wire transfer goes out to Twitter.

Now that doesn't mean that twitter makes $1 per 10,000 tweets. A license to the tweet is required separately for each end user of those two platforms. So with 1000 datasift users accessing a particular tweet, Twitter is making $0.10 on it. The more people request that tweet the more money Twitter makes. Marginal cost = 0.

For more info, check out the Datasift FAQ's:
http://dev.datasift.com/docs/getting-started/billingfaq#lice...
Because gnash doesn't work.
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