skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the link is to a short story in a literary group blog called MegazineMagazine.com. The title of the story is "Mutamate." The story's author, Miracle Jones, whom i had never heard of before reading the short story linked to her, is an extraordinary writer. Another of his story stories (also on this Site) begins with the line "So I used to have the same drug dealer as one of the guys who invented Kickstarter."
The most obvious downside is that it creates perverse incentives -- potential customers benefit if you fail. It also telegraphs a lack of...I don't know what the word is. Tenacity? It's kind of like putting a bounty on your own head so that at least somebody can benefit if you die. You really want people to be invested in your survival.

It also limits what you can do with your program. If your program uses code you don't have a license to release, you can't open-source it.
>why should i care that the content i create is accessible to all?

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee
Are there any plans to opensource it? The API hooks were awesome.
If it came off that way, I apologize. I was just expressing the thought that popped into my mind when seeing this. I'm not at all trying to judge her. I think she does excellent work and has just had a few bad apples. I hope her next project is successful.
But that's hacking trust. It's opposite to just being honest and having a publicized contingency plan, or open-source code.

edit (since I can't reply): logic being that social proof is good for business, but has no substance. It doesn't make it any better for users when it comes to shutting down.
Hulu Plus makes much more sense when viewed as a cable alternative (where there are also ads, but you pay a lot more) than a Netflix alternative. Netflix is going to try to get into the first-run content market, but right now if you don't have cable or OTA TV but want to be able to legally see any shows during their season, for just a fixed subscription fee, Hulu Plus is the option (though sadly it's missing a lot of stuff I'd like to see—I'd gladly pay at least $20 if it covered all the major broadcast and cable channels' original shows).
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

I love this book! Its entertaining, interesting and inspiring.
That's why Grove had a (very nice) web interface.
I would think that Bill Gates would have more free time than one who is burdened with school and work.

I, too, don't get as much reading in as I would like.
What? He's a retired multi-billionaire.

If he doesn't have all the time he wants to read whatever he wants, then he's doing something very, very wrong.
If this is your first time in NYC, forget the tech scene and just walk around the city. And grab some good food.
There are always early adopters that are passionate about every new product they can find, and there are also skeptical customers that refuse to use anything provided by startups. That's actually how sustainable startups grow.
I would like to hear the logic behind that assertion.
We use Flowdock at Testive and we _love_ it.
Not only can I not think of a way to do it, I have never, in 15 years, seen an organization that successfully managed junior engineers in a way that resulted in the production of code on par with what senior engineers would produce.

Getting good work out of junior engineers requires a management investment greater than the cost of simply hiring experienced engineers to begin with, and they still will not produce code to the same level of robustness and quality.

I can see from your company that you don't operate this way. I assume this choice expands the apparent pool of available applicants, but it also ensures that your company is likely completely uninteresting to senior, experienced, genuinely expert engineers.

In my experience, there are two kinds of engineering managers. The first is the kind that has figured out (or thinks they've figured out) how to get decent enough code out of inexperienced or just plain bad engineers. The second is the kind that realizes that they don't have to work nearly so hard or jump through so many procedural hoops if they just hire people that know what they're doing to begin with.

What's more, those experienced people tend to have extensive contacts and make it easy to hire their friends.

That said, I'm happy to let you spend the time, money, and energy training and managing junior engineers, while dealing with their subpar work output.
Here's a less random version: http://mweiss.github.com/fracza/fracza-even.html
This looks awesome dude. Looks like you also have some other nice apps up there. Can you make a living from the sales?
The funny part is that http://convore.com/ redirects to grove.io with the shutdown notice :)
I wish I could create things that people might actually want but I can't think of anything that I could make that people would want.
I think you might still have time to edit the post to come off the way you intended.
I like one idea I heard, which is that the pentagram is a symbol of freemasonry because originally it was used by actual stone masons to provide a golden mean for cathedral construction.

But without extremely good evidence, this is nothing but a nice thought, though it does give a fairly practical reason for it gaining the status of an occult symbol, which it didn't seem to have so much before the period of massive cathedral construction.
Here is why this failed... Anyone with half a brain is going to be able to:

* run their own IRC server

* run a XMPP server (cough openfire)

* Sign up for another service that has more features (Campfire or Hipchat)

Not to be mean, but the pricing on grove.io is stupid for what they offer. I run a XMPP server at work and costs us nothing for the basics, which is group chat and private chat. They could have offered this for far cheaper and maybe they would be alive now... and by cheaper I mean a flat fee, no slot pricing for a hosted solution. IRC has low overhead so really, offer IRC+ features for dirt cheap and people will sign up. Hell, if they wanted a higher end one time fees, they knock out a self hosted solution with high end support on a yearly support contract.

If the features are that good for your IRC based service, knock it down to $5/mo unlimited users and get a user base going, find out what they want and then add on value addon features based on that feedback. If you can't offer the service for that cheap, then you have too much overhead (bodies).
The circularity I am looking at is that my ability to have "actual questions you could ask a computer program that it can't answer" is reliant on my ability to generate them and verify the results (as in, that they answered the question correctly or not) using algorithms, which inherently limits the cardinality of the set of possible questions to the cardinality of the set of possible answers, but I feel only because we are starting from inside of the algorithmic box.

To me, it is very similar to claiming (which many do; I won't, btw, go so far as to say that it is a poor way of looking at the world: this may be more practical) that there is no such thing as a set that has infinite cardinality (whether we are talking countably, uncountably, or something even more infinite than that) because no one would be able to count how many elements are in the set, nor would the set have been able to be constructed in the first place.

Maybe "circular" isn't the right term, but it does seem to rely on an assumption of the result (hence my usage of "begging"). My goal, then, in switching from "problem" to the more specified "language" is that, if you believe in the concept of "infinity" in the first place, I feel justified in my ability to prove that the set of languages is uncountably infinite, and the fact that I can't enumerate (or possibly even choose) elements from that set is not relevant.
ARGH.

I really liked using this service.
I read this as "The White House's Daft Cybersecurity Executive Order"

which maybe would have been more entertaining
Leah is out there creating things, writing code and spending valuable time on new ventures, despite the risk and opportunity cost. I admire her courage and creativity and I can't imagine why you would say something like this.

I'm sure she would have loved to have all of her projects succeed.

Grove.io is a high quality service. We love using it at Leftronic and are very sad to read this news. I wish Leah and her team the best.
Sell software and a service. Make it so I can install your code and run it indefinitely. Provide your source to paying customers.

See Atlassian for an example.
William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and "Gangnam Style"
Ask HN: I can't think of anything that I could make that people would want. 
Have you run into this? How did you find a way to create something people would want?
100 acres is relatively "massive" compared to existing American solar installations. But it's really not that large an area in the industrial sense.

I searched "acres refinery" to get an idea of how much land an oil refinery takes up (required, in addition to oil fields, for your diesel generators). Chevron's Richmond refinery took up 435 acres in 1915, expanded over the years to to 2,900 acres in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Richmond_Refinery
Thanks for the book recommendation. It actually looks fascinating. I think I best avoid it for now, however, or no doubt I'll become too distracted from my programming duties.

In the meantime, I'll take one more stab at horribly distorting your position in a trollish and intellectually dishonest fashion. What you seem to be saying is as follows:

With the advent of digital image manipulation tools such as Photoshop, we've discovered the visual equivalent of glutimates, the previously unrecognized fifth "taste", which does not have its own distinct flavor, and yet somehow manages to make everything that is combined with it taste ever so much better. Editorial photographers now use Photoshop to dump glutimates into the images that we routinely see by the bucketful, and these visual glutimates were also liberally sprinkled into the restored Proudin-Gorsky images. Anyone who experiences any particular feeling of "wow" from seeing these restored images, is really just enjoying those glutimates. The original data, sans artificial glutimate enhancement, would never wow the modern eye.

I have no doubt that you are correct about the visual glutimates that are routinely added to our modern visual diet. But I should also think that this is actually nothing new. This has been routinely done long before the invention of Photoshop, just as it was routinely done in cooking before the scientific confirmation a decade or so ago of a fifth kind of taste bud. E.g., Modern French cuisine, as codified in the late 19th century, is largely based on getting plenty of glutimates into food through the use of veal stock and deglazing, etc. There's a similar story for Japanese food, which led to the patenting of monosodium glutimate in 1908.

For a famous editorial photo ladened with darkroom MSG, rather than Photoshop created MSG, we need look no further than the famous photo of RFK after he was shot:

http://www.the1968exhibit.org/sites/the1968exhibit.org/files...

Should I somehow feel cheated that too much MSG has gotten into the meat of what was supposed to be reality? Maybe I should. But I don't. And surely what moves me about this photo is not merely the darkroom. You have stated previously that people who are in awe of the Proudin-Gorsky restorations are really in awe of nothing more than Photoshop. In that case, what moves me in the RFK photo, is nothing more than the darkroom. That, of course, is absurd.

Also, I'm not convinced that this visual MSG in the Proudin-Gorsky photos has quite the immense effect that you seem to imply that it does.

Compare this Proudin-Gorsky image:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bi...

side-by-side with this scanned Kodachrome slide from 1941:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a33000/1a33900/1a339...

Yes, the Proudin-Gorsky image looks more modern. But the Kodachrome image from 1941 is as equally impressive in its own way--those girls look like they could step right out of that slide and into my living room. And this is presumably without the addition of any MSG. Or at least not any that is not inherent in the Kodachrome process.
Mibbit is an option ;)
> put loads together at the beginning

Modern CPU's can actually "look ahead" in the execution flow. So for something like this:

MOV EAX,[memory_access]
ADD EBX,ECX
ADD EAX,EBX

The ADD EBX,ECX instruction would be done while the CPU would otherwise be idle, waiting for the memory subsystem to return the result of the first instruction.

Of course there are strange corner cases that have to be taken into account. For example, if the first instruction ends up causing an exception -- maybe the memory it refers to is in the swap file, or maybe it's dereferencing a NULL pointer -- the CPU has to be able to roll back the execution of any subsequent instructions, so it appears to the software as if the exception happened during the instruction that actually caused it.

If you're interested in the automatic program transformations performed by modern CPU's, you can read more by Googling for the Intel processor optimization manual [1] -- warning, PDF link. (I believe AMD publishes a similar document.)

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/64-ia-32-archite...
Tell HN: I'm interested in buying sputtering web apps
Here’s what I’m looking for:

- Web application
- Launched
- B2B
- Recurring revenue model
- Coded in PHP, Python, or Ruby
- At least $100 / month in revenue

If you have a few of these, but not all of them, please contact me anyway and we’ll talk it out.

More info here: http://ryanwaggoner.com/selling-a-web-app/
Perhaps but I think I would want to keep something like that close to my heart, not because I'm paranoid but because I really want to learn the code behind it so I know what's going on.

Besides, it's using technology I'm not used to and I need all the practice I can get.
Talk to people, preferably people with money, and ask them what their problems are. Some portion of those problems will be amenable to solution with a computer, phone, etc etc. Sketch out a low fidelity prototype of what the solution looks like, bring it back, and ask them to pay for it. If they'll pay for it, they want it.
Very cool. One of those "why didn't I think of that" apps.
Why did Tuomas leave? That seems like a pretty big problem just 12 months in.
I had the same exact reaction. A whole hour of "what the hell? Do they not activate accounts on weekends or something?" Going back and forth between my laptop and the PS3 I finally found and read the FAQ one more time without skimming when I saw them pointing it out. I've gotten used to it now, although I wish they were a little more sympathetic– the connection occasionally craps out causing everything to freeze up, the only way to get back being either to stop and restart or turn the whole thing off. It would be nice if it could remember that I just saw two ads, for the third time in a row (and for some reason, the issues are only with hulu). Feature request: localized ads! I hate the US ads, but don't really trust Hulu JP content– I'd rather just watch the Japanese ads if they're the same as what's on tv. They're somehow less presumptuous, easier to ignore, or better-feeling when they're good (BOSS).
Or are you one of these supposedly 'intelligent' people who see public schools as a sequestering station for criminals?

Try keeping your kid home from public school without obtaining permission to withdraw them, and see what happens.

When an industry receives a government subsidy, how is that 'cracking down on criminals'?

Try not paying your share of the tax money that the government is turning over to the industry, and see what happens.

Perhaps we should ask the street-sweepers how effective they are at 'cracking down on criminals'?

Street maintenance is not an exercise of "power."

What about firefighters and paramedics, how are they turning the common citizen into a criminal?

Fire/paramedic services are not exercises of "power."
Swap "CS" for "technical" and you'd be right.
You make it seem like he was completely serious when it appears from the video that he was making a joke. I understand the joke would probably put off women from their conference, but what he said after that is the woman in his classes have liked using Haskell so more woman should be encouraged to try Haskell because they will likely do well. I think you are overstating the sexist nature of his comment.
Did you miss the "that haven't open-sourced their tech" part in the parent?
Thank you all for your replies. Really helpful!
Isn't there anything you want?
Firefox OS has a great opportunity
None of those phones rank high for sales in Brazil. Despite average income still being low, smartphone sales are skyrocketing (77% up in first-half of 2012).

In addition, most feature-phones these days are actually pretty decent (webkit browsers, > 320x480 res). With S40 and Firefox OS set for growth I think we won't need to worry about the odd ones much longer.
Which is funny, because my mom gets more k-dramas than I ever dreamed existed and yet last I checked I couldn't find Pulp Fiction on any of these services, save for what looks like 35 different trailers for the feature length movie...
"The idea was to connect all sports fans by creating a group video chat service where the fans could be together while watching football at home."

I am curious: how many of the team were football fans, and did they actually use the service on a regular basis?
> I sincerely hope that he gets the punishment he deserves which should be a firm slap on the wrist.

A felony, even without any jail time, is an irreversible and life changing punishment. He will no longer be able to vote or (possibly?) leave the country, or work at various organizations and corporations that automatically do not hire felons.

Edit: didn't know that felons could still get passports. They can have trouble getting visa's for sure though.
Open source with a service is an exciting model, a lot of network effects but also greater up front investment. We are doing this with getfwd.com
I think this is debatable. It's lamentable seeing it said as a truism without supporting information.
I have never used IRC. How is it better than Google Chat?
Heh, I'm not really sure.
Valve AND Blizzard would be pretty big though since they make 'PC games' (for lack of a better term). Other big players like EA release their games on console as well.

Most Blizzard games already work pretty well with Wine so perhaps a distribution could take care of supporting Steam and a properly configured release of Wine for Blizzard games.
It is not only tech start-ups that do that. Big tech companies regularly kill or sell off divisions or product lines. Most times, a start-up might still be on its first product line, which makes you think selling off their single product line or single division in this instance the whole company to be different from what the tech giants do when they sell or kill off product lines or divisons.

Start-ups with more than one product line, sometimes sell off one product and keep the rest acting thesame way big companies do. So, Yext a start-up sold their Felix product line to IAC eg:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/iac-buys-yexts-pay-per-call...

An example of a giant doing thesame thing:

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/26/google-sells-sketchup-wa...

I have shown above, an example of start-ups and giants selling a product line. You can Google around for example of tech giants and start-ups with more than one product, killing off a product line.
I have to go meet people first, but this seems like good advice. :)
Great move writing a Python export script.
You overcome it by offering something valuable for users that they can't easily setup themselves.

As far as I can see, Grove.io didn't do this. They didn't have any easy means to grow quickly.

Also perhaps they're paying a lot for hosting (At rackspace). I don't know, but there's no reason they shouldn't be making some profit if they have a few paying customers. Shame they can't build on that.
Of interest to hackers! This hacker at least.

More articles like this please. :-)
Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson
Did you really get burned with Sparrow though? You bought software, not a service. Them being bought, and shut down, by Google has zero effect on you given that you can continue to use their software. Forever.
"democracy relies on the informed voter"
yeah, get informed by mainstream media - totally does wonders to democracy. did work hefty fine in itally where the former head of state owned a large slice of tv/newspaper. by coincidence he was voted on and on and on. same for some african countries. democracy export country no1 - USA - has just exchanged the single person who controls the media with a network of controllers. so dumb voters will not notice that they are manipulated. "they said it twice on different tv channels, so it must be true". don't know if the US got that from the Germans or the other way around cause they got the same system.
And even that system could be applied to HN, too. Just have 10 friends submit, upvote and comment on the latest and greatest technology/company. Readers that just get themselves informed through HN must think that gazillions of people now love and use this technology.
Long story short: Do not just consume news. Always ask why you should believe what you just read and who will benefit from you believing that. Now knowing that, ask yourself: What is your benefit from that news again?
This is interesting, it certainly shows how few of the top few hundred are available on any service. I'd love to see more services (Crackle, Hulu free, etc.) for comparison. I also think you should turn the lookup around, start with the list of movies avaialable and check the imdb/tomatoes/metacritic rating. Then you could show relative counts i.e. how many have a rating of x or better.

Other resources:

http://instantwatcher.com/

Is an up to date neflix only summary of what's available to stream including by genre/subgenre. Very importantly it tells you what's about to expire.

http://www.canistream.it/

Shows availability for various subscription and on demand options. May be out of date or failing at fuzzy matching. Great concept though.

The piratealts blogger made this wiki page showing other options as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_streaming_a...
Even more interesting, "Spanner" is English for "something that spans", as in a database spanning the world.

Maybe it's a bit snarky, but I really don't see how you can read into something like that. It reminds me of the following Jack Handy quote:

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. - Jack Handy
Ask HN: was anything ever easy? 
Hi HN,
I'm building my first startup, and I have been amazed that every good thing that happened so far, we really had to work hard for. That's not surprising per se, but I was really expecting some breaks here and there. Maybe those are yet to come. Was it always hard from the get go, or does it get better?
> He will no longer be able to vote or leave the country,

Why leaving the country would be a problem? I haven't heard of that one before. Say what if wants to fly to Europe for vacation, he can't because he was convicted of a felony?