skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a lot of evidence that the vic was involved with and owed a lot of money to coke dealers who killed her in a manner consistent with prior M.O.s so while I did at one point believe OJ did it, there is some doubt in my mind and without having been at the trial and heard all the evidence I do not believe OJ actually would be a reasonable counter argument.

She had been telling the coke dealers, "Don't worry my man's rich he'll pay." When in fact he had told her many times that he wouldn't pay and many of his friends told him he better get very far away from her while he still can and before she gets herself and maybe him killed by the people she had been taking drugs from.
I think the comment should be "don't believe techcrunch" ... rather than "don't read techcrunch"

There's a lot of value in keeping a pulse of what's going on. But you need a filter ...
No accounts?

I like the idea, but I didn't get that it was only products that connect with iPhones until reading the comments here.
We've just started trying out adwords and have a bunch of different phrases. Analytics backend wasn't one of them, so I just added it. Thanks for the tip!

Looks like avg CPC for adwords is $0.58, but we've only gotten a few clicks so far and we have a low max price set. Not much of a sample size.

The 6.4 cents per click for the twitter stuff is a CRAZY CHEAP price. Though it does have lower conversion, it might come out competitively when we calculate price per signup.
It's Adium that logs by default, not Pidgin (which correctly disables logging.)

http://trac.adium.im/ticket/15722
>For thousands of years people are known to gather in the back of the woods to hatch plans that must be kept secret before the execution.

The solution is therefore to cut down all trees.
You're right. We had a staggered layout, a la Pinterest, until last week. Now that we've evened up everything, I'm sure we could remove Masonry. It's currently still using it, though.
What do you find most annoying in your house?
What do you find most annoying in your house/apartment? Or in other homes you have visited such as your friends' homes? Is it a bad design, construction defects, noises, smells, lighting, lack of space, etc?
Book says 'Big Data' becoming a global nervous system
There's still the cost of managing it (you're looking at $millions) - it's something that various parties have looked into, and then decided against. It's also unclear that having a third-party holder would actually be any better. So far Microsoft have behaved far more reasonably than you might expect, and what problems there have been can be chalked up to large company rather than malice. I understand why people don't want to trust Microsoft, but I don't currently see any evidence that they're misusing their powers here.
Wanna check out startups in SF 
Hi! I'm an out of state student (international student in the US really). I'm here volunteering for the Lean Startup Conference.

I'm staying in SF for the rest of the week to kinda get inspired by osmosis by visiting startups.

Can I please stop by your shop for maybe 10-15 minutes? Promise I won't be a bother :) might ask a few silly questions and take copious notes ha!

Thanks much !
Sourabh
t3-sourabh@unl.edu
www.site44.com itself is hosted on Site44. My blog is too (http://blog.smarx.com).

Be careful when testing performance... browser refreshes trigger us going back to Dropbox to look for changes to files, so they're considerably slower than just navigating around a site (where we typically serve pages from an in-memory cache).

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm one of the founders of Planet Rational (the company that made this).
Does it really rain all the time in Seattle?
Thanks! (I'm one of the founders.)
I won't give out specific names of course. The brainwashing is mostly around the cult of personality around pg. Everything he writes or espouses becomes gospel. Now, we all know he can write intelligently and with research on some things he knows well. But he can also sound equally confident spouting utter bullshit about stuff he knows nothing about (e.g. http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm ). Listening to ultra confident blowhards and separating bullshit from reality is a skill people tend to learn as they grow into the adult world.

But these are mostly people in their early to mid twenties who have little to no actual experience in the real world. They seem to believe startups and entrepreneurship was invented by this one man. The fact that after almost 200 investments, there are a sum total of two possibly viable businesses that may end up coming out of this enterprise seems to have no effect on that conviction (and one of them (airbnb) is teetering really close to edge of being unsustainable (pending the question of legal liabilities of renters as well city ordinances etc.)).

It really is a cult of personality with all connotations of the word "cult" coming into play.
Agreed on the lighting. Perspective is a bit off though, and his face also appears to have less contrast than the reporters'. Both of these could be due to a smudge on the lens, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does turn out to be a cardboard cut-out.

The strangest thing for me is why on earth would a reporter publish a picture where he stuck his finger in front of the lens? Everybody is relaxed, sure there was time to take another one?
Why specifically iPad and not just mobile computers in general? iPad isn't the only tablet around you know.
I created a similar service last winter: http://www.kissr.com/.

A friend of mine talked to Drew Houston about the idea at a conference and Housten loved it!

1124 people have signed up for KISSr but I have yet to get anyone to pay for it.

I have since lost interest in the project.

I still think it is a great idea and I am glad someone is running with it!
Google must be all-over this for their Glasses. Seems like it would be a great solution to the input problem with them.
It's heavily skewed by category. For every Macbook or iPhone sale that goes awry, 10,000 Beanie Babies are traded between elderly housewives without incident.
>Over the coming years and decades, if Bitcoin successfully survives crisis
>after crisis, nothing prevents it from eventually gaining as much credibility
>in the public's mind as, say, gold.

You unintentionally prove my point. How much bullion do you have under your figurative mattress right now?
I do lots of work with musicians and I think the LS approach is incredibly applicable to them.

So many bands go into the studio and spend tons of money recording a very polished full length album and getting CDs pressed before they even break 1,000 likes on Facebook.

It makes no sense to spend so much time and money before they know if they are a band that people will like or if they will even stay together long enough for the album to remain relevant.
Yes. We do some stuff that's not as easy to copy (like custom mime types and redirects), but certainly the goal is that you can easily just copy the files elsewhere.
TL;DR Version: [The Daily's] success was that they got over 100,000 readers to pay at least $40 per year for a subscription. How many digital publications can say that? Not many. And the iPad — with Apple’s simple, trusted, familiar payment mechanism — made that possible. The Daily’s problem was simply that they weren’t conceived to operate on $5 or $6 million per year in revenue. A smarter, smaller team could.
I have been using Dropbox to store my utility html/js pages for a long time already....
Ebay needs a competitor.
In the app i'm working on now, I really want to get the page loading fast-fast-fast. I have all javascript combined into one file, minimized, gzipped, far-future cached. Same with CSS. (Rails does this for me, mostly). javascript file is also marked with 'async' attribute. All images are set up so loading images doesn't block initial page load.

300ms for https round trips remain. shrug. it is unfortunate, but I stick with https anyway. Making sure your web server is doing persistent http connections is about the only thing I know to do to ameliorate somewhat, but first connection is still slower than I'd like, due to https.
I give site44 a few weeks before they have to stop. DropBox, unless they have changed in the last ~6 months, won't let you do this. I'm not sure if it's in their TOS anymore since they went through the whole TOS fiasco a while back, but I've tried this and been shut down.

I'm not known on the Internet at all. I have perhaps 30 friends in Facebook. I had a Wordpress blog and grabbed an image I had sitting in DropBox and used it's public URL. I posted a link on Facebook. Within an hour Dropbox had detected "unusual" activity and disabled the image.

Further, I've tried sharing a 700MB movie ( personal project I self edited ) to a small group of friends. I sent an email to 5 people, so there were 5 or less downloads. The movie was disabled for too much bandwidth use.

I do only have the free Dropbox account, and in the past have linked to a small jpg and posted that to a mailing list for css so it was probably hit thousands of times and that was allowed to stay.

I'm not sure what their internal system is set for as to rules for xfer amounts and number of hits, but in my experience, it's pretty low.

A novel idea, though I would think anyone who knows how to make an HTML site is already locally previewing it, so they would already know how to put it in their public folder. Having a custom domain name point to it is nice. Is site44 proxying the requests? Most isp's don't like this sort of thing either. Any significant traffic outbound on 80 might set off some bells.

I do think it's good to try. The more that use it the more it may send a message to our isp's to stop having so many silly rules. And maybe DropBox will lighten up on theirs.

Is the OP link served from DropBox? I'll bet it isn't.
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Obviously you're going to see a gradient, but I don't think most would contend human action isn't shaped at all by technologies in ways that are often unexpected. Plus, you get a sort of chicken-and-egg problem at some levels...

But people very, very commonly fail to see the embedded social factors in technologies, and are very quick to ascribe autonomy to technology, which is in my mind fallacious. You see this when the news has stories like, "Technology just keeps advancing. How will it change our lives next?" instead of understanding it as part of a relationship between people, their environment, and their artifacts, technology gets put on some magical self-propelling trajectory that just isn't true. Yes, Moore's Law is great - but it's a social/human driver, as is Intel's Tick-Tock, not something innate in technology!
What a simply beautiful idea!
You might want to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm5TdgQj7vg then.
Hi. I'm one of Site44's founders. If you're no longer working on KISSr, do you want to suggest to users that they migrate over to Site44? Ping me if you want to chat: smarx@site44.com.
In this case it makes more sense to privatize these sort of things.
This is confusing. Did Adobe change their mind after completely giving up on mobile last year? What changed? Everyone I know who's done mobile development with Flash/AIR hated it - have they improved the tools? Or is this just piggybacking on the fact that tools like Unity target Flash's runtime for desktops now?

I also remember seeing news articles about Adobe refocusing on HTML5 and putting out HTML5 development tools to replace Flash. Did they give up on that or is it still in progress?
Stanford was more a testing ground. We're opening up to all in January.
>Have you ever heard anyone use a neutral or male identified term in a context like this?

How about "brogrammer"?

>your choice to resort to personal attacks rather comically undercuts your proclaimed desire for “rational discourse”.

It's actually not ad hominem, since I'm using your own words against you. What you typed betrays latent sexism. I'm not just calling you a sexist without evidence.
Got it - I'll check out the laws before we do think of hiring interns.
Eh, it's not really on topic... but I mean really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It ?
Hi, I'm one of Site44's founders.

We've been running for about six months now and have thousands of users, and Dropbox has helped us with our API use since the beginning. Yes, the OP (www.site44.com) is hosted on Site44.

Here's a guest post on the Dropbox developer blog about how we use their API: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23

Perhaps your confusion is that you assume we're using Dropbox public folders or that Dropbox is hosting the content in some way. This isn't true. (We're serving all the content ourselves and only need to talk to Dropbox to get files that change.)
The full (and HD version) of the video can be found here:
http://vimeo.com/20412632
Slightly OT, but could someone tell me what, exactly, "acq-hire" means? I thought it referred to one company acquiring another purely in order to get access to talent.

Facebook did not acquire any Carsabi assets according to the linked TC story, it simply offered the founders jobs.

Back in the day, we called that getting "hired."

Is there a distinction here (e.g. perhaps some sort of payback to investors or something) that I'm missing?
Software might overdrive certain hardware components to failure. OEMs might have recovery agreements in place with Microsoft for failures attributed to Windows 8 which they might not be able to take advantage of if a different OS was on the machine. I'm not an expert on OEM agreements, but this sort of thing seems plausible.
hehe. this particular post wasn't planned, since we didn't know that the twitter thing was going to be successful.

however, we have an overall mindset that sharing our learnings on our blog is a good idea since we are interested in working with other startups.
Interesting idea! Maybe we can put together a blog series with trends/stats on what sells and what doesn't.
Ask HN: Suggestions for a Good Programmable Bot
I have done a robotics course before and loved the idea of programming robots. I don't, however, enjoy getting my hands dirty with hardware details (soldering stuff and the likes). Are there any good robust enough programmable robot? I would love if it either allows me to implement the interface in different languages or has such extensions built in.

Thanks!
It seems to me that the pattern here (for Uber, AirBnB and others) is:

1. Create a service that people love, flouting or violating local regulations.

2. Rely on user outrage to get the regulations changed.

3. Profit.

It's frustrating that there's a regulatory model that makes it necessary to do this in order to innovate, but I'm glad to see it working out for Uber.
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs - First Official Photo
ebay will go into oblivion in a few years. The current generation barely uses them. As the last generation users slowly fade away, they will see the business dwindling.
Add to it incompetent management who stifle innovation.
This is interesting to me in that it's a very Clay Shirky response to The Daily's failure. If you read http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking... or http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex... they seem (at least in hindsight!) to say that things like The Daily, that just stuff a newspaper into electronic form with the least effort possible, are doomed because they haven't changed their cost centers (for bonus points, the latter piece mocks Murdoch, the owner of The Daily, in particular).

I can add very little to Shirky's critique, so I will just recommend that people go and read his pieces and compare their predictions to what actually happened to The Daily.
Supposedly at one point decades ago PARC had a wire in the ceiling that rotated and whose rotational speed was dependent on the amount of packets traveling in the internet cable strung above it.

(apocryphal?) (what is the truth of this?) (is it still there?)

I believe Facebook is supposed to have a restroom in which a white noise privacy background is generated from global friending/unfriending activity.
Two months of the year (roughly centered around August), it's the most beautiful place on earth. The other times, it's dark and cloudy and raining so you can't see the beauty.

If you grew up in a Sunny place it might be difficult to live in Seattle area.
Well if you put the right thing in the box, and the recipient says that he got the wrong thing, couldn't you therefore argue that the package was tampered with?
I too had to try my crack at it, unfortunately the shelf life for my shirt is about 9 months:
http://teespring.com/CautionBabyInside
StickNFinds - Bluetooth stickers help you find lost stuff
Thanks. We'll take a look.
This is cool. I am thinking of gamifying my alarm clock in the morning, so that I earn more XP by not snoozing, and just waking up.

Primarily it is a way to help give my mate some experience programming, but I also hope that it will help kick my morning alarm snoozing habit.

In the future, I thought it would be cool if you could just pass it new config files to allow gamifying everything. For example, if you want to kick your fast-food-for-lunch-habit, then allow the gamify-everything app to award XP and trophies for things such as "Making your own lunch for X straight days"
I always have a kind of negative reaction to these sorts of interfaces.

What I tend to see in this demo is how to make a doorknob unintuitive, how to make music player functionality undiscoverable, how to accidentally lock yourself out, how to frustrate a user whose mental model of the sensor is incorrect.

I realize you have to approach new technology and interaction paradigms optimistically, but all I can think of is my own frustration when an ill-considered neato-feature is foisted on me when I least want it.

Like blue LEDs and touch sensitive buttons that lack a physical button (eg atmel q-touch).
Hi AlexDev,

I work for Balanced. We most certainly allow data portability.

Where did you read that we didn't?

We'll update our FAQ with this.

Reach out if you have any issues - via my email in my profile.

Hope I can be of help.

Mahmoud
> But what’s foolish about publishing on a single platform? ... I publish only on the web

Is he pretending not to understand, or he really doesn't know? Publishing on the web doesn't limit users, since web is an open and accessible platform (given that you have any decent browser). Publishing "to iPad" is artificially limiting your audience, because publishers weren't smart enough to use cross platform publishing technologies (PDF anyone?).

So no - one platform publishing is plain stupid in this day and age. And no - the Web is not called one platform publishing either.
If you think you can do asyncMap in Google Go, without casts and without manually collecting multiple return values, by all means show us the code. I would find that really interesting.
24 hours of transportation on the New York MTA visualized
Colombia to Offer Climate Change Insurance to Coffee Farmers
They never completely gave up on mobile, they gave up on mobile in-browser plugins, essentially because they realized they'd never be let onto Safari.

They've continued to develop Flash/AIR tools for standalone mobile apps and the tools have improved quite a bit though obviously they still take a speed/size hit compared to true native and the resulting apps feel not-quite-native on any of the supported platforms.

They are still highly focused on HTML5 for their traditional non-game users (mostly people in marketing and advertisement and other interactive design fields). But they're also focused on keeping the Flash platform going as both a cross-platform mobile app solution and a "game console for the web".

Their strategy here hasn't really changed since Adobe Max 2011 but their message has been twisted a lot by various "camps" both pro and anti Flash.
Aren't the sensors placed within the door? Or am I missing something?
The pivot. It used to be called, ‘the fuck-up.’

That's so refreshing to hear these days.
Not at all, actually. The whole interstellar mission aspect of the mission was entirely a beneficial side effect. In fact, the only part of the mission that was planned from the start was the Jupiter and Saturn encounters. The mission ended up becoming an outer Solar System "grand tour" due to a fortuitous planetary alignment, but only Voyager 2 was able to visit Uranus and Neptune. The interstellar mission was entirely unplanned and was funded mostly because it has been relatively inexpensive and for various reasons the Voyager craft have suitable instruments for studying the magnetic, particle, and dust environment in the outer Solar System and interstellar space.
I believe Avatar Land at Walt Disney World will include this technology for interacting with the Tree of Souls and other plant and wildlife.
I find it a bit difficult to scroll up/down/left/right, because I constantly overshoot and then it stops scrolling. I then have to move the mouse back and try to find the exact point where it starts scrolling. A bit frustrating after 20 minutes of gameplay. Is there a way in HTML5 to "capture" the mouse within a certain area?
> Not really - the pins ... for Intel at least ... are much, much harder to damage.

Having built all my machines w/AMD cpu's I'll say that bent pins can be common, at least enough to justify taking care when installing the cpu on the mobo. To supplement, I've bent a couple myself, and have helped a couple friends straighten some of theirs out as well. They're not that hard to bend.
Hi, I'm one of Site44's founders. Dropbox has been quite supportive in helping us to use their API. If you're curious how we interact with Dropbox, read our guest post on their developer blog: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23.
"Most founders these days have common stock just like everyone else, and get diluted in the same situations."

True but given the vast differences in allocations that may turn their theoretical 100s of millions into dozens of millions while turning employee shares from a "really, really good bonus" into "not worth the transaction fees".
Are you subscribing to the paid Twitter firehose, or how do you get the data?

If you could find any feature at all to charge for, you might be surprised to find people signing up. For example you could have "featured tweets" with a retweet button underneath on the right side instead of (or in addition to) the ad block and charge for placement there for people who want their content to be more popular.
I love the possibilities here. I want to see rows traced out! Make something that looks like a Joy Division album cover. Use a bullet-time array of cameras to make a video. Make an augmented reality layer so you can see it as you wander the area.
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Or in case you're looking for a killer idea to join to,
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I talk to Patrick Vlaskovits a decent amount as he is in the final stages of finishing a book about the lean methodology (leanentrepreneur.co). The thing that always really makes these discussions interesting to me is how many examples of lean he has from more traditional industries that he's featuring in the book. E.g. using a pop-up kitchen as a way to test a new restaurant idea, etc.
wait, so can't we compile, generate the same binary and use the key as the checksums would be the same?