skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google cache is working for me:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aearth...

The images seem to still be up, even though the site's patchy:

http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/797...
http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/798...
Kim Dotcom can sue NZ Police and Spy agency, discovery of spy documents ordered
Wow, I'm really amazed that so many people are using an Adblocker given that this community is supposed to be about web startups. Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
I voted Yes because I do about the same. Using NoScript basically blocks the ads although my intent is to control the scripts that get run and to reduce the extent to which I'm tracked across the web.

If someone wants to show a static image or text ad on from their domain without too much tracking I will see it.

I also switch to Chrome when Flash is required for exactly the same reason. Chrome also gets used for sites I really don't trust and especially don't want tracking me across the web, particularly LinkedIn and Facebook.
Yay for judicial independence.
C# and .NET Interactive Tutorials
Mediocre? Not possible, they had two geniuses revolutionize the workplace!

Seriously ROWE [0] is the biggest excuse for people not doing real work I have ever witnessed.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE
I'm not having this problem in Opera...
I'm running version 12.11
LoJack for bikes
Three things I learned through teaching a flipped class
The issue is it can be hard to tell if it's happening and in cases where it's not disclosed, I could be committing libel by suggesting it is. However, keep a particular eye open for where companies "partner" with publications to write articles or "sponsor" entire columns. The identification can be quite subtle and totally avoided in the main content.

Picking on Monocle in the print world again though, the New York Times had a great analysis of the way Monocle applies the idea: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/media/24carr.html... .. the model (and attitude) explained in this article is something I expect to see become very prevalent online.

I'm not UK media trained but to the best of my knowledge, the Advertising Standards Authority has no power to force publishers to meet its demands. What can happen, though, is publishers can be sued under the Unfair Trading Regulations Act for "misleading omissions" (an act that applies to all business activities and can be very broadly interpreted) specifically when a commercial practice "fails to identify its commercial intent, unless this is already apparent from the context".

Context is tricky though. If a publication is particularly vocal about its practices, I suspect it would be hard to get to court. Another related context is when newspapers are paid to give away freebies that are not marked as advertising but the context is clearly of an advertising nature.

Sorry for the disjointed bundle of ideas here but I've just seen how much time I've spent so far. I think this is a fascinating area though and one I much enjoy observing mostly (but not entirely) as an outsider.

..

Update: I did some more digging into this because I know it happens and I know it's not always disclosed.. and think I have found the loophole - http://www.out-law.com/page-4853

Specifically, the ASA code states:

"Advertisement features, announcements or promotions, sometimes referred to as 'advertorials', that are disseminated in exchange for a payment or other reciprocal arrangement should comply with the Code if their content is controlled by the marketers rather than the publishers."

So content produced by a publisher on behalf of an advertiser for pay may still be an advertorial but seem to have some sort of exemption under UK standards. This would explain a lot of magazines I know do this stuff.
Prismatic lands $15m of Series A funding
Because it is more profitable to build identical cookie cutter artifacts.

Postmodernism (in architecture) was an academic reactionary movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi

[p.s.: This is the seminal critical retort that started it: http://designtheory.fiu.edu/readings/venturi_complexity_comp...]
I block ads, even for sites that I like. For sites that I like which choose to give me the opportunity, I'm happy to pay a monthly or yearly fee in exchange for the ability to disable ads- for sites that don't offer that option (or where I don't feel that I derive enough value from the site to justify the minimum cost) then I assume the organization running the site has evaluated the costs and potential revenue and decided that subsidizing users who choose to not to view ads with the revenue generated by ad-viewers is preferable to setting up a system to allow me to pay for ad-free content. If I'm unable to view a site without ads, then I will simply not view that site.

I apply this philosophy to all parts of my life. I'm happy to pay for a television show on Amazon, or subscribe to netflix, because I am able to watch the shows without commercials. For shows that were not available this way, I used to use hulu because adblock plus would block the advertisements. Recently adblock plus no longer blocks the ads on hulu (this is probably a filter list mis-configuration on my part) so I stopped watching those shows altogether.

There is a great deal of content that I enjoy, and I like to see content creators get reimbursed for what they produce, but there's no content IMHO that is worth subjecting myself to the psychological manipulation of ads.
The West came up with some favourable rules for themselves then judged the rest of the world by those rules.

Great graph, it highlights the "West" quite well.

Shame it doesn't tell me ANYTHING about corruption :(
I think an example would be this: http://tweepi.com/blog/2011/10/top-10-twitter-utilities/

Tweepi's Top 10 list of Twitter utilities includes Tweepi itself. Lot's of other companies are doing this too, that was just the quickest example I could find. They generate content that could have value, but also insert self-promotional stuff in there.
The example that comes to mind is content that IS advertisement. For that you can look into just about any US magazine (not sure about UK, but I suspect they are very similar there), for example this article in GQ http://www.gq.com/food-travel/restaurants-and-bars/201211/fo.... In this instance, they are making recommendations to you from a position of authority, even though it comes from a position of selling ad space and delivering the ads as content. If you go to slide 3, you will see peppermint bark stuff "for the chocolate connoisseur", which is about as far as away from a chocolate connoisseur as I can think of, conveniently with a price right there.

Another good example is celebrity magazines that just happen to drop the name of a designer that a particular celebrity is wearing.

Keep in mind, I use adblock (edit: and noscript and ghostery) and these adverts still come up.
Given that he died this morning, he was alive last night.
11/4 signature.
At some point those would have to merge. We are all building the future together. I'm just being impatient again.
Is their gross margin just revenue - whole_sale_cost? If that's the case, they also have cost in labor, real estate, marketing, and others. After all those, the lawsuit would have put them in red.
Thank you so much :D. We <3 Erlang.
No, not at all. To put it simply, profit is cash flow over a long period.

A business might have customers on a monthly plan, paying $2000 over their entire lifetime. If it costs $1000 in sales and set-up expenses to get a customer, they are profitable. But the expenses have to be paid up front, whereas the income will trickle in over a long period.

This means that even profitable companies might need to take loans or raise financing if they need to pay for expenses now, but the income from those sales arrives in months or years down the line. A cash-flow positive company doesn't have the risk of running out of money while waiting for the profits to come in.
> Everybody wins!

Except the advertisers.
This is an interesting headline given the main argument of the article.
You are very persistent in defending unethical behavior. This is not uncommon among startups, the various companies that were stealing users Address Book a few months ago were likewise claiming both "everybody else does it" and "there's nothing wrong with this, we are justified".

You should not be impersonating people, it's unethical, and should be a felony when done without consent for monetary gain.

That you feel it is justified shows you are currently in a state of delusion, blinded to ethics and respect for your customers.
Jesus christ. How incompetent are the banks?

Surely you're going to notice sudden repeated transfers to a (presumably foreign) bank account and at least query them? If these guys are able to open hundreds of accounts to spread out the funds then that's another problem, and the banks responsible should be simply blocked.
When did I agree? Do I have a choice in the matter? How does one opt out? It doesn't sound like any kind of agreement I have ever heard of.

What is a public good? Who decides what is public?

If I hunt and eat an wild animal, i.e. one that was not raised on a farm, I am not stealing it from anyone. By your definition the only way I am not stealing it is if I kill it and divide equally to everyone.
Ah, I had interpreted that to mean that he was ashamed of his ancestry.
And money requirement is several million dollars, plus connections all over your district, in practice.
Yes and I am also developing a site that makes display ads searchable and displays only ads. www.adladl.com . This makes debugging challenging.
We've considered it for the research department I'm part of at a university. The nice part is that we all know and like github, but need to keep the repos private or on premise, depending on the grant. Further, a lot of research code is based on another project's code, and a git fork is so much nicer than mailing around tarballs, particularly after having had the task of taking a project, and trying to incorporate several teams' individual modifications back in into the core to base further research on it.
This interesting article, "Three things I learned through teaching a flipped class," is a report from the classroom by a teacher who is using the "flipped classroom" model pioneered in Khan Academy partnerships with schools. It's good to get these first-hand impressions from a working teacher.

"I’ve always felt that, within 5–10 years, we won’t be talking about the 'flipped classroom' — we’ll just be talking about the 'classroom.' This way of teaching, in other words, will be normative and it will be straight lecturing that will seem odd, out of place, and ineffective. Maybe we’re closer to that point than I first thought."
They would've made that revenue anyway if they had kept the deal with TechForward.
I'd like to comment too, but the game doesn't show up in the Japanese AppStore.
Please make it available worldwide (even if they are not localized).

Developers: You are all losing sales of expats and people who do speak English outside the US every single time you don't release apps worldwide.
Good question! Given I work for Unified Inbox, my reply is more about the nature of a unified inbox that what Sparrow are doing.

So the reason I use a unified inbox is that I only have to login to one place. I can then choose (using the filters) what work I'm going to concentrate on - eg I might look at the support@ addresses, or my personal ones, or all the addresses of one company/project. It can take a while to learn the use the filters well so you're not presented with an overwhelming list of everything but I'd hate to go back to individual inboxes now :)
You are welcome. Just out of interest which part? The watching without playing option?
Lunch with Warren Buffett
There's a /raw endpoint that accepts markdown and renders it - the GitHub for Windows client uses it. Maybe you could use that with some javascript?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/prismatic/
I find easier to write commands in logo (forward 10) than to write commands in a graphical way. My cousin played adventure games at 4 with the help of a paper with commands that he typed.
You got it. And my main observation (or hunch, to be safe!) is advertising "blindness", whether psychological or technological, has encouraged and will continue to encourage this form of advertising.
Why Google should just shut up and buy T-Mobile
Were there any rumors/news/anything today that triggered the movement? AAPL is behaving more like a penny stock than the $500-billion behemoth it is.

It's also interesting to see how its P/E is lower than Microsoft's now. Given the generally lukewarm reception towards Windows 8 / Surface, you'd think more investors would be fleeing from MSFT. I sold my MSFT shares and went short last month after buying (and returning) the Surface RT.
Moving the assets of the company into another and leaving only the lawsuit behind is a neat idea, isolating all the legal risks within the old shell company. Kudos to the lawyers.
I wrote one too!

https://github.com/voltagex/python-gist
Minor design quibble. The "we'll keep you posted" banner that appeared after I submitted my e-mail does not fit in with the (otherwise very elegant) design of the rest of the page. #FFFFFF on #FF0000 out of nowhere is jarring.
Why do we make software and hardware? Why do people farm? Why do we do anything?

It's about advancing our society. Making more efficient use of our human resources to enable us to discover new ways of making more efficient use of our human resources. To raise quality of life. To allow more humans to live, which increases our pool of labor and of brainpower, both of which we can use to multiply the other further.

Why do we do this? At this point we're descending into existential ennui. When you look into the abyss, remember the staring game -- make it blink.
That's really "content marketing." Similar, but not quite the same.

The trend I'm referring to is when independent publications produce content that's bankrolled (but not supplied) by advertisers. Content marketing is the same concept but done by the advertisers directly.
The question of Best Buy settling has come up. Most settlements involve a clause that prohibits either party from disclosing the terms of the settlement. Since the primary objective of First Round taking on the law suit was to 'teach big businesses a lesson.' A settlement would have been counterproductive for them, even if it would have resulted in a substantially higher payout or significantly decreased legal costs. First Round wanted blood to be shed publicly.
One of the main reasons I use Firefox instead of Chrome. Youtude without the overlaying ads is a much better experience.
The target demographic for this product does not feel that way :)
Ask HN: What's the best AI chatbot I could use for customer support?
I'm curious, too. What is your ideological opposition to browser extensions?
You're right in a way. Portal could be thought of as two parts, the raw physics and the raw graphics. But when a lay person makes claims of recreating Portal's secret sauce, they're really implying the portal mechanism which is one part physical and one part graphical.

Literally recreating only the physics portion of Portal would be silly.

And yes I was intentionally trying to be sensationalist back because it's a waste of time being victim to submitter's sensationalist headlines, especially on a technical site such as as this (one would hope).
Healthcare is a competitive disadvantage for the United States
Can we stop posting landing pages that are simply fishing for interest in a non-existant product?
I don't run an adblocker.

I'm pretty tolerant of ads. There are a few ads that will cause me to never visit a site again. I'm gently concerned about malware being served via ads.

I'd prefer to pay a site for good content and have the option to remove ads.
A previous employer was dead-set against using Github's public site and insisted on using Github Enterprise. They were simultaneously resource-stingy and thus we had to bend around in all sorts of uncomfortable ways to minimize the amount of employees we had with Github Enterprise logins to keep costs to the bare minimum. Needless to say, this was a messy and stupid situation.

Perhaps there are some companies for which Github Enterprise makes sense, but it seems like the number of potential matches for it being a really good fit is small. Most companies should just use Github.com or if they really need to keep the code out of "the cloud", just use plain old git with gitlab, gitorious or plain old ssh access control.
I don't disagree, but there's another side to this. It's happened in print for years - a review in June, a double page spread ad in July.

But it damages editorial integrity and it dilutes genuine content. In print this doesn't really matter - there are huge barriers to entry, and newcomers are more likely than anyone to do it to make it easier to score revenue.

Online though, if I suspect that [blognamehere] are plugging something shit for profit I'll just go elsewhere for my news. It doesn't cost me a penny, and there are infinite other options.
Anybody tried it with RubyMotion yet?
The most convoluted systems failure I've ever experienced - and how I prevailed
Wow that is so awesome. It's running on 6Mhz after all!
What experience do you have, out of curiosity? It's interesting to think that top executives consider breaking the law in their options when making decisions.
You're right that it is ironic. It's ironic the same way bigots say that liberals are being intolerant of their beliefs.
I wonder what role an NDA played. Any ideas? I know in startup-land NDAs are non-existent, but in my past life as a product manager for a medium sized company, the biz dev guys would always have an NDA signed before letting the company get too close with a new partner. Maybe new-world startups should have NDAs when working with old-world big cos (where NDAs are common and prevalent, and maybe even respected)? No idea here, just hoping to hear some enlightened thoughts.

Edit: clarity.
John Macafee States Alibi On Record
Now how are you going to power the transmitter, that is my question, sure you could add a little dynamo but it's not quite so elegant then.
Is this supposed to be a sarcastic article? It seems to me they're just documenting how stupid their decisions were. Is it inside joke? I feel like I am missing something.
Yet the standard library does just that? Only on package regexp or elsewhere too? I'm not trying to say I know better than the designers, just that the waters are muddied by supposed rules being broken off the bat.
Agreed, It also looks like it would be easily defeated by aluminum foil. I read about a phone thief that uses a faraday caged bag to snatch iPads and iPhones.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_bag
Same photos at NASA Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/72157632175125121/
Invalidate this startup idea - 500 dollar prototype
I had an idea based on my many conversations with non techies with web or mobile app based ideas. It seems they always spend way too much on building their idea from scratch, even if they use offshore resources OR they forgo it completely as it is too hard to manage.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've put palm to forehead when I listen to a non-techie tell me how they spent thousands building their idea from scratch, when they could have used using that was already build - like a wordpress plugin, a rails or django clone with some extra work, or goodness knows what else. But they never even thought to ask around about other avenues.

So here is the idea - A proposer (a non techie type) posts their idea, and a bunch of technically savvy hacker news types propose ways to build the prototype for 500 or less, and people up/down vote stuff like stackexchange. Perhaps use crowdsourcing for others to up/down vote the proposals. The winning proposal wins and builds it for 500, minus a nominal fee that goes to the company.

The proposer can always continue using the builder of the prototype after the prototype is built, or they could take it to someone else. And 500 bucks is not chump change but it isn't a huge investment on the part of the proposer.

Just upvote this post if you would consider putting your hat in the ring to build a prototype for $500, or at least vote in other proposals.
Trying to understand how firms compete in the android store actually sounds like a great topic. Of course, we can only observe--at most--prices and sales per product, but it would be nice to think of how firms compete between each other and their reactions. My guess is that the biggest problem would be to find an identification strategy, like a change in the structure of the app store, so we can exogenize our regressors.

BTW, great job with AppNash, it looks very interesting!
i prefer requestpolicy above ghostery
1.5 - Subpoena ISP to get records for which customer that dynamic IP was assigned to at the time.

It's all possible - assuming there's something to charge the uploader with. But it's likely to be a slow process; for starters, the site will drag its feet about supplying the records. And if the uploader used a smartphone on the Wifi in Starbucks, it gets that much harder to track him.

To make a serious dent in this, I think you need some way to dissuade people from running the site.
Been wanting to change that for a long time, but yes, you are actually right. That's the reason why we changed the main site's look, but the blog is lagging behind. The fact is, that the side column isn't that important, as it's meta info, but you're right, thxs.
I think the really painful part of this is that, realistically, most start-ups won't go anywhere without an exceptional level of trust (I'm talking very early stage) as founders need to trust potential investors, early customers, etc. You're stuck in this space where you look at big companies and don't expect them to trust each other but, as the little guy, are left with no choice.

As you grow, somewhere you cross that line where you have to start being on the defensive. It's different for everyone but you know, one day, it'll happen.

In this case, and probably in most, it caught them off guard. You can only hope to be prepared when you get bit for the first time but witnessing cases like this really hurts when you're trying to build a start-up and extending that level of trust to just about everyone...
As a smoker, I can tell you that nicotine becomes concentrated in the filter, along with tar and lots of nasty things.

The last half of a cigarette is stronger than the first half.
Redesign Trend in Tech News Sites: Big, Responsive and Content Heavy
What do you do with them, then? I thought the point of Coinbase was to have a hosted wallet. I'm not sure I trust my security better than theirs. If the reply to that is that I should not be using Bitcoin, that's probably a sign of an issue that may limit widespread adoption.
The article mentions they did have an NDA, which is undoubtably what ultimately allowed them to prevail. Requiring an NDA for every silly detail of your startup is self-limiting. Giving out critical, "special-sauce" details without proper legal backing is corporate suicide.
NASA Releases Stunning Animation of Earth at Night
Anything could be turn out to be better than anything if its creators don't screw it up.
Avr-os: Multitasking on Arduino
This article lists some causes, but take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-05/apple-declines-as-n...
The future of GWT report 2012
Uber revamps app with pricing estimates and 4sq places
This would never have happened if Steve Jobs was alive.
We allow startups to push their stories in the system. The platform does some semantic analysis, figures out what is your startup is doing and pushes it to the right blogger/journalist in the right market. On the other hand, bloggers get access to a stream of stories that are suited either to their preferences or to the topics they tend to write about. Essentially something like match.com but with startups and bloggers.