skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of markets, I think, and it's something we haven't really decided on. 1 hour covers IM, mostly. 8-24 probably covers most e-mail use (maybe?) What we don't want this to become is something like Rapidshare, and limiting file lifetimes is our attempt at not letting that happen. The service is designed primarily to share files with people you know personally, within a finite time period. But we'll see how it gets used, and maybe change our policy.
Yeah, although I can imagine some poeple would want some level of confidentiality.

I actually largely abhor pitches, so maybe it would just be product/demo workshops? I don't know.

It remains to be seen how much of what I did was skill vs luck...
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Tried to convert http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes but the output doesn't show beyond the page 1. I use evince document viewer comes with Ubuntu. Dunno what's wrong. Though we won't use it(converter) frequently it's good to have a neat converter around :D.
Although I'm not in the Valley, I think something like this would be helpful. It seems to me that pitch quality is related to how much exposure you've had to investors & customers. I think you can add value there, regardless of how much of del.icio.us was skill vs luck :-)
I think the key point is that he was only potentially alienating < 4% of his audience.

While I agree it was awesome it's only appropriate if you don't lobby Microsoft by shafting your users.
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But not on his site.
They might even get offers from a wider range of people than attend if it was broadcast. That's the point of TC50 right? To give people a chance to pitch in public.
That was sort of my point. How difficult would it be to take those lectures & work them to the point of being a lot more useful?

sketerpot' comment is all over this.
To generalise or specialise?
Is there any mention of this phenomenon from Google? I had never heard of it. Sorry, finding it hard to come up with good terms for search queries.
Reminds me of an old Japanese story about the three blind men playing a game of Paper Scissors Stone. They'll never be sure they're doing it right.

I think he is talking about an activist panic button for data. Too many cops smashing cameras.

It’s very tough without a confederate. Once you get it into friendly hands, even for a few minutes, they can spread it from there. Those international forces of evil probably have a server or two down in the old volcano lair. This "confederate" can be some service that copies data to many places like Freenet, CoralCache, etc.

If you don’t have confederates the game is very different. You are then trying to get a piece of data into the hands of many many people who are not previously expecting it, on the hopes that a few will read it and act. That’s pretty much the definition of spam, no?
Boss: can you compile for me today's important news from the paper?

Secretary: right away. [takes out scissors and cuts out only the relevant parts]

Boss: great!

s/Boss/user/, s/Secretary/Software/

Once a byte stream of information comes under the control of another user, what they do in their own time and privacy is entirely up to them. It may even be illegal, but it is outside of your control.

We can do this whole "immoral vs moral" and "gentleman's agreement thing." But depending on how gentlemanly you want to be, you can make the tacit agreements infinitely complicated, inefficient, and uneconomical. Example: reading on a small-screen device. Another example: ads on train.
What are your thoughts on http://www.plos.org/ ? Just curious...I completely agree with what you said and I feel more than ever now since I am out of school and lost access to journal articles.
The subsets can sometimes be overlapping, depending on how comfortable the people in question feel in the group.
I think your on the right train of thought. A sign that things are working out would be a lecture not being recognisable a lecture.

But really, I was just think along a more basic line. A way to take in a lecture & (quickly & easily) produce a web-video based documentary.

IE take a lecture. Slap the notes legibly on a split screen & let users to jump around via a table of content. Links could be good. Maybe even sprinkle in some stock photos or stock video to break up the monotony of staring at a lecturer for an hour.
It's easy to poke holes in any form of journalism: it's performed by human beings who are fallible, with insufficient time or budget, about subjects which the journalist is at best only moderately versed, and helped out by sources with strong agendas.

For that reason, I'd much rather look at whether or not new forms of journalism are improvements and how the flaws fit into those improvements.

Take TechCrunch, which is a massive improvement on tech journalism for the simple reason that it gives us so much new content, but is also an easy target because they aren't afraid to post something before they have all the facts.

That rubs people the wrong way because traditional journalism is supposed to fact check or at least be based on concrete sources (although the sources don't have to be factual). That standard isn't going to work with blogs because they're putting out ten stories a day, where as NYT journalist might put three full days into a story.

So you see blogs like TechCrunch post stories that don't have all the facts lined up. Looking at an individual post makes it look like irresponsible rumor. But they don't stop with the one post. Putting out something inflammatory gets people responding and gets sources coming to them. Then they can follow up with more posts. In the sum, the posts make up a story that's closer to the truth.

It's sort of exploratory journalism and it seems to work well in other areas to, like political blogs. You see a ton of accusations on those, and some of them morph into full blown series.

I don't love the stories that are just rumor, but I think it's a big improvement overall because important stories are getting covered.
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This comes off as petty to me, and a bit stupid.

Maybe only 3.7% of his users are IE users because they get a whole lot of attitude when they visit his site? Or because a lot of IE users either don't have the choice (corporate) or the desire or the skill (grandma) to upgrade their web browsers. Perhaps CEOs of major corporations visit his site every day curious about whether they might deploy his service across their whole company (ok, fantasy), and then leave because he says he doesn't want to support them. Perhaps his business could be 20 times bigger if he wasn't so obsessed with this issue. Perhaps that isn't the case now but it might be down the track.

There are lots of great frameworks out there that nearly completely remove the cross platform issues in coding for browsers these days for all but the most unusual requirements. This is not the issue it once was.
"Hacker News" is showing its entrepreneurial, money-focused side in this discussion. You have to be obsessed with business models to be convinced that television is "losing" to the internet, just like you had to be obsessed with business models to believe that the internet was "killing music" a few years ago. Everybody still watches television and uses it as a cultural reference point when relating to other people. Despite the flourishing variety of internet-native art forms, people still turn to television for a regular fix of programming. The appetite for television programming is just another entry on the long list of things that the internet, which "changes everything," isn't actually changing.

You can pass hours of time on YouTube, but the content, while passably stimulating, just doesn't bear repeating. You can't crack your friends up by making some sly reference to it a month from now. Unless, that is, you're watching something that is well-written, well-produced, and well-acted. And in that case, you'll probably call it "television" to distinguish it from random thirty-second clips of some guy farting at his cat (America's Funniest Home Videos notwithstanding.)

When music moved from live venues to vinyl, it was still called music. When it moved from vinyl to cassettes to CDs, it was still called music. Now it's on the internet, and it's called... music! Television programming has been called "television" or "TV" for over half a century. I bet people will still call it "television." We think about it as "television versus the computer," but the younger generation thinks, "Why is it so hard to find television on the internet? I want to watch TV on my computer, not on the TV." That isn't contradictory at all. That's just the way the words are used. If you pick the right meaning of "TV," then TV might die, but it isn't interesting unless you stand to make or lose money on it. The TV that most people care about has a long life ahead of it.
I feel the same way about the "Nice guys finish last" point. Surely there must be some counterexamples of nice guys who have achieved great business success?
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You could have conveyed the same salient information without the elitist subtext.
my current work might related to the field. we created firefox add-ons and let the browsers work for us.
Thanks :) We could always introduce some better filtering if that ever happened.

And incenting more with Tipjoy might help some overlook the "shopping questions are unfun", if they decided they liked getting tipped for the help.
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Any stats on this?
...and therefore may help you avoid getting shafted?
Ask HN - Please help me improve my app (Twitter job search)
Dear HN,

The job posting/search arena in Twitter is wide open, so I built this little app. It's nothing special yet but I think a good foundation. It's human filtered and has full-text search. Where to go from here? I just noticed that #tweetmyjobs is a trending topic on Twitter -- how can I get twhired on there by making it useful to people? (A better source stream is one obviously, I'm using a pretty basic twitter search RSS right now. Pagination, location . . . what else? Would any Ruby/Sinatra folks like to work on it with me?
I love it. I hope it catches on.

In the meantime, we need the universities to start playing hardball with the journals. They get rights to the paper for one year, max, and then the university will publish the paper on the web. That compensates the journals for their service, such as it is, but still makes the material available, eventually. Any contract can be negotiated, and I think this one could be, if the universities pushed on this issue.
Dear HN,

The job posting/search arena in Twitter is wide open, so I built this little app. It's nothing special yet but I think a good foundation. It's human filtered and has full-text search. Where to go from here? I just noticed that #tweetmyjobs is a trending topic on Twitter -- how can I get twhired up there by making it useful to people? (A better source stream is one obviously, I'm using a pretty basic twitter search RSS right now. Pagination, location . . . what else? Would any Ruby/Sinatra folks like to work on it with me?
"Everyone knows someone who has a friend who knew the guy who tried to dry his poodle in the microwave."

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not talking about some urban legend that gets passed through 10 generations of "friends of friends", I'm saying that many people have had bad experiences with US Immigration, and word gets around. I personally know someone who now enters the US by land via Canada because of his repeated horrendous experiences at the air border.

"I'm not saying that Immigration and/or Homeland Security is great, but the rumor-mongering is unjustified."

Rumours? It goes a bit beyond rumours, don't you think? It's large-scale and well-documented. Personal anecdotes alone do not make something true, but that's not the case here. The personal anecdotes just add a more of a "this could happen to me" dimension to otherwise abstract reports of it happening to someone else.

"And you know this because...."

Because .. it's self evident and obviously true? What are you trying to say - that the hostile suspicion of foreigners at the US Border is not policy?

"I know a Stanford CS PhD student who was put through hell by the Australian equivalent of US Immigration/Homeland Security"

I'm not trying to say we're much better, although at least we don't fingerprint. I have many (in some cases personally witnessed/experienced) grievances against the Australian system.

No need to turn this into a "my country is better than yours" pissing match, I have a real fondness for America and wouldn't even bother having a strong opinion if I didn't care ; )

"Nevertheless, I don't get hysterical about it."

Sigh. I hope I didn't come across as hysterical. I put a bit of emotion into my writing in an attempt to get the point across that it's important to me, not as a sign that I have taken leave of my senses.

"I don't know how things are in Australia, but we can't identify criminals and the like without actually checking."

Huh? We're talking about the US Border, specifically about foreigners trying to visit, many who have never been there before. Are you suggesting that there is a huge list of outstanding arrest warrants for foreign criminals whose faces and fingerprints are on record, and this system is an attempt to catch them? Or that US Border agents are cooperating with overseas police forces to catch escaping criminals or something?

Of course not. I actually don't know why they do it. The whole thing is post-9/11 so I suppose it's part of the "war on terror", but surely the number of "terrorists" who are on the run but whose fingerprints have somehow been recorded is vanishingly small.

Anyway, I hope that with the new administration in charge and the memory of 9/11 receding, this horrible system will be turned off.
I was just investigating this exact thing in the last few weeks. I'm pretty much ready to start pitching, but i could definitely use a forum to try it on first.

Please set this up!
No, that's wrong. It <i>feels</i> the same if I click on a .torrent or if I download from iTunes. Either way I started a download and have a new album within the half hour.

The analogy would be if the pawn shop had transporters that weren't accurate enough to build a new copy from one location in a warehouse somewhere, so it had to make many copies from warehouses around the US, combining them all into a single coherent and accurate copy.

err, something like that. I'm not saying the Pirate Bay should be illegal, just that the pirate bay <i>is</i> called The Pirate Bay. I expect it is more than 20%, by data or .torrents.
That is to say, I don't like incorrect analogies.
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My opinion: if you want to have a free version, you should charge .99 cents for it and reinvest all the proceeds into some kind of smart advertising. This way, you have the satisfaction of knowing you created something another person found valuable, can figure out what paying customers want (you know, the ones you want in the end) versus the kind of feedback free customers might give, and get to learn how visitors to your web site react to various types of advertising.
Fairly true. It's worth noting that career prospects outside academia for a CS graduate students are often considerably better than for graduate students in other fields (and somewhat better if you do CS systems than theory).
"the nice thing about this question is that it implies many derived reasons for a downvote"

I like this way of thinking about it, I think the same approach is good for upvotes. Is this something that makes HN a better community? Is this part of the debate thought out and valuable (even if it's ultimately not the stance I end up agreeing with)? etc.

For example, I will always upvote the sincere "review my new startup/application" submissions. They are a special thing going on here and so often full of good observations (and good 'vibes') so I want to encourage them.
Yea, stupid comment. How do I downvote myself? :)
I do not remember which podcast it was on mobileorchard, but they discussed how in their free app many people complained because it was not "feature rich" enough. It seems these people wanted a free app, and that they were not willing to ever buy the real app. None of their comments helped improve the application and did not seem to lead to conversion.
There is not much a free app can do that a video on review websites would not do if someone was serious about buying the app.
UX at the Top Financial Portals: Google vs. Yahoo vs. AOL Finance
Financial portals have been around a long time, and get a ton of traffic. Despite that, it seems like they’re the forgotten children of their parent companies, getting less attention and TLC than they should.
A comeback for Low Power FM radio?
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Broken promises–C++0x futures
Considering you signed up to post this gushing post, you wouldn't happen to work for them would you?
Sorry, but this is basically grid computing with a slightly different client. As pointed out many times before, most interesting problems right now are IO bound. It turns out that data locality is the most important thing in processing extremely large datasets. That is the key insight in the map-reduce paper and the linchpin to the success or failure of all the distributed map-reduce frameworks that have sprung from it.

Most startups and small scale companies that would see the value in leveraging a system like this simply don't have the right processing profile which would make something like this worth their while. I'm sure if you graphed CPU time per byte of data you'd find a sweet spot where a service like this would speed up jobs rather than slowing them down.

As it happens, most companies that have a high CPU time per byte ratio are either financial firms or pharma. Most of whom not only have their own infrastructure, but would rather close up shop than see their proprietary code out in the wild for competitors to analyze.

And there are already plenty of clients out there for running fourier transforms on possible seti signals.
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Given that it renders my site completely atrociously for some reason I've not bothered fully investigating, whereas the PDFs generated by Safari on OS X look just fine (just checked), I can pretty well promise that they're doing something else.
'Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint'
Yeah, Quickbooks sucks, but a totally web-based option is not better. There is no substitute for locally-run software for many things and accounting software is one of them for me.
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Nice page of deals and recipes for slow cookers.
The Fastest-Growing Category in the iTunes App Store: Books
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Yes, an update would be great if you're around Joel?

Aside from Joel and Clay Shirky (http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) does anyone have any other must read links on this type of thing?
Microsoft has not lost. Don't be surprised if your great-grand kids will use MS products.
Amazon's Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store
Man, I kinda think this is crazy - but I guess make what sells, heh.

I would NEVER want to read a book on my phone; I spend enough time staring at a computer screen, and squinting to read or having to move the page would just really throw me out of the flow of the story.

Now, a research or informative paper/pamphlet I could see being great, especially if I could highlight text, insert bookmarks, etc. THAT I would use.
Here's what he is going to teach: http://topicki.heroku.com/projects/2

I think it means your feedback is welcome, by the way.

I agree with you that a lot of value is the network. If Adeo does his job well, he will select smart entrepreneurs. A smart crowd is a great friend to have.

Plus Adeo just put together a VC event, so I guess it answers your concerns about VC connections and possible "negativity". Doesn't seem to be a problem.

If I was cynical, I'd add that as soon as he comes up with a pool of interesting startups, VCs will be all over him to get early access.
Um, Safari has a full Javascript debugger built in:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor14
(among other google results)
Just checked it with google.com & the PDF I got looked like it was looking at google from IE :D
A new level of density requires invention and experimentation. You probably can't do much more than double density without actually building a prototype. It's also a function of cumulative spending at an industry level as no one is vertically integrated anymore, not even IBM or Intel: fab and test equipment separated from design from fab operator from EDA software etc... many layers.
Everytime I catch myself thinking "there's a newbie who doesn't know HN etiquette," I check to see how long they've been registered. More than half the time, to my surprise, they've been here for at least six months, and sometimes longer than I have.
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"TV" simply explains the device by which video media is communicated. It's a relic from a time when there was no other way to get such media in the home. The Internet IS TV just as much as TV is the internet. The one who is able to reach the end-consumer will win, and in these days when information is all over the place, the landscape is getting more and more competitive.
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Look at memory chips and FPGAs.
Private trackers all fight to get the torrents up as soon as the shows pre. I'd recommend http://ninjavideo.net - They fight for pre, but are public, and offer direct downloads as well as letting you watch via the DivX web player. Firefox/chrome/google are now labeling it as malicious, but I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Two things in support of PG's case:

1. In the HD flame wars (Blue ray Vs HD-DVD), Blue ray has emerged the winner, but may not actually so. It seems that people would rather stream/ download HD stuff over the internet. As of today, this is easier on the PC than the TV.

2. Growth of HTPC: If your only complaint on PG's article is about the monitor size/ quality this fixes it. You can now connect your TV to the computer, and the PC will fetch content from internet, record your shows automatically and also enable you manage your digital content. Networked home entertainment is the thing of the future.
If you're worried about that you can always expire either when time limit is exceeded (say, 2 weeks) or download limit (downloaded 5 times?). Or you can make download times degrade when the file is downloaded more frequently -- the 100th download will go at 10kb/sec instead of 10mb/sec. There are so many creative solutions that you don't need to put any rules in place now.

Also, I think most of us (myself included) worry about abuse too much. If people start abusing your service you will have the data to deal with it effectively -- you'll think of a solution because you'll have to. And if it turns out people aren't taking advantage of a friendly download policy -- then the service ends up being more useful for honest users.
Wow, this is a really slick move. Who else is competing with Amazon in ebooks and paid online content delivery to mobile devices?
Thank you! I would would love to hear your ideas so long as they won't jeopardize your own goals :-)

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