skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. That's never been in dispute. You can also make money playing violin in the subway.

The thing is, if you want to make money, there are a lot better ways to make money than playing violin in the subway. And if you want to make money with software, there are a lot better ways to do it than to give your product away and hope that some of your users will give you charity or pay you for support.

Wait until we see a case study come through about a company selling a SaaS product who decided to stop charging subscription fees and instead open source it and charge for support, showing how that was the key to how they made their fortune. Then maybe we can talk about this as an option worth recommending over simply selling your software for money.
I can not imagine why he would be insane other than his beliefs do not resonate with widely accepted beliefs.

How you personally define insanity might not make this apparent, but what you've said is a tautology. The inability to conform to societal norms is basically the yardstick for every mental illness.

I had a hard time wrapping my head around it when the mental disorders was defined to me as any inability to function within the bounds a society, because there are people on the mental disorder spectrum that can competently (if imperfectly) navigate society most of the time. Unfortunately the Wikipedia definition [1] doesn't capture the idea as well as I wish and I've completely forgotten how I used to articulate this concept back in the psychology/sociology classes I took.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder
Facebook Shares Dip Below $30 Again
Seems like investors don't like Facebook's new Graph Search. What do you think? How will this enw feature affect our privacy?
Paypal still sucks
I am fed up. I have spend hours on the phone listening to gratuitous recordings telling me how wonderful Paypal is. Really? So far, they have decided a dispute in my favor, but left me in themiddle of a pissing contest between them and the seller. I returned the defective item and will not get a refund. Honestly, don't expect me to spend any more money through paypal, bill me later or ebay. Janis Margulis
I only figured out the scroll down after seeing your comment. I was about to give figuring out their site was overloaded or similar and this was their fail whale equivalent.

For the record Chrome for me uses a grey scrollbar with a grey handle. I have to look very carefully at a tiny part of my large screen to work out where the handle is. (I have no idea where Chrome picked up the wrong colours from.)
But Linux will never be in heavy demand as a brand. No great number of people will ever want to have Linux for the hell of it. The only way Linux could experience an upsurge in popularity would be through a mass increase in consumers' awareness of crapware and similar phenomena. And that could thus only be a small upsurge.
Why didn't they just contact you first and ask you about the behavior, expressing their concern? Did they contact you at all? How did you respond?

That's not covered in this article. And it seems crazy to me that they would vote to shadowban you without attempting to talk to you at least a little. Is that what happened? If so, that's nuts.
The prosecutor's husband is attacking people online for stating the government's own position?

The 35 year figure came from the prosecutors. If they didn't want it circulated, perhaps they shouldn't have trumpeted it to the media.

Right here, in their own press release. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/07/Swartz...

"If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1
million."

If they're happy to use the figure when seeking media attention, they have to accept its use when they're in trouble.
Isn't Mozilla Foundation a non-profit? Wikipedia says it owns a taxable entity, the Mozilla Corporation, but gets the majority of it funds from donations from Google.

I think the companies listed only develop Open Source software and sell services. Google and Apple may use and support Open Source projects, but the real money makers are proprietary.

I agree that the list is still wrong.
Offtopic: I'm sorry to tell but due to HN clumsiness your post in another topic has been declared nonpost, in the Orwellian manner:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061390
This one, [dead]

My response would have been, that's exactly what we were discussing: having children to "choose" between pleasure now and maybe pleasure in distant future. Doesn't have anything to do with me.
>The word "Grap" doesn't mean anything to average people.

You can say that again!
I think you've misunderstood the extortion analogy. The six months is the "Give me your wallet" portion of the analogy.
Can someone tell me how this type of junk continuously makes it into "hacker" "news".

Better question, how do I read HN without seeing this junk.

And if it can't be done I'll hop and skip along my merry way elsewhere while HN slowly rots into "why I hate/like/use/left/disagree with xyz and love growth hacking" irrelevance.
Not that I agree with Bradley Mannings punishment, but I think a key difference is that he was not a civilian.
Your reasons aren't subjective. They're your reasons.

My reason for asking is to avoid guessing. If you are laying in bed for two hours ruminating over the fact that you aren't sleeping, some approaches will be more healthy than others.
I requested one in September and got the invite in early December so I'm not sure if there is any real rhyme or reason to how the invites roll out. You might check your spam folder as well; mine had somehow ended up there.
$1MM+ for 4 months of work? That's amazing. May I know what sort of business was that?
I don't mean to exclude the value of language experience, rather point out that just because someone doesn't know C++ doesn't mean they wouldn't be able to contribute to your team. It's more an argument against companies who won't even entertain the idea of hiring someone without X years of experience in a particular language.

When it comes down to it, most programming languages are just syntax and patterns. Most intelligent people can pick up on this. The people who are going to contribute the most to your project and company in the long term are those who love what they do and are passionate about doing a good job.
Send from MMS to email, certainly. It's all just email under the hood.

I use this as an input method on http://montabe.com, for instance.

But going the other way - sending an image via SMS/MMS to a user (which is what that post is about) - is a totally different animal. One in which you'd likely need to format specifically for different carriers and the like (and that's best case).
I suggested that JSTOR make its public domain works available for bulk download through AWS S3 Requestor-Pays buckets. Please don't misstate my position - I haven't endorsed Aaron's Guerrilla Open Access position.
Looks like Google's reporting the issue resolved as of 12:06 PM PST. Our backends are working again, so I believe them :).

If you run things on App Engine, I highly recommend subscribing to the downtime notify list -- it's much more responsive and accurate than the App Engine status page in my experience.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-a...
>>>> There is no statewide plastic bag ban in California

OK, I agree - I should have said "in many places in California". Using weasel words like "restriction" - as if only "very dangerous assault bags" were prohibited but there was no problem with regular plastic bags - does not change the fact the bags are banned - in SF, in San Jose, in LA county and in some others. In fact, in most places the regulators themselves flat out call it a "ban" in their explanatory materials.

>>>> And there is no federal lightbulb ban (there is a federal rule providing energy efficiency standards for certain categories

Which is effectively a ban on certain - very widely used - categories of lightbulbs. The fact that the it is called more verbosely does not change the fact that it is a ban. The intent also does not change the fact - I'm sure every governmental ban has tons of supposedly good intents behind it, it does not stop being a ban because of it.
My point was that non-libertarians who oppose those sorts of things probably wouldn't agree that parking meters are theft, and might be turned off by it.
Not to mention the ability to run checkbox-based searches across your university network based on a combination of gender "interested in" and "relationship status". Not sure it was lack of use that got that removed...
I believe he means that he needs to discuss this issue in person and will need a physical meeting, not that he invested without meeting them.
I've also been very happy with Simple. When I was transitioning my account over to them, I bounced a payment because I did not realize that using billpay meant your funds were withdrawn immediately, and I'd assumed that my funds being transferred over would cover the charge by the time the check was cashed.

Even though it was a large payment, Simple covered the deficit and someone from customer service contacted me right away to explain they'd claw back the funds when they were available. So far, it's been great using them as a basic checking account bank.
You think the issues are simple and that these specific laws about fraud are duplicative; my view is that they're not that simple and that factors like non-locality demand greater specificity. Although I don't think the CFAA is a very good piece of legislation, I completely disagree with your suggestion that's it's unnecessary.

I can think of umpteen ways to get out of a fraud charge by playing definitional games once computers are introduced. For example: 'sure, it said on the screen that pressing enter I was promising X to be true, and I hit Enter knowing X to be false. But you haven't shown that any human ever reviewed the transaction, and a computer system isn't a person; so it's meaningless to say that I deceived the computer, therefore no fraud took place.' bullshit, of course, but new legislation is often introduced precisely because defendants are acquitted thanks to such technicalities.
Take not that this applies to writing good landing page copy. It is very useful for commercial writing.
I just checked. Simple partners with Allpoint so you have access to their entire network of ATMs (which is pretty large). They also don't charge any fees for out-of-network ATMs (although the out-of-network ATM may charge you a fee).
Just a quick off-topic question for HN: do you recommend any similar bootcamp in New York City this spring? Thanks for any recommendation.
I don't know enough about statistics to judge the strength of Mr Rubinstein's critique, but I find this a little odd: The axes on his graph is a 'raw score' between -1 and 1, but the axes on the MET study graph is 'standard deviations'. Is that significant?
You need 500+ karma. After that, a downvote arrow appears right under the upvote arrow.
Your glasses analogy is interesting but I think is misleading, in that it assumes there's a correct way to view things.

I took it to mean you will see things more clearly, yourself. I may be wrong though.
I'm sorry, I didn't get the memo that hanging out on HN requires you to buy into the whole information anarchy movement.

It's incredibly frustrating to see people like you claim to speak for techies everywhere. I learned to program in C++ when I was 12 and have stared at more hex dumps than I care to remember. But guess what, I also believe in a world with fences and boundaries and rules. I think it's reckless to mess with the network of a $10 billion institution that does almost a billion dollars of defense contracts each year, just as it's reckless to jump the fence at a nuclear power plant. People get sensitive around sensitive things and I think they are right to do so.

I guarantee you I'm not the only one that feels this way, even within the techie community, so please don't act like you speak for me.
He posts the links he submitted, but not links to the reddit submissions (such as http://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/lf5f1/google_i... ), and there is no link to the submission in r/reportthespammers where they discuss him.

I find that suspicious.

> I’ll be leaving my account, but I won’t be back.

Okay, but his user page shows a 404: http://www.reddit.com/user/gms8994

Maybe that's what usually happens to shadowbanned users; I have no idea.

edit: I can still see at least some of his submissions - http://www.reddit.com/r/Celebs/new/?count=125&after=t3_1... - http://i.imgur.com/pL4bs.png

edit 2: trevorj brings up a good point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062850
> Even though getting officials fired is not your preferred method to help jumpstart reform there are no reasons for you to discourage others of doing so.

Yes there are, if you think that it's not going to work and that the attempt is discouraging people from looking for solutions that will.

You could make the same comment if someone attempted to prove P!=NP, and someone else said "your proof has a mistake here, and by the way, people have been trying your general approach for decades and it's never yielded anything".

(I do, however, agree that attempts to get officials fired are more likely to succeed than attempts to prove P!=NP.)
IIRC, HN's hellbanning is actually worse. In order to not immediately tip off people who are hellbanned that it happened, hellbanned users see hellbanned content in line with everything else, but no one else sees it. This way it still gets votes, comments, etc. (albeit at a slower rate).
I've had a similar experience with Simple. The app is beautiful but it's really just another credit card. I love my bank and the features they provide (insurance, different types of credit cards, loans, etc.) are significantly better than what's really just a pretty iPhone app.
Rocket Lease 2012: What Worked, What Didn't, What's Next
That actually sounds like a really fun time and that some good friendships could come out of it.
I think hellbanning/shadowbanning is the worst thing ever, and needs to be exterminated. If you don't want someone part of the community, then ban them. Shadow banning just seems to passive aggresive.
For sheer flippancy, it's hard to beat

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five "All of this happened, more or less."

[edit: originally I put Catch-22, which the user below correctly points out was not Vonnegut and had a different opening line]
> stare at the elephant in the room, name it, and deal with it. The maker/manager conflict

This is actually a component of the primary tool for mild-to-moderate depression, cognitive-behavorial therapy. The patient has too many problems in working memory* and the first step is the shunt some to another logic processor, Broca's area. So the therapist asks the patient to name their problems. Write them down, and then start chipping away at them.

A common method of addressing the problems is to name the worst case and the best case, the consequences, the odds of those each happening, and then what actions can be taken to move the odds in the desired direction.

--

* See the analytical rumination hypothesis, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.ht...
Bootstrapping to success is difficult, period. I think it would be hard to find examples of companies that bootstrapped their way to success running almost any kind of business (some SaaS apps and mobile app things, maybe).

Nonetheless, I think it's entirely possible, and we [Fogbeam Labs] are certainly working very hard on a new "Open Source company". The thing is, you're right that "open source as a business model" is no longer a new idea, and simply being open source isn't enough to guarantee a certain level of buzz and attention. So it's harder now, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. To us, being "open source" is a differentiator, but it isn't necessarily the main thing that separates us from our competition. We think it's important, we think it's The Right Thing To Do, but we still have to deliver more value than the other guys at the end of the day and we're going to have to learn to out market the other guys.
Interesting, I always use a scroll wheel mouse these days and inevitably when I hit the landing page of a web site I just assume there is more if I scroll down. So in this case it never occurred to me not to scroll down. I can see how you would miss that if you don't have this habit though.
That's all it took, was hellbanning? Shoot, I don't even know how long I've been hellbanned here. Certainly longer than not. It's not that a big deal, honestly. We're all just wasting our lives, typing words into a void. If it entertains you, great. But don't fool yourself into thinking it's meaningful. It simply isn't.
The Joel on Software forum was the first place I encountered it, but on a per-post basis. The first time I found out a post of mine had been ignored[1] in this deceptive way, I left and never went back.

It's a valid mechanism for outright spam, but seems to get overused as sites get more mature. I think you should basically never hellban anyone who has ever done anything even marginally useful on your site. Either talk to such miscreants or explicitly ban them so they know what you did.

[1] It was a meta post. JoS didn't allow meta posts. But it was hard to know this because.. it's a meta rule. And you could keep posting meta posts in ignorance and never get feedback that this was undesired behavior.
creepiness is defined by the generation _after_ you

Source:)?

I get the "hook" to lure people onto facebook may change from generation to generation but I wouldn't necessarily say the hook for a newer generation supersedes the needs of the existing generations. If that were the case, facebook would always be focued on building a product for 16-18 year olds. Clearly that hasn't been the case from their past history.
"Halo is being written here"

Some of Microsoft's game studios may be based there, but I believe this is not necessarily true for Halo. 343 Industries is based in Kirkland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/343_Industries
Allow me to provide an argument: The current degree of overhead is representative of a relatively small fraction of the world's consumers using these features. Were everyone to do it, the cost (and the perfectly reasonably maintained profit margins of every intermediate) would increase costs substantially more than it is now.

It's easy to take a classic first-world view of the problem, where a relative minority of the world's consumers have much better access to credit (albeit somewhat abusive in terms) than the rest of the world. As countries like India and the African nations modernize, their populations have already shown incredible demand for electronic currency. The current system is entirely too expensive for them.
Ah crap, parse error, missed "with".

Either way, strikes me as a dubious and reputationally dangerous model for YCombinator to get involved with.
For the same reason people can appeal their conviction if the law they were convicted of was found unconstitutional: it's as if the law never existed.
Hiring really good Android engineers is really hard. I'd say it's easily the hardest set of hires I've approach in a new startup trying to bring people onboard.
Alfresco and SugarCRM seem to be doing OK. I don't have deep insight into their finances, but they're certainly still around and in business.
How Game Theory Explains Washington's Horrible Gridlock
Absolutely.

Regulations mandating safer showers and bathtubs would save more lives, and far more hospital visits, than getting rid of all of the assault weapons in the USA.

As for prosecutorial overreach, I believe that it is part of the reason why the USA has a higher portion of its population in prison than ANY other country in the world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... if you don't believe me. And our "justice" system is not race neutral. South Africa under apartheid did not imprison as high a portion of its black population as the US does now. In major cities about 80% of black males have a criminal record. This contributes to their difficulty in getting jobs. Which in turn contributes to the economic circumstances that perpetuate these shocking statistics.
I don't get it, what kinds of use cases are they envisioning for "social search" and why would people use them? Search what movies my friends like? People who list movies on Facebook are the ones I don't want movie tips from. Search who lives in what city? If I don't know that already, then it's not likely I'd want to connect with them again. Maybe there are usages that make sense, but what are they?
Of course I did, but standardised tests, particularly in the US, do little other than teach people how to game multiple choice, and pass tests.

Life isn't about passing tests, it's about learning.
Gesture recognition in html5 ( WebRTC)
Are you sure about all that? I never get votes or replies. Also, as implemented, HN's hellbanning is quite obvious when it happens.
NITC - NIT Calicut I hope.. :D can the public participate.. if the time is convenient.. I will join..
I might... It would need a big clean, but what personal project doesn't?
Two US power plants infected with malware spread via USB drive
Clocks don't generally strike thirteen. So, if nothing else, you might read on to find out what's going on.

(This style of opening might have been a bit more cutting-edge in 1948, perhaps.)
So it is basically the same as a life sentence, but with possibility of parole after 10 years with yearly parole hearings. I wonder what is the actual terms served (including those dying in prison) for crimes like aggravated murder, terrorism, etc.
Open Source isn't a business model anyway, and it never was. It's a development model. Building a business around Open Source implies the need to develop a correspondingly suitable business model, but "open source" per-se is not a business model.
Attempting to tie what he did to violating the security of the defense industry is not helping your position.
I swear that was unintentional, fortunately I could still edit it XD
i thought node.js was fast as hell bad ass rock star tech that would never melt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
Looking at this from a different angle: it seems new to me to see Mark Zuckerberg doing an announcement of a new feature. The video at the bottom reminded me of an Apple ad (toned down and without Jony Ive's accent).

I wonder if this is part of a new strategy of pushing him out to the public a little bit more.
Except he wasn't facing 35 years in prison...If he wanted to take the charge he could have, but he was facing 6 months if he wanted to look out for his best interests. The comments here keep making it seem that he was going to realistically do 30+ years in prison which is obviously incorrect.
Hi - as the author of the article, I don't think I was misleading, nor do I think I misunderstand the issues. The FTB has a number of options and tools at its disposal to craft an alternative to this "nuclear option". They could have changed the rule going-forward and allowed post 2008 QSB exclusions under revised terms. Yes, that may have cost them some $$$, but probably not as much as you think, and certainly not as much as they will now collect. Maybe this was the easiest remedy for them in the short term, but the remedy they've inacted will have significant long term negative implications. -Brian
Adolescent in what way?
What do you mean having your web app statically served? Either it's a website, which can be static, or it's a web app, which cannot really. You can't get far with just JS. Did I misunderstand your comment?
Which contains the alkaloid, caffeine!