skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The way they're doing it is so naked, so brazen, that it's bound to cause a larger backlash.

Quite right. The more I think about it, the more I believe there's an extreme risk that this could be the first domino in a catastrophic chain reaction. All because of a few lousy billion dollars that surely could have been borrowed and paid back in a more reasonable fashion.

I don't get it. I don't understand how the people involved here could be so enormously stupid. Just as it looked like the Euro crisis was ebbing, they're set to reignite it in a whole new way.
Late addition: saying "I'm not really a potential customer" isn't quite right. I'm putting together a hobby-project website with a lot of SVG images and have been thinking of looking into PhantomJS to generate pngs or gifs for browsers where svg isn't supported (preemptively in case this sounds stupid: that's way down the road, so I don't know if what I'm describing makes sense). I read your post and thought that I would be completely happy to spend a dollar or two a month (expected non-svg traffic is basically zero, but I'd like to support twitter cards) to support your project and generate the images on the fly using your service as a CGI, but 1) the pricing convinced me that the answer is "no" and 2) I'm no closer to knowing if what I want makes sense.

A few tutorials on how to do various tasks with your service would help a lot too (beyond the one-liners).
This is pretty nice, but the live reload package and existing browser debugging tools appear to still be more productive.
The price is exorbitant compared to the compute cost associated with each request, so let's assume that the value you provide here is that every other developer doesn't have to invest the setup time to build it themselves and keep it running smoothly.

I'm a developer, which I think everyone in your target market is, so let's assume I could probably roll my own version if I could dedicate a couple of days to it (that would be consistent with my previous experience). I'd expect you to set your pricing low enough that I should never even consider trying to roll my own, so low I never even bother to lookup the docs to see how hard it might be. As pseut says, the upper tiers are so expensive that you just motivated anyone considering that volume to go off and do the build/buy analysis.

I hope this is constructive feedback. There are lots of other good suggestions here on how to make your landing page convert better. If you take all the feedback on board, I do think you have a service that can provide value.
I wasn't sure if the person that closed it was just some random guy, or a higher-up person at Google. Thanks for clearing this up.
The main reason that top software developers aren't paid more than market rate is that their true value is almost impossible to accurately quantify. This is less of a problem in the financial services industry where it's relatively easy to measure the profit contribution of an individual investment banker or stockbroker.
No, the fact that licensing ideas is a bullshit scam is why it's ok to violate the license.

IP is an abstraction. We don't all subscribe to it.

Please do not take away from this comment that I don't think devs should get paid.
That the Cypriots preferred levying a tax on small accounts to increasing the rate above 10% for large depositors points to the island still eyeing a future as an offshore banking centre.
No because I work with native platforms (OS X, Linux, Windows) using C++/Go instead of a browser/JS. At least for the time being.
German parties voice approval for harsh terms of Cyprus bail out
> seeks to create a low, predictable, consistent level of inflation

Too bad seeking isn't reality, and too bad it isn't low and isn't consistent. Unless, of course, you alter the metric that measures inflation as the U.S. has done periodically.
It wasn't a core product even when gmail had a prominent link to it at the top of the window? http://guijournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Gmail-more-...
As a consumer, I'd have less problems with Glass if it were developed and sold by a company that has nothing to do with advertising and has little interest in users' data (maybe like Canon, Nikon, or JVC). But even then, I wouldn't want to use it.

I also won't interact with people while they are wearing Glass. I do not like it when people take my picture without my permission, and Glass is practically a spy camera. Worse, it not only takes pictures, but video with audio and GPS information.
Could you please link me to what you mean by Bracha's stance?

I think making feedback better over the entire program execution is hard when dealing with immensely large projects. But breaking down those huge projects into smaller pure components with well defined dependencies might stand a better chance. I don't know for sure yet, but I'm gonna try and find out.
A company gets X in revenue from a product. Whether that X comes from ad revenue or subscription fees seems immaterial. Either way, Google Reader would have been a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at Google.
Oh yes, please.

edit: I submitted the request at http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/show-talk/ejec....
yes, it's meteor but you need to click on the map to update
I have a cold fusion reactor in my basement. It extracts free energy from the vacuum and it powers my car instead of gasoline.

Since you are antifragilist and don't have a God Complex, you are well suited to invest in my project to commercialize this technology!
US version of the new Galaxy S IV won't have an 8 core CPU
While it's certainly one of the most recognizable pieces in the series (mind you it's only recognizable because it became ubiquitous later), can just 2 notes even be copywrighted? I mean we're not talking about a Brian Eno piece here.
I would (sic) be more likely to believe this story when proper grammar is used to convey the message.
You are right of course; the problem is that even though there have been people working on this problem since 2003, no one has communicated very well about the results outside of a few academic circles.

Hancock solves this problem with live text in Flogo II, but all we know about it is from his dissertation (http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf). I observed the same phenomena when I did my Sueperglue work back in 2007 (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1793...), but I never really bothered to follow up until now (with inspiration from Bret's work, of course).
It's hard to quantify precisely, but it's not that hard to quantify in general terms. In general terms, it's a lot more than 0.2%.
The USPS are the people who send you unwanted shit. It's how they subsidize the cost of their service. They explicitly offer to third parties the ability to spam huge swathes of US taxpayers with unsolicited mail; this would NOT be possible without the USPS encouraging and enabling such behavior.

See https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm for example.
Can you shed any light on the practicalities of moving one's money beyond local government's reach? This is something I've wondered about for a long time.
The Day I Turned Down Napster
The post office is actually in the constitution.

So you can take it away when you give up your guns, I'll make that trade.

Until then, congress needs to stop messing with USPS.

They don't use any tax dollars, why is this even an issue.
Doesn't it seem more plausible that someone just executed a prank with a sheet of plastic, and a myth grew up around it?
The more interesting question is how many multiples of existing growth will it be before Google start to use the data they collect in incredibly unfriendly ways.

How will they push their stock price above $1000? $1200?

I'd like to suggest another metric: September 11s (or "9/11s"). How many 9/11s will it be before Google's reuse of the data they collect is popularly legitimized, in their new role as the nation's biggest defence contractor? This is an insane idea, but I fear not sufficiently insane. I'd peg it at under a quarter of one 9/11.

The company must grow somehow. It must keep growing. As it exhausts its old business areas and sacrifices any ideals it may have once held, you have to at least entertain these crazy outcomes.
> Physical property redistribution happens in countries all around the world all the time.

We're not talking about the entire world.

> I don't think of the government taking people's savings out of a bank and the government taking people's land as very different.

Yes. I don't either, and neither does the top parent. That's the point.

> As to your last paragraph; it is foolish to assume social changes or governmental behaviors are more or less likely because of technological advances.

If you say so.
This app was created Mike Adams, graduate of Hack Reactor dev bootcamp 12 week course in San Francisco, CA.
http://www.quora.com/Web-Development/What-are-the-most-impre...

"My My Hack Reactor classmate Mike Adams' app Instahood is pretty cool. It shows recent Instagram photos from any location you choose. When you first open it, you see photos at your current location. Then you can look at pictures wherever else you want, either by clicking somewhere on the map or by searching for a place (with auto-complete!)

He used Meteor (web framework), the Google Maps API, and the Instagram API."
This is idiotic opposition. Spy cameras exist. Bluetooth earpieces exist, Glass is interesting for what it receives (the server software integration) and for its HUD, not what it caputures and transmits.
From the op's blog- http://www.9gridchan.org/9gridhistlatest.html
The video doesn't prove google glass is invasive. It just shows that people don't tolerate jerks too well. Even without the camera, having some weirdo come up and stare at you without having the decency to respond to you is of course going to annoy people. Nothing to do with technology.
I just saw him speak about it at a meeting we had recently. He also has something about this on his blog (http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2012/11/debug-mode-is-only-mode....), though I don't think he says anything about that there.

I'm trying to write a paper about this right now for Onward, but I think its possible to do large programs with the right amount of incrementalization within. There is definitely a limit though (if the change influences a lot of stuff, there isn't much we can do right?)
> The huge military for starters, all that money that goes via the military to the industries that supply it. Money straight in to jobs.

Jobs which create guns and bullets which are fired and kill people and do absolutely nothing for the betterment of man and do nothing (or very little) to increase productivity. In other words, this is a great example of the broken window fallacy.

> what the anti socialists seem very keen to forget is that this all kicked off with subprime loans, badly regulated, free market loans, not government loans or spending.

So you're just going to ignore all the government encouragement along the way? You're going to ignore the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, mortgage deductions, and everything else the government has done in the past half century to encourage home ownership? You're just going to ignore the very low interest lates proceeding the dot-com bust? You're going to ignore the implicit bailout guarantees provided by the government and the FDIC? You're going to ignore all the regulation that encouraged too-big-to-fail banks to grow and continue to exist?

No, the housing crisis was a joint effort. It was, as I've heard described best, the private market getting drunk off booze provided by the government. The private and the public sector both messed up. Derivative packaging and trading and all of that was certainly ugly. But you cannot possibly blame this on the free market (because free it wasn't) and you cannot absolve the government of responsibility. To do so would be irresponsible itself.

> I assume the anti socialists wanted the banks to fail?

It was government policy that encouraged their creation, so yes. Of course.

> So, we do like government spending when it suits.

Government spending to solve a problem created by the government. Brilliant.

> So, one cannot complain about the spending when it was the money provider, capitalism, that screwed up in the first place, leaving no money to spend.

No. Just no. This is like saying capitalism caused the Great Depression. See above.
It seems nobody at esquire even bothered to read the wikipedia article on the USPS as they would have crossed the section titled Universal service obligation and monopoly status[1]. This brings me to 2 things; 1) Monopoly: The USPS has a legal monopoly on letter carrying. You're not legally allowed to compete with them and that, simply, is why mailing a letter through UPS is so expensive. 2) Universal Service: One problem with completely privatizing as that you would have to legally mandate private companies to deliver to everyone.

I think the USPS could be a profitable company, they've just royally screwed up customer service. Screwed it up so bad that most people actually resent it. Not only is going to the post office comparable to a bad visit to the dentist but just try to make sense of their services [2]. They're incomprehensible. If I just want to mail a letter with a tracking number I should be able to go to the post office and say, "I would like to mail this with a tracking number." Actually forget that, I should be able to go to a vending machine, put in $1 and have it print me a tracking number that I can slap on the envelope. Instead I have to wait 30 minutes in a slightly dilapidated room, with service change signs dated back to 2004 and ask for "First Class mail with tracking and delivery confirmation". Every time, I say "I just want a tracking number" and they have to ask me 10 questions. Just give me a damn tracking number and clean your office.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usps#Universal_service_obligat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usps#Service_level_choices
You are still lucky that your article is up here and i am sure you have thousands of sign-ups by now.
I tried with my multiplx.com - an alternative for Google Reader and I am not able to get the traffic i need neither my post came to limelight in HN. So, it all depends... not sure when and what picks up..
all internal communication have been migrated to hangouts and it is following the pattern before which any product gets killed
Maybe for the wearer that's interesting, there's no such distinction to the people being recorded; they can't see what the wearer is up to with the device.
They had me at -Og.
After the Launch [Founder Fiction]
you can stick with mainstream media, I dont have time to go to a grammar school
In my interpretation, taxation parallels "banks" in the comparison drawn by the top parent. From the parent,

> but they could only do this because banks and government has stopped seeing money in the bank as belonging to the person who put it there. They would have never gone to a farmer and taken 10% of their grain. They would have never gone and taken physical property in peoples home.

Now instead of "stopped seeing money in the bank as belonging to the person who put it there," simply think of "stopped seeing labor/goods/(taxable things) as belonging to the person who performed/has it/them."

IMO, the top parent was a commentary on cognitive dissonance. It's implied that the parent believes taking stuff from the bank is morally equivalent to taking 10% of the grain from a farmer. The parent could have been more explicit, but alas, this was how I interpreted it.
The Segway was a stupid idea:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/segsuck2.jpg

Source: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=segway_more_...
Someone explain how that chart [1] can even be conceived as useful. I'm not even sure what it measures!

[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-s...
"Submitting a resumé to a website is about as useful as throwing a coin into a wishing well."

Not true if you are experienced, (and an engineer). The above is true only if your resume is not interesting. ie. 1. You don't have any position on interesting companies on your resume that are known for good technical talent. 2. You don't have any significant products, or side projects to show. 3. The company is not looking for somebody like you right now.

If you have shown to ship products (and good ones), then you always get a call back. Most startups do actually check and screen inbound resumes.
The "white noise" sfx doesn't sound correct to me.

This does: http://soundfxcenter.com/download-sound/super-mario-bros-coi...
Forgive me for being a bit ignorant about this, since I'm quite a bit outside the lua community myself. (and didn't quite expect to get voted to the top here) I've done some googling around, and It's hard to say if luasocket is abandoned as such- but there are several forks of it. Regardless, it's the standard library that pretty much anyone and everyone uses for networking. There are a number of forks on github of luasocket- maintained presumably to add features needed for specific projects.

There is the Kepler project http://www.keplerproject.org/ , which appears to be much like the commonJS project for javascript- with luasocket at its core. Kepler project lists http://slimfastclinic.com/ and http://www.bestjuicer.biz/ as websites that were built with lua. (though they may be out of date since the slimfastclinic.com says it's wordpress)

It might also be worth pointing out, just as a side note, that mod_lua for apache has existed for a while https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_lua.html
I started http://www.cameralends.com about two months ago, and have gone from a handful of visitors/day to about a hundred/day, and regular signups to boot. Hang in there, the fun is just starting :)
Because you can't own information. It is impossible.

The case could be made that you can't own real property, sure. But you will find few to back you when you shoot someone with a shotgun for maliciously singing a song you "own" versus maliciously trespassing in your home.
Unfortunately Google also killed their RSS browser extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385089
I don't know what was the specific reasoning behind what they did, but I believe it might turn out to be the worst decision ever in the history of banking. How are the people in Greece, Spain & Italy going to react when they hear about this? Will they decide to take preemptive measures (take their money out of the bank) before the same thing happens to them? Note: I am not claiming that the same thing will happen in other countries, only that people in other countries might be concerned about the posibility of it happening and decide to do something to protect their money.
> If I make a song or write some software, I'm creating something of my own in the very purest sense.

I think that's where our emotions fool us, here.

Let's say I write a song. You hear it and sing it every day. Does the song belong to me? Should I have remedies against you for singing MY song? The whole thing is insane.
True, Cyberdyne Systems didn't start out as a defense contractor either.
The language in the blog is very annoying, but the subject matter is nice. You've probably seen it before but now you know how to implement it... or one way to implement it anyway.
I put up a perspective on this not too long ago; see https://considerforexample.com/less-government-is-more-gover...
My mistake, I meant Light Table.
They could have made the bank bond holders (rich foreign banks) take losses without affecting the normal depositors.

How can you think getting a bigger loan to pay current loan is a good strategy. It will work only if the economy improves. If the economy tanks, it is not going to work. It is only going to increase the losses for the lenders ultimately.
> The post office is actually in the constitution.

Yes, except the right to be a monopoly is not. I'm fine with the USPS existing, but you must let private couriers exist as well.
To add more points of view. For me, your design is not that good. It is a mix of a website for a web framework and something with a menu plus the sign in in the same page. Copy the same design than the other service providers do.
The design is not perfect. The texts are not well placed.

I think 4 different prices is too much. 3 is good or do something like "user, team, company", and then if we need to have more options we can contact you.

Your website is your biggest investment in Marketing. You should polish it. You also need to understand what your customers need. Their needs are certainly different than what you think.
Maybe they could create an RSS reader, and keep track of analytics and behaviour on how people read and consume their favorite sites' content, then insert relevant ads in that experience?
That's Chromium
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Other than a few academic journals and a couple of trade magazines, I get essentially nothing by snail mail that I actually want. Everything in my mailbox is junk mail, unsolicited credit-card applications, political crap that I don't care about, bills that are redundant because I pay them online anyway, etc. Conversely, I can barely remember the last time I had any call to mail something snail mail.

Basically, if I weren't something of a luddite when it comes to reading (I still prefer to read some things on paper), I'd have absolutely no use for the USPS at all. As it is, if they closed down tomorrow, I'm pretty sure IEEE and ACM would find another way to get my journals to me, or I'd finally bite the bullet and switch to reading that stuff exclusively in digital form as well.
For the long version of this post, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
From my perspective, the problem is that these companies are effectively acting as government agents. FWIW, I blogged about it here: https://considerforexample.com/less-government-is-more-gover...
I'm just curious, are you Turkish? Not that I disagree with you, but it does seem to be one of those issues that seems to be charged by one side or the other.
I have to wonder if releasing an upgrade is better than other things. Also you should leave your contact in your profile! My first reaction was to email you, but I have no way to reach you.
Google Glass will make recording others openly acceptable. Spy cameras and earpieces don't exist with the intention of ubiquitous use while Glass does.

Can you imagine everyone you know who wears glasses now using a camera at all times?
It's certainly disappointing. There's been this furious obsession with "getting Linux onto the desktop", which lead to misguided attempts to dumb the OS down to the level that a Linux hacker thinks works for a "normal user". The efforts seem to have proven mainly that Linux hackers don't understand "normal users" and that, given enough determination, you can reimplement a broken version of Windows on top of any OS.

And then your config files get config files (GRUB2, Debian/Ubuntu network configuration, ...) as the horrifically bad design decisions made on behalf of the nonexistent "Linux desktop users" get pushed onto the server that you have to actually deploy working code onto. It's enough to drive a man to drink...or at least it's driven me to Inferno and Plan 9.
car2go, particularly the all-electric networks, is the closest thing we have right now to the electric self-driving roaming taxis that is HN's future of transportation wet dream. There's tons of interesting data in their API about where people go and how people use the cars if you take a bit of effort to mine it. But the coverage on HN is minimal (exactly 26 hits on HNsearch right now) because it's not in SF or NYC or Boston.
Unless it has paid postage on it, it's illegal to put it in the mailbox: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1725