skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Sometimes when you think your idea is good all you need is one or two other people to tell you they think its good and that's it: it's a good idea. How did Instagram come to the conclusion that their idea was a good idea? Or any other startup for that matter. If Zillionears turned out to be a success no one would have thought that having a few people say "good idea" in the beginning was insufficient to get started.
They should make an iSteve app.
- They started to buy last summer.
- They bought cheap after prices collapsed.

This makes it look as if they were smart. As in, "not doing stupid things out of panic or euphoria".
One of the best experiences is when you go clothes shopping, have enough money so you don't particularly care, and your sister runs around the whole store finding things for you to try while you stand there feeling kind of overwhelmed.

Is a stylist something like that? A way for me to look good without investing so much effort into finding clothes that look good? I care a bit about how I'm dressed, but I really really hate the choosing clothes part. There's always too many and most look like crap.
Isn't the onus on bitcoin to prove its stability?

All anyone needs to do is say "hey, bitcoin is not a suitable currency right now, don't use it". There is no contractual requirement for them to review the long-term potential of bitcoin, they aren't bitcoin salesmen. If bitcoin boosters can't make a strong enough case for the currency to override the objections of the moment then that's on them.
Even that last sentiment oversimplifies the economics. The C.W. is that rapacious labels took an undue share of the proceeds from artists, so that buying a CD was essentially just subsidizing a middleman.

But it turns out, most major-label albums never recouped, and the artists kept the advance regardless. Labels served a similar function in commercial music as VCs serve in startups: they'd subsidize near-market wages for 9 money-losing bets in exchange for large proceeds from one breakout success.
Sad. I had used Rockmelt almost exclusively since the very beginning. A few months ago I got a new laptop and was unable to find a download for it. They seemed very focused on their iOS app. I've not used Rockmelt for a few months now. While I miss it, I'm already over the shock of having it gone so this does not make me super sad. Although I'm pretty sure I saw a post from them a few weeks ago about an update for desktop app coming soon. I guess the "update" was really "hey... we're killing it."
Seems like the middle-managers were where the chian really broke and things were allowed to spiral out of control, and on conjunction, the top brass didn't step in to revert things to sanity. :(
"honest brawl"? All you've done is act like a child and troll people. No where in any of your baiting replies in the last two weeks have you expressed a coherent or relevant thought to any discussion. Just you call Bitcoins and their users stupid and then today gloating like a petulant child.
After playing around with it for a while, it hasn't actually made that much difference to me. I perhaps shouldn't have made the suggestion so hastily ;)

Really great fun to play. I love it.
When Falkvinge put all his savings in, it was around $8.30/coin.

http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-saving...
This is true for a rather extreme value of "a lot":

The USD is worth about 7.3% more JPY today than on January 25, and 300% more BTC today than yesterday.
The actual best solution might be to talk to your kids and educate them so they voluntarily don't spend too much ... how innovative and rad is that?
Very cool. We use the "smallest" NIC Mac address at the moment since we generally don't replace NICs much and the dmi info is often bogus.

Didn't know about the dbus thing. Will check it out!
You're not a little old fashioned; you seem to have missed the last 25 years of musical development.

Go look up Soundcloud and see that most likely a third of the tracks being uploaded are remixes and edits of existing tracks, all of them innovative in their own ways.

There are entire genres of electronic music that exist due to sampling. Dub, Drum n' Bass, Electro, Latin American EDM, electronic Balkan, way too many to mention here.

There are literally millions of hours of recorded music; its market and creative value are far, far lower than what the big recording groups claim on the simple basis of the volume of production out there. Ironically, I have never heard of any of the (tens of thousands of) independent labels bitching about people remixing their tracks or uploading edits or playing them at gigs.

You sound like a person that purchases his or her music and listens to it mostly from radio or commercial sources. That's less than 1% of all published music, and its a world of great much depth and complexity where copying samples the a social norm. That copyright law in the last twenty years has favored the large, visible majority has little effect on the ethical implications for the rest of the artists.

And seriously, if a sample is so egreriously illegal as you claim, then I hope that in your world half of all rock music, R&B, and the entirety of blues be declared illegal, since the song structure and chord progressions are in general less creative than the spins electronic produces make on their samples.
What's really happening is that the thread is succumbing to nerdism; I made a statement that was too easily generalized, and then other people poked holes in the generalization.
How can someone "imply" an emergency maintenance? That would make it a planned maintenance. The servers were supposed to be operational so that people could change/place orders before trading resumes.
Oh I get it. It's like a 419 scam.
I was trying to emphasise that there is a qualitative difference between copying by children in bedrooms and copying by professionals or wannabe professionals.

Alter copyright law is probably never going to happen in time, but market driven compromises will fix a lot of things
Great feedback, thanks. I've updated the "Adding Google Authenticator" section with a note that should make that less ambiguous.
Yes, but 1) not every coin is likely to actually get redeemed, and 2) the total loss they incur is more or less a controlled marketing investment in order to jump-start user familiarity with the coin program anyway.
Great example, indeed. We've been seeing a few pop up recently, and with a lot of our team coming from Rackspace/OpenStack, it's been fun to see the application used like this :)

Although YC advocates talking to users, few founders use HN to talk to users/potential users - so I'd love to use this opportunity to get feedback on the viability of crowdfunding for smaller open source projects on a platform like Crowdtilt... Is it worth exploring features for (a 'tilt'or bounty once the community feels it's been completed sufficiently, etc)?
Mean correlates with stupid. More stupid people watch TV than read. YouTube is TV.
Their app looks neat. Isn't it susceptible to gmail changes breaking functionality?
> Default to 240: I want to be able to always watch videos in the worst resolution possible. I want the lightest bandwidth possible. I'd sometimes be happy with just the audio. It seems that I can't default to 240, no matter what I click.

Strange you mention this, because just minutes ago I changed a video to 240, and it prompted me to save my preference (the text was headlined with "Slow Connection?"). Maybe a new feature?
Ouch. One thing that leaped out at me was your mention that the first beta was a disaster because it didn't comply with Amazon's payment-processor requirements, so you burned a lot of capital making good on your promises. This sort of thing is why I keep saying more startups need a legal person on board early on - and with a surplus of underemployed JDs around, now is a great time to work that into your team plan.

Lawyers are not just there to object to things and make life difficult for dreamers, they're there to spot major potential pitfalls like this and steer around them. Far too many entrepreneurially-minded people see contractual and statutory constraints as some sort of obstacle course designed solely to prevent competition or enterprise, and react to said constraints by simply wishing them away. I was impressed that your reaction to this problem was to pay everyone as promised and retool your application to be compliant with Amazon's requirements, rather than simply blaming them for your problems. A hard lesson to learn, but one which will put you ahead of the pack in future.
for me it is better run python behind cygwin, a linux guy on python feels more confortable
You make the insurance price and due diligence bar high enough.
The Yen has fluctuated between 125 per USD and 75 per USD over the past 10 years. BTC has fluctuated between $260 USD per and $120 per over the last 10 days. These are horses of a different color.
it is fear mongering because the entire point of the article is to point out another widget/tracker, when its absolutely nothing new. Event their +1 button probably does the same thing. So the author wants to obviously use googles name to get more page views when this is nothing new and has been done for years by facebook and twitter.
My guess is that it has huge visibility and no moderation. There's almost no chance of your comment being deleted, no matter how vile, stupid or offensive it is, and it's in one of the biggest places of the internet. It's like doing graffiti on the White House, but you can get away with it.
Why test a hypothesis when you can just make it?
I feel like this is a point that is often lost. It's why being an entrepreneur is such a huge risk.

You have to be stubborn enough to succeed in a world where the majority of people will tell you you're going to fail, you have to ignore all that.

Often times however, you do fail.
If you're not planning to buy groceries with bitcoins any time soon then bitcoin isn't going to be a currency any time soon.
Explain a bit more?
How about fuck no? The whole point of bitcoin is that it's decentralised and you own your coins. This is basically just Zynga.
Quality of the videos, and like begets like?
What a timely and unoriginal hit piece.
Noam Chomski talk in the RDS, Dublin, on the 3rd of April
If we're going to be wading through multiple Bitcoin posts per day, can we at least limit it to ones that aren't full of glaring factual inaccuracies and misunderstandings?
It obviously depends on your employer, but it's very common for managers to write off people who go home on time as not the right kind of material for promotions, etc.
> Normal users don't care about things like "privacy" ...

This is not true. If you explained exactly what the extension was doing to a normal user I can almost guarantee they wouldn't like it. No one wants every website they visit to be looked at by an external source. The problem is it's not obvious this is happening. Hell, I'm a web developer and even I wouldn't have thought twice about how Google was displaying this information to me. The technology has gotten so far outside of a "normal users"'s grasp that it's not even fair anymore. They care about privacy, they just have no way of knowing each and every way their privacy can be eroded.

Luckily no one uses Google+ so the extension is pretty useless...
Interesting why "hack" was appreciated as offensive word?
Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship
https://getpersonas.com is now dead.
We're hoping to address this issue at Soundkeep. Copyright reform is definitely needed, but creative commons is a great work-around.

http://alpha.soundkeep.com

Beta coming soon!
You know, I don't really like Google+ but I have had no difficulty in opting out of it and declining to share things like my YouTube favorites and so forth (with a few exceptions that were wholly by choice). I'm not happy with their social strategy in general, but I don't feel it's anything like as burdensome on the user as Facebook's, which caused me to stop using that service altogether.
No, banks will compensate you if they feel that the reputational damage of not doing so is worse than than the financial damage of doing so.
I've been using Bombfell for the past three months and have been pleased with most of their selections. It allows me to not have to worry about selecting clothes and have something/someone else do it for me.
Been there. Maybe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
LinkedIn buys Pulse for talent, future of existing apps uncertain
You got it - a personal stylist is like a sister or brother who can run around the store finding clothes that fit your style and your body, so all you have to do it try them on and give them feedback. OR another thing a personal stylist can do is come to your home and help you make new outfits out of the clothes you already own and help you understand how to buy better fitting, more flattering clothes. We'd love to have you contact a stylist and tell them your situation and have him or her reply and take it from there.
And Mozilla thanks Google for it's continued existence. Funny how it all works out in the end.
Personally I'd hate a default to 240 feature. I don't care about bandwidth, I'm tired of clicking the HQ button.
Correction, getpersonas.com is now decommissioned!
This has nothing to do with Bitcoin, obviously.
Company norms and cultures aside, the software industry was built on working late. Whether or not the CEO goes home at 5pm, the software part of a software business needs to get built, and it's usually not done 9-5.
1. There are numerous userscripts that let you select a default video quality. I use YousableTubeFix, which also adds video download links and a number of fine-grained interface tweaks (heck, you can even remove the comment section completely, mooting point 4!)

3. Agreed.

4. The anarchy of the comment sections are part of the fun of Youtube to me. I rarely read even a page of comments, but the top voted ones manage to make me chuckle surprisingly often. Filtering worthless comments like "FIRST" could improve things a bit, but then you're on the slippery slope towards Google's definition of worthless not matching your own. I don't mind a cesspool with a few hidden gems, because I never even see the cesspool in the first place.

The only thing that really bugs me about Youtube is Google trying to integrate Google+ and real names with it. The parts of Youtube I'm interested in are anonymous or pseudonymous and filled with (not necessarily "bad") stuff that people don't want tied to their real name. Stop bugging us to attach our real names to everything, Google, you're missing the appeal of your own service.
There are places you can exchange packs of cigarettes or boxes of Tide detergent for goods and services, too.
"Until central banks were invented in the 17th century, the money supply was unregulated even if governments did stamp coins. Other unregulated or private currencies have emerged from time to time—think of cigarettes in prison camps. "

They didn't have the same conditions as we have with highly networked computers, so this is not a fair comparison and thus can't be solely relied upon to produce accurate statements about the eventual long-term result of the usage of the currency.

"True, bitcoins cannot be manufactured beyond the limits set by Nakamoto. But there is no way to prevent future Nakamotos from creating bitcoin substitutes—say, bytecoin, or botcoin. If merchants are willing to accept bitcoins, they will be willing to accept the substitutes, especially as bitcoins become scarce and consumers scramble for substitutes."

Is this reasoning not flawed? Bitcoin has built a certain level of brand equity and track record, in addition to the fact that its difficulty to produce via mining damps the rate of its injection into the market. By the time any alernative virtual currency has caught up, it will have its own reason to exist – either by virtue of how it's mined or because some entity is backing it financially. The question of whether computational mining has a problem is not being pointed out concretely so there's no proof to verify that there's a more favorable virtual currency. So, if the other virtual currency is of equivalent quality and Bitcoin's integrity and existence (stability) remain then would not the users of the currency just as easily jump TO bitcoin than from it?
Pretty much everyone who uses the internet, uses YouTube. But the ones who comment on YouTube represent the race to the bottom in terms of quality. The vast majority of internet users watch YouTube videos, but only the vile juvenile trolls and assholes bother to comment.

Install this and your experience will improve: http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/
You know, I respectfully really disagree with you.

Based on the blog, I get the sense that the founders are in their early twenties. At that age, no one is "ready" for a startup.

I doubt that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, etc. were ready to start their company.

At that age, you just do it, since the risks are low.

Unless your parents are wealthy or you have access to a lot of money, at that age its unlikely that a lot of money is on the line. Sure, they "wasted" time on this startup but this is valuable for the next company they will build.

Also, if there was a lot of money involved (and it wasn't their's) its likely that the business would not have gone as far as stakeholders would have wanted validation.
We love Bombfell, in fact Gil, my co-founder, uses them too. But there is nothing like meeting a personal stylist in real life and having him or her help you find or refine your own personal style. :)
Update on Ribbon and Twitter
It's not different, but what the article should have made you realize is how broken (or, if not broken, just fucked up) the system is if the average user (and even higher-than-average users) don't realize how all of these little pieces of the web are eroding their privacy.
The 'why' is the same reason Xbox points exist. Because it makes the company more money than dealing with micro transactions. Amazon saw Bitcoin's success and tried to use its popularity to name this a virtual currency. Except they failed in the very first sentence, where they start with 'US only'.
i don't think there is anything you could do; i just made a very odd/dumb mistake - i read the first "very" as a "not" (got mad; downvoted; thumped out a reply; posted; re-read; deleted; scratched head).
Would they work for equity?
Sorry I couldn't help myself :) /developer.
Why I have issues with Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us
It's certainly better to have an overall strong online presence (Twitter / Github (if relevant) / personal blog) than contacts on LinkedIn that don't mean anything.

One important thing to understand is that LinkedIn isn't just populated by tech folks. LinkedIn is a professional social networking platform that caters to all professions. Your Github / twitter feed might be relevant in the tech industry, but that isn't even an item to think about in most other industries.

LinkedIn is one of the only "social" companies that has demonstrated growth in profitability. They are obviously doing something right. They are making money and demonstrating growth. Where are they going wrong?
RedLaser takes on local deals
Coin has been used to describe currency for far longer than Bitcoin has been around...
There are a number of people out there who have a very rigid view of what "startup culture" means. I've seen it in first time as well as repeat entrepreneurs. Often they thing hard work, spending free time together, need the perks, everyone will always have the same rah-rah approach.

People have lives, hobbies, different interests. The best companies are those that have a management team that embrace peoples differences, nurture where needed, give space where appropriate, and cultivate a culture where people feel like they are contributing in the way they best can and allowing them paths to grow.
To me, its an astonishing achievement. People, we are talking here about a simple two-pages PHP script that stores information from users input into database. Something a junior programmer can knock off in less than 4 hours, easily. Why on earth somebody, anybody, would paid monthly a hard dollar for that, no idea! Their exec team should go sell sand on African deserts; they would came back trilionaires.
Is this the tech version of Poe's Law? Or is it the new version of tin-foil-hatism?

You guys have a very, very strange definition of "evil". Google may not be perfect, and sure they deserve some harsh criticism and mocking from time to time for their choice of unofficial motto, but come on people, get a grip.
From: http://www.linkedin.com/about-us

> Our mission is simple: connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. When you join LinkedIn, you get access to people, jobs, news, updates, and insights that help you be great at what you do.

LinkedIn targets all professionals, not just those that are tech savvy. Most people visit only a handful of websites in a given day; if Linkedin can become a 'good enough' destination for professional news, it has a good chance of becoming part of that handful of websites, if it isn't already. There's some good insight on that here: https://www.quora.com/LinkedIn-Acquisition-of-Pulse-March-20...

Linkedin as a company isn't just about one thing, like adding professional connections for example, much like Apple as a company isn't just about one thing, like making iPhones. As a company, their goal is to build product(s) that align with their mission, and if the stock market is to be trusted as a proxy of how well they're doing that, it appears they're doing pretty well: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=LNKD+Basic+Chart&t=1y
> Chrome never implemented RSS auto discovery.

Chrome has an official extension for RSS auto-discovery: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...

The Chrome team argues that not enough people use RSS to justify having an icon in the URL bar by default. I personally think this is somewhat circular reasoning ("People don't use RSS, so we won't show an icon letting them know about RSS"), but sadly other browsers such as Firefox have followed their lead and removed RSS notifications by default.

Also, whether or not the browser implements native RSS auto-discovery is irrelevant to the point of the article. The Chrome extension in the article could be easily implemented by checking for a special <link> element, so that no URLs need to be sent back to Google just to know that the page is Plus-enabled.

However, off the top of my head, there's a good reason why this wouldn't do much good. The advertised functionality of the Google+ extension requires details about the Google+ stream that the page links to. If the extension checked for a <link>, it would still need to send the URL in that link to Google to get those stream details. The privacy improvement seems marginal.

In the end, I think this complaint is better served by declaring that the URLs aren't recorded. Google's DNS and Omnibox already have similar declarations, so it wouldn't be unprecedented.
Twitter Acquires We Are Hunted
No. Typically that stock comes with a constraint. When the company I helped start was acquired in 1999 there was an 18 month 'hold' on selling stock resulting from the transaction.

The math did not work out in my favor :-)