skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could someone take me through how this John Maloof fellow suddenly has all of the copyrights to these photos?

Clearly the photographer would never have sold these photos and the copyright term would not have expired. The photos would be in the "lost or stolen" category wouldn't they?

If anything at all, they should be (in a perfect world, I know copyright doesn't work this way) public domain if no heir steps forward to claim them.
> As an example of alternate HN clients, hckrnews.com had 124 referrals, ihackernews.com had 85, HackerWeb had 77 and PulseWeb had 48. That's a grand total of around 300 out of 13.5k.

I see similar proportions for submissions of my pages as well.
http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards is another good place to look at keyboards. The Happy Hacking Professional 2 is probably the most highly regarded reduced layout board, but you can get cheaper ones like this: http://kbtrace.com/kbtpure/catalog/product/gallery/id/1/imag... . They are both 'mechanical' keyboards but HHKB uses Topre switches and KBT uses MX Cherry switches and they feel quite different
> Samsung's phones aren't as much better than Motorola as Samsung seems to think they are. It isn't hard to see Google pumping the next Razr model with significant advertising dollars and claiming the crown for best selling Android smartphone for itself. Remember how fast Chrome beat out Firefox and and IE?

It's the brand that matters. Motorola's is pretty beat up and is losing a lot of money every quarter even after Google bought it. I doubt Samsung warming up to Google will stop it from marketing the next Razr phone anyway.

Also, much of Chrome's success among non-geeks came from default bundling and installation with Flash, Acrobat Reader and Java updates, not from Google's marketing. A lot of Firefox users that I had moved from IE during the IE7 days had no idea how they ended up with Chrome on their machine.

>Samsung should have been content slipping under Google's radar and riding that wave. I can't see how poking the Google beast is a good idea.

I don't think it's as easy for Google to sell tens of millions of phones as you think it is. They've had some major screwups with hardware like the Google TV, Nexus Q etc.
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I use Evernote every day at school. It fills just about all of my needs. The only place where it struggles is when I need to write out math. In those cases I'll usually just use pen and paper. Everything else goes in Evernote though.
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Google+ struggles to attract brands, some neglect to update
What about the entrepreneur that launches a startup that makes him/her a multi-millionare relatively quickly? No helicopters or yachts involved, just a enough success to live a comfortable middle class life for years to come. Im sure it isn't always Instagram or bust. At the same time though, is this not a Startup story? Why don't we hear these?
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And then what will those people fund their retirements with?
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Here's a bit of data: last week my page http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns was submitted to Hacker News and hit the front page for a while, racking up thousands of visitors. As it happens, I was running an A/B test on fonts, where a JavaScript timer sleeps 40 seconds and then fires, telling Google Analytics that a reader has 'converted'. (This hopefully avoids the bouncing distortion of the 'time on page' metric.) So, what percentage of readers stayed on the page long enough for the timer to fire after 40 seconds? (The Markdown source is somewhere around 12k words, so it's not the quickest read in the world.)

~18%

(See http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85192141/Analytics%20www.... )
Thanks for the link. Upvote and comment for visibility

The OP post/link wants to run scripts / load stuff from all over the place, which I wasn't gonna OK. This one ( vivianmaier.com ) is OK tho, and hosting some amazing photos.. She had an amazing eye.
Many think that's because BSD and UC Berkeley took the bullet for open source, USL v. BSDi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi

Even though it got settled in a couple of years, the agreement was then secret and BSD was still under a legal cloud. And legitimately so, the settlement was eventually made public and had this gem:

"7. Further Participation in Litigation. The University agrees that it will not actively assist or support BSDI's defenses or counterclaims in the Federal Action or the efforts of any other party who asserts in any action the right to copy, use, or disclose to non-licensees of USL any of the material contained in the Restricted Files or the invalidity of USL's proprietary rights in the UNIX System. However, nothing in this provision shall prohibit the University from responding to any discovery permitted a third party under federal or state law or from defending any claim that may be asserted against the University or the Individual Regents." (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760).

(In retrospect it turns out SCO was never a real threat, for they didn't have the copyright to UNIX(TM), only the duty to collect fees for a 5% vig, and they knew before the lawsuits that they didn't have it (!!!).)
Thanks for sharing another excellent article Evan
My D is rusty by now (ha!), but one thing is how different their macro system is.

The biggest thing that D is better at is having been around for a much longer time. There's way more docs and users.
> No business porn for me. I want struggle, not Disney.

+1. Even though @jstanley is correct about the latter quote, I do agree that most start-up stories are dominated by these fantastical circumstances and ridiculous buyouts. I think there are primarily two reasons for this:

1. Retention (or lack thereof) in the start-up world

2. The success bar

As far as (1) is concerned, I think why we don't hear about people that try, try, and try some more for many years is that once you reach a certain age or once you have kids, you can no longer afford to live on Ramen noodles and Ritz crackers. If you fail once, twice, or three times, it really is very very difficult to try again. Even tough you've (hopefully) gained some valuable lessons by failing, you've lost (a perhaps disproportionate amount of) resilience. Thus, you're much less likely to try again.

(2) is moreso culture-dominated than rooted in the real world. As far as I'm concerned, I'd consider myself "successful" if I launched a 1-person start-up and sold it for mid-to-high 5-figures. That's not even close to "Facebook successful" and maybe my success bar has been lowered since I've failed a bunch of times, but most of these books/interviews/talks are written/given by people that have had outstanding exits. No one wants to talk to the tiny 2-man studio that built a company and sold it for $300k (even though I would argue that's a successful exit).
Hey, there's an expanded section at the bottom, maybe some new ideas in there..
See my response here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688008
Aussie uni creates the world's best hackers
I'm a big fan of the "lazy portfolio." Three funds, nothing more: Vanguard total domestic stock, total international stock and total bond market. Buy and hold forever (rebalancing towards more conservative assets as you near retirement).
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>The exit strategy is called Tizen.

I see two major issues with Samsung switching to Tizen:
* Samsung is unlikely to get developers as talented as those at Google. I doubt that Tizen development could approach mainline Android's development pace, given the talent difference.
* Tizen would need its own app store. Ask BlackBerry or Microsoft how well new app stores do.

Tizen is unlikely to catch up with Android functionality- or app-wise. Unless the carriers push it hard over Android, it will have no advantages and thus will not sell.
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That's interesting, I never knew that...thanks
Would definitely not be the first person to confuse the Danish and the Dutch, :p
If it was originally intended as a startup, then it's a startup story - regardless if it ends up as an IPO, small business or bankruptcy.

And the vast, vast majority of startups do end up like that, not in a buyout or such.
I've had a similar issue when needing images of poses for photography guides. A couple of times I've looked through stock images until I've seen the type of image/style of sketch I've liked then contacted the designer directly to produce a range.

If you only need very basic stick men style images, use Pivot Stickfigure animator.
Rumors are that Google favors those with Google+ 'likes' so I'm surprised businesses are taking a chance of not using them more. The pro/con scenarios are in favor of having an active Google+ page, at least for large businesses and brands.

But personally, the more they try to trick or force me to create a G+ account, the more I avoid them.
Higher education should give you means to pursuit your interests later. That means giving you a set of skills and knowledge directly applicable to making money, because to follow your interests that's what you need.

At least I think so. And that's because, at least for me, exploring my interests while worrying about my employability later, worrying about grades and every failure is pure hell, enough so to make me lose any interest I had at the beginning.

Education, in the form it takes now, is for the most part killing any joy of learning. I don't really think that this is possible to fix as long as we rely on money this much. So my conclusion is this: make the education as painless as it needs to be to make it relevant for earning money (more relevant and in a good sense), but don't prolong it far into the twenties. Let it end as quick as it's possible and let the people earn enough to pursuit their interests by themselves later.
Google anything about Accor hotels, say what the benefits of Platinum are. You'll find you can't even access the content from mobile because the page is "not ready." Been like that for a year.
We monitor if the page is focused or blurred, so you can get both metrics in real-time.
Yes! Thanks.

The whole interview is worth listening to if one can tolerate the (at times considerable) douchiness of the interviewer.
It isn't about the present numbers, it is about where the numbers are going. Google may have a mission statement of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", but clearly that require a company to make decisions. A lot of people would find it useful to have Google physically mail them info, but that isn't efficient or the way of the future.

I suspect a lot of people who are lamenting the "loss" of this service haven't used it. I have. It is better than nothing, but it is a hack designed for a world that isn't going to be around for long. If I was a Google shareholder, I'd be questioning them wasting any resources on it.
So. I read your link.

http://www.alternet.org/food/uncovering-real-story-behind-co...

I'd never heard of Lynas before. He strikes me as Bjørn Lomborg character.

I think all criticism should be seriously (honestly) addressed. No worldview is above reproach. I'd eagerly watch/read a debate between Lynas and the people he criticizes. In answering his criticisms, it'd help them to refine their arguments.

But before any of that happens, I'd want Lynas to address his apparent conflict of interest.
It's not on that list because the guy that wrote that list also wrote http://hackerwebapp.com.
I graduated from a college that cost over $160,000 through four years. I am also from a low income house hold and I will attest to the fact that the college was very hesitant to give me any financial aid, while these kids that would pour in from Marin County California and Manhatton were going to school on a huge price break.

What I realized is that for the institution, my tuition money is all the money they were going to get. From the rich families they could expect donations throughout the year. I had a friend who paid very little to go to school there, but it was also clear to us that without his Dad financing the tennis team, we probably wouldn't have had any of the amenities that we were treated to. There's always that give and pull.

Another point to bring up is that financial aid can be up to the individual in charge of your application. When I worked at the schools technology center fixing faculty computers, one time I happened to fix the head of financial aid's computer and when she came to pick it up she asked to thank me personally and told me that, "If you need anything from the financial aid office, even just a little bit more, you come tell me and I will make sure to take care of you." I didn't know this lady until then, but I was sure glad to have fixed her comp...
As someone who had tried to work with available GCs in Java, GP is spot on; it doesn't matter that algorithms exist - production JVMs still pause (or at least did 2 years ago when I looked into it)
That's not necessarily applicable here because they were not including the cost to the state in the net cost (only the cost to the individual).
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I've bought a bunch of RapidSSL certificates from NameCheap and have never run into any problems.
"Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13."

I was not aware that instagram manufactured cameras or mass storage devices. Cannon employs 198,307.
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An app with access to your camera can shoot fucking video or pictures and run them through analysis. For example, an internet radio station can adjust its playlist based on who it sees. Well, that and its ads.
This guy is an idiot and his interviewer is an idiot. Youtube search for Richard D Wolff and get some historical context instead of asking some stoner and labeling him visionary as he spouts drivel. Social currency, wtf...
A straight up implementation of TSP (I assume you mean the decision variant) needs some kind of door that shuts with a timer.

How do you plan to encode arbitrary graphs? This poses a challenge for 2d platformers. In case of any 2d game, how do you encode non-planar graphs? You would need some kind of teleportation device.

A graph with few edges and large edge values will also be problematic if you plan on keeping your input size polynomial (in |V| and |E|), as you'd need a widget capable of encoding an arbitrarily long edge in constant map space.

Once you have solved all the above problems, feel free to write a paper about it ;).
Nobody reads the ToS, not even those who write it
DigiCert.com is the CA that will give you the trust and assurance with the high verification standards that you would get with the Verisigns (Symantec) of the world but with the start-up like cool customer service and affordable price that customers today deserve.

The cheapest SSL options there ($20 and under) offer NO verification of the applicant of the certificate. Thus, you could be a scammer for all they care, as long as you control your site (even a phishing site) they've give you the "domain validated" certificate.

Stick with either EV (green bar, extra assurance) or a high-assurance only shop like DigiCert, Symantec, Entrust, or GlobalSign. It'll also show your users you care about trust and identity assurance online.
Ha, Yishan "sparklepants" wong, as if sparklepants was a middle name...
Is experience worth nothing?

Do you have to spend all your time and resources architecting the system poorly the first time, just to "prove" that you are wrong -- even though you knew it would happen before you even started coding?!

That's like telling an engineer to prove (by actually building it and subjecting it to a lot of stress) that the bridge he designed would be prone to collapsing before helping him find a better design!
Perhaps a better way to say that is they "feel entitled to a job regardless of whether they can contribute any value to an organization". And a likely cause of having nothing to contribute would be studying a subject they find personally interesting but has no relevance to the broader world.

(I don't know if that's what the OP intended, I'm just clarifying in a way that makes more sense to me.)
And with this decision you break 99% of the web on mobile devices.

It's a tiny thing to override this CSS property and makes mobile browsing of desktop sites so more convenient -- there's is no difference between Chrome on a mobile device and Chrome on desktops in terms of speed and usability of sites. In contrast, using the web browser on iOS is a real pain considering that Apple forbids to install any other rendering engine.

And if you don't like the text reflow just turn it off, it's optional on Android. Finally, it's a much better solution for visually impaired people since you can scale the fonts quickly as big as you want and the text just reflows. This even works on mobile sites since you can override zoom locks. There are so many benefits Apple just ignores with their "design decision" (mainly driven by commercial interests in favorite of the app store).
The time is right to capitalize on Android's big weak spots (OS fragmentation, disorganized app infrastructure, indifferent branding) but I don't see Tizen looming large yet. Samsung is doing a great job selling phones to consumers, but it's not in a great position to buy up the whole Google Play collection one piece at a time, and it doesn't seem to be trying to get developers and advertisers interested in Tizen at the moment.

If their long-term plan is to fly close to Android and then swap it out for something completely different, I'd be very excited. As a longtime smartphone user and current Android developer, I've been through the transition from one proprietary platform to another... BlackBerry, iOS, Android... I'm weary of dismissing a dozen app update notifications from my tray every day, and I'm tired of "apps" in general. I don't want to jump to another copycat of the same old junky, cluttered world. If Samsung is prepared to offer a fresh way of seamlessly being in the physical and digital worlds without having to navigate through a bunch of noisy, crappy apps (possibly without even the candybar form factor), I will be right there, wallet open. But as the author points out, it looks like the current iteration is just to load up a bunch of crapware onto a plastic toy, and users have to buy into the whole infrastructure if they want access to their favorite brand. No thanks.
One approach which I think has a future, would be for educators to produce printed textbooks (i know... i know... very retro;) and make a reasonable profit from each sale.

The value chain will be like:

author -$20-> print-on-demand-shop -$30-> shipping -$35-> reader

This is essentially a streamlining of the traditional textbook publishing model, focussed towards authors' interests (66% margins is the kind of incentives to make knowledgeable person want to sit down and write a book). It is a pretty good value for the student too (1/3 of cost of book offered by traditional publisher).

Specifically for textbooks, students appreciateª the value/portability of the printed book and are willing to pay for it. If the cost of the perfect bound book (delivered to your door) is lower than what it would cost to print out and bind a pirated PDF, then the business will work.

Honestly, I think that print-on-demand and the above author-centered publishing model have the potential to bring about an intellectual revolution on the scale and importance similar to when the Gutenberg press was invented.

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Agreed but that's only applicable when you have a product.

I should have specified that I was coming at this from the point of view that someone's writing a single page article or blog post with no conversion target other than to have it read.

If you're actually aiming to achieve anything concrete with a web page, then the only way to improve that is exactly as you said: directly track conversion to your goal.
That's not quite true. They're giving merit aid instead of income based aid. You can be poor and get high test scores and they'll court you too.
Worth pointing out that this is pretty similar to tab groups available in Firefox, with added commands when right clicking on a tab to move to a group.
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There are events like MicroConf and BaconBizConf, and information is shared throughout the year via blog posts, tweets, podcasts, etc., but there's not anything directly comparable to HN.

The Micropreneur Academy forum is probably the closest thing we have at the moment.
> Virtual worlds don’t have explicit goals. [..] They aren’t games.

> Great technology doesn’t mean a great user experience.

Of course, but IMO the real missed opportunity was that the one virtual world with real traction - Second Life - just made most kinds of games impossible because of technological limitations. The client-server model they chose made it impossible to play responsive games in Second Life.

Imagine if it were possible to enter a SL region and jump right into a platform game or an FPS. Yes, virtual worlds are not games, but they could have incorporated and enabled games.

Instead, Second Life focused on showing how much it was "not a game", and never even tried to address the technological limitations that prevented games from running on it.

I agree with the post on the reasons virtual worlds failed. But it could easily have been otherwise - allowing games would have grown the entire virtual worlds market.
It's going to be hard to find stories like that, because startups generally take investment to move and grow quickly ("Startup = Growth"). When you have a business that has taken outside investment, you don't have the luxury of taking your time for years to succeed. Anyone who's started along the path you want to hear about, as a "startup" defined as I mentioned above, probably failed. Certainly there's something to learn from those failures, but if you want to hear successes that took that path (investment for rapid growth, but ended up going slowly for many years), there are probably almost none.
I'm not sure about apps, especially in their current state. (some of them allow read-only access; etc).

But some people have a need for various plug-ins and extensions. And those sites tend to go dead quite quickly.
Note: http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com/post/49271273272/t...
> I just want to emphasize that the whole thing is quite subtle, and it's hard to make sense of it given only public information.

Well, I made sense of it using only public information, and yet you claimed "You have no idea what you're talking about".

Obviously that means you must know better than me, so care to share where I made a mistake?
Of all the things that piss me off about OWS, what's probably the worst is this: our corporate media have somehow foisted some kind of collective amnesia on us. People ask, "Ugh, I hate our financial sector, and OWS had some good rhetoric but they just gave up because they were cold, lazy, and bored." As if one of the biggest domestic displays of government violence in recent times didn't even happen!

There are plenty of other critiques of OWS that I embrace wholeheartedly--sites became gathering points for the homeless and hurt more widespread appeal, new people who went in were not on-boarded effectively--which we can debate on end. But the idea that one day people just got bored and gave up... that drives me nuts.