skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about law and I'm not qualified to speak on behalf of Grooveshark. Having said that, I interned as a developer for the company for over a year. During that time I got to know its true culture and learned a a bit how it operates.

All of the folks I worked with saw it as their mission to support both independent music and independent software development. Everyone in the office brainstormed ways to help broaden their fan bases. (For example, giving artists Flattr accounts & letting them live-broadcast their music as they chatted with fans.) At the same time, many of the Grooveshark engineers I know contributed to open-source projects in their free time.

The API has never allowed users to download songs, and it seems clear to me (by browsing the comments in the code on Github) that one element of the project in question performed that function. That seems to be the crux of this problem.

Again, I'm not qualified to speak on behalf of Grooveshark, but I know from experience that its engineers are extremely supportive of these kind of open-source projects.
you can also see his TED talk video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
An improved sliding pane for Android
Great design and idea. Kudos!
Crowdsourcing Prior Art to Defeat 3D Printing Patent Applications
Fez got hit the hardest, but the negligence applied to the XBLIG program as a whole (and XNA as a technology) actively hampered development of every serious game built with it. Developers locked into using XNA for their title were developing games for the XBox 360 without the benefit of many essential XBox 360 dev tools and features, like full on-device profiling, SIMD, etc.

In practice this meant if you had a game that ran great and worked well on PC, but had severe performance issues on the console, your only choice was to try and do very tedious printf debugging by deploying hundreds of modified executables to the console and trying them one-by-one. In comparison, native devs had access to PIX for XBox 360 which reportedly offered near-VTUNE levels of insight into CPU and GPU performance.

Constraints are fine, of course, but most of XNA's problems were not active constraints but instead negligence - promises were constantly made and then broken, whether it was promising to fix serious issues or promising to pay devs on time for game purchases.
While I agree that it would have been nice, I don't think it was an oversight. In addition to the link posted on how they found people, it's also a bit of a double-edged sword as women are less likely to apply for these types of things. This is their very first attempt; it's experimental. I'm sure when they have more faith in their product/the training, they can spend more time trying to find people from varying backgrounds to highlight.
It's sad that your ignorant comment is at the top of this thread.
You must remember that when the government decrees that everyone must do something or else and everyone does it, it is considered voluntary.
> You don't get to define what is private for me or what privacy means for me

No, but I'm sure most people see privacy in a roughly similar way. You want control over what people know about you and your life, and control over who know it. This control is being taken away from us at every turn, no matter what we do online. Most people have no idea it's happening, but most of those who do, would prefer it.

You may be perfectly fine with losing your privacy, regardless of how you might personally want to define it, but most people aren't.
Note that docker supports both allocating your port 80 to a container ('docker run -p :80'), and setting a default command to run.
Tools to use to avoid Uncle Sam's snooping
Yeah, I was originally going to say Bob Marley, but it doesn't really make much sense to demand putting Bob Marley in jail. :)
Maybe it seems obvious, but I liked how the paper predicted that, "people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity."

Also, it's interesting that the phrase on-line was being used even in 1968.

There's a colorful article on Gizmodo here about what the paper got right and what it got wrong:

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-we-imagined-the-internet-...
Ask HN: what US bank do you usually use for your startup?
Just curious, when you start your startup, what US bank do you use? which one is more friendly, provide better service and competitive fees for small startup?

Thanks.
Startup that thought of Google Now before Google?
> There are tonnes of code hosting sites going back as far as SourceForge and none of them ever came up with something like this.

Actually, [github phased out their uploads/downloads features starting last December](https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads) too. They didn't mean "abuse" as part of the reasons it was going away, but I wonder if it played a role.
“they won’t be sad” sounded like quintessential Jobs.
Let's agree to disagree and move the fuck on.
You could probably just past the link into the update textarea and never post. They actually crawl those links before you submit so they can do their fancy formatting stuff while you're posting.
Considering the terms of the government loan were very favorable (rates equal to the interest rates on Treasury notes in 2010) it doesn't make sense to me that they would want to pay it off early and get rid of all that liquidity. As a quickly growing company didn't they have something better to spend that $450 million on?
As I understand it, "subvocalization" usually refers to the voice in your head that you experience when you read, so the parent post may have been actually making this claim, albeit inadvertently.
Did you not live through the thin- vs. thick-client wars of the 90s? It's an ever-swinging pendulum.
Jobs had contempt for the whole idea of trying to sell books in any form and thought, wrongly, that there was no future business there, until Amazon proved him wrong.

"Today he [Jobs] had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading." [0]

'“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he [Jobs] said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”' [1]

Note the conspicuous lack of interest in using Apple's power to promote books and reading.

[0]http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-steve-jobs/index.html

[1] http://mssv.net/2008/12/28/the-long-decline-of-reading/
Ummm... no. The car companies have three choices: 1) buy credits, 2) pay fines, 3) make low emission cars that earn their own credits. These kind of policies that are designed to prevent the "tragedy of the commons" happen all the time in government. You still might not agree with this type of governing, but your basic facts are wrong.
I think it is a bit of a generalization to say younger people mix business and personal lives.

Opposite of you, I'm in my late 20s, the youngest person in my organization; and I get Facebook friend requests from people in their 40s and 50s that I only know at work.

Perhaps it is more accurate to say people who do not have the same values in privacy as you use things like Facebook differently.
> wrong

They are only "wrong" if you subscribe to prescriptivism... The issue, and the objections being raised by many, are not limited to this particular word. Did you read my post? it was not long.
Yet GM still went bankrupt...just a few months later. People forget that. So what was really gained?
Existing discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753775 :)
> Combine the fact that TV is important, with the fact that the Xbox 360 has evolved into a Netflix box for many,

i thought the ps3 was more widely used for streaming?

it's pretty fscking ridiculous that you need to have gold membership AND netflix membership to stream with the xbox.
While Google has not announced an actual EOL of Google Talk, you can no longer download the desktop client and the Android application tries to directly upgrade to Google Hangout.

From a systems perspective, they have basically prevented anyone new from getting on Google Talk. I am expecting an EOL announcement at some point, as they are otherwise making it hard to get into.

See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
and http://talk.google.com
The problems with waste are clearly a short-term issue caused by unexpected growth. If they can absorb ~70% of their acid whey by product by mixing into nearby farms, then given the sheer amount of livestock in the US, you can definately absorb all of it if you solve the distribution/logistics problems.

Really, all of the solutions the come up with will work. None of really have a real scaling issue, but they do require capital and have lag-time, which apparently were not sufficiently considered.

The problem here isn't that 'oh, there's a river of this "toxic" waste that we don't know what to deal with'. The problem is 'oh, we've tripled our production without having a solid plan on waste disposal, and we don't want to pay more to truck this stuff to further farms'.
Thanks! That is helpful.

The bottom line is that Jobs knew that he was offering HC a fair deal. For HC to argue that they needed a bigger cut was based on smoke and mirrors. "Gee, if you want to make only the same amount of money you could just give the authors, um, more money, right?" That is an elegant way of calling a bluff.
Those of us at another arm of Salesforce ( http://postgres.heroku.com ) are incredibly honored to have Tom join the family. The team they've put together there is doing some really exciting work.
Things that Apple's customers care about include: Whether the website reliably displays on their device. Whether or not they can successfully browse and buy Apple's latest products. How fast the site loads.

Things that Apple's customers don't care about at all include: The code. Or whether or not that code "smells".

This would be an interesting story if it spoke in terms of something important. "Here is how Apple could probably boost sales by 0.1% by optimizing their SaSS" would be a good story. "Here is how to make the Apple Store load 25% faster by optimizing its SaSS" would be a good story.

But "here is how Apple could make their SaSS more aesthetically satisfying to the 0% of visitors who will pay more to read higher-quality code in the Web Inspector" is, at best, an academic exercise.

Production code exists to solve problems, and its quality is not merely a function of the code itself, but of the time constraints, the budgetary constraints, and the magnitude and urgency of the business opportunities. How many millions of dollars of product did Apple's "bad" SaSS sell in the time it took to critique it?
Interesting, but some important facts are buried late in the article.

In particular, as anyone in the U.S. who reads food labels knows, whey is a very common ingredient in processed foods. So what's the problem? A partial answer:

> The concept is roughly modeled on the success that cheese-makers have had selling products derived from their own byproduct — sweet whey. Sweet whey is more valuable and easier to handle than acid whey, as it has a lot more protein, and is easier to dry because it isn’t as acidic as Greek yogurt whey. Cheese-makers have developed a lucrative business selling whey protein for use in body-building supplements and as a food ingredient. And Greek yogurt makers are eager to follow suit.

----

EDIT: Another comment.

> Rejman’s workers take the shipments and try to find uses for the whey: mix it with silage to feed to the farm’s 3,300 cows; ....

Wouldn't most adult cattle be lactose-intolerant? (As human adults were until that wacky lactase-persistence mutation hit parts of Europe & Africa.) Adding whey to feed for adult cattle sounds to me like a good way to make cattle sick. OTOH, surely farmers would have figured this out.

Can anyone explain this?
Raspberry Pi's Fedora becomes 'Pidora'
I was going to say—input for yummy baking. Probably not a realistic answer for the scale being discussed, but when we strain our homemade yogurt at home, I toss the drippings into the next loaf of bread I bake.

Gives it a wonderful tangy flavour.
It would be interesting to see if this is viable as a food source for genetically modified bacteria to convert into biofuel.
The numbers can be even greater if you allow friends of friends to view your posts.

I for one read this on HN and then saw it on one of my friend's Facebook immediately after (you and I have 27 mutual friends apparently).
Made for the world, Built in China
> They could estimate the frequency of abuse just by taking a random sample of files and manually evaluating them.

That still requires them to be able to tell the difference between abusive and non-abusive files, which ability was what was questioned in the post upthread.

Obviously, this wouldn't be an issue if they could in an efficient (and particularly, automated) manner identify all abusive files before they were exposed to the public.
Like a butt-load of positive PR? I think they calculated that the positive PR value (or maybe mitigating negative PR) was worth the incremental cost of capital from the normal markets vs. from the DOE
Steve's method is classic Dale Carnegie ("How to win friends and influence people") . He phrases everything in what benefits HC will get by making certain choices. He guides HC with win/win thinking, getting HC to choose their way into what Apple wants.
Yeah, I think the previous discussion was informative, it has alternatives and links to ever older relevant posts. Let the karma decide what HN likes. Like you said yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664116
AFAIK, patents are supposed to prevent unlicensed commercial activity. Non-profits don't (generally) engage in commercial activity.
Perhaps. But the minor points are the ones most Ph.D's will say are their reasons. The last one (social/psychological) is probably the least likely to be admitted.
I think HN's view of "bad" SEO is spot on, but there are plenty of agencies who present legitimate strategies that have long term and lasting effects on rankings as opposed to going for the quick loopholes that Google will just inevitably punish in the next algo update.
TLDR: someone's trying to sell their version of cpufreq_ondemand to people who don't realise it's built in to the OS.

If anyone's wondering how they got their 30% power saved figure: their method for measuring power consumption without Granola starts "Set the operating system power settings to the High profile in the Power Options"[1] - in windows, which I'm guessing is going to disable the built-in frequency governor. Not exactly a fair comparison. They don't benchmark granola against ondemand on linux. Can't imagine why.

[1] http://grano.la/software/benchmark.php
An extensive list of Mobile Ad Networks, Ad Servers, SSPs, and DSPs.
What he describes is how the Linux kernel implements linked lists: http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists
> Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools.

Google Code has a number of features -- not just downloads, but also wiki, etc. -- that, while not intended to replace a user-centric site separate from the developer site Google Code is intended to provide, in practice facilitate projects using it that way.
"I don't get your negativity here."

I didn't get the negativity. He was just stating a reasonably deduced thought.
Perhaps this is a cultural difference. I am not American, and therefore I don't really subscribe to the individualist perspective that everything ultimately serves the purpose of increasing personal satisfaction.
I view the free soda not so much as a perk, than an indicator that the folks in charge "get it." Without the soda, I can just as well get some from the store, and bring in my own snacks for a negligible amount of money. But the cost to the business due to time wasted doing this must be gigantic. The fact that management doesn't see this is a clear sign that they don't merit respect.
On a side note what ZSH theme is that?
Also, Walking Dead's episodic format was at risk by Microsoft's XBLA release policy, where publishers are given slots that they can have, and you don't get any more (think like airstrip use at an airport). So they had to end-run it by having each episode as DLC, rather than getting a new announcement and a stand-alone program.

Microsoft's old policies were workable but obnoxious. Instead of opening things up, they're making it worse. Nuts.
Can someone give me a rundown on the general idea of Docker? I'm a programmer, don't do much server/linux work (OS X is my OS), so I'm not quite understanding.

> Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider.

What does this mean? Someone sets up an application with necessary dependencies, everything ready to go and creates a container out of it which can run on any linux kernel?
How Unsuccessful Founders Spend Their Time
This brings to mind the classic "the airline that cut one olive on every Martini and save millions". Yes, it sorts of justifies the salary of an executive, but it's peanuts when you take a look at the whole company...
if this service ever goes the way of google reader, I promise you I will create a way to export your feeds. :)
People download 2TB of binaries from you a month? What do you work on?
I absolutely agree that it shouldn't be a single company leading it, but I stand by the view that an IPA protected patent pool is an interesting idea that it would be great to see play out. But yes, as the other commenters pointed out, whoever acquires it holds the portfolio, but the rights from the IPA remain with the inventor.

Note that if that weren't the case and Twitter wanted to pivot into patent trolling, they could just set up Twitter Patent Assertion Trolls and transfer all patents there. Like I said, it would be surprisingly robust.
Clicks and views do not equate to influence; there's simply no meaningful correspondence at all. You find this out pretty quickly if you're in the business of advocacy for a cause, since there are metrics like donations, membership, attendance, and other material contributions that you can look over.

There are three responses: (a) find a way to make it look like clicks and views are relevant (and there's a whole set of evangelists who are into that form of self- and other forms of deception, and I believe they're all doing the world a grave disfavor), or (b) look for other metrics, or (c) don't worry about it and stick to the common wisdom regarding how to go about persuasion and networking while being essentially decent about it.
> Philosophically this is utter hyperbole. Not being able to watch Arrested Development, or any content, under whatever circumstances you prefer does _not_ infringe on your freedom.

You are an impressive comedian. Kudos, to you, sir.

For those not in the know, a common joke on Arrested Development was that a character would accuse someone of doing something, and would then do the exact thing they were accusing someone else of doing.
I remember this guy - accidentally came across his blog and loved it.
>Musk had very little to do with PayPal.

That's rather inaccurate. Musk's company was X.com and Thiel/Levchin/Noseks's was called Confinity. They had a 50/50 merger in early 2000, and at first the new company was called X.com.

Furthermore, Confinity[1] was doing Palm Pilot payments under the PayPal brand[2], while X.com was working on internet money transmission over email. Which idea was more useful in the long run? (hint: if you chose Palm Pilot's - you're wrong)

Much of the disinformation stems from a book called the "The Paypal Wars" written by a Thiel fanboy, that is embarrassingly biased. Musk writes:

"The only negativity in recent years was due to a book called The PayPal Wars, written by a sycophantic jackass called Eric Jackson. This guy was one notch above an intern at PayPal in the first few years of the company, but gives the impression he was a key player and privy to all the high level discussions. Eric couldn't find a real publisher, so Peter funded Eric to self-publish the book. Since Eric worships Peter, the outcome was obvious - Peter sounds like Mel Gibson in Braveheart and my role is somewhere between negligible and a bad seed. However, to his credit, Peter didn't realize the book would be as bad as it was and apologized to me personally at a Room 9 board meeting at David Sacks's home in LA."[3]

Post-merger it's hard to say who did what exactly, and Levchin for example was instrumental in Paypal's anti-fraud system, a key development that allowed the company to navigate around a potentially ruinous situation.

The bottom line is, 3 hyper-smart guys (Thiel, Levchin and Nosek), don't give away essentially 50% of their shares to some someone else (X.com) on a whim. This was a calculated and deliberate decision. Similarly, it's unlikely Musk would have succeeded alone either, and thus why they are all called co-founders of PayPal, Inc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinity

[2] http://www.halplotkin.com/cnbcs029.htm

[3] http://gawker.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-to-e...
> Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software.

While it has a set of features which may have made it usable for this use, I don't think Google Code was ever really intended to provide user facing web sites for open source projects, it was designed to provide developer facing project sites.
So do I actually read this right... Your companies piss-poor coding practices expose things to the world you don't want to have exposed, and instead of fixing your crappy code you file bogus DMCA requests?
What's interesting to me is why Satoshi chooses to be anonymous. Most people would want to take credit and get their turn under the spotlight.

Perhaps he can't take it because of repercussions in his physical life - perhaps he works for a central bank!

Or perhaps he's super humble and prefers to let the work speak for itself.
There's bankruptcy as in a controlled restructuring, and then there is bankruptcy as in a failure of the business with ripple effects throughout the economy. What GM went through was the former, and it was foreseen at the time of the government's investment.
I'm guessing it's Sumatra PDF; author: Krzysztof Kowalczyk, hosted on google code, and fairly popular.
Gross margin, and it's tiny without the credits. Tesla's most recent quarter resulted in an operating loss and a net loss.

Edit: my bad. Seems the net income was slightly positive last quarter (with regulatory credits included, without them it's a big old negative).
Similarly, I refuse to pronounce "PNG" as anything other than "Pee En Gee".
Tom Lane is a hero. Guy worked on TIFF, did a ton of PNG, then organized JPEG, and now does seriously awesome work on postgres, and has for some time.

He also responds to a ton of postgres mailing list emails http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search
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No. There's mixed evidence about whether coffee is moderately good/moderately bad/neutral for you in sane quantities (i.e. a few cups a day). There's plenty of evidence that eating salty/sugary sodas and snacks is bad for you in similar quantities.
LOL. This guy has 1,176 Facebook 'Friends'. I have 24, and that is mainly family. And I actually have logged in to Facebook a few times, although I generally avoid it.

So yeah, no, I am not influential on Facebook.

Can anyone who actually has logged in to Facebook in the last year beat that? 24?