skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another issue: a lot of quality content is not available in the form of feeds: event feeds, shopping feeds, feeds of modern art or last episodes of LOST available on Hulu.

Thus, an interesting opportunity is extraction + feed reader. You first extract and format quality content, then serve it to a user. Few days ago I released a demo: Photo Reader. Go check it out: http://semabox.com

I am actively working in the area of "semantic news". Talk to me if you are in the same field.

Yury Lifshits yury@yury.name
I pay very little tax (both in income and spending) and my wealth is not in dollar
FWIW, I've been using the tethering hack from http://help.benm.at on an iPhone 3GS and visual voicemail has been working just fine.
Having a new experience also doesn't leave you back where you were before the experience.
Incorrect. With global demand dropping sharply, there's actually not enough work to do. We cranked up the credit machine the past few years to make sure there were enough work to do.

Again, too much supply, not enough demand.
London Stock Exchange may dump Microsoft system
I joined and then tried to upload my iTunes library to see how it would work. It keeps on erroring out and I looked for a email address to send them the error and a copy of my library to help out, but I can't seem to find any contact info on the site.

Edit: In case they are looking here the error is:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/moof/public_html/upload.php(49) : eval()'d code on line 111427
Some things you just don't get over.

You do when you figure out how much pain you're causing yourself by holding on to them. In fact, the moment you see that, it's impossible not to let go - the same way you'd drop a red hot poker when you figured out you were holding one.

I can see why this idea makes you angry if you interpret it as expecting people to "just accept" violence, abuse and so on. And I can see why it would sound like blaming the victim.

Respectfully, though, it's not about accepting such things, it's about the effective way to reject them.
The trouble with many of the obvious strategies for rejecting abuse is that they are deceptive: they cause one to unwittingly perpetuate it. You can easily end up inflicting more pain on yourself by reconducting the abuse in your imagination than the original experience entailed. You can also easily end up inflicting pain on people you love.

The cycle of violence is a strange game, the rules of which don't work the way you (I mean anyone) would think they ought to. Just the fact that so many victims turn into victimizers is a pretty big indicator of that. The important question is, when one finds oneself in a game like that, what's the way out?
Strange that you managed to skip the real cost sink for new drugs and medical procedures: testing. The marketing cost is a direct result of the huge cost of getting a basic research breakthrough moved all the way through the process to a safe and effective treatment that has FDA approval.

> the vast majority of the research goes into treatments rather than cures, because the former makes money and the latter does not.

[citation needed]

This sort of conspiracy-theory bullshit is really annoying because it fails even the most basic logical analysis. If company A develops a treatment for a disease then it will be able to make more over the long-term than company B which develops a cure for a disease. But if company A develops a treatment and two years after it gets through testing company B comes up with a cure for that same disease then company A is going to lose a boatload of money. The only way this would work is if these companies were acting as a colluding cartel, and so far all evidence seems to indicate that the companies hate each other even more than we hate them.

> The world would be better off without American drug companies dominating the market, even if it meant no Viagra.

I happily invite you to try to live the remainder of your life eschewing treatments developed by American drug companies. Viagra may make a nice whipping-boy for your tirades, but you do know that it was developed when stage 2 testing for an angina drug revealed its more popular side-effect, right? Pfizer did not set out to keep aging baby-boomers smiling, it just happened upon it while actually trying to cure coronary artery disease.
I didn't say free services are a mistake. I said that the “free model” in the particular case of a service where you’re giving away bandwidth and storage space is a bad plan. “Free model” referring to a 100% free service that gains value by accumulating data rather than a revenue stream.

As for the lack of paid options, they are on the way. I made the decision to launch with this option and many others in the spirit of what I say in “Don’t be afraid to launch.”

I've posted your comment and this follow up in the article comments: http://bradt.ca/archives/developing-sharurl-lessons-learned-...
Cool signup / login forms. I haven't seen that approach before; makes it more interesting than traditional signup. Kudos.
You can sign up here:
http://sharurl.com/invite/p9q1h
Great, great signup pathway. I actually enjoyed signing up.

Eh...the search is not that good. It seems like you're just searching Youtube? I opened up YT in another tab and then did the same searches, got [edit: many of] the same results. but clicking on a result in Moof would often take me to the wrong entry - ie a different video in the same search results.

So I'd click on 'Kate Bush hounds of love TOTP' and instead the video that would actually play would be 'Kate bush hounds of love JBU talent show', although it would still be labeled as the former.

Sorry, that's really broken. Scribble 'Alpha' on it somewhere and solicit more testing is my advice. I wasn't willing to send time finding out whether it could process my mp3 library or not.
Wow great domain name.

You guys should definitely A/B test the sign up form. It's pretty slick, but since it's unconventional it could cause people to bounce.
Really? I've found them to be better than the vast majority of publications. But, I guess you could argue that's being the best of the worst.
This reminds me a bit of Grooveshark-- let me give it a try and compare, though.
Libraries. You know, I had my music in iTunes but I got sick of it, so when I intalled win 7 I actually moved it all back into media player. Unfortunately, Moof doesn't recognize these files. I know this is about as relevant as catering to the Zune market, and moof did say 'itunes' on the tin, so no harm no foul. Pity though.
I can get to the upload page if I'm not logged in at http://moof.com/upload, but when I try to upload my library, I am redirected to the home page. This holds true for some of the other pages as well.
What does the domain name say to you, out of curiosity?
I'll grant you that OWA does work in Opera (and other non-IE browsers) but it really sucks compared to the IE version. Perhaps you've never tried it in IE; if so then you don't know what you're missing.

Thankfully, Exchange 2010 will finally bring full OWA support to non-IE browsers. http://www.robichaux.net/blog/2009/04/exchange-2010-owa.php
The profile page doesn't work properly in Safari.

http://14.media.tumblr.com/Yu1jEumPRq2u4f50AVTd6BOwo1_400.pn...
I'm curious too. I think the name is a bit too goofy. Moofy, perhaps.
An unecessarily egotistical article, but I didn't realize the fuss was over a copyright dispute (tl;dr 1984 digital edition put out by someone on the basis that it was out of copyright in several territories).

It would be very interesting to know if Kindle copies were deleted in the countries where the book is in fact out of copyright. And I'd like to see some serious (rather than moralistic) discussion of how we should approach differing copyright terms in a wired world.
Short, simple, kind of quirky, easy to remember. Four letter, coherent domain names (sorry rhta.com) are rare.
You're right; that's sloppy writing in Morris's column. The wording is clearer in the book, which I just looked up via Amazon's search-inside-the-book. From p. 109:

When government bureaucrats ration health care, the results can be a disaster. Take the grim story of colon cancer in Canada. Colorectal cancer rates are much higher in Canada (6.7 per 100,000). than in the United States (4.8 per 100,000.) And although 41 percent of cases in Canada prove fatal, only 34 percent in the United States lead to death.

Even though colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death in Canada, the drug Avastin -- the standard treatment in the United States -- is not available to patients in Canada through the government health system. "What is going on in Canada is shameful," says Barry D. Stein, president of the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada. "This treatment, which was finally approved last year in Canada and which was long overdue, is not reaching patients who are desperately in need of... a treatment which is the standard of care in the treatment of the disease."

My point is mainly there are lots of ways to ration -- dragging out both approval and access save money, at the margin, but also result in earlier deaths, at the margin. There are tradeoffs in any system. Some USians would like the Canadian system; some Canadians have to come to the US for treatments.

And especially with regard to the US system, there are big externalities and innovation effects. Canada and the rest of the world get giant positive externalities from the drugs and treatments developed first in the USA's expensive, competitive market. It may be economically rational to dilly-dally on advanced techniques when some other market is leading the way; or to drive a national hard-bargain to get drugs near the cost of production when the drug is already developed. But if every country lags, and every country squeezes all the profit out of medicine, the whole world will suffer from resulting the dearth of innovation.
> As the months passed, Chris got better. His early halting performances gave way to the occasional not bad performance. He worked harder on his songs, trying, week after week, to craft that one beat or lyrical turn that could impress his skeptical crowd.

In the fair chance, you haven't heard this Ira Glass segment about the process of creating/making - it inspires me and may well you.

Ira Glass: "Don't quit even when you know your stuff sucks"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE

Via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198935
You also don't learn anything other then going berserk.

That's going to work most of the time, unless someone expects it or has a gun/taser, then you're fucked.

Krav Maga is not a combat art, it's the Israeli army's psychological training for soldiers in urban warfare.
The sound that Clarus the dogcow makes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
I do my development on a Macbook 13" with a 20" Dell LCD. High quality 20"+ external monitors have really dropped in price (<$200).
Yay inflation!
It's better because it doesn't require messing around with, or even being aware of the internals of the code it's being connected to. It's actually a lot like a Common Lisp :before method, which I've found really bloody useful on a few occasions.
Created an empty play list but couldn't populate it.
I use tcpflow ( http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/ ) It shows the entire stream, rather than just portions, like tcpdump. Great for debugging interactions between servers and clients, especially plain text protocols (like http!)
Techzing 10 - AI War
i think the author used to write for FT
I've been eating mostly "primal" for a year; im down one pant size, im able to better focus at work, and a lot of other nice things, just by erradicating carbs.
Also, its the only "diet" that makes sense to me.
IE: The Bizarre and Unhappy Story of 'file:' URLs
debit cards have less protection than credit, not more. I'd suggest looking at your contract with the bank and seeing where you are responsible for charges to your card.
I wish I shared your optimism that we will recover.

As the saying goes, "We'll survive by doing each others laundry". That saying, of course, is meant to be a joke. The US can't just do it's own laundry to survive. We can't just sell latte's to each other, either. We have to actually produce more than we consume.

So, we either have to produce a lot more, or consume a lot less. I don't see us producing more, do you?

I used to comfort myself that we had evolved as a nation, from doers into investors, and that we still brought value to the world by providing the capital needed for the rest of the world to grow, and so we were indeed, earning our bread. My faith in this viewpoint has been shaken, however.

All is not bread and circuses for non-US folks either. If the US consumer quits buying, I think that's a big deal to everybody.
Indeed. “Moof” is Apple’s registered trademark. http://web.archive.org/web/20060814134839/http://www.apple.c...

They seem to have winnowed the list posted on their website between August and October 2006.
I've always thought a YouTube jukebox would be a good idea. If this gets popular, though, there's no question it will be shut down, if not by the RIAA then by YouTube itself.

My feedback: needs more AJAX. Clicking items in the interface like "friends" or "music" shouldn't reload the page and stop the playing song. Also, get rid of modal dialogs. (For example, when adding a song or playlist, give it a default name instead of asking for a name in a modal dialog.) Also, don't ask for my real name up front; wait until later.
Blu: Electronic cigarettes that look, feel, and taste like the real thing
This is a decent summary of the situation, but the editorial comment at the end is tone-deaf:

Somewhat regrettably, I think, Amazon has pledged to stop doing what it did in this case--which was, I think exactly the right thing to do...

Amazon's action may have served the narrow interests of justice [1], and may even have been necessary to avoid big legal penalties, but it was terrible marketing. The last thing Amazon wants to do is to remind people that a Kindle is not a tool for reading books that you own. It's best viewed as a tool for renting books for an indefinite period.

(I actually like the Kindle, and am still thinking of getting one someday, but I have no confidence that a DRM-protected Kindle book will outlive the hardware it lives on. To me, the Kindle would merely be a way to streamline the process of buying a book, reading it, and then selling it again. If I want to keep a book I'll stick with the paper version.)

The problem is that rental has lower profit margins. People's mental model of book rental is based on the library, where the apparent price is "free". A Kindle book's big profit margin is dependent on the illusion that buying the book actually makes you the owner of the book and that it will behave as real books do.

And, of course, there's no tradition of people banning cars they don't like, then having the police drag those cars away. But there is a long tradition of book-banning and book-burning that Amazon is unwise to evoke.

I'm a little bit hopeful that this debacle will help accelerate the decline of ebook prices.

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[1] If you define current copyright law, which effectively ensures that everything invented after Mickey Mouse will remain under copyright forever, as "justice".
Hope this doesn't look like I'm spamming HN; I saw this and just thought it was really interesting. It's an clever tactic in that provided atomized nicotine without any of the associated chemicals or smoke, but (apparently) the same experience.
Minor quibble from my 1st impression: Not really into the signin / signup form. From a usability perspective it just seems like it deviates a lot from what most users are familiar with. I like the narrative take on signin / signup but I think it would work better if the underlined sections were typical input boxes.
Sites like this are being allowed to operate with US users IP blocked.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638479
One of my biggest problems with Google Reader is those annoying unread counts. It makes it feel like email you have to get through ... so I quit Google Reader about a year ago, and started using Twitter as my new "Feed Reader". A stream you can check out when you want, and ignore when you don't want, is really nice. Plus, it's easier to whip through 140-character blurbs than paragraphs of text.
I wish I could use it without signing up.
Ask HN: Independent Math Study
I never thought I'd be asking this. Math was never my "strong suit", but over the last year I've really grown to enjoy it as I learn more. I've taken Calc. I in a fairly demanding college environment, and am planning on continuing with Calc. II and Linear Algebra.

My question to HN is: How does one go about doing self-study in Math? It seems, of all the sciences, to be especially difficult to tackle without the built-in support of the classroom. I assume that like most things, it just takes a lot of hard work and study, but I'm curious if anyone out there has a rough plan for tackling a reasonably rich understanding of mathematics on their own. Sites, materials, etc. are appreciated.

Thanks!
A Challenge to Climate Change Skeptics
I don't have a complete answer for you, but I linked to this book a few days ago. It's pretty good. http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html

Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach for a mathematically rigorous course in infinitesimal calculus. I think it is much more intuitive than typical limit calculus.
This is absolutely the right answer. If you've got test servers or a render/compile farm or something to test your work on, then obviously you only need a machine that can support your editor, server access and lookup needs. On the other hand, if you're limited to one machine and you're doing complex work, you're going to need something more powerful, laptop or desktop. The question then becomes how much more you're willing to pay for the extra portability of a laptop, especially when it's a heavy desktop replacement.
Nice domain name indeed. I can't see what I'm typing into the sign-up box. Probably because I've Firefox's (3.5.1) auto filling engine turned on. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/MM7Vnoikb. Also, I don't really like the cutesy whimsical sentencey signup prose, I'm afraid. Give me B, if there is one.
We could build some kind of a computer network that allows people to send their classified ads to each other directly for tiny fractions of a penny, sucking away the reveneues of the newspapers. Then people could trade videos directly over the network, so they don't watch TV. When there's a natural disaster or terrorist attack, people can use this network to publish their photos and firsthand reports in minutes, and then other people using the network will pick which photos and reports are worth forwarding on. Then people won't pay any attention to TV news. Then we just need to figure out how to make it possible to publish things like the Pentagon Papers right away, before the government has the chance to suppress them. Also, we need people to use the network to spread celebrity gossip. Then the big TV news corporations will lose their air supply.

Do you think that might work?
Watergate saw the FBI take down Nixon through leaks to the press., not independent journalism. Without Felt the story would have been buried:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19felt.html?_r=...

This suggests a more practical remedy to political abuses - more checks and balances and a weaker multiparty system (avoid centralization of power). The Bush years stand in contrast as to the difficulty of effectively holding abuses of power in check when a single party dominates almost all branches of government.
My experience suggests the same for Canada. And it seems likely that can be broadened to the entire world.
Fancy that! I'm at the UW right now. I have been considering a few different routes. Philosophy, Classics, Music, Computer Science, or Math. I'd really like to go for a Math undergrad with a minor in one of the other subjects, but I'm going to need a supplement during the summer to catch up with some of the other math guys at the UW. Lots of competition.
Oh hey, I didn't even know about the Energy from Thorium blog; there's a forum too? Is it good or bad?
President Kennedy was "not that interested" in space.
Ask HN: how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads?
Hi, Everyone, if i have a web app, i would like to know how many page views or unique visitors i need to have in order to make about $5000 dollars a month from Ads? Any (educated) estimation or guess? It will be great to hear from your own experience. Thanks.
It could be from 500 to 500 millions, really. Depends on so many factors; what ads, how many, CPM or CPC? Clickthrought rate? How high is your CPM? Are you selling stuff too?
There are vast sections of mathematics which cannot be understood without first understanding limits. There are very few areas of mathematics which require understanding infinitesimals.
The ones I've read aren't mostly testimonials -- but yes, making testimonials up is sleazy.
Ah...

It would have helped if I had known there was original... I'm sure it's "everywhere" but I'd never heard of it...
He's talking about "the internet" as the companies that built the physical infrastructure of the internet. That is largely in place now and is a steady, mature business, not a high flying investment opportunity.
Fellow HNers are running jamlegend.com
cow-i'd-like-to-f*ck

sorry, it's foul, but there you have it.

--Not a fan of these stupid web 2.0 domain names
Sure. I just think the infinitesimal is an interesting approach.
Just FYI, I think this post may have been written by Zeke of "Asking to use the bathroom" fame (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711709).
I keep pruning, but I haven't been able to get away, partly because I read things that never show up anywhere else, plus it's still the most efficient mechanism of consuming information, at least for me, since you can crunch through full text posts in one location. That said, other sources, notably Friendfeed and aggregators have resulted in the removal of all feeds where the good stories end up bubbling to the top there.
You'll never convince anyone that catastrophic climate change is likely, as too many people have their self-image and their perceived financial stability tied up in believing that it will not occur.
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But the problem is primarily parasitic special interests in and around the government, so your parallel doesn't really work.

Whenever I see the words "special interests", I immediately want to know which special interests in particular you're complaining about. The words (rightly) have a bad connotation, but I don't often see a lot of agreement about which specific interests are causing trouble.
I'm working at Microsoft this summer, and it really is a fun place to work, especially compared to Goldman Sachs and AMD (where I've spent previous summers). People work whatever hours they feel like, they have fun (my team has "Scotch Friday" every few weeks, for example), and our boss is extremely bright (and amusing).

I haven't worked for Google, so maybe that's even better, I don't know - but from what I've seen so far, there's nothing not to like about working for Microsoft.

For what it's worth, just about everyone I've met will openly admit that the company culture was very different 15 years ago, and earned it some (deserved) negative reputation...but that's really not the company I've seen this summer. Anecdotally: I'm working on the Office web apps, and we fully support Firefox and Safari as well as IE.