skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main point of the op-ed is, in essence, that it is dangerous to allow government regulators to become the traffic cop of the Internet.

That is the free-market case. You can disagree with it, but that doesn't mean it is based on lies (though the Google reference is a cheap shot).

It is a philosophical disagreement: one either has faith in centralized authority being benign and protective or one is skeptical of that premise. The free-market view is skeptical and doesn't just assume that government regulation will wind up being benign. Once established, the only limit to such authority is . . . nothing more than the discretion of the regulators themselves (what has the FCC done to warrant placing faith in its future decisions in this manner?).

Government mandates tend to morph over time and they are backed by institutional power as to which individuals are often powerless to resist. There is no gain in freedom when a society cedes control in ever-larger amounts to a central authority without proper checks on such authority. Again, anyone is free to disagree. But this is a principled position that reasonable people can adopt, and it has nothing to do with being a shill for AT&T or any other telco.

Remember, what government can regulate, it can also tax. Will that be a benign outcome if some future administration starts to tax the hell out of Internet-based transactions? What principled argument is left once it is ceded that this is the government's domain to do with it what it will (whether on behalf of some lobbying group or not), even if this means stepping on the property rights of companies or individuals.

I realize I am going against the grain here when it comes to what is obviously a tidal wave of emotional support for this initiative within this community. But what spirit of comity exists when it cannot even be conceded that reasonable minds can differ on such an issue?
Nokia's actual complaint:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21458614/Nokia-vs-Apple-Complaint
The next logical step would be ... kids?
i'd pay for a live version of hulu with all of the archives available.

i canceled my directv subscription a while back and just download the few shows i care about that come through torrent rss feeds. if i could watch them live via something like hulu, but then also access them whenever i wanted after that point, i'd be a customer.
And you can define new operators in Haskell. So you can actually go out ouf your way and do not overload the existing ones.
Good - I hope that means they will stay around and continue to grow. I certainly don't mind paying a modest monthly fee for quality programming on demand. It couldn't be near as much as DirecTV was charging me before I switched to Hulu.
Raindrop doesn't filter, but it adheres your server filters
This was also an idea that I was playing around with in 2008. The basis of the idea is that millions of people have knowledge of using a speadsheet but not many of then can develop and launch a web app.

So my idea was to provide the missing link, a web service that takes a spreadsheet and puts out a web app/site hosted. I did not pursue that when google docs released web form for your spreadsheet.
please educate yourself before spouting off
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

as for exploitation: I am an aware consumer, and everyone else should be too. relying on mommy regulation agency to protect people leads to corruption, or are you unaware of how many deaths are caused by the FDA?
Or isn't it like when you think you're not thinking, then you're actually still thinking? Or either way?!
Great, but it's not quite there. I'm a geek--I know what all of these do, but I think you've got a chance to target people who don't know what they want. Great job so far!
Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes patents
Good. The fact that it's free means I almost never look there first for content, because I know what I want won't be there.
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Ask HN: Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India?
There are plenty of meetups, hackerspaces for people living in the Bay area for example. I was wondering do people here already do similar events, or interested in something like that in the future.

I've been to a couple of startup conferences hoping to come across people with a similar itch to build and play around with technologies, but they were infested with marketing people and sales pitches.

PS: I'm based in New Delhi.
This looks incredibly handy for fresh Windows installs, thank you! Bookmarked for the next time I install a VM or so.

I just looked up Baseshield, and I'm interested in how the two products fit together. Does installing stuff with Ninite preclude keeping it up to date with Baseshield?
I've only used it for a toy app, but http://heroku.com/ (a Y Combinator company) is by far the easiest way I've seen to deploy an automatically-scaling Rails app.
Cool, can you email me, I'd like to ask you more about it but your email isn't in your profile.
Don't apologize for kicking him while he's down, and then continue to give us information that accomplishes the very thing you're apologizing for.

You have a talent for making the entrepreneurship world a lot more dramatic and childish than it should be.
Have you looked at XQuery? It's far from perfect, but quite useful.

I also find it useful to talk about "data" as anything that's easily modeled in tables, vs "information" (table-friendly data, plus trees and graphs).
RE the long passphrase: Need to write it down and put it in the safe deposit box at the bank. But not too many people do that (I don't think). I know I didn't do it. And now that you mention it, I can't remember my long passphrase. Crap.
This is only one of many possible, experimental interfaces. There already are alternatives, and they encourage for a lot more.
Libraries also open up a gate to exploits. For example the return to libc technique.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-to-libc
There are videos describing the various component of Raindrop on Mozilla Messaging's Vimeo page, http://vimeo.com/mozillamessaging/videos
Just moved to the San Francisco area recently - I'll probably stop in, definitely interested to check it out!
Sounds like you need usenet. Well worth the subscription price.
Hulu's CEO spoke at my school about a week ago. From what I understood, they will charge for shows like Entourage which he said could never be offered free.
"Do you remember when we used to ride the bus to school?"
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Hey icey, I checked out your posting on Event Gel the other week, definitely an interesting concept, good to see you using the feedback off the forums here, I've always found it helpful.
One thing to consider that I didn't catch when I just clicked the link above, you might want to add a .ics download so people can easily include the event in their calendar, I looked into this for http://coffee.gabandgo.com/sanfrancisco but decided it to not be worthwhile, since the point is to stop in and have coffee for a short period, not 'pre-plan'.
Anyway, google around a bit and you'll find the structure of the file (it's pretty simple), or you can always create a fake event in a calendar program you use, export it to .ics, then view it in a text editor.
> ...and I feel guilty for wasting away something that not many people have.

But I think that statement right there puts the lie to saying that you're doing it for yourself, and not for society. That may well be your intention, but is it possible that you're still driven at least in part by the expectations of others? If not, then why does it matter that you have it, and they don't?

BTW, I don't mean to discourage people that are doing something with what they have. Quite the contrary, I really wish more people would, whether they're creative or analytical or otherwise. However, I also think that the expectations placed upon kids of certain aptitudes by their parents, teachers, and others at a young age are perverse and cruel.

People should feel driven to accomplish great things because they want to, not because others expect it, or because they feel guilty if they don't.
Wow, maybe I'm just getting old and cantankerous, but the word freetard is seeming more and more apropos every day.

I've pretty much abandoned Hulu as Netflix's streaming library grows. $14/month or whatever is a tiny amount to pay for that amount and quality of on-demand commercial-free content.
There would be a lot less traffic if news.yc dealt in http caching headers. This has been mentioned a bunch of times, so maybe you don't care, or maybe it's not clear how much it really does save.
Just like the public library. Or Hacker News. Or... Sorry, but I find your argument fallacious.
I give it 24 hours before someone discovers which uncredited open source project this code was borrowed from.
Austin, UT, international student here. Started with HN pretty recently after getting tired of proggit.
You're right but you miss the point about how people generally perceive danger - that is mainly in emotional, not rational way.

As you point out, science is bad at proving negatives. It is also very good at introducing new unknowns. Combine those two, and you may understand why sometimes people get so emotionally distressed about some new use of science.

And if you develop this thought even further, then you may find that healthy level of skepticism about some new technology is actually not so irrational, considering many unknowns it opens up.
How is this reasoning by analogy? He makes the rhetorical comparison to communism, but his point doesn't depend on that comparison in any way at all.
To clarify, I was assuming that the 100k (or whatever number) is salary that is not taken by the technical cofounder who posted the question. However, if the technical cofounder takes a full salary, there would be no need to factor that in. I agree that the financing partner should not take a salary.
The crunchyroll model is nice - free with horribly annoying ads and a week delay on new releases, or pay a monthly fee for increased res, no ads, and same-day viewing of things aired on TV.
I tend to agree with Travis.

You know when you see it! Let's take another example.

Let's assume we have a series of temperature readings, 80, 40, 60, 90 degrees. Thay are data points. If we add timestamps to them then we it might reflect some process (I deliberately didn't mark them as Fahrenheit or Celsius) we could graph them to show changing temperature over time. If we add location data, say from a GPS, then taken together it is information about temperature at some location over a period of time, such as a weather bureau might have. Another example, take the number 84193221, what is it, if I say it's to do with John Smith, then you'd still be in the dark. I could say it's his phone number or his net worth in cents.

I like to think that a collection of data with specific relationships is information.
On a more general note: Do you guys find Greasemonkey useful? I mean, really. I know the concept, and I also installed the extension several times, found some cool scripts...but after some time I always felt it is not worth the effort...the times spent fiddling with it wasn't adequate to the benefits, and after some time I returned to the old ways and found that I can browse the web without it just the same.
I realize you're in the big brother department and would like to protect her. But allow me to ask: would she be any less in need of your protection if she were [very]* plain-looking? or homely?*

No, but a helpful response might be more straightforward and wouldn't be helpful until well into adolescence.

You're probably right all around, but family isn't the only influence, and depending on the family, friends are a greater influence on a person. Junior high and high schools have weird social hierarchy that frequently stresses physical appearance. Some girls seem to have a need for male approval. I just want her feel no need for that. And there probably isn't anything I can do better than spending time with her. For some girls, with different families, I doubt this is the case.

And I absolutely agree that it is a risky proposition and probably not worth playing.
Just out of interest, what is the maximum price point that will still make you pay?
books

The Manhattan Transcripts - Bernard Tschumi

Things Just Get Away From You - Walt Holcombe

Reason For Hope - Jane Goodall

The Love Book - Robert Rosenheck

A Season In Hell - Arthur Rimbaud

Here Kitty Kitty - Jardine Libaire

American Desert - Percival Everett

Sex in N.Y. City - Alison Maddex

The Paris Review -

Let's Put the Future Behind Us - Jack Womack

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

A History of the Middle East - Peter Mansfield

Blinded By The Right - David Brock

? - Jack London

Oariannus 1983 - ?

The Medici Aesop - The New York Public Library

Futurist Manifestos - Umbro Apollonio

Scatalogic Rites of All Nations - Captain John G. Bourke

Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo

Orson Scott Card - War Of Gifts

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky
A fairly good summary, though I'm not certain someone who hasn't studied computability is going to get it. The "See Also" amichail posted is good.
For much the same reason, one would probably never want to write "let 1 = 1", but it's still a valid statement. It may not be interesting, but it's not nonsense.
If I could pay a reasonable amount for perpetual access to commercial-free content, I'd be happy with that. As it stands, I tend to buy the shows I want once they're on DVD, which works out to ~$2 per show. I wouldn't object to paying a bit more than that to get them in a non-encumbered format soon after the shows air. I'm sure I'm not alone in that I won't be paying for content that forces me to watch commercials, or that revokes my viewing abilities when I stop paying, though.
Wait, is this Thunderbird re-envisioned..? Are they seriously making this a windows client/download..??

EDIT: You can have it hosted by a service provider as indicated in one of their videos. Any chance of this being a success..? That's an honest, albeit, loaded question. Given the track record I'm not so sure...

It's a great idea that would probably have a better chance as a YC startup..
I use it all the time. I have a handful of scripts that I use to tweak a bunch of sites I spend a lot of time on, including one for blacklisting some annoying folks here on HN:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/55745
I use Netflix a lot more than Hulu lately, but only because I can't play Hulu on the XBOX, and I hate having a computer running Windows just for TV (full screen Hulu HD is choppy and slow on Linux). Hulu is dramatically better for current shows, since Netflix streaming doesn't usually get them until the whole season is on DVD.
Sometimes -- depending on the person -- you can respond to their emotional fear in a rational way, and it'll take their edge off a bit. :-)

If "cool-RR" had been hysterical, instead of asking questions and appearing at least somewhat curious, I wouldn't've bothered commenting.

And, I agree wholeheartedly that a healthy level of skepticism about new technology isn't a bad idea. Our opinions on what constitutes "healthy" may differ, though.
Id put it in the same category as RDF - largely unusable.

I think data is much wider than 'what can be stored in tables' - that's the whole problem.

Although all data could be stored in tables and accessed via SQL, it shouldn't be. I contend we need to optimize for the common case of tree / graph data and fidn something much better than SQL.
However much Google is paying, one has to assume that it's "enough" in some sense, in that someone is selling it to them on a voluntary basis. Last mile costs to reach customers would, presumably, be paid for by the customer's subscription fees. If a company is losing money selling internet access to customers I don't see how the failure of their pricing structure is Google's fault.

Also, large amounts of infrastructure were created back when AT&T was a government-backed national monopoly, and even today one would have to be extremely charitable to describe the US telecommunications market as "competitive". Not to mention that there's a strong argument to be made that access to communication is so vitally important to society (in the sense of having very large positive externalities) as to justify government intervention, but that's a largely separate issue.

I like market solutions as much as anyone else but in a market that's already, and perhaps inherently, deeply dysfunctional it's not obvious that "less regulation" means better overall results. Markets and economies do not exist to be decorative or to promote political goals, they exist to create value for society, a point that seems to be lost on many people on all sides of the political spectrum.

Anyway, I'm not claiming that it's clearly an argument in bad faith--it probably isn't. What I'm claiming is that the statement is sufficiently absurd to cast doubt on the reasoning of the entire article, and having since read the entire article I saw little to persuade me otherwise.
The teams thing might be an interesting idea.

But doesn't "structure with incentives, accountability, clear lines of authority, and very tangible goals" pretty much describe a typical classroom, and doesn't a typical classroom suck?
"Them" is the Mark Pilgrim of Dive Into Python fame (which is also online for free) :)
I went to an all boy's high school, and it didn't make much difference academically, to be honest. If anything, the lack of females made us act even more childish in class, and thus focus less, as we had no one to really impress. Kids often pissed in the corners of classrooms and drew penises anywhere on the wall where you had more than a square inch of space.
Hey, that's a cool idea, thanks!
I'd pay $9.99 per month. No more. After that, I just wouldn't bother. I'd pay $9.99 a month right now if I could have it without commercials or even more shows, preferably older content like Seinfeld, Friends, and other lazy afternoon junk.

Don't judge me.
hi matt!

ya - my take on web spreadsheets is that there is this awesome combination of a) being really hard to build well, and b) dont solve a specific problem that people want to pay for (applications are too generalized)
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Even if people do upvote an article before reading it, I doubt they will admit it.
I certainly didn't read this as saying "3 - 4 = 5" was cool. I would hope any reasonable Haskeller would agree that doing something like this in real code is grounds for revoking commit access.

If you're not comfortable with (otherwise sane) overloading in C++, you probably aren't going to like it in Haskell, either.
TB re-envisioned: I don't know. Will they make downloadable windows version: Yes.
I hadn't heard of this. It's seriously slick, the music is surprisingly good, and all I did was click on your link and started hearing music... I started apple-tabbing to find out where the hell it was coming from.
I didn't see the video at first, either, but when I hit refresh, it decided to show up.
Well they probably would just hold the charge until you've held the app for a day. Otherwise there would be fees for apps that people never kept.
Maybe he wants a blank canvas
I'd be okay with that if they could st... <buffering>
Even on a Rails server?
Ask HN: Need a ride to startup school?
Do you need a ride this weekend?

I am driving a 7-seat Town and Country minivan to the reception on Friday and Saturday and we will have some extra room in the car, enough for two or maybe three people. I can pick you up from the Ashby or Macarthur BART stops in the East Bay, but we won't be able to wait if you're late so you'll want to err on the side of arriving early.

Perhaps this can be an open thread for everyone who needs or is offering a ride, so we can all use less gas and meet more fellow HN folks.

I've added a link to this post on the official startup school wiki.
I LOVE redis, I'm surprised there is so much talk about tokyo cabinet et al, but noone says anything about redis. It's dead simple to setup. The python libraries are super easy to work with. For simple persistence and queue-like abilities there's nothing that can match it.
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If she can see that what she looks like doesn't matter to you one iota, odds are she will not see any real value in any guy that mentions how pretty she is. You can't be swept off your feet by somebody calling you pretty when being pretty isn't how you define your worth.

Very well said. The next step is that she should see that attractiveness is not the most important trait to me (or her father). With this perspective, the thing to do is not to vaccinate her, but to praise her abilities and values so she never associates her worth with physical appearance. Thus, she can skip the whole trouble altogether.

So, this generalizes not to attractiveness, but what people tie their worth to.
Yeah, no idea. Went to it last year, and the location is so enjoyable! So peaceful around there. Hadn't even heard of the conference though until my biz partner told me about it. And there's some insanely great talks at this thing. But yes, I only see links to TED talks, not these :)
What I think you should also consider is the MS Access angle. What made Access so popular in enterprises was that they could basically build a Windows app with almost no programming skills. Define your tables, build some forms, install the runtime for people–BAM. You're done.

In my opinion, that would be a necessary component to this idea. You need to have both spreadsheet-like data viewing and form-based data entry.

I suppose that's what Wufoo and Dabbledb already do to some degree, but I think there's more you can do.

If you combined:
- spreadsheet-esque data viewing (maybe with some formulas)
- form-based data entry
- good sharing tools
- permissions
- import/export tools
- some database templates that let you spin up stuff fast

Then targeted it at some big verticals, I think that would be a good start.
The question now is whether this information will have any effect in Washington. My bet is that it will not.
Earlier on this year I was having dinner with a bunch of start-up founders in London (all non-yc I believe, but well connected with the yc community), and your comment on statelessness was bought up, I think you managed to get it stuck in quite a few heads.
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The biggest startup event in India is Proto: http://www.proto.in

Btw, a TED conference is scheduled this year in India as well: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia
I'll usually upvote after reading the article. There are a few instances I've upvoted before... the most recent example was the article that linked to a spreadsheet of all TED talks.
Would love to see links to "more info" on the software available directly in the "Pick your software" lineup. Some of those I've never heard of, and tried to click on them (multiple times... doh) to find out more.
hold the phone, just because a problem is NP complete does not mean that it is computationally intractable. most algorithms in the real world are NP complete, but people still try to solve them.

just because there's no way to prove which CDOs have been tampered with doesn't mean that you can't figure it out. there are local search algorithms that may be able to give you a pretty good answer, even if you don't know for sure. there's some extra risk in CDOs because of this, fine, but it doesn't mean that the market would be locked up, or that no one would have any clue if there was misconduct.

regulators also have extra tools to detect fraud. maybe the buyer can't tell, but if the buyer suspects, and the regulator can check the seller's internal records, examine their processes, and in general, investigate whether the seller did any tampering.
Would love to see a Mac version of this.
PG is right on. Sequoia didn't get this far by dumping money into failing companies just because they had previously dumped money into them.
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