skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There must be some contractual or legal reason for them not to. Otherwise, they'd have done it a while ago, to try to "kill" the web as a platform.

That said, yeah, this would hurt Google bad if it somehow happened.
Evolution doesn't design anything. It just sometimes seems that way from our (builder-mind) perspective.
Plagiarism checkers that store copies of whole essays are considered fair use, so I doubt ad blockers violate copyright law.
Right. The kernel is an extended phenotype.
This looks pretty good. There are some other mortgage comparison sites, but somehow they always look like they're trying to sell you a product from one of their affiliates, rather than getting the best deal out there for the site visitor.

Waiting for a UK version though.
Have a look at the Simulation Argument http://www.simulation-argument.com/.

Crude synopsis: if it is possible to create such an simulation then the probability that we in one is the number of possible simulated universes (v. large) vs the number of real universes (1) ie high probability that we are within a simulation.
All in one place?
We use pingdom and pagerduty (they launched on here I think, not sure if they're YC funded though) and are pretty happy with both.
Consider me thoroughly disarmed, and not just a little stunned.
Depending on your goal, one doesn't need to store every single frame of a video in order to capture its plot.
I have used an exercise ball instead of a chair for the past year or so and really like it. I tend to have a lot of nervous energy, and being able to bounce on the ball while still seated at my desk help a lot, without having to get up, walk around, and getting too distracted from what I am doing. A couple of caveats, though: 1) You really do look pretty silly, especially if you bounce 2) Some people develop lower back problems when using a ball for long periods; be careful! 3) Office mates always seem to like stealing it and kicking it down the hallway (which is actually a lot of fun, but also annoying) and 3) If you had beans for dinner, beware, the ball tends to amplify sounds from down there :)
Yes, but in your construction, you're using a popular pseudo-participle form of to think. The author of the article is suggesting that we use these weird ablaut/umlaut morphs in place of the preterite. For example, "I thought" would then become "I thunk".
Did anyone read through to the article NYT review? (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231) The yottabyte quote is:

"As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve, the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (10^24 Bytes) by 2015."

Note the qualifiers and the future time date; also, this is talking about raw sensor data. It is not uncommon for raw data to be reduced by a few orders of magnitude via aggregation, compression, and simply discarding irrelevant sensor readings before hitting permanent storage (e.g. look at the LHC).
Same here. Good one to monitor user interaction and flow in real-time. I also like the replay.
I made a bet with a friend 5 years ago that by 2015, Google will be a public utility.

(This is also the worst thing that could happen to Google)
Well, the fine print on most of my CD's include the prohibition of unauthorized LENDING of the disc.
Yes, it's just not worth it to be of "those" people. Whatever benefits it gets, its just hard to take someone seriously when their sitting on a giant inflatable fucking ball.
An interesting overview. I'm not sure of the validity of taking all of your statistics from TechCrunch, however.
Reminds me of the computation via intercourse part in The Diamond Age.
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I know I'm going to be slammed with downvotes, but I don't care, $1500 is a pathetic price for a CD. I think the concept has some cool potential, but an artist can't possibly survive on $1500 per album. And why the hell are there artists on here which are already on record labels that are clearly not going along with this and what the hell does "pending approval" mean. I'm sorry, but if you want this to work, it's going to have to be reasonable for artists, not deceive people into thinking music is there that isn't, and make a heck of a lot more sense.
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Well I guess it's how you define design. It designs in the sense that it produces something that simply works. Evolution/survival of the fittest is absolute and all human design is simply to imitate it's efficacy (its efficacy is perfect) in less time.
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Right, definitely not, but this is leaving aside all the other kinds of data you might want to save, and there's a lot of that too. I'm just pointing out that the quantity of hours we're talking about is not nearly as absurd as you'd think at first.
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Well that solves a question that was a mystery to exactly zero people.
I'd like to know the ages of the people commenting that they loved / hated it.
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Actually, I would say that Dennett's philosophy owes far more to Alan Turing than Wittgenstein, which is why I was surprised that he suggests that Wittgenstein's legacy may prove more valuable than Turing's. Pretty high praise considering Turing gave us the theoretical basis for computers.
For no. 1 - are you referring to the "casual observer" problem ?
> given to the government without a warrant.

It only barely registered with the general public when the telcos did it - why should Google be any different?
It's not $1500 per album, it's however much the artist chooses. In this case, a bunch of artists from reddit.com got together and decided to make a mix tape and split the $1500. They are all relatively unknown artists who would like some exposure.

If another artist came and set the price at $10,000, then he'd receive 10k.

The albums on the front page pending approval are just that, artists that have been contacted. Without those placeholders, the site would be rather empty. It's no different than how reddit supposedly started as very few people with multiple accounts pretending to be very many people.
This is a great presentation. We ended up having a good set of terms when we did the FriendFeed Series A because we were fortunate to find good advice, but I wish I had read this when I left Google to start a company. The incentives implicit in these deal terms turn out to really impact your company at its most important points (acquisition, new funding rounds, etc).

Also worth reading:

Chris Dixon on "Ideal first round deal terms": http://www.cdixon.org/?p=271

Fred Wilson's response to Chris' post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/08/the-ideal-first-round-term-s...
> How is Mac version holding back Chrome in terms of adoption when mac represents roughly 9-10% OS market?

Because Mac usage among early adopters and other tech influencers is a much higher percentage, and they're the ones who recommend software to use to the less savvy. That's how Firefox's marketshare got its initial big boost.

> Noscript is used by a very small niche users

Again, Noscript usage incidence is higher among that same market.

> I think most of the early adopters of Chrome are fairly tech savvy users

Most alpha geeks I know (including myself) use Firefox as their primary browser rather than Chrome, mainly because it's not quite there on Mac/Linux, and/or favorite extensions don't exist. Nearly all Chrome users I know are Windows users, and don't care about extensions, and like the perceived speed compared to other browsers. Nearly all alpha geeks I know use Chrome on Windows, when they have to use Windows, which isn't very often.

Get more of those alpha geeks using Chrome as their primary, more recommendations trickle down to their less geeky friends. That's what happened with Firefox, and that's what will happen with Chrome once a stable Mac port and support for the popular extensions show up.
Placeholders are shit. I'd greatly prefer an empty and honest site. And it IS different from reddit if those accounts actually contributed something. One Republic? Are you serious? Do you think there's a snowball's chance in hell of getting One Republic on that site? It's a trick. These placeholder accounts are contributing absolutely nothing and never will.

On the issue of money, I see what you're saying, but the site seems to suggest that $1500 is a reasonable price one might see on here. $10k is barely reasonable when you consider that most artists make one CD every 2 years or so. Not that most artists GET $10k, but it's still pathetic. I'd like to see some consideration too for the fact that artists get a pathetic amount of money for their work. The notion of a starving artist is insane in a world that is so obsessed with entertainment.

I don't mean to sound angry. I'm just frustrated. I think there is a lot of potential here.
> and sometimes touted as Buffet's successor

Are you on crack?

There is lots of speculation regarding succession, but nobody has been insane/stupid enough to suggest Gates as an option.
It just seems vulnerable that despite the diversity of Google's products and services, they make basically all their profit from displaying [very relevant] ads.
That's exactly the sort of place I wouldn't want to be. The best companies have a mission that's far beyond mere survival. That mission is why they stay ahead of their competition.
I don't know how reliable it is, but I've heard that the reason that the NSA can't tap Skype calls is because the protocol/keys/whatever is changed behind the scenes every-so-often.
I'm sorry, I must be explaining this incredibly bad. It's not $1500 or $10,000, it's whatever the artist chooses. This isn't only for Jay Z or the Kings of Leon, there are thousands upon thousands of artists out there that don't have record deals or world-wide tours.

"I'd like to see some consideration too for the fact that artists get a pathetic amount of money for their work."

I couldn't agree more, this is why musicslu.com was created.
This concern and the one about developing back problems are both great reasons to ease into using an exercise/yoga/stability ball as your primary chair. When people ask me about it, I recommend they start out with 20-30 minutes and slowly work their way up from there.

It's also important to get a ball of the right size (they typically are available in 10cm increments, with 55-75cm being the more common sizes). Look for charts online for sizing info, and then make sure it is inflated enough that when you're sitting on it the angle of your knees is 90 degrees.

While this change has helped my posture, increased my core strength and more, I think my next change is going to be for a treadmill desk so that I can increase the number of calories I burn throughout the day.
Maybe. I'd be comfortable calling it a subsidy if it's a very specific break given to a narrow segment of the economy. So no I wouldn't call the infinite taxes you're not paying a "subsidy", but if you're paying lower taxes than I am because the government has chosen to tax me at a higher rate than you, I might call the difference a subsidy.

BTW, I'm not necessarily opposed to subsidies, there can be good reasons to do this.
I am not sure if you are cheap-shotting Dennet and Wittgenstein or philosophy as a whole.

I think if you were to genuinely throw away the last 100 years of philosophy, you would not find yourself in an intellectually better place.
They could bring Brad Lidge in to save the company.
I'd say LinkedIn's cautious, careful culture is a big reason it appeals to its target professional audience.

People like us might drool over a LinkedIn API, but, right or wrong (and I'd argue wrong) I'd bet a lot of the middle-managers that are LinkedIn's bread and butter would be spooked by an API that made LinkedIn more open and uncontrolled (like Facebook).
Legal crackdown on monopoly claims.
Wait. Can you sell unregistered stock to non-accredited investors, even if they're "friends and family"?

The rules vary by jurisdiction. My understanding is that in the US, the rules are quite restrictive here; in contrast, Canadian securities regulators allow essentially unrestricted sales to family and friends.

But as Thomas says: Talk to a lawyer, especially if you plan on raising any future rounds.
In the end, it's a balance. You need keep track of (and understand) the fluctuating exchange rate between time and money as your business evolves.
Just like LuaJIT 1, this is amazing for a one-person project developed more or less in stealth mode. At least for some narrow benchmarks, he's nearing or matching the Hotspot JVM and GCC 4 with a dynamic, JavaScript-like language. This will do for Lua what Google hopes V8 will do for JavaScript.
Same thing here, tried it at home for a couple of months then switched back to a chair.
Interesting, my money quote was: "Pay someone to watch your back".
Surely a company like Google, filled with a ton of smart people who deal with the web every day and have a little bit of free rein to go crazy with it, will have some idea of what to do when - or if - the Semantic Web ever takes off.

Sure, their immediate ad-driven revenue model might break, but I very much doubt this would be an overnight change, nor one Google is not already thinking about.
You're explaining it fine, but when I see prices that aren't even in the right order of magnitude, it makes me wonder. A reasonable price for a high-quality CD is over $100k. For a billboard-top-100-quality CD, over $500k. For a Jay Z CD, over $1m easy.
because google's brand is all about google being different.
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I disagree. Evolution designed all life forms. Design and implementation are not separate for evolution, but that doesn't mean that design did not occur. Humans did not do (Edit: ..most of) the designing, but that also does not mean that design did not occur.
The Affero GPL.

If it becomes popular, it closes the server side loophole and Goog would have to either give up on using new open source software or else open source their codebase.

That's why Chris DiBona at Google Code won't let it on their servers. Search "Affero GPL" for more stuff around that.

Ps: if I worked at MS and wanted to destroy Goog, I would go around offering hackers $100k or $1M to switch their licenses to Affero GPL. Basically the size of the offer would be proportional to the userbase.

With a $100m (= size of Bing's marketing budget) you could do a lot of damage.

Note that this doesn't even get us started on how if Ballmer had any sesnse he'd have built in adblock for adwords bundled into IE9 and turned on by default as a feature.
I use cloudkick.com, which is a hosted service. It's the most accurate hosted monitoring I've ever used. Less false positives than any other hosted service I've used, and the fastest (accurate) notifications of true issues.

The catch?

You have to be using one of the hosts they cover (currently EC2, EC2 Europe, Rackspace, Slicehost.). They will probably add a bunch more soon, as they are organizers of the libcloud project, which aims to build interfaces for all popular providers. Code checked in so far covers Linode, vps.net, vCloud Express, for example. (http://libcloud.org/)

It's easy to install because you don't have to install any agents on your system. You just plug in your (provider) key at the friendly, easy Cloudkick dashboard, et voila. All the accuracy of agented monitoring, none of the mess/packages/server set-up.

(Lots of hosted monitoring services act like "agentless" monitoring, which means not that accurate or fast to notice things.)

Also, it's free. (Though it seems like they may have premium services one day.)
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An academic at my university has a ball in his office he goes to sit on when he has something to think about. I think I'd prefer this to sitting on the ball at a computer - I just can't imagine taking myself seriously if I did that.
i had an attny buddy that wanted to use an exercise ball instead of an office chair. ultimately he got made fun of by so many people that he ended up not doing it. i can see startup people using it, but very few will do so in a more professional office setting.

however, i do like the idea of alternative desk arrangements though. i've seen several people with a desk that can be lifted up so that you can stand and work when you want. then there's the treadmill desks which are pretty cool.
My first thought is, if he believes that, why doesn't he quit and go full time selling the product? Three months isn't that long, but imagine the opportunity to work full time on your own product. With $2k+ already in recurring revenue, that's enough to eat on.

You may not need that F&F round, no dilution, no investor's expectations, no F&F asking where their money is...

Much fewer risks if you don't need it and you may not.
The data doesn't have to be actively online. Tape technology is one option to reduce the amount of hardware and space needed.
But clearly they want to track everyone and everything everywhere. Scares the crap out of me.
Is there a good book out there where I can read about the terminology and various pivots in term sheets? Good information about the mechanics seems rare ..
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Great article, but that bio picture looks like a mugshot.
Be careful with the word 'lazy.' This statement is implying 'lazy' is not willing to work hard.

Laziness in my book is only useful when you are deciding to do less by eliminating everything not absolutely necessary (cutting the fluff).
what about P2P search? or essentially a distributed search engine (or engines) running on volunteers' servers? Google's good fortune for now is that search is not yet a commodity. Can distributed search engines make search a commodity?
Living organisms are the product of evolution by natural selection. BUT, there is no forethought in the evolution process; i.e. no design. The way living organisms turn out is not according to a plan, i.e. it is not designed (blindly or otherwise).
The site in your screenshot works fine for me. I can't tell whether that's because it's working or because Calibri's not installed. I'm using Chrome 4.0.223.11 (wtf is up with those version numbers) on a recent (~3 month old) stock Macbook Pro.
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To anyone who hasn't read Neal Stephenson's work: Go and do it! It's science fiction written by a man who is a hacker at heart.

Start with Cryptonomicon, a tale of WWII codebreakers, cryptography, and modern-day data freedom. How can you not love the sound of that that?
I think most people would agree that "designing" something means that its construction/development is planned. There's no planning in evolution.
Embarrassingly so, I'm afraid. It's been a while since I read up on my American history and law as any good citizen should, I suppose.

But all the same, I still stand by my assertion above later in the thread.
I'm jnovek's co-founder. Unfortunately for the startup I have two kids and a WAF to deal with. Honestly you're right that bootstrapping would be easier, but we've been at this for 10 months and working two jobs is really starting take its toll.
The one thing I remember from tax class is the basic principle:

Everything you earn is taxable, except <long list of exceptions>.

Nothing is deductible, except <long list of exceptions>.

When you add to either of those lists of exceptions, you're increasing the overall tax rate for people who can't take advantage of those exceptions.
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Chris is a very warm, loving guy. The beef some people have with him for very irrelevant reasons, they need to get over it.
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Assuming your netbook has a 32 GB SSD, and that drive capacity doubles every two years, 2099. Assuming that SSD prices drop dramatically and you have a 512 GB SSD (still this year), 2091.

In other words: not for a long, long time.

The real question is: how could you possibly generate a yottabyte of data?
Enjoy your eyes while they still work.
May I have some of what you're smoking?

The Semantic Web depends on having everyone who writes web pages also categorize them. Whenever you have 20 different people categorizing content you're going to get 20 different interpretations of what the semantics mean. The vision of a decent, consistent categorization emerging across the web is a pipe dream.

Furthermore the fundamental problem that Google solves is not finding content. It is narrowing in on worthwhile content. In a world filled with people pushing commercial content with a dubious value proposition, you can't depend on content creators to provide an accurate assessment of their quality. That's where Google comes in. They not only categorize, they rank data well enough that end users are happy to accept the results.
In most cases, yes, you can - most jurisdictions in the U.S. permit stock sales in such cases.

For example, in California, you have a "limited offering exemption" (technically, under 25102(f) of the Corporations Code) by which you generally can sell stock to up to 35 non-accredited investors in any given round provided they have a pre-existing relationship with the startup or its founders and that they represent that they are buying as an investment and not for immediate resale.

These exemptions are very easy to comply with, though you should use a lawyer to make sure you cover any technical points (the costs are minimal).
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A few things to note:
1. It's not at all my construction. That's precisely why it's hard to see originality in this.
2. If you read his post carefully, you'll see that the author isn't aware of distinction between past simple and present perfect, let alone of ablaut: he confuses "swam" and "swum" and then proceeds to use the newly invented past tense form of "cutch" in present perfect.
3. Ablaut would be along the lines of think-thank-thunk -- something the author is not suggesting.
4. Think and catch already have the "weird umlaut morph". Changing it to the "swim-swam-swum" pattern is, like I said, nothing new.
Agreed, I think eventual trust-busting will occur.
This is just silly. If you were scraping a site's content and publishing it elsewhere maybe there would be a case, but for personal use you can create as many derivative works as you like under fair use. If not then accessibility features like screen readers and magnifiers (many of which are built into browsers) would be illegal.

Users are free to modify site's content as much as they want, using adblockers or using cornify, etc. This is no different than someone cutting out parts of articles from a magazine to make their own collages. Once it's in your hands you can do what you like with it, as long as you don't republish it.
I've been reading A LOT on my iPhone lately since starting to use instapaper. It's been amazing except for only little thing; I get nauseated occasionally staring at the screen (especially when moving). The screen is possibly to small or too bright?

The form factor might not be quite right.
Your credit limit is probably around the amount of money you would need in the short term though.