jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SaaS software as a part of big company's software
Hi,
I am hoping to get some clarification regarding a business strategy.
My SaaS start-up (stealth mode) is developing software for a specific industrial application. One of the big companies in the field who offers generic software feels that our focused software will be a nice add-on to theirs to provide value for their customers, who are a sizeable subset (15%) of our target market.
They are asking us to integrate our software as an addon to their main software but without our startup's name for this specific subset of customers.
At my previous employer, I had collaboration with this big company, and they are aware of our potential and the capabilities of the software.
We initially planned to sell our software as subscription @ $ XX to general customer base. Now, they want to sell it to their customers without our name. My question is what premium do we charge this big company? The premium is not for using our name and developing our brand with customers but at the same time, we get access to a good number of users. I do not want to quote a high premium so it may not be worth to them.
Here is what I had in mind when it comes to discussion:
If we sell the software to individual customer, I get $ XX and some branding. As I am foregoing the branding and still giving you the value. Can we have a licensing deal for a lumpsum money and pricing for each subscription @ $XX (may be a small discount?)? This lumpsum will help us accelerate our product development. If the big company were to develop this add-on by themselves it will take more time and money than this lumpsum amount. In this case, it will be a win-win. Is this a good strategy?
As I am not experienced, I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences.
Since our startup is in stealth mode and the discussions with big company is not yet public, I am sorry that I was not able to divulge more details regarding the exact application and more background.
Thanks in advance,
Facebook Home Clone for iOS
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Scrum Analogies with the Underpant Gnomes and Sovjet Era Deathmarches
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Show HN: Parsers VC – Real-time tracking Venture Capital data provider
https://parsers.vc/
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It's very simple: Parsers VC installs its trackers on the venture capital funds' websites (namely the startup, team, and news sections) and automatically collects all updates. The data is also obtained from social networks and news sites. Thus, there is no need to wait for the startup or venture capital firm itself to update the information on the aggregator site, all updates appear by themselves.
Love Minority Report? Come to Meet Precog Agatha Live Online
Do you believe a computer can actually know you better than you know yourself? If you are in Divergent, how do you know your faction without going through the tests Tris did?

Please meet Juji at https://juji.io, a system we just built based on AI technologies. Like the “precog” Agatha live online, Juji can “read” you by automatically inferring your faction(s) and strengths, and your likelihood to career success and a long-lasting marriage, all from your own data (e.g., Facebook posts and tweets).

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Check out what Juji knows about you (Juji Me) and people you want to know (Juji People) at https://juji.io !

We are running a trial now and especially interested in your comments and feedback on:
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We featured several Juji-inferred portraits, including Lady Gaga, President Obama, and NCAA Star Players at our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/juji.io

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Decent introduction to how to structure your CL projects. Showed me how to do asd files which I didn't know before. Good short reference if you want to learn CL.
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A simple to use word counter!
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Finding the right buyer is often more important than your valuation.
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This great app is the best choice for ad-blocking, preventing data over-billing, saving battery life, as well as protecting your privacy.
Running Elixir's Dynamo on Heroku
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A guide to setting up the Dynamo web framework on Heroku
The Ten most worthless college majors
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10. Art History
9. Philosophy
8. American Studies
7. Music Therapy
6. Communications
5. Dance
4. English Lit
3. Latin
2. Film
1. Religion
What's jQuery Doing on Standards?
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In this talk, Yehuda will give a rough overview of the standardization process, some examples of ways that web developers have helped the process, and talk about how the jQuery project is making a difference.
Ask HN: How to do I keep my IP while working for a large company?
I work for a fortune 500 company and I'm in the process of making a startup company. The startup product is in no way related to the work I do for my employer.
I'm concerned that one day the company I work for will notice my startup and will claim it's their intellectual property.
How can I be safe around this issue? Where can I educate myself further?
Show HN: Hopscotch – Find your ideal NYC neighborhood
https://www.hopscotch.nyc
If you’re moving to NYC (or thinking about it), Hopscotch helps you discover suitable neighborhoods that best align with your needs or wants. We built Hopscotch to reduce the hassle of mining through various sources to find your optimal living location.

Some features:
- Hopscotch incorporates many filters including proximity to specific locations, budget, safety, nearby stores and gyms, subway lines and citi bikes, and more.
- Hopscotch allows you to customize your priorities and receive personalized recommendations for top neighborhoods and communities.
- You can instantly see your priorities reflected on an interactive map and visualize the best neighborhood locations.

While Hopscotch currently serves NYC, we plan to expand to other cities in the future. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Sharing affiliate revenue with users
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A discussion about sharing affiliate revenue with the users who spend the money, effectively offering a discount scheme.
Google Wave on Chromium on Mac
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More screenshots available.
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We try to explain it here
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Ever heard of the Bütone Drum? A type of tank (or tongue) drum. It's a tuned percussion instrument hand-made from steel.

"We build each drum to order based around our customers’ tuning requirements."

http://bit.ly/UFCff3
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Do you know of a software product in use that is essentially feature complete? That is, it has no new features planned but people continue to use the product?

The advice to grow product features incrementally at a careful pace seems to be widely advocated, but doesn't seem to match reality.

It seems quite hard to resist adding more and more features to a product. This might be because of demands from customers, or from fear that your competitors may overtake you. Or maybe it's simply a feeling that more features equals evolution or progress.

Have you every resisted feature creep in your product or service? Were you still able to retain or attract customers?

Have you ever told demanding customers requesting a feature that no, you won't be implementing a feature and how did they take it?
25 Essential Sass and Compass Tools
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I havent seen a network such the size of Mashable do a feature for SASS and Compass before. Thought it was worth sharing.
ORMs Suck, I'm Asking & I'm Telling...
http://compositecode.com/2013/01/25/orms-suck-im-asking-im-telling/
ORMs Suck, I'm Asking & I'm Telling, so what's your take? Throw some feedback in there... preferably on the blog comments so everybody sees everybody's two cents. But however you want to do it, I'm not telling ya what to do...
What social bookmarking site has "lists"?
I want to be able to post lists of links that share a common theme. Like "how to become a better writer" or "essentials to starting a business" or stuff like that. It would be like Amazon's Listmania functionality, except it would work for any link, not just Amazon products.

It doesn't seem like Delicious will work for this because they only have tags, not lists. Google bookmarks does have public lists and I like their interface, but it looks like I can only share links to individual lists, not a link to main page, showing all my lists.

Like I said, I should be able to have a static link like bookmarkingsite.com/profile/amber to point people to that shows all my lists. Viewers should definitely not have to sign in to the site in order to view my lists or visit the sites.

Please tell me this exists already.

Thanks!
Laura Garton on social networks and Circles circa 1997
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Back in 1997, Laura Garton and al. presented their thoughts and ideas on social network and how we work in clusters (or circles).
First ever hack day for classical music
http://www.classicalmusichackday.org/
1st CLASSICAL MUSIC HACK DAY

February 1-3
University of Music and Performing Arts
Vienna | Austria

www.classicalmusichackday.org
register now for this free event!
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INFO

The Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute and the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna present the first Hack Day for Classical Music.

The Hack Day will take place at the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Developers, musicians and creative minds will gather to develop new applications for digital classical music reception. Live performances of young musicians will allow developers to produce new content and data – a long weekend full of innovative possibilities in the field of music technology.

Please spread the word about this unique event and invite your colleagues, students and technology contacts.

For more information contact Matthias Röder at matthias.roeder@karajan.org

@classichackday
Companies Flee California
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Wondering if those of you out in California are seeing/feeling this, or if it's sensationalism?
Linked-In speaker series: Salman Khan (Khan Academy)
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http://www.careerpal.co

Hi folks, I launched this after my own frustration in finding a job. My team and I want to make it easier for job seekers and students to network with company employees and get resume or interview help from people who've already walked the walk.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the concept, design or anything.

Thank you
CareerPal Team
To Woo or To War? When When Should An Entrepreneur Fight, Flee or Flirt?
http://www.infochachkie.com/woowar/
An interesting contrast of the recent book, "The Art of Woo" with the ancient classic, "The Art of War".
How To Hack Online Dating
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Using spreadsheets, TextWrangler and "other kludged-together applications," Webb analyzed all of this and more, manually collecting data as she went. In the process, she reverse engineered online dating and met her future husband.
Always code to the standards. Then hack it till it works in IE
http://portawiki.abnoctus.com/view/UserAgent.html
Bottom line... Always code to the standards. Then hack it till it works in the current version of IE.
Fruit Fly Born in Outer Space
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Includes awesome image! And I kid you not!
Show HN: I made it easy to show visitors what you're planning
https://featuretrail.com
Hey HN!

While working on a project I wanted an easy way to show visitors what features were planned. I wanted this info to be concise and on the frontpage.

Most of what I found involved kanban boards, but I wanted something simpler. I saw some timeline tools but none were interactive. So I had the idea to make this app, It's a simple roadmap/timeline that you can embed on your website.
Why Rails and Node.js folks should care about Project Nashorn 
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https://github.com/atomashevic/vscode-working-memory
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Capture everything in a single markdown or text file. Specify the file and use shortcut to open it in new tab from any VSCode project/workspace.

Also, there's a quick capture option to append line to the top of the file without opening it.

That's it, nothing much. I have few simple ideas on how to extend this workflow without making, so any feedback or contribution is welcome.

Here's Cal Newport explaining the gist of the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MOxvedJXM&ab_channel=CalNew...
Life in the grey area: Private WOW server under repeat DDOS attack.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arena-Tournamentcom/145440605498360
Arena tournament staff: "As most of you might have noticed, we are currently under a huge Ddos attack and are doing our best to resolve the issue. The attacker is the same guy who threatened us a while ago (Trentddos) but the attacks have increased by size. We are not able to tell yet for how long we will stay offline but we're doing everything in our power to get the server running.
We're thankful for everyones support and patience."

What sort of measures could you take to prevent this sort of thing?
Show HN: Windows Software in your browser
http://video-background-19.kickoffpages.com/
http://simple-hamburger-hero-31.kickoffpages.com thats the right link
Verizon Posts A Net Loss Of $2.02B In Q4 2011 
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Ever since the AT&T/T-Mobile saga came to a grinding halt, you’d think that Verizon would be enjoying its reign in peace. But it would seem that the company has posted a net loss of $2.02 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. At the same time a year earlier, Verizon was seeing a profit of $2.64 billion.
Ask HN: How to create HN clone using Wordpress?
I am not referring to plugins that make it a Digg-styled site, but something where ppl can submit links as well as submit a qn like this (w/o links)<p>TIA
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I am convinced that one of the most special bonds on earth has to be the one that exists between a father and his daughter. I remember my aunt telling me of the time that my father
saw me for the first time. He saw me for the first time as he waited in the lobby of the maternity hospital; he saw me being carried in a tub all covered in blood and vernix and my aunt often told me about the look of absolute elation on his face when they told him it was a Girl!
Basic Reverse Engineering With Live Example
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Basic Reverse Engineering With Live Example
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https://www.hackerswork.com/
Blog about your works, stay up to date by following other hackers
Do Snowden Files Have NSA Implants?
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Part 1: http://cryptome.org/2014/11/snowden-nsa-implants.htm
Part 2: http://cryptome.org/2014/11/snowden-nsa-implants-2.htm
Apple Website Running On .Net?
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Check the link http://www.apple.com/promo/rebate/status.html, probably the error is fixed. But i got the .Net error.
Follow Friday: Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian
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NCDevCon 2015 – North Carolina's Premier Web and Mobile Conference
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What can you steal from an iPhone in 2 minutes?
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Exit Early - Exit Often
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HD video of Basil Peters' Keynote at CapitalConnects! 2009 SE Reg ACA
Did anyone else get a defective Gemalto key fob for Amazon AWS?
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The device works, in that pressing the button shows a number that changes periodically. I'm wondering what the screw-up was. Does anyone know? Should I trust the new device when I receive it?
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Pipes and filters architectures with Python generators
Should You Pay For Tweetdeck?
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Is it ethical to donate? Or should people be forced to pay? I don't think anyone wants ads.
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Though seemly a simple task, composing good photographs are often tedious and painful. Insight automatically composes the photographs you have already shot with a pre-defined aspect ratio using a set of computer vision algorithms.
The core of Insight is these algorithms. They try to find the most visually pleasing region inside photographs.<p>We will be releasing a public API very soon. In the mean while please do play around with demo. Your feedback is extremely important for me! Specifically I would like to know your thoughts on:<p>* Is there a need for such services.
* The performance of the algorithm The algorithm itself is undergoing active revisioning. Both positive and negative feedback about the suggestions give by the algorithm will be very much appreciated.
* Please drop me a line in case you are interested to beta-test the API.
China and Tibet: The Worst of The Worst Again in 2010
http://chinacensorshipwatch.org/china-and-tibet-the-worst-of-the-worst-again
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Abstract: "In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process
and the seven key informational frictions that arise. We discuss the ways that market
participants work to minimize these frictions and speculate on how this process broke
down. We continue with a complete picture of the subprime borrower and the subprime
loan, discussing both predatory borrowing and predatory lending. We present the key
structural features of a typical subprime securitization, document how rating agencies
assign credit ratings to mortgage-backed securities, and outline how these agencies
monitor the performance of mortgage pools over time. Throughout the paper, we draw
upon the example of a mortgage pool securitized by New Century Financial during 2006."
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I’ve been hearing a lot of good about Git in the last few years, from the simplicity of use, speed to decentralized repositories. I’ve been a happy user of SVN for many years, and I know that it’s got it’s problems, but I suspect so does Git. The time has come to experience them though.
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