skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I checked, it was illegal in the United States to work for a for-profit company for free ("volunteer"), which is clearly what this guy did. Now if Boxee/Spark has a legal opinion saying otherwise, great. (Even better if my crappy Chicago lawyers were wrong about this, too.)

But if they were right, if Nick ever gets fired or leaves on bad terms, I'm pretty sure he has an open-and-shut case to get back wages (plus punitives).
Flush toilets, mosquito control, not coughing on people and washing your hands after pooping are much more important for preventing epidemics.

All a hospital will do is cure a small number of people in a small scale epidemic. But lets face it, if Mangasanti is your goal, you are probably willing to let 20 people die of preventable diseases at home.
It's subject to change based on demand. However, I think there is something unique and compelling about being on every page for a period of time, which warrants higher rates. Also, the current discounted rate is $2.96CPM.

The search engine is private, so it's hard to tell demographics. But I'm pretty sure the user base is generally highly technical and highly educated. This also warrants higher rates.
As much as I would like to see this, without a stable industry consensus on best practices, there is insufficient foundation for a legal definition of negligence.
Ask HN: Any Spanish Entrepreneurs?
I moved to Madrid recently (about 5 months) and I was wondering if there are entrepreneurs, hackers, marketeers, etc, here in Madrid (or the rest of Spain). If there are people interested we could do a meet up.

If you are interested, please sign up here:

http://madmimi.com/signups/join/8975
Than how do you explain his (successful) campaign against the free google chat that competes with Campfire? Google shut it down, basically, because it's "unfair to J.Fried".
Since Google did it, nobody else dare to compete directly with Basecamp, as is.

Diaspora is a paradigm shift, and it will be easier to implement a better Basecamp without single point of registration and billing.
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Clickable: http://madmimi.com/signups/join/8975
This is by Hal Varian - he's one of those people where I'm happy to read pretty much anything he writes.
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Incidentally, I emailed them and not surprisingly didn't hear back :).
"Business Plan Competitions are Great for Schools and Bad For Students"

New York Public Library sponsors a business plan competition. http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sibl/smallbiz/nystartup/... Glad to read that he eloquently articulated what I thought about this endeavor: Good for the library bureaucracy and useless for the entrepreneur.
Sorry knee-jerk reply. Daring Fireball has multiple lucrative revenue streams.

I wonder what kind of metrics DDG will offer - I think it would be interesting to know what the user was searching for when there is a click through on the sole sponsor banner.
I don't know your definition of vulgar - but as far as I am concerned most of the projects are obscene. You have the naive amateurs that seem to run the higher reaches of the civil service trying to handle voracious monsters of consulting companies and getting reamed in the process.

And nobody really cares as it is "only taxpayers money".

Very few things make me really angry - this whole mess is one of them.
Addition and concatenation have different properties: concatenation is not commutative. So the problem is not the types, strings vs int, but different operations. In a language that puts an emphasis on principles like haskell, I find "++" a elegent syntax for concatenation, but otherwise I find that Python's approach of using "+" and throwing a type error is good enough.
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If he keeps up stuff like that I might actually start to like the man.
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Nice infographic! In answer to your questions (just my opinions, mind):

1) The industry average (at least from sources talking about it) is around 1-2% of all signups upgrading, so you're at par there. I think, however, that this is not very helpful. Continuing the 'par' theme, what would you say is a 'good' handicap in golf? There's no such number, really, except in relation to certain goals. Likewise, I think your conversion rate should just be one of the things that you tweak in order to maximize your profit, which is most important thing in the end. Be aware that it may be much better to have a 1% conversion rate at a higher price than a 5% conversion rate at a lower one. Or vice versa.

2) I'm not sure about whether this is good or not, I'm afraid. It's quite a unique service you're providing - there's not a lot to use as a benchmark. Something to take into account is that people generally upgrade when they hit a 'pain point' in the app. That's when I go over my dropbox free storage limit, for example. For Bingo Card Creator it's when you want to print the cards you've created (I think). The pain point in your app is unclear. What is it people are using it for? Perhaps you don't want to limit the number of events, but rather the usage of the created timeline? Upgrade if you want to save it as an image, print it, embed it in your website, save it online etc. Remember that the more people put into something, the more willing they will be to pay to get past the pain point (it is a hassle for me to signup with anyone other than dropbox if I'm already using them, for example). Also think about the scenarios in which you are saving people a huge amount of time. For Bingo Card Creator, it's teachers spending hours messing about with Word trying to make different cards. The app saves you that time. Is there an equivalent for your users, or a particular subset of them?

Just some random thoughts there.

As a final thought, related to some of the above points, think about whether it is a good idea to stop people entering all the data they want to enter, which you're doing. Perhaps it might be better to let them enter as much as they want, but require an upgrade to stop it all just disappearing (or all but 10 events of it disappearing) as soon as they leave the site (or 24 hours later, or whatever). Then you've got people putting more into your app, and you're introducing a more natural pain point: pay up to keep all the work you've just done, or to print it, or to share it in its entirety.
And I could make an argument that your userbase is more likely to ignore/block ads (although my guess is that you're serving the ad itself, so AdBlock wouldn't work).

I've had a fair amount of experience experimenting with all sorts of online marketing techniques, and it's just an awfully costly experiment to shell out $1,500 for a week. If you had a Reddit-style minimum of $20, then the CPM wouldn't be a complete non-starter for an experiment, but that's a very, very high bar.

Of course, you have a pretty rabid fanbase, so early advertisers are probably going to get a higher-than-average CTR because users are going to want to support you with their clicks, but that's just going to end up artificially depressing advertisers' conversion rates, which DDG won't have any insight into.

So, I guess all I'm saying is 1) consider lowering your rate and 2) consider dramatically lowering your minimum.

Remember, kids, AdWords are a gateway drug to unprofitable user acquisition.
If the IT project doesn't in end save money more than it cost, it's a failure in most cases.

The ID card system was never going to save any money nor make the country safer (it's original selling point). The NHS system seems to be going very badly so far and is late.
That was... unexpected.

A sign of the times if some bureaucrat's got the courage and sense of liberty to publish such a article openly.
Is that under anti-slavery laws?
I never really had a strong stance on offshore drilling until this.
Really we ought to have two healthcare budgets, "services" that delivers actual healthcare and "support" that does the IT, manages the carparks (another controversial thing in UK politics, believe it or not), does the paperwork and so on. Then you would have an absolute defence against accusations of "cutting frontline services".

It is a fiction maintained by the NHS bureaucracy that any cuts must affect the frontline. But the NHS has more managers than beds...
A litmus test for an open-source company
Annoying initial ad, but the article is fairly interesting.
Curated hypocrisy: How Google camouflages its attacks on Apple
It common knowledge that shared servers at GoDaddy never have been anything better than average, but a lot of people think that GoDaddy still is the place to go for domains. Trust me, there are a lot of better options out there.

I really like http://www.internet.bs

Their domains are the among the cheapest on the internet (7.15$ with free privacy settings, Godaddy would take over 20$ for the same offer), they have great support, a great API, and a simple (although ugly) website/domain registration process. GoDaddy on the other hand, has a completely bloated UI designed into tricking you into buying a lot of junk that you don't need.
I disagree. perl made a point of adopting a lot of idioms from well-known languages. Some of it's more inscrutably named internal variables came from awk, for example. Whatever perl's vices, indifference to least astonishment isn't among them. Admittedly, it's target audience was UNIX types. I can well imagine a good deal of astonishment, along with some other emotions, from those not in the target audience.
The big feature Emacs provides that Vim doesn't in this case is integration with the window manager. Emacs lets me create another X window that shares the same set of buffers, clipboards, and other state with another. This is advantageous because it works like everything else and is especially useful with a tiling window manager.
Ask HN: Review my redesigned App
Hey Guys,

Just redesigned my app at liftrr.com

Its not totally finished, but for the most part the design is in!

username: liftrr@dispostable.com

password: password

Thanks for any feedback in advance!
Points taken. I also do a lot of online advertising experiments, and so I know exactly where you are coming from.

Really it's more that I just don't want to spend a lot of time on this right now, as I know the reddit team has. Ideally I'd love to syndicate either the deck network, reddit, or someone similar, though no good options seem available to me atm.
http://www.liftrr.com

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It's yet to be officially announced. That's why I provided the direct download link.
But, you can find the new features list here: http://linuxmint.com/rel_isadora_whatsnew.php
If you don't want to run AdSense ads, Microsoft's AdCenter allows (I believe) more customization with look and feel: https://advertising.microsoft.com/publisher
seems to be a distro derived from ubuntu with polished ui and proprietary codecs and drivers preinstalled
I believe that the following quote from the guy himself might indicate that he does not want it copied in real life: "I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners and social engineers."
How many megabytes is the current Linux kernel in its generic/default/full form (i386 or amd64, either goes)?
Please. Somehow I doubt that Jason Fried, of all people, is losing sleep because of a vaporware product in a completely different space.

Or do you think that somehow Diaspora will be a product management solution? Will it also do my taxes? Perhaps it will print bingo cards, organize my book collection, and bake the world's tastiest pies?

This is exactly what Fried is talking about: When you launch a pure-vapor product you encourage people to project fantasies onto it. That sends you lots and lots of false signals and sets the public up to be disappointed.
Are you talking about HuddleChat? It was a demo-app and was a blatant rip-off of Campfire.

Nobody dares to compete with Basecamp? Are you kidding me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_managemen...
It would help if users didn't give instant, unconditional, blind trust to cloud services, as the vast majority seem to now. Just taking a moment to consider security before dumping their data in a service they don't really need could make a big difference. But learned helplessness is a tough habit to break.
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What kind of proof is necessary? I've never heard of receipts for bribes.
I generally agree with what the 37 signals guy say, but their view is never the only view.

Sure it might take most people longer to get something up with $150K than with $0K, but that isn't true 100% of the time. VC might be bad for most, but certainly not for all.

The talk in absolutes to get their point across - its a necessary method since everyone else is doing it.
I was shocked when I heard that it became illegal. How is a country supposed to compete in foreign markets then? All it means is that now other countries and companies will do business in those countries where bribes are required.

Also, I think bribes might still play a big role even in supposedly "civilized" countries. People just find other ways to bribe and make gifts.
One last thought - I see the 'Gantt Chart' box on your front page. This is possibly one of those subsets-of-users-more-willing-to-pay I mentioned: workers or teams in need of a quick gantt chart to plan their work. Last time I looked for a quick way to make a gantt chart I found nothing good - your app looks like it could do it really well. Plus then you've got professionals, who are generally more likely to pay. It might be worth you having a whole separate page for business use.

If I ran a team of workers and wanted a gantt chart for our work, and put X minutes/hours into creating it (dozens of sub-projects) in your app, and then you asked me for $29 to keep it, I'd pay, no question.
Or you could print out a password chart:

http://www.passwordchart.com/
You just made it one.
It's easier to "map <C-?> <C-w>?" for ? in [j,k,h,l] and do "autocmd WinEnter * resize" separately. Especially since it's easier to disable.
Ant had its niche when it was created, and nothing that followed developed enough momentum to displace it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant#History
Wow, can we make him President of the United States too?

I've only seen a US presidential motorcade once, but it had some thirty vehicles and travelled at about sixty miles an hour down a closed-off street. That, combined with the private 747, is probably the most obscene thing about the modern US presidency. Waiting in traffic in an unmarked car would do the President a lot of good.

Yes, I know it's for security, but nobody has taken a shot at a Presidential motorcade for nearly fifty years, and simply having a roof would have solved Kennedy's problem.
`EDS' sounds like a disease: `Eternal Development Syndrome', or somesuch.
One reasonable scenario is if you have a skillset slightly tangential to the companies core business and you want to prove that they really actually need your skills.

For example if you're an awesome OpenCL programmer, but the company doesn't think they have a use for OpenCL, then you could say something like "give me a week, and if I haven't convinced you that your product will be significantly improved using OpenCL then I'll happily walk away and no one has lost anything"
I like the idea of companies paying me one months salary for free to make me interested in working for them.
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Filling in the Gaps: Snook on HTML5/Flash
What is interesting, how little income Amazon affiliate generated.
ok cool. yes pure javascript sound has always been elusive.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142731
"You want attention after you’re good, not before."

This one simple thing defines success in the majority. I really dig much of Jason Fried's insight.
I don't like the idea. Working a month for free says more about my current financial situation than it does my ability as an employee.
Peter F. Duckert calls this the Pork-Barrel State. This is when the fiscal state has no discipline.

The government spending becomes the means to buy votes. This was seen probably most obviously when Chancellor Helmut Kohl bought the votes of the former East Germany by promising them beyond what the state could deliver driving germany into one of it's worst crises since the thirties.

He has some really interesting ideas on how to solve many of the problems we face today IMHO.
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"In the end, it took a few weeks before I could start. And then I stuck around working longer than the two weeks we’d planned and then it took another few weeks after that for a job offer to be made and another few months to get started."

it almost sounds like they were reluctant to hire him.
She's apparently saying the most trivial statement possible about bribes: if nothing works the way it should but something will work if you bribe someone, then bribing these people will make these things work. Well, duh.
I think your logic is a little too binary. There is a huge range of other possibilities between a hard 'succeed' or 'fail'. That is how startups work.
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I had a friend who was hosting at a relatively small ISP who got attacked similarly. Luckily, those attackers were very clumsy and broke HTML in process (didnt close tags properly), making detection very easy.

I was researching a bit on how these attacks are done, but still not sure on details.

Someone gains root on host machine and then gets to the individual instances?
are you alluding to unemployment? many (most?) good engineers have some money in the bank.
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Give them $25 for a t-shirt, it'll be like a pets.com t-shirt of yesteryear. Seriously though, even if these guys are a total failure, this whole episode shows that, if the conditions are right, open source software w/o a huge corporate entity can have a mass appeal. Exciting times.
> he's done what many British stars have failed to achieve - he's made it big in America.

Good article. Common thread is these teenagers are letting the market decide the value of their work.
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Thing is, GoDaddy domains are similarly cheap if you use the widely available coupons. My last renewals were around $7. I am pretty sure no one is disputing bloat on GoDaddy UI... even Bob Parsons.

That said, Namecheap is another good registrar, which I have had occasion to use.
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What do you think is appropriate?
Weirdly enough, it was a YouTube comment that really hit home with me on this issue:

How long ago was it that there was a substantial part of the North American population chanting "Drill baby, drill"?
Your comments indicate less of a reasoned argument on the topic, and more of a personal animosity toward Jason Fried, 37Signals or both.

Perhaps you should step back and take a deep breath?
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If I wanted cutesy/sickening nicknames, vitriol, and fluff, I'd read Maureen Dowd.

tl;dr: go to http://blogs.forrester.com/sarah_rotman_epps/10-05-14-curate... and judge for yourself.
Oh, lighten up.
Huddle-chat was free. They shut it down for no reason but J Fried loud "Google is evil" complains.
Techcrunch here http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/google-to-close-huddlechat/
Gigaom here:
http://gigaom.com/2008/04/09/in-the-huddlechat-debacle-a-les...
So we have to pay for Campfire.
And nobody did Basecamp as is, which is not that complicated, for the same reason.
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Only that, monetizing a search engine with other search engines' ad products would be a bit funny.
Majority of FB users do not know or do not care about threats to their privacy. Diaspora will be percieved as something uber-nerdy. Try talking about "running your own nod" to a girl in a bar.
I still have trouble comprehending how truly very, very bad this all is. I think it's been hard to feel the scale of it because it's such a slow-motion event, so it frequently falls out of the news cycle, even here in relatively nearby Houston. It makes me even more pessimistic about the prospect of humans getting it together to deal with truly slow-motion problems, like global warming.
> PS: not related, but here's a thought: why is it necessary to have a special node system? Won't a super-simple, super-private social network work just as well?

No, it won't. Sure, central hubs can be private and simple, but they can't guarantee that they will stay so. Only distributed system could give you such guarantees.
I know that some people report a huge affiliate commissions with Amazon... but for me it is a really bad converting website. Mostly I send traffic from just a one website - computer hardware niche. Looks not to be a good choice but I do not know any better alternative...
Or even compared to a C64 or IBM AS/400 terminal keyboard the M feels fairly light. I've got a Unicomp these days and I love it. I wish a laptop had such built in.
Take a look at anything in Clojure. Sexps, homoiconic language, immutability & macros don't seem like good choices at first. Once you have some experience writing code, you'll see that they're killer features.
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(At the time of this comment) 25% of HNers "play piano"? Interesting.
And, in fact, many do (signing bonuses).
In a similar vein, outside organizations can poll our University with what's called an "Open Records Request." (Kansas Open Records Act - http://www.dol.ks.gov/es/html/kora_drh.html) Any data that's not protected under some law (HIPAA, FERPA) or record policy can be released.

We receive many requests for data with only one full time staff in the position to provide the information. To mitigate such requests coming in we have a similar paywall to TWCs - 50$/hr involved. We also require that the request be submitted in writing. Typically there's a handful of hoops to jump through with one of the university's general council, signing various forms and getting information to the right people. The paywall combined with the have-to-talk-to-a-lawyer before any requests are resolved dropped the number from a few dozen to one or two a month.
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There's an alternative that does the same job but with no dubious legality, less personal expense, and more flexible hours: write something awesome on your own and include a link to the github repo on your resume.
I could at least understand (while strongly disapproving) of simple buying of votes through spending taxpayers money in the right areas - I'm from Scotland.

However, none of these projects made any sense from that perspective. Massively overpaid consultants probably don't vote Labour anyway (even New Labour) and there weren't that many of them.

Simplest answer I can come up with is that the people who commissioned and ran these projects were, in the best British tradition, bumbling idiots.
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So 4 CS grads raising below seed round range for a much needed project and supported by so many people is a Curse? For THAT he could not sleep?

A pity that this attitude comes from a startup news site. Again: It's a paradigm shift that should enable to create new class of web applications in "nodes" instead of "central hubs".
And all central hub owners, who make their revenues from the old paradigm, should be worried.
We have seen this shifts wiping out companies so fast before. It's not something to laugh about.

He is just trying to stop the finance momentum.