skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Tyler Cowen's theory:
"[the two variables are] income inequality, and the willingness of wealthier men to marry beautiful women from the lower income and social classes. Women then compete for lucrative marriage prizes."
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/11...
NYC has both variables.
Grace Hopper is famous for something other than programming. I can't remember where, but I have seen her being quoted in a political article about strategy. I wish I had jotted it down.

Any military/polysci types able to shed some light on this?
WordPress 3.0: A Watershed Release For Both Companies And Plug-In Developers
Yeah they know we are frustrated.
Is amazing at the wealth of knowledge these older guys have.

Funny, I had heard some article trying to say that voyager was sending 'alien messages'. Of course it's just one bit swung the wrong way.
Hopefully we will see great non-fragmented hardware combined with great and open OS/ecosystem. Both of which Apple and Google deliver only halfway through.

I'd say MeeGo is already compelling to developers purely as an experience, not so much as a great market for apps. With Qt/Python etc. that will be even more compelling.

From Nokia's point of view, it's OS wars all over again. They are branding themselves as a software/service company, which profits by selling hardware.
Here's a link to the video (from 41m25s):
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10129
a) 2 (Good Word - Words With Friends word checker/dictionary)

b) 1 paid, 1 free (ad-supported)

c) none, other than a blog post

d) small (~$800 total sales, ~$30/month from ads)
Quiet You Tube
Do you see it here? I don't see anything about strategy specifically. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
When the first iPhone came out I was a senior in college - one of my buddies stood in line like a schlub and bought the damn thing as soon as it became available. A month later, I actually watched him try to pick up some girls in a bar by showing it off. I died a little inside.
This may be a minority opinion, but I consider .xxx to be a reasonable new TLD. On the other hand, some already existing TLDs were just absurd. For example .aero, .coop, .biz, .info, .jobs, .mobi, .name, .pro, and .travel are difficult to justify; .xxx seems reasonable from a categorical perspective.

(Although, I agree -- it's a legislative nightmare.)
A single serving site I've been meaning to build for a while. The inability to disable comments finally did me in.
This is just from my perspective... For background, I usually own one or more departments in a typical startup, ranging from Pre-Sales Engineering to Customer Support, to IT. In every case when I hire someone I have a set of what I consider to be reasonable expectations:

They will have a method to get to work reliably.

They will have a method to bathe regularly

They will have a method to be contacted after-hours in case of emergency (land-line and/or cell phone)

They will have a method to be contacted and respond electronically after-hours.

During the Interview stage, and in any offer letters, I make it clear that if you want to take a job at a startup you are going to be doing the work of 1.5 - 2.5 "standard" employees. We might not have a budget or requirement for 24.7 staffing, but things WILL happen after hours from time to time, and unless there are extreme circumstances you WILL be expected to act in a reasonable amount of time to respond to or resolve the issue.

So, I generally expect my employees to have basic connectivity and reachability after hours. Sometimes, depending on the scenario, the company will subsidize some or all their cell-phone or cable-modem bill, especially if either are used "significantly" for their work. At the same time, I wouldn't pay for someones car, or clothing, or heat bill. Cable modem/Internet at home is usually NOT subsidized unless the employee is a pure telecommuter.

Maybe my expectations are illogical, but of course I don't think so ;)
I hear it in my head as Post-er-us, probably because of it's connection to blog posts. Nice to hear how it's actually pronounced though. It's hard for some of us that only read about these names sometimes. Reminds me of when I did debate in high school and the judge stopped us in the middle of it to tell us it was pronounced "Kaw-nt" not "Can't" (while speaking about Kant).
Best network monitoring software? (for figuring out how Google Docs works)
What software can I use on Windows to monitor and log network activity in an easy-to-read way?

I'm trying to monitor how Skype and Google Docs set up their connections, and I know they do so through an elaborate process that I'd like to document.
The gyroscope is definitely the best thing about the iPhone 4. I can't wait to see this hardware show up in other phones.
Please post your blog post here (on HN) when it's ready.
a) Routesy
b) 100% paid
c) Very little marketing. Some free blog coverage.
d) Anywhere between $450 and $2700 per month, depending on the release schedule and blog/press coverage.
Using Clojure and clj-plaza to play with RDF data
I am surprised that nobody sees here a recipe for downfall : Apple is a very incompetent company when it comes to product massification. This is the most anti-Henry Ford strategy possible: overpriced premium products for a cult-like base of customers. They sell gadgets like Louis-Vuitton sells handbags and Prada sells shoes. And that's exactly the strategy they followed with the Mac and got them cornered in a niche. I wonder how long will it take until Dell, Asus or EeePc eats their lunch with a cheap Android.
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The difference is that presumably for both holidays and Joss Whedon, there is no less painful alternative to getting what you want.
(a) 4 (6 if you include the Lite versions)
(b) all paid (but 2 have Lite versions)
(c) not a whole lot. i ran some ads with admob but they didn't provide very good ROI. i had a little more success cross promoting my apps
(d) lived off the income for most of last year. my income has since waned and the death knell came a couple weeks ago when the EFF emailed Apple requesting my app be pulled because it used a GPL library. Prior to that I had settled into an equilibrium of about $10k/year.
Sometimes it's worth springing for the ECC memory.
Well, personally, I agree with the article's interpretation of events... but: does anybody else see the irony inherent to The Economist, of all publications, complaining about something like this?

I mean, this is the free market at work, right? Nobody's forcing these people to queue for hours. Both Apple and its customers are making choices based on costs and benefits. Apple, on the one hand, apparently sees financial benefit to treating a certain segment of its customer base like crap. Those same customers have apparently decided that being treated shabbily is worth getting the new shiny a little bit sooner than their friends.

If that ain't capitalism, I don't know what is. Seems like it'd be right up The Economist's alley...
This could be interesting if enough folks post. Here is my info.

I've published 2 apps, one paid (Whiteboard Capture Pro), one free (Picture Me). Picture Me code is open sourced as well (http://bit.ly/7rmKdT). Originally I did some marketing with Google Adsense but it's too hard to track its success so I stopped. I've had some free marketing thanks to mentions in blogs, etc. Recently Apple even made a super awesome video about one of the apps (http://bit.ly/cbtkg3).

Income wise, it's decent. Surprisingly stable at it's current level. Let's just say it's paid for a WWDC trip, three iPhones and 2 iPads and there is plenty left over, plenty.
I love books, however, true learning comes only through doing (even in maths).
Distance: 8,600,000,000 miles

Radio wave: 186,282 miles per second

Push instructions: 12 hours, 49 minutes, 12 seconds

Flip bit: ?? milliseconds [+]

Wait for sample data: 12 hours, 49 minutes, ?? seconds

Process sample data: ?? milliseconds [+]

Analyze and confirm sample data: ~4 hours

[+] does anyone know this value?

It's a continuous signal so it had to have been exciting to
view the stream at the appointed time and see the correct
format. Kind of like setting the baud rate and parity on an
old VT100 and getting the username prompt.

Congratulations to everyone involved.
//Feb 08, 2010 - Rewrote the XML parser to use a proper SAX API - Suit.

//Feb 9, 2010 - Refactored the lexer code - T-shirt and jeans.

//Feb 12, 2010 - Rewrote much of module b to remove extra loops to make it more efficient , added security features to the web front-end, solved the halting problem - Naked
Hiring a programmer for your startup
Worse, Mr. Olsen would dismiss me outright because I have gone to a state school ... and done Java

Mr Olsen makes no judgement in his post as to which of the two candidates is 'better'. He just asks the question "You’d ignore this information, and go straight to the cover letter?"
مشاهدة مباراة البرازيل والبرتغال بث مباشر
They?

Do you realize there is no actual such law? And you are already calling "them" names for something that doesn't exist?
I don't have one, but, as a shortcut, you can just go here:

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

and do the opposite.
The Art of Computer Programming Reading Group
I'm interested in the "'axod Top 3 Bits Of Advice From 37s That Don't Apply Outside 37s". Seriously.
In my opinion, it is kinda like how you just know 37signals sometimes leaves out weasel words to get people riled up and serve as good linkbait.

Wait, did I need the 'in my opinion' or not? I am confused now.
I built and tried this out. I'm rather shocked to see speed and compression ratio better than gzip -9.

The results of my unscientific test (compression only):

Compressor Size Ratio Time
gzip -1 23MB 88% 1.18s
gzip -2 23MB 87% 1.38s
bzip2 23MB 87% 5.57s
xz -1 23MB 87% 5.35s
xz -9 11MB 43% 10.58s
bmz 13MB 45% 0.95s
It is kind of depressing to think this spacecraft that we launched over 30 years ago is only 1/2 light day away and the next nearest star is over 4 light years away.

More good info here:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.html

Batteries should be good until 2025, data is sent back at 160 bits/second
I think generally the goal is by the time you have b-school types working in your start-up, you have built a strong core for your business, which shouldn't be changing that rapidly. However, it is good to be continually iterating looking for ways to expand or capitalize further on your core.

If there is no core, established model behind what you are doing and you have a bunch of employees at the company (especially b-school types), I think it is reasonable to be concerned and perhaps consider other options available to you.
> People who reserved this item know from previous
> experience they were most likely going to wait in
> line for it.

I haven't followed previous launches, but were customers reserving their iPhones during this launches too? It seems really odd to me that as the author stated, Apple knew the number of people that had reserved their phone in advance. They can't claim that they "didn't know" how many people would turn up on launch day. They could easily have tried to design a way to better facilitate people getting their phones, or at the bare minimum tell people beforehand that they are expecting there to be long lines.

> Did the horrible lines for the iPhone 2G affect
> the sales of the 3G? The 3Gs, the iPad? It did,
> positively.

The article states that all of the press that Apple gets from this is good for them, but bad for their customers. So I don't see how you are contradicting the article here.
Youtube adds vuvuzela button
Intel must be quite concerned that it's latest chips, while just grand for web serving and other concurrent-but-primarily-isolated use cases, don't do much for my mom and dad compared to those of a couple years ago. So, I can see why they're putting so much effort into parallel computing research, open source, etc. But, the world has a long, long way to go before I can tell my dad that he would really benefit from an eight core processor. Maybe Intel has also concluded that the desktop computer as we know it is in the twilight of its existence in people's homes?

I don't play games, so I can't answer this question.... Do gamers benefit from eight cores? I think Photoshop does a reasonable job of parallelizing compute-intensive stuff, so the graphics crowd would benefit from an I7. CAD users, etc. of course. Is the PC soon to be a niche product?
Also, by forcing people to invest time like this, they build customer loyalty. The customers don't want to admit that they were wrong.

On the other hand, this could backfire if someone gets fed up. It only builds loyalty if the customers tolerate this abuse -- because then they need to explain to themselves why they did.
There should be something about this in the PR literature. After all it's each PR guys dream to create such a hype.
> (everyone waiting in line, btw, could have chosen
> to just have their phone shipped to them)

True, but I think most of those people felt that they would just be able to walk in and pick it up since they had a reservation. Handing out reservations implies that Apple has set one aside, just for you. You just have to walk in and get it.
Maybe it is the same thing as football fans (soccer) then? I could never relate to them, either. Although I admit it seems to work - they have fun, get drunk, make friends, travel. But it all seems fake in the end (they are not good at sports, just because their team is good at sports. Their friendships would probably not last if they left the "club").
East Germans were also quite good at queues. But they had to be.
Arch Linux already switched to xz as the default compression for packages
How about selling your reservation?
33 years and going .. Congrats to all

Images from voyager : http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/212_fall2003.web.dir/Brian_Herol...

From Wikipedia : "It is possible that one or both craft may have enough RTG energy to last until 2025, but there is only a small probability of this"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program
Analysts are saying Apple may sell 1.5 million iPhones in the first week. A bit more challenging than 250,000. Anyway when it comes to lines these people made a choice. Apple offered to ship it to their door. They may have actually got it a day earlier if they opted for delivery instead. Even if you preferred local pickup Best Buy's pre-orders were fulfilled by appointment. So these people all had choices. For whatever reason they wanted to line-up in front of an Apple store for 6 hours because they absolutely had to have this thing on launch day. No sympathy from me. If Apple is using them for PR they are willing pawns.
My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists
I have mixed feelings about this.

I sure as hell don't think just because Person 1 went to Stanford and Person 2 went to State School that one is better than another.

Maybe part of it is that I'm from Pennsylvania and we happen to have some fairly good state schools like Penn State.

Or the fact that when it comes down to writing code, where you went to school means absolutely DICK. Hooray, you spent 4 years learning Java at exorbinate cost. So what?

What does matter to me - and shows in the resume, incidentally - is what you did after school ( or instead of it, in my case ).
* Advertising can never work - sell direct is only option, charge from day one etc
* Fire workaholics etc
* Never take funding

I guess those are the main ones I see as pretty clueless advice.
Don't get me wrong, some of their advice is good, but those bits are also quite obvious. Maybe some people enjoy it. Each to their own :)

If you want to create a company like 37Signals, which sells premium slimmed down feature set webapps to businesses, then their advice probably makes a fair bit of sense. But that's a pretty narrow segment of startups.

Also much of their business seems to be about giving advice, writing books, talks, etc lifecoaching. So their advice is really about creating a company to do that.
Exactly as long as it took Dell and Asus to sell a cheap MP3 player and eat the iPod's lunch. Uh, when did that happen?
> Also remember that some of these may be developers, so getting it before their customers could be very important to their bank account.

I'd pay somebody to wait for me in the queue, then.
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Most definitely agree with you - my boss just spoke to me about ordering me some new monitors and I said that the screens must be matt :)
57% of Smartphone Users Disappointed with Handset & Application Performance
I guess it just depends on which circle or places you usually hang around with. Either you're in LA, NY, Montreal, or elsewhere; you can still run a sustainable startup with the right timing and resources.

Still, I'd rather stay in Silicon Valley for a number of reasons:

1) High concentration & influx of venture capitalists, startup founders, incubators and advisors
2) Sun
3) Sun

Don't get me wrong, places like New York are going strong true. Foursquare, Vimeo... and where do I get my morning coffee? Fred Wilson's AVC.com blog. I moved back to SV from DC because I'm used to the peninsula and I really know this is where I want to be if I run a startup. But it is actually up to you if you want to run it in New York, Montreal, London, or Berlin. Timing can be everything sometimes.

Women? Yeah, New York has plenty. But after reading Neil Strauss's "The Game", I think you can create an opportunity of meeting the right girl for you out of every setting. (Disclaimer: I don't go to night clubs often these days. I go to Club Startup)
The Economist commenting on current events is also part of capitalism, as is our conversation here...
A lot of vendors have been predicting that we are going to start having more virtual desktops, in the home, not just the office. All mom or dad would need is a monitor, keyboard, Internet connection, and a small box that never has to be upgraded. While in the backend you could be moved to different hardware in the middle of the day and not even know it. When this happens and people trust it, you pay 15$ a month for a "computer service," have a lower chance of failure, and improved features to make computing even easier for the general mass.

The personal computer would be a niche then. But, it is a niche now, isn't it? Tons of companies are using virtual desktops. (Not to mention that a "PC" at work isn't really a PC most of the time since you can't do whatever you want with it. Hence 'workstation' ?) How many more are using laptops? How many others only need to use their smartphone? iPad? Even just your TV?
I actually dislike the job-title engineer. Programmer would be fine.

But that's because I come from a country where that word has a meaning.
> Sure, you could sort of do this previously with the compass built in to the iPhone 3GS...

That would be an accelerometer to you or me.

Edit: actually the combination of the two, I suppose.
> Since when is asking a company to fix a product that isn't working on day one "pouting"?

No. Speculatively suggesting Apple will not make good on this when they have a fairly good track record is pouting. If there is a serious problem noticed by lots of consumers, it's obvious that Apple will at the very least offer a case to those affected. Most people here have been repeat Apple customers because of reasonably good service over the years.

> The way people are holding the phones in the demo videos is not exotic or weird. So, yeah, that can sound a bit like an excuse. It sounds even more like blaming the people who are seeing the problem. Maybe their hands just aren't good enough, right?

Nice try, but I didn't do that. It takes a very specific (and I mean specific, I have to try multiple times to get it to happen, it's not casual finger contact) grip to do it. Short term: do not hold the phone that way. Is that acceptable as a long term fix? No.

My only point: The press is making it to sound like the phone "does not work" or "is unusable" and anyone who's saying that is as guilty of hyperbole as the people saying it is no problem at all. We can easily strike a balance here were we say the phone has a "idiosyncrasy" (or "flaw", take your pick of connotation) without implying that everyone who bought one is lying to themselves and every phone is a brick. I see the press, particularly the linked bbc story, skewing to the "this is a brick" end of the scale when that's false to any realistic examination.
A) I currently own three apps.

B) All are paid.

C) Zero.

D) Almost $5000 between all three. When you consider it took me maybe two weeks worth of work, it's decent pay. If you factor a percentage of the pay from all of the contract leads those apps have generated, we're talking about serious money.
(a) 2 (CycleMetrics, Mides IDE)
(b) 2 paid
(c) Not much, web application, twitter account, getsatisfaction support, a bit of adwords
(d) (CycleMetrics) ~ $10 / month, (Mides IDE) pre iPad ~ $200 / month, post iPad ~ $800 / month
VDI post on Madden: a nice try
But why .xxx instead of .porn or .sex? If you want a TLD jsut for porn, then you might as well call it that.
I use 7-zip 9.15 beta - it supports LZMA2 compression and available to download here:

http://www.7-zip.org/
In the words of a Russian dude:

Silicon Valley's greatest asset is communication. People discuss their work not trifles. Russia would benefit from this kind of environment.

http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E/status/16881191397
Ruby 1.8.7-p299 released
http://www.wireshark.org
Never leave home without it.
"It is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive" -- Oscar Wilde
What about geolocation or using the phone's built-in camera, is/will this at all be possible from HTML5 apps?

Those features are a huge incentive to create mobile apps, imo.
Whoa, throw up a [2005] on there. Not relevant anymore due to BitTorrent.
A great way to celebrate World Cup, and the victory v. Viacom =)
The author of the origin post says - that's who. Should every view that anyone makes about anything have to be backed by a scientific study?
Adhearsion 0.8.4 released with Asterisk 1.6 support
Is that $5000/mo or $5000 total?
A panel computer with an Atom processor running ChromeOS would be pretty close to the prediction, assuming that the OS upgraded itself, did not have/need local storage, shared profiles, etc. I don't think it can get much thinner in the US until bandwidth improves significantly.
$5000 total.
The article makes the point that being in the valley improves your odds

Or, in other words, the bar is lower.
Suggestion: For all of those with ad-supported apps: would you please include CPM/CTR data and tell if it turned out a good income vs web ads (ie. adsense for web)?
I think we could probably go another 10 rounds on #1 and #3 in that list, but hey, you answered my question. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure you're wrong about your (implied) revenue breakdown there, but I don't have any better information than you do.
Cracking the Silicon Valley Community
We were just playing around with this specific app in our office. There were about 5 guys huddled together, spinning around with the person controlling the iPhone. Quite a sight.

Playing with the gyroscope myself, I realized there is actually a very comfortable degree of motion you can make holding the phone for added game input. I don't want to be spinning in circles trying to shoot bad guys, but some extra rotational movement is nice.

Also, for being an early game (maybe the first to adopt the gyroscope?) the spatial input was very intuitive, it took about 3 seconds to orient myself with the device and it was all blam-blam-blam from there.
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