skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bump does not allow users to share paid apps for free. All we do is share a link to the App Market so your friend can find the app (and hopefully purchase it) easier.

The key part of this post is: "(I haven't tried actually sending the paid app, so maybe it fails at
that point - can anyone confirm? I hope to be proven wrong here)"
Where did you get the "terrible at making calls" part from?
BTW, is this piece by NOKIA considered inappropriate too: http://funsizebytes.com/post/745721120/instructions-from-my-... ?
Tips For Startups And Small Businesses To Improve Their Customer Service
Analyze your demographics. Most likely, you have certain age/sex/regional groups over-represented in your 2m+ visitors.

The better you know your audience, the better you can find an advertiser who will be interested in reaching them.
I agree. This article is just a gigantic headache that tries to sound authoritative but actually offers no sound technical arguments on anything. I mean what a mess. It's so incoherent you almost can't respond to it.
Wordpress.

Most widely used blog engine (CMS?) in the world - only MySQL. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases

Drupal is probably one of the few PHP CMS that work with PG - http://geek.joshwaihi.com/content/drupal-7-postgresql-suppor...
Floss your teeth. Every day. Your older self will thank you.
Be excellent at 1 thing. Trying to be all things to all people is a great recipe for failure.

If you love pets and have great connections in that community, it's a crap-ton easier to build a "pet stuff" store than a "everything under the sun" store.
It is probably because they see it as a one off project that they will not need to look at in a year and they could care less about code readability and reuse.
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Personally I prefer to savor the moment uninterrupted than constantly trying to record it. So many people get so caught up in trying to capture their experiences that they cease to become experiences and just degenerate into more grist for the 'lifestyle' consumerism mill.

Learn to tell stories about it to your kids and grandkids if you must, they way people did for thousands of years before camcorders. But the actual moment is fleeting, so live it, be present in it, don't miss that trying record it.
It is unlikely that the Berkeley people would've pushed for a completely free (software) kernel without the Stallman influence:

"I think it's highly unlikely that we ever would have gone as strongly as we did without the GNU influence," says Bostic, looking back. "It was clearly something where they were pushing hard and we liked the idea."

Source: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html
Coincidentally , startuply's main page is throwing this lovely error: http://pastebin.com/7pCDmJBS .

In any case, location search should exist. It is one of the most important requirements that a job seeker uses to filter desirable listings.
IPhone 5 antenna looks promising now
Ask HN: what product/service would you like to see built?
I'm thinking more of the kind that is in the realm of the possible, but that just doesn't exist because the right formula hasn't been found, because the market might not be big enough for it, because we're just not quite there yet, or something like that… (rather than, say, teleportation)
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If you're checking email a few times a day, you're not on vacation. You're just working remotely.
Based on people I've seen, I'd replace "1 point for every 5 years after the age of 20" with "1 point for every 3 years in full-time employment". I think a 25 year old newly minted graduate who is used to living a "student lifestyle" has far less drag than a 23 year old who has spent the last 3 years working full-time and enjoying money.
I think there can be too many people investing in a single / finite entity, at which point you can either try to profit by shorting, likely lose money by trying to invest further, or wait until people leave (and with high volatility likely there will be a time when the price is right).

Shorting is risky so I think you're out of luck. Just keep waiting for a good buy opportunity.
I am gonna propose something outrageous: currently there's no demand for better education in US.

- The high schools in US will get their funding as long as the students are barely good enough to pass standardized tests, which are jokes compared to the standardized tests in Asia/Europe.

- Colleges in US still enjoy the following advantages: global brands that they've cultivated for 100+ years, as well as the popular culture that extol fun/socializing over hard courses/hard work. (How often do you see smart people getting made fun of in American movies/tv...quite sad really).

- The current demand is dampened by the fact that there's also no real good way to compare college education quality now (I am sure many people have experienced professors that are world renowned for their research/knowledge, but are horrible lecturers/teachers)

Until people in US care about better education, there is no market
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Except there is the NDK (http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html) which he points out. It seems like he fails to understand how it works though. It allows parts of the application to be written in C or C++ and hook into the top layer of Java. It isn't "running inside the VM" it's running outside of it and communicating with it. Further, the android platform restrictions are enforced at the kernel level so C and C++ code runs under the same restrictions as those in the VM. It simply allows you to do manual memory management for high performance code.
I think that's contingent on your business model and the maturity of your company.

I can only speak to my biz: most of our revenue is service (although we're trying to migrate to product). So we have three primary "departments," if you will: sales, production, service/support. I've chosen to staff out "production" first with kickass developers. But somebody has to take care of sales and service. Service/support, we've automated that pretty efficiently and only bother devs with processed support issues.

Sales, however, still requires the cultivation and management of client relationships. You can't just phone that in, and the way we've grown our business has been via relationship (i.e., referrals and word-of-mouth). So even if I was 100% out of production (which I'm not, yet), there's still the bizdev side.

At least that's how it is now; two years in the future I'll probably have a different answer and perspective. A lot of this stuff you just figure it out as you go; there's not a book out there that tell you how to run your biz.
totally true. the most valid point being that you have to be good at what you do. hell, you can do even better if you are really good. I wanted to see what it was like to live in London so I told my boss I'll be working out of there is he's okay with it. If not I'll be taking a leave of absence. He agreed to the work remotely. Tap on 3 weeks on vacation to the end of that and you feel like half the year is done for.
The Illusion of Open
I agree it was about content. In addition to gleb's comments the other issue they ran into is that TV licensing (on a program and channel basis) is all about exclusivity deals.

Joost couldn't license a TV series for distribution over IP because the producers always have exclusivity deals with networks in each geographic territory.

And whole networks, such as HBO, have exclusivity deal with just a small set of cable and satellite distributors.

It's really sad - delivery of shows over IP is exciting and the whole business is ripe for disruption but the broadcast media empire (the one that has the most to loose) is holding all the keys.

Oh and don't tell me Hulu is the answer. It's just the very same networks doing their own take, on their terms and at their pace of innovation. Hulu Plus: $10/month AND ads? C'mon, if only we had competition.
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This website cost the UK Govt (HMRC) 35m pounds to build.
Great customer service was the reason Amazon paid over $1 billion for Zappos. It's the foundation of Zappos's brand.
A closer look at Microsoft's morale-boosting numbers
"Comes to us and asks for help. Second this isn't about entrepreneurship." !?!?!

That insider mentality is the logic that kept teachers in NYC rubber rooms. People from the outside must break in! (And without someone coming and kissing your ring first!)

The reason you have to have a for-profit venture is sustainability. Lack of funding creates 2 situations - necessity on grants or necessity on free labor. Both extremely difficult to make sustainable.

So what are for-profit ventures that have had huge impacts on education? Blackboard( I don't like to admit that but its true). Chegg too. Both companies said, "Here's a problem. Here's a solution." The market responds, and everyone wins. Businesses can/do make the education system better.
It's an answer to a question that someone else posted. I wouldn't have written it otherwise.
Wireless experts weigh in on iPhone 4 reception issues
You've come here to fight me

Man, what are you talking about? Are you just trolling? I can't tell if you're being serious.

Yet there is a well-authored video which highlights the points I am making.

You're not making any points as far as I can tell. Please explain to me what points you are making.

I will take your advice about the quality publications you have recommended; Wealth of Nations, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, etc.

Are you serious? Wealth of Nations is by Adam Smith.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal contains essays by Alan Greenspan.

I would appreciate it if you would let me know if we are indeed having a serious discussion.
Yet emacs somehow not managed to die from the fork.
I'd say that is VERY situational. If the area you're bad at is, for an extreme example, 'managing to complete tasks you start', and something you're good at is 'eating Cheetos really quickly', then you can see where it would make sense to reinforce the bad before bothering to work on the good, just because it's easier.
Their debugger searches for bugs exhaustively over all non-equivalent thread timings, but I can find no mention (in the paper or otherwise) of whether this will blow up with a large number of threads or amount of control flow; even the illustration on their site screams "exponential!" to me.

Interesting paper from what I could glean, though.

EDIT: "Jinx dynamically builds a set of potential interleavings (i.e., alternate eventualities, or execution scenarios, that will occur under some future set of conditions) that are most likely to result in concurrency faults, and quickly tests those execution paths to surface concurrency problems including deadlocks, race conditions, and atomicity violations." So it's more selective than I first thought.
Obama selling out  superpower status.Really?
Ask HN: How Can I Learn Programming From The Ground Up?
Most of the people here on HN have extensive coding experience, and are deeply proficient in creating working code that actually does the job. I do know that reaching that level of proficiency requires years of dedicated keyboard bashing, but as a new entrant something has been bothering me.

I've been trying to make a web app in PHP, and I bought one of those popular books on it (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-PHP5-Programmer-Dan-Squier/dp/0764557831/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a). It was quite okay, but it didn't give me what I was looking for. I want to actually understand what I am doing from the grounds up. For e.g.I wish to understand how TCP/IP works. So, that I know what is happening to my HTTP request after I send it and how I can take advantage of its capabilities. I also wish to understand other things like understanding how an RDBMS is implemented. So, that I can make better code to access data from it more efficiently are also a part of this.

In general I want to know why I am doing what I am doing. Some of this knowledge requires years of actual experimentation to gain, and I am ready to do that, but what I am looking for is a good platform from which I can start.

Can you suggest any ways/resources to do this? (This also applies to programming in general)

P.S. - I put this up on HN because there is a lot of noise out there, and it is hard for me as a n00b to differentiate between seemingly good advice/resources and actual good advice/resources.
OS Talk: Why Web Developers should use Linux
It's not very useful. Knew some people in SF that budgeted 4-digit campaigns and had no discernible sales conversions. Maybe it takes time for the network effect to make it useful? If so, few have the money or risk tolerance to try it more than once. For store owners Yelp is a reliable bet.

The inherent problem is ad money spent by retail locations don't convert to more foot traffic like a Google ad can send more eyeballs. And incentivizing people already at your store with coupons or via an iPhone app is awkward.

FourSquare is the 21st equivalent of billboards, lots of voodoo math and promises involved. And some people get a cheap thrill out of tagging up boards but in the end it's still just a tagged up billboard out on a lonely highway.

But, hey, who would be dumb enough to turn down $20 million and a shot?
I think you are completely missing the point. Either you should be doing everything in the VM, or everything bare metal. Allowing all the apps to execute on either bare metal or the VM at discretion is a resource / security / policy management nightmare. Dalvik however really only functions currently with Java. So effectively you end up with having to provide other languages hooks into Dalvik, or getting rid of Dalvik entirely. Most of these comments really are completely off base. Did anyone actually take the time to read this before posting?
But that doesn't mean that there's a market for the "pet stuff" store, necessarily.

In other words: Be excellent and one thing, but make sure that one thing is worth being excellent at.

Trying to be all things to all people is a great recipe for failure, but it's not the only recipe for failure. There are lots and lots of ways to fail.
just needs a camera, microphone, more torque, and a small explosive charge. :)
This is a nice little starter intro to CSS for forms. To be really useful, it'd have to demo some of the harder elements to style, the hardest being inputs for uploading files. I haven't seen a technique yet that doesn't require some javascript to compensate for browser quirks:

http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2007/09/10/styling_file_in...
Study links bee decline to cell phones
Well, he acknowledges that you can do native code, but then he argues that native code is actually bad because the marketplace isn't screened, so people can easily post malware that relies on native code exploits.

His unspoken assumption is that Apple's manual review process would somehow reject an app that contains a native code exploit -- which is baseless. It's not like they have people reading the source code. As far as I can tell, the reviewers just run the apps to look for content and branding problems, and sometimes they don't even catch those. And an exploit relies on a flaw that the system designers don't know about -- the reviewers wouldn't know what to look for even if they wanted to prevent exploits.
> I still find predicting memory/time use under a lazy-evaluation regime difficult.

It's not just you. Lazy evaluation makes predicting and understanding resource usage difficult.
If you love pets and have great connections in that community

Building a pet community and then up selling stuff is an ok idea, but it's also a different idea than just creating a pet store online. Limiting yourself to just selling generic pet stuff without said community is a poor idea.

PS: If you go to pets.com now you see the second version, but they initial push was all about selling stuff and not building a community. The issue is one of trust, if you sell yourself as a store it's much harder to build a community than it is to have a community and then sell stuff (the good) stuff
At my last "real" full-time job, developers could accumulate vacation time that was not used in a given year. Sometimes it was on purpose, so as to take longer vacations later on, often it was required because of deadlines, staffing shortages, whatever.

Then one day the new company owner declares that vacation time could no longer be accrued. Use it or lose it. Some folks had many weeks of time saved up.

The owner said that people can use up what they've already saved, but added, Keep in mind that if your department can afford to do without you for several weeks then perhaps you're not so essential. He all but winked when he said it.

This was just one of the things that convinced me to just leave and work for myself.
I can see what you are talking about. But I think your opinions on -isms preclude the idea that there truly is an objectively best way to view the world (which optimizes fairness without making exceptions for specific cases). I'm not convinced that one doesn't exist but I definitely agree with what you are saying.
SO I guess they did not ask him that question at the Google Interview :-)
That sounds reasonable, but Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think is a design book that embodies its own principles, from cover to cover.
Something that can happen is you keep to the standard of the current code when you start working on it, especially when something is contact freelance, no sense in undoing what is already there, just do the best you can to tack on what you need to.

One project I was working like this for a while, until it got to the point where it seemed I was going to be spending a lot of time on the code base. I was working around maybe 20% of the code that wasn't mine so I finally decided it would be worth the time to rewrite out the old bad practises.
The built-in MySQL schemas have problems - mostly that schema changes can take hours or days on large tables. As a result of this you need to build a system that doesn't require schema changes at the MySQL level. This doesn't mean you can't use schemas at a higher level though.

There are two ways to build on top of MySQL - you can either make a flexible schemaless structure with objects and properties and associations between them, which is what Facebook advocates for, or you can make a flexible virtual schema that has column names, types, and arbitrary indexes. I'm in favor of the latter.
Ask HN: What do you think of NuCaptcha? The Video Captcha company.
Just wondering if the folks here have any thoughts or questions about the video captcha company that launched today. I've worked with them as an advisor and believe this a great captcha alternative.

Http://www.nucaptcha.com

Http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/30/nucaptchas-technology-uses-video-to-decipher-between-humans-and-robots/
Also for Windows, you might be interested in Chess
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/
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Agreed. I'd be more specific and say 'full time work as an (non-startup) employee'.

It's easy to get used to structured work environments where lots of things are taken care of for you (not just the money). However, full-time work spent as a freelancer or self-employed would probably have less drag associated with it.
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4.4BSD-Lite mentioned in article as possible base of GNU is outcome of this lawsuit - BSD without few legally unclear parts - i.e. "not complete kernel in contrast to Mach"
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A similar post by Scott Adams 2 weeks prior:

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_value_of_ideas/
Here are my rules:

1. Don't worry, be happy.
2. If you don't use it, you loose it.
3. Take some chances

....richie
Foursquare isn't a carrier feature; it's an independent application. And the reason money is flowing in is because it's an application that is poised to be quite well suited to serving targeted local ads/offers across every mobile network.

My guess is that foursquare will not only be building out its engineering team with the cash, but also its customer service team to better serve big advertising companies and also more localized mom and pop operations.
-I would build this on top of an existing job board platform. There are plenty out there, no need to reinvent the wheel.

-Include job description summaries on your site - use some kind of onmouseover div if you don't want to clutter the page.

-Have you considered scraping from other startup job boards out there?

-How are you planning on monetizing the site?
Problem I see with education innovation is that getting the information together online isn't the hard part. There is already a lot of places to go and you can create a new service and bring together vast amounts of education material.

It's getting recognition from industry that you are able to educate people just as well as the old model. As it stands industry is happy to benefit from the large outlay of students and students are happy to pay it out stand out when it comes to getting employed.
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Lots of Swedes in this thread huh!

In Austria, 5 weeks is also the legal minimum for paid vacation - not to mention all those holidays…
What does Redis do?
Really?

script/generate a few scaffolds, throw in a has_many or two and maybe a belongs_to here or there, code some simple erb layouts and BOOM!

If you downvote me, at least reply with a reason.
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You are adding value from the beginning or they wouldn't be paying you - that is what you are there for. Caveat - sometime it takes a little while for a new hire to be brought up to speed on exactly how a company does things, the code base, and so forth, but it is rarely as long as a month.
Multiple passes at the target
Work. The difference is work or effort.

It doesn't matter if you have 50 excellent ideas each day, you are going to be outclassed by the guy who has one mediocre idea that he executes relentlessly.

Because that is the one quality that separates the successful from the unsuccessful: tenacity or perseverance. No matter what, you keep trying. Failure isn't a showstopper, just an indication that you need to modify your strategy. Keep plugging away at it and you to can find yourself with an overnight success after 10 years.
Hi. Disclaimer: I work for Corensic.

We avoid exponential search space problems by using sampling, and curtailing of exploration. We choose what to explore based on research about where bugs are likely to lie. Exhaustive examination of all but fairly trivial problems is impossible for exactly this reason, and this is why we sample: rather than force users to change the way they write code, we deal with the way they have written code.

Thanks,
Pete
I was under the impression that they wanted to use llvm in their proprietary IDE (amongst other proprietary apps) which would rule out GCC for purely licensing reasons.