skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, actually, that this sort of thing is a silly restriction. Or, rather, single machine licenses are counter-productive and silly (I'd be happy to see 2-5 machine licenses etc. but I can understand limiting above that).

But is this why people pirate?

Generally speaking I would suggest not.
Adword ads.
And what the vendor says it costs seems rather ridiculous...
In a sense, Google already has something like this, the Custom Search Engine: http://www.google.com/cse/ - the interface is a little different though, you create a "search engine" which has something like the slashtags built in, rather than specifying a slashtag as part of the query. Has it's pros and cons.
The one with the most technical challenges. Very few attributes at a company will grow you as quickly as being asked to do really hard stuff, regardless of team size, or methodology... That said, I feel pretty irresponsible giving any advice with this amount of detail.
I'd put it towards a magazine subscription - probably renewing I.D. (http://www.id-mag.com/)
People really like that Sam's Club picture...
Terrifying.
If everything cost what people on Hacker News thought it should cost, we would all make a lot less money, and there would be a lot less cool stuff in the world for us to play with.
I disagree, you must have been reading different stories to me.

There was a lot of vitriol directed at Apple, and a lot of people were saying it was a huge problem for them. People are still saying it now. Check out the recent slate article posted here, or techcrunch, or response from HTC/ BB/ Nokia. A lot of people (in the media) do not see this as resolved.

I am slowly learning to hate the media all over again.
Anyone else consider his response to be pretty much exactly the expected level of arrogance and disregard for customers from Steve Jobs?
if you're running a scraper this is probably some pretty super efficient information/$ and I'd probably do the same

otherwise, into my paypal account for etsy/ebay
Perhaps I did do it wrong. All I know is, I tried for a few days and couldn't get good output in all the formats I needed (.flv, xvid avi, wmv, etc.) and Sorenson allowed me to do so in a few hours (this includes trying a few different options and tweaking it to my liking.

As a matter of fact, I am now resizing my entire library and I am able to reduce some of my file sizes by as much as 90% in some cases.

I had some HD files with bitrate of 97,000 kbps (ridiculous, I know), with some ridiculous 'time to MB' ratio. E.g. a 13second file was 1.4GB. I re-encoded that down to 8000kbps, for a whopping file size of 100MB. Still 'ginormous', I know, but nothing on the same scale.
Aside from the use of a temporary variable (which can be used for self-documentation anyway), people aren't saving any operations with the one-liner. They are just cramming more operations into a single line.

If LOC was so important for readability, we could just write in C without using any newlines.
How about a web app for gathering startup ideas and hooking people together that are interested in a particular idea?
I couldn't disagree with you more. I can't tell you the amount of times I have seen 'Show HN' posts where people are showing off their new web app, or new downloadable app, and the vast majority of the recommendations are to raise prices.

I am sure those hackers would disagree with your sentiment.
BP shares for a few months. Then see what I could buy :)
Related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529752
I am not ignorant of how laws work. I have spent a lot of time understanding copyright law and in particular copyright licenses.

In my post, I did not even comment on the wordpress issue at hand or even put forth an argument regarding it. I was only commenting on tzs's proposed scenario trying to fill in what I saw as a gap.
The modern dilemna of digital goods - customers think that cost of replication solely determines what a good should be worth.
As a former police officer, I highly advocate having an ICE contact in your phone. It really can make a huge difference.

That said, it doesn't do a lick of good to have an ICE contact set up if, when the first responder picks up your phone, it asks for a password to get into it. It's one of those cases where you need to weigh the balance on convenience vs security.
Why? It's a badly designed phone. There's a reason every other cellphone has an internal antenna. Good on people for calling Apple out over the lousy design, failure to test properly, and so far, the failure to take responsibility. If I had bought an iPhone 4, I'd have accepted a refund. Bumpers? case? eugh come on.
Tell HN: Share your $75.00 free (new user) adwords credits
Not sure if anybody else still subscribes to actual paper magazines, but my Wired subscription keeps giving me a $75.00 new user adwords credit - I posted in a comment below.

I imagine others might have similar, please share.
Unless we get a chance to peek into how much money it took for research and development for the said compressor and codec, any notion of its price seeming ridiculous is just tire kicking imo .
Only if your HTML tables don't have primary keys :P
No, you're missing the point. For the second time now, you've changed the terms of the discussion. First, it was to say that some of the vendors you've worked with have made their licensing enforcement so painful that it embarassed you. That's not what happened in this post. Now, it's to say that some vendors won't let sell or pass on software when you're done with it. But this person is doing literally the opposite of that.

I don't concede the validity of your argument to begin with (people should be able to charge whatever they want for things they build, and you have no intrinsic right to assign any other cost to it), but I don't have to hash it out with you, because it's irrelevant.
Anybody who wants it, the info is below, I assume it's one time use - please respond if you use it and get it to work so we know it's gone:

http://www.google.com/adwords/75offer

COUPON CODE: 4Q4U-9VPC-YQ76-ZJ7N-83K2
I would do the first or second one. As the team gets larger you will be given a more reduced roll. If you are working with only a few other devs you will probably have the chance to make decisions that influence the product, and if you stay long enough you'll be able to see the consequences of those decisions.

Number 3 sounds cheesy. Pair programming sucks, and the description you gave sounds like its straight out of a marketing flyer.
The fact that every time someone on HN builds something they clearly underprice it tells you we're good at valuing things?
He has some really interesting points. However, Oracle has a high corporate culture and is usually dealing with Fortune 500 companies with similar values. I think the dress code would be a lot different for hacker startups.

I do agree with his point about first impressions. It's better to wear a suit and have them tell you jeans and a t-shirt are ok than show up in jeans and a t-shirt and everyone else is wearing suits!
It makes sense in retrospect, but I hadn't realized that (non-high-beam) headlights are asymmetric, to direct more light away from the median, so would have to be switched if changing sides. I guess the asymmetry isn't that noticeable when driving, or else I just haven't been looking for it.

An illustration: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low_beam_light_patter...
I'd settle for electric sockets/plugs. Even within the European Union.
Out of curiosity, what should he have said to make it not seem like 'arrogance and disregard' to you?
They call it "beer money" for a reason - that's what I'd buy.
Interesting point about the Infineon chips and the cell tower distances. I wonder what advantages the Infineon chips had/
Zuckerberg was a college student when he developed The Facebook, so he at least had the insider advantage over his competition at the time (Myspace, Friendster, Orkut). This also ties into the fact that his product was a lot more narrowly focused, which leads to the "single-mindedness" advantage and was absolutely crucial to Facebook's success. I don't know enough about the history of Nike or McDonald's to comment there.
How about your insurance policy, your rental apartment , your gun (in many countries) , your airline ticket , tickets bought from ticketmaster.com ...
Over analysis. That might be part of authors line of work, but this reminds me of something my humanities professor talked to some of us, engineers about some time back.

Three doctors, a general doctor, an orthopedic doctor and a neuro surgeon are casually talking to each other outside a building. They notice a man walking abnormally, slightly
dragging one foot.
The General practitioner says, the guy must be shot on the left foot thus causing the behavior.
The orthopedic doctor predicts, the guy was born with one foot longer than the other thus explaining the behavior.
The neuro surgeon predits, the guy seems to have suffered a stroke in the past and this might be a result of that.

Now all of them are curious to know the truth and approach the guy in question.
The guy just had his shoe damaged.
It may be top ten, but it's only got 5% of the number one producer (Brazil) and less than half of relatively tiny countries like Thailand. A small part of Texas/Louisiana is suitable for sugar cane production, but basically the US climate is pretty sucky for sugar -- it's one of very few major crops that the US just can't produce in quantities that satisfy its needs. (At least, not without resorting to using corn for sweetening purposes.)

I just chose Texas because it's big, and likely to be on the front lines of an expanded subtropical climate in the US. The image of vast canefields stretching from Lubbock to Corpus Christi amuses me.
Firefox lets hackers grab your passwords
The problem with making ranking data a "feature" is that the only ones who care about this information only care about what the ranking data is on Google. What the rank is for your site on Blekko is of no value whatsoever.
I really do hate to admit it, but if BP had said "All of the easy sources of oil have been found fifty years ago. If the oil industry stops taking risks, many of you would be out of work in less than a decade. We all want a future of clean energy, but no one sees a way to get there as quickly as we need to. We will do everything we can to clean up the spill, and to make things right with the Gulf economy." then I think I would feel better about the company than I do now.
Android is so malleable even Chinese commissars give it a green light
What? Oberon is the simplest language to implement, I know, I did .. in Lisp.

Here is a text that shows you how, and it's free:

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/book/pascalimplementa...

There is another book, whose very generic name escapes me. It's a compiler book using Pascal; it went out of print in the late 80s. That one had invaluable tricks about code generation and optimizing for obsolete processors. There are Z-80 chips still in the market, and that book was the only one that I know of that had algorithms on code generation for accumulator machines. Somebody please prove me wrong!

I got my copy of it for fifteen U.S. cents from a local university. The inside of the back cover has those old pockets for keeping library book cards; it was checked out from the library roughly 4 times and it has been on the shelf at least since 1976, the earliest checkout stamp on the card! Here is the kicker; I enrolled in that university for one cheap class, and spent the whole semester extending and renewing the book every time it was due. You see, In 26 years, I was the only person to have borrowed it, and I did so 3 times. Imagine my surprise one day when I went in to browse the shelves, and I saw the book at the library entrance a mid a pile of National Geographics and Popular Mechanics rags. What a treasure! I didn't have $0.15, so I gave them a quarter and donated the change to hire education. I wonder what IT certification book they replaced it with.
Lua is still beating v8 rather handily though.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
Bandwidth and some outsourced coding.

Edit: oops, I read it as $2000 not $20. With $20 I would buy both of us a fast food meal, or maybe a few rounds of pool.
One of the carriers here is selling them.

http://store.vodafone.com.au/handset-htc-nexus-one.aspx?pid=...
> That's a pretty old debate. I think brevity does a lot for clarity

Up to a point, that's true, but if you start shortening words by removing letters, you've gone too far.
Android Developers Blog: Multithreading For Performance
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Cisco’s Kevin Shatzkamer Discusses the Future of Mobile Video
Believe it or not, Karma on this site is not that important to me. I care more about exchanging ideas and thoughts with fellow people doing start-ups. Please answer me this, why would you think that was my main intention?

The point of my post was this, what this site was trying to accomplish can be accomplished better using already available tools. Pre-populating the post with my favorites was a necessary part of that.

Can you explain to me how I could set this up without 'whoring-karma'?
A twelve pack of Blue Moon.
Exactly. And at this point MyNewPlace has figured out enough of what Rent did well to be competitive, and is coming up with new ideas faster.

It doesn't help that most of the team that made Rent what it was in the first place (including me) have moved on. There is a definite loss of institutional knowledge.
I think the point he is trying to make is a bit more general than the number of licenses. I read it more as "People pirate because of poorly implemented DRM that negatively impacts the legitimate user."
The point isn't to save operations or lines of code — it's to reduce semantic load and make code more readable. In most languages, calling a function actually results in more operations than just doing copy-and-paste with the same code, but I don't think you'd dismiss well-factored code on those grounds.

A rough gauge for better code might be how much a skilled coder can grok by glancing at N lines of code. This means that reducing LOC can be helpful, but it's not a 1:1 correspondence — your example of C with no newlines would make it harder to read. On the other hand, putting what is essentially a hash destructuring on one line actually does tighten up the semantics.
Most Popular Tumblr Subdomains according to Compete
A 'Better Bottle' from Camelbak (they are simply improving the famous wheel)
Oh, I dunno...I've really gotta think hard about that...Oh, wait! I've got it: "We're sorry. We made a mistake. We've corrected the design, and will repair/replace devices of impacted customers at no cost."

Instead it sounds to me like he was really saying, "Other people make mistakes, and oh, I guess we're kinda like other people, so it's kinda like we might have made a mistake of some sort at some time, too, but not really. Those other phone makers make mistakes, though, you better believe it. Unlike us. We try to never make mistakes. Except maybe this one, whatever puny complaint you were talking about."

Seriously, you don't see this as an arrogant response to a legitimate complaint about a very expensive product that is marketed as a superior product? We're talking about a several hundred dollar device, that Apple makes a tremendous profit on throughout the product's life. A good company would take actual responsibility for a flawed design. Apple somehow manages to be treated like a good company, while consistently treating its customers poorly. It's an amazing trick. Maybe it really is hypnosis.
Your insurance policy is not a good. It's a service. Rental apartment - from what perspective? The renter or owner?

Government regulations don't count. I meant from the vendor's perspective.

A gun, you definitely can do anything you want with a gun. Hence the problem of violent crimes in many countries and the thriving 'arms trafficking' trade.

Your airline ticket, again...this is a service. If you a buy a plane, you can fly wherever you want (within reason) and the plane can fly.

An event, hence a ticket to an event, is a service.
When taking a British car onto continental Europe it was (is?) common to stick special black stickers on the headlights to redirect the beams to avoid dazzling European drivers.

e.g. http://www.care4car.com/productdisplay/productid/36/Headligh...
As they VC query used to go: "is this a feature or a company?" So far Blekko looks like a feature, but I will reserve judgement until I can actually play with it a bit. I really hope that this slashtags bit is not the only interesting thing they have to show after several years of work. OTOH, this does fit what seems to be a pattern for Rich Skrenta and his team: find an already occupied niche and crank out something that has 60-70% of the polish of the leader with a few new features and then flip the whole thing to someone who is desperate to get in or stay in the game.
When you buy software, you are not just buying code. You are asking another person to make a single computer do a particular task. You are buying an add-on for your computer. That computer now has an increased benefit for your business but it is only performed by that one computer. If you feel that you need more computers to do a particular task, then you buy more software.

If you think that the situation should change, ask the provider how much it would cost to provide your business with the service and not a single computer.
Probably something on Steam.
This seems an odd reply to me. I don't think the parent suggests anywhere that there aren't legitimate gripes about the phone, just that it isn't a 'dud'. A dud is something which completely fails to operate - a bomb that doesn't explode, for example.

The iPhone 4 has a significant flaw, but many (if not most) people have found it to operate perfectly well. If you look at the testing done at Anandtech, for instance, the new iPhone actually does a better job with a weaker signal. This translates into getting reception in places where it wasn't available before. Obviously, there is also a substantial design flaw in the antenna design, but the phone still operates properly for most people.

Even Consumer Reports, who obviously had serious issues with the antenna problem, still rank the iPhone 4 as one of (if not the) best smartphone on the market. That doesn't sound like a dud.

P.S. Just to clarify, I think Apple's response throughout this ordeal has been poor, and they obviously made mistakes in testing. But, like the parent post, I just wouldn't call the phone a dud.
Unless you go into the store and buy the $99 old model?
My favorite detail is that on the day of the switch, the accident rate dropped.

People probably were paying extra attention, and that more than made up for the risk of people forgetting that today was the day.
Ask HN: Amazon asked me to develop for the Kindle, shall I?
I just got off the phone with someone from Amazon inviting me to develop for their platform. They noticed that I have a top 100 niche app on the iTunes store and think that it would be a great fit for Kindle.

Pros:
- First mover advantage. I get a limited beta license to release my app first on the platform.
- Apparently they have a better app discovering mechanism on their store

Cons:
- Unproven market
- He won't give me any numbers of kindle sales

What it boils down to for me is opportunity cost. Would I make more money developing for Android, Blackberry or Nokia over the Kindle?
The article, which you claimed to summarize, took the position that software shouldn't cost 3x as much for one person running it on three machines. If by odd wrinkle, software houses were forced to accept that, I don't think the software business would shut down.
Less 'poorly implemented' DRM, rather any 'feature' that restricts natural use cases by legitimate users.

The equivalent in the real world would be, buying a fork and being told you can only eat rice with it. Suppose you wanted to eat ice cream, or soup ? It would not be a good use case, but it's your fork. If you want to eat ice cream or soup with it, then you should be able to do whatever you want with it.

That's the point.

If I want to install the software on all of my computers to improve my workflow, I should be able to do that.
Prose and programing aren't as unrelated as they might seem. Ultimately, both are exercises in using a particular set of grammar and syntax to convey intent.
Actually, you can still buy it from Google; you just need to be a registered developer, which is free.
"There was a lot of vitriol directed at Apple, and a lot of people were saying it was a huge problem for them. People are still saying it now. Check out the recent slate article posted here, or techcrunch, or response from HTC/ BB/ Nokia. A lot of people (in the media) do not see this as resolved."

Vitriol? Sure. But are these articles and posts primarily saying the phone is a dud? Seems at least half the articles I read point out the massive sales of the device, despite any perceived flaws.
How do you pay them? Based on performance?
How to find them?
Well, the thing is there is rumor of a KindlePad of some kind coming, so think of that. Also, did you see the Amazon Kindle news for today? Massive sales. I've never been an Amazon fan but I had to acknowledge what just happened today:
http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/this-settles-it-kin...

And, here's a post from a writer publishing directly through Kindle who is very pleased with the money he's making:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/with-change-comes-ange...

I'm not advocating for Amazon. Just giving you some stuff to consider. Good luck.
"Fine, we'll escalate it to Steve and see who wins."
I just recently had a conversation with a friend who does interior design professionally (not licensed though). At first my reaction was exactly - "that's stupid to require license for THAT". However, she made a great point - people confuse interior DECORATORS and interior DESIGNERS. You hire decorators to make certain taste decisions, but designer to design interior from ground up. Designer will make choice whether to put certain important things like, say, lights. I bet, you'd better have someone who understands how much lights your staircase must have.
Isn't that sort of a given, though? If two people are otherwise equal, and one is better at something that will contribute even the smallest gain to your business, why wouldn't you choose him? There can be no other criteria, as they are otherwise equal.
I think casting the spill as the inevitable byproduct of oil exploration, and not the result of carelessness, would be far more harmful to the oil industry in the long run.
I came here to post the same thing. As much I as hate America’s current dependance on foreign oil (BP is foreign, despite the technically local well), so long as we continue to use automotive technologies the way we do, oil acquisition is always going to be a high-risk endeavor.

Here’s an ugly question… Given the choice, would you rather suffer a terrorist strike or an industrial accident to continue to operate some technical apparatus you rely on?
With this guy, I can't get my mind past the feeling that he's trying to sell me a DODOcase, a Shopify account, and a get-rich-quick scheme in one post. Are we to believe that he, of all people, isn't being compensated by DODOcase or Shopify? I mean, it's a cute story by its own merit, but unless they're paying for it, he just did them a huge favor.
Actually, It appears that 2.2 started rolling out today to the Droid X. http://moretechnews.com/news/tech-industry/540717/motorola-d...

I don't have one, can anyone confirm?
lvp.com sure ain't Lightspeed Venture Partners (= 'Lawrenceville Press'), bad reporting?