skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. Square is the last such hyped venture.

What I don't like is the willingness of investors to quickly fund regardless of the idea. If you're looking for contributing partners for your venture, that's the last philosophy you want your investors to have.
"Even if the company fails, someone will buy it just to get Schachter. There’s no way we lose our money."

Ah, the greater fool theory.
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The default behavior was to statically link to libgmp. I don't know about you, but making people's programs GPL by default doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the industry.
Don't write Vancouver off quite yet. There's Vancouver and then there's Vancouver. Vancouver proper can be expensive or not so expensive, and then there are the numerous very closely-located suburbs which are less expensive and situated well enough that you can take advantage of everything the Vancouver area has to offer. Heck, in many cases the things Vancouver is known to offer are not in Vancouver itself but rather in those very suburbs.

This area certainly isn't the least expensive in which to live, but it isn't the most either. I can only speak for myself but I find that the view that it is too expensive has been largely blown out of proportion, especially given the benefits the area provides.

For someone bootstrapping it does depend largely on your budget and support system, so if you have any ballpark budget numbers it would be relatively easy to give you an idea of what the Vancouver area would be like on that budget.
Upvoted for using "inculcate."
According to the indictment, he wasn't charged with securities fraud (§1348) but with mail fraud (§1341), wire fraud (§1343), and honest services fraud (§1346).

Black's lawyers have an interesting note about the appeal here: http://www.gibsondunn.com/Publications/Pages/USSupremeCourtT...

As I understand it, Black negotiated a huge management fee authorized by Hollinger's board. The board figured-out they'd made a bad deal. Black got greedier and tried to get the management fee re-characterized as a non-compete to avoid Canadian taxes. The board schemed to get rid of Black and get the fees rescinded. The SEC got involved, the IRS got involved. The Hollinger board members with government savvy (e.g., Henry Kissinger) ran away when the US Attorney (Fitzgerald) got involved. The others cowered and said whatever necessary to keep them from becoming targets of the grand jury investigation. Radler fell into Fitzgerald's arms and sang whatever song kept him out of Lompoc. Black, Kipnis, and Boultbee were convicted on 1 of 11 counts: depriving the company they were running (Hollinger) of its right to honest services (§1346) and using the mail (§1341) and telephone to (§1343) do so.

Honest services is defined in § 1346, which reads in total "For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." But the feds have been broadening the case law since the 1940s and use it as a catch all for corruption and fraud cases. It's so broad that every justice from Ginsberg to Scalia just called it unconstitutionally broad. It's broad enough to cover a lot of everyday business deals.

Fitzgerald spent a lot of effort detailing Black's lifestyle and Hollinger's willingness to subsidize it; but Hollinger's board was aware of and approved those subsidies. My feeling is that the jury figured someone who lived Black's lifestyle at the expense of a company was doing something wrong and the only thing in the indictment that fit was the overly-broad honest services fraud: shareholder-supported-lifestyle fraud, the same thing that got one of the Enron guys. Those kinds of arrangements are wrong and inefficient; but probably shouldn't be illegal, lest a whole bunch of other common business practices become scrutinized, regulated, and outlawed.
I'd take the attention and start as an invite-only service. Schachter is getting a lot of free PR. (As far as I can tell, free PR is a big advantage of getting in to Y Combinator as well.)
The it's-all-a-dream interpretation is the only one that makes sense from a science-fiction point-of-view, however unsatisfying it is from an artistic perspective. The slightly wobbling top at the end points, rather overtly, to the real answer: it's meant to be ambiguous.

That said: WTF? We've got to bring down a company on the verge of being The Most Powerful Corporation in the World. So let's use this highly radical, unproven and improbable, voodoo-science inception approach. Oh, and by the way, we have to plant a mole within the highest ranks of the multinational beast within the next, say, two weeks, so we can get valuable information that is necessary to penetrate and manipulate the fragile psyche of our target.

Cut-scene: it's done. This is logic that only makes sense within the context of a dream. The sort of dream Coleridge, or Rube Goldberg, would have.

Science generally favors the application of Occam's Razor: buy the airline and crash the damn plane with the kid on it. Or just send in the ninjas. The ensuing infighting among the various executive factions vying for the top spot after junior is offed will ensure that any plans Acme Energy Inc had for world domination are put off course indefinitely.

Inception was entertaining. But Memento was the more philosophically interesting film. That's a film that truly merited this kind of philosophical scrutiny. Remember Sammy Jankis.
Just read about how it works. Agreed.
I have found the Dev-Team blog to post authoritative information about each iPhone jailbreak.

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
Pretty sound logic in this case.
Because it doesn't run on the JVM.

For a variety of reasons — including critical third-party libraries — anything that doesn't run on the JVM and interoperate with legacy Java code is just a non starter for my company. I suspect many other organizations are in a similar situation. It looks like someone is working on a JVM port now so hopefully we'll see something usable in a few years.
Looking at the code it links to a PDF document, so it seems that someone has found a back door in the PDF implementation of iOS.

Oh, actually reading the article describes that too. Maybe i should RTFA before i hack into code XD
Could you please clarify what you mean by "schemas"?

My understanding is that a schema is an abstract definition of what your database fields/relations are. So that's too vague for me.

Adding a customer_id field to every single table in the database would technically fit the definition of "schema", but I suspect you mean something else altogether. Please elaborate.
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The guy is indeed very inspiring. I wish him luck. These type of people are the type that move an entire economy and country forward. Always looking for ways to create more new wealth.
Hi, are there any links you can share about the South of Sweden? Many thanks! :)
Haskell libraries, community-driven development and quality control
Thanks. I don't look at it as "ways to create new wealth," though. It's more "I must get this idea out of my head"
I ran a startup during the late 90's early 2k. I got a payout at the end but I worked so hard building the business that I burnt myself out. The following years I was brain dead and not productive. I called myself retired in my 20's but in reality I was just tired. If I paced myself for all those years I might have been in a better place afterwards.

Though, to be honest, it's just not in my blood to pace myself. I'm an entrepreneur because I love to go for it. I am all in all the time. It's just my nature.

Today my brain is turned back on and I'm going full steam. Yes, I might burn out again but I wouldn't feel alive if I wasn't all in.
And your rebranding was a mistake?
"Weird vindictiveness" and "gratuitous contempt" among sciencebloggers
Generally, in an angel deal, the investors get relatively oversight; that doesn't come until an equity financing or series A where an investor takes a board seat.
One needs to be a good storyteller to be able to relate and communicate a point to an audience. I think this article succeeds in doing this.
I think the hard part is going to be getting the pets to contribute the reviews. Perhaps an iPad app for dogs?
+1 for Estonia - even in the mid nineties they had already cleaned the whole country up. I recall that they even considered moving to an e-money system for all of its citizens.

Another (albeit rough) possibility is Ukraine, if only for cheap prices, cheap programmers, etc. However, there's only slightly better policies concerning immigration/visa policy (EU/USA can show up there with no visa for 90 days but then you have to leave for 90 days), and difficult language issues. So, even though I live there, I wouldn't recommend it for people without some link to the country already.
Debugging your app remotely via Twilio SMS
Just to clarify, by brain dead do you mean you had lost motivation or weren't mentally able to be productive?
Not very far. I also want to hire employees who are smarter than me, which thankfully is not very difficult.

I can hack but it gets harder and harder with the distractions as I get older.
Add in a couple amazon and pets.com affiliate links for monetization, run two super-bowl commercials complete with slightly-used sock puppet, and why not, throw in a clickbank e-book on how to test dog food before your dog eats it that was dictated (not read) by a young girl from Guinea Bissau who has never learned to read and has never even seen a dog let alone bought food for it. Run it all through an A/B tester and host via ec2 + mongrel2 + HOC (haskell-to-objective-c binding). Spokesperson: Olivia Munn.

The venture capital world would implode on itself from the awesome.
Isn't this more Reddit material than HN? I'd gladly upvote this... on Reddit.
Whether or not libgmp was ever statically linked by default depended on your distribution. Were you shipping apps on Windows prior to the -dynamic flag's introduction? If so, then you were watching what libraries you were using, and following these instructions: http://haskell.forkio.com/gmpwindows

These days you can just run "cabal license-check" (IIRC) which will type check all the libraries you use for compliance.

Have a nice day.
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Only to the extent that Firefox is a JavaScript library. I think the major idea is that there is some application whose operation is very broadly directed by the embedded language, in a sandbox-like environment designed for the embedded language. For instance, you could write a video game whose graphics and collision detection and whatnot are all C++, but have Haskell bindings so that all the high-level game code would be Haskell. This isn't all that different from the usage of the much more C-like UnrealScript, which is used for exactly this purpose and is both statically typed and compiled, if I recall correctly.
What about success regret? I've said before that I shouldn't have sold when I did.
Another, more important reason, is that Haskell is too intellectually demanding for most industrial programmers. t

While that's often stated as a reason, I don't believe it myself, simply on the grounds that anyone smart enough to use C++ "in anger" is smart enough to learn any language.

The reason that Haskell isn't popular (IMHO) is that a lot of programming isn't clever algorithms, it's forms (interfaces for getting data into databases) and reports (interfaces for getting data out of databases). A lot more is glue (connecting the output of one program to another). Haskell just isn't a good fit here.

I am very excited by F#; here we have an ML dialect that has minimal impedance mismatch with the OO/imperative world (and C# with LINQ has minimal impedance mismatch with the declarative world of relational databases). This is where Haskell types should look for work...
Presumably not yet. But the blueprints to own any iOS device via a remote web exploit just got put online, with thousands of links pointing to them.
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No, that would not be a good thing to support. There can be Doctors and Patients that refer to the same real person, but you don't normalize these entities with respect to a single Person column. It's just not worth it, because you too rarely care that a Doctor can also be a Patient. In such a case, if it poses a problem (only when Patient is assigned himself as Doctor?), it will sort itself out in The Real World.
Assuming you're using osx, I would highly recommend rvm for using rails 3 if you need to maintain any rails 2 / ruby 1.8 apps.
I lost motivation completely. I didn't want to work. I couldn't come up up with any new ideas. I had little interest in anything.

Like a total void.
Heh... reminds me of éX-Driver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Driver#Overview). I think the idea has potential, but I don't think it will be safely feasible.

> "A test drive off campus on Thursday illustrates the many hazards. A tractor trailer blocked visibility entering a busy traffic circle, forcing the lead vehicle to inch tentatively into oncoming cars. When it did find a break, there wasn't enough time for the second vehicle to follow before another car inserted itself between them, cutting off communication"
Why downmod him so?

Probably because many here don't like someone badmouthing another over something so small.
My takeaway was that you should use what you're most productive in; even if there happens to be some inconsequential warts.
...what else would it be?
Tried wifi tethering and it worked. Although at first it didn't...so I went into settings changed some settings around and then back to how they were at first and hit 'done' and it worked. Sorry for the non-technical explanation but that worked for me.
Haskell works fine on Windows. Some of the lead GHC devs use Windows machines. GHC even comes with a Win32 binding that lets you do GUI programming (doesn't come with a GUI kit for any other platform standard.)
I think he meant http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ddl-schemas.html
Because I've never had a database engineer available to create my schemas for me. And frankly, I've never had a problem designing or maintaining a schema: it's not rocket science. Writing queries and getting performance out of the DB, that can be rocket science.
I think you have it all wrong. Food for pets has been done too many times, there is no opportunity there.

The market is in food MADE OF pets, or perhaps home conversion kits to turn pets into food. Basically, a modified flobee.

(Although I actually think open source UAV tools, especially for commercial use like monitoring farm fields, traffic, etc., would be a good opportunity.)
Yeah, I should have just chosen San Jose (as a proxy for "outside San Francisco") rather than that weird SF/SJ split I chose just because many colleagues and I happen to commute there from the valley. And you're right that they may be including taxes, but a lot of that is federal so I wouldn't expect to see a big difference. SF->Austin just demonstrates what a bad deal SF is financially, because SF->SJ gets you half the savings (22%) with no pay cut at all.
I star (gmail feature) emails that are actionable. Archive the rest. Then work through the starred emails as part of my daily run. I'm not sure what value this app ads over that system other than allowing me to add my summary in the task name.
The information is very useful for education, and Apple really should fix this, since it's a way to root the device by viewing a PDF.
spoilers

I disagree..

Remember Africa? He was in France, then in Africa, magically. Dreamy...

Remember how he escapes from his "enemies" stuck between two walls? Typical of a dream.

And then magically, Saito appears to save him. Again, typical of a dream. The whole movie is a dream, at the end he allows himself to see his children face because he's at peace, but he's still dreaming.
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First person to under-analyze Inception.
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The HL7 RIM actually allows for this. A Person can have multiple roles including Patient and LicensedEntity (doctor).
http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot/html/infrastructure/rim/rim.htm
Yay! Disclaimer: I love little duckies.
Except that it's not necessary, because at least 3 solutions that don't use unsafePerformIO were posted to that Reddit thread.
From http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/jailbreakme-20-released-t...

"Update 4:

If you want to unlock your iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G then you need to first jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4 or iOS 4.0.1 using JailbreakMe and then install Ultrasn0w 0.93 to unlock your iPhone."
Steve Blank has a great series on a much hyped game studio he was a cofounder on. They had the whole gamit of media coverage inc wired before they had anything resembling a prototype. He learnt some hard lessons from that one.

http://steveblank.com/category/rocket-science-games/
You've been downvoted without an explanation as to why that's not a useful suggestion.

The problem is that if you take a "just restart it if it crashes" approach, the service will be very unreliable, and you're not allowing for analysing what went wrong. In fact, taking this approach, Amazon's EC2 images are a really bad option, because you lose any chance of gathering diagnostic info as soon as you switch them off - all the data vanishes at that point.

Secondly, if you're going for a long-running VM, Amazon's machines are very expensive for what they are; I pay roughly a third of what Amazon charge for mine. If you're using them as base load rather than on-demand peak smoothing, you're doing it wrong.
I live in Newtown. Tech-wise, all I can find is a lone computer repair business. I'd love to know if there's anything around here besides cafés, Thai restaurants and cheap share houses. :D
What is the price point? It makes all the difference!

(Alas, it has "Pro" in the name)
I look forward to one day having real php compilers instead of just opcode caches.

If I am not mistaken there are a couple of projects already working on that.
shame, no mention of china, at least from what i scrolled through. china has a relatively low cost of living (food, housing, etc) and excellent infrastructure in 2nd tier+ cities. the talent pool can be somewhat mixed, i don't think you'll find very many rails or django developers, but each year there are over half a million university graduates in engineering/computer science.

in terms of living here, english doesn't go very far so if you've got any chinese speaking ability, this would be a great place for you to start something.

i'd recommend setting up LLC and so forth back at your home country and just running the show remotely.

but like the poster says, the environment is probably the single most important aspect, for that i would say that nobody beats the valley.

if language is an issue, hong kong/singapore are options, though they're too costly, but the infrastructure is first rate.

i hear in china that you can get special funding from the government to open offices here where the benefit for china is that it produces more jobs for the high tech industry. sometimes free rent + utilities. anyway, some things to think about, i know when i worked with dextrys, they mentioned that to me, i'm not sure how they arranged this though.
This will be largely driven by morality concerns in Saudi Arabia. If they can't monitor the comms then they can't see whether or not young unmarried men and women are talking to each other, which means that they will.

It'll eventually get lifted I imagine, there was a similar think with cameraphones that was ineffectively enforced years back in kingdom.
Anyone tried it on an iPad? Not working for me...
You're just focused on ticketing for a single event. What I'm saying is that it's about more than just tickets, and for more than just a single event.

I'm suggesting fans will be turned off of performers / entertainers / sports teams / etc. by the perception that they (the performers) are overcharging for their performance, and that will hurt the longevity of the brand, and the sales performance of related products.

Similarly, if you drive out youth and cater for wealthier older people in the interests of maximizing short-term revenue, you endanger brand engagement 10 or 20 years down the line - this is particularly important for sports clubs.
Then how does one identify the right time to sell, or rather whether or not to sell?
It's hard to say you have any regrets when you try to see every failure as a learning experience.

Having said that, I have in the past also wondered why we don't focus more on other startup failures as a source of learning.

The first reason I believe is because most of the epic failures you see come down to more or less the same reasons: founder/management troubles and/or no market. If most failures can be boiled down to that, there isn't a lot to learn from each new failure. However, each time there is a success, it is usually for different reasons and there is a lot to learn.

The second reason is why entrepreneurs are usually so forward-focused: you usually do not find a new paths by looking backwards. You learn from your mistakes and you try again. Looking backwards only shows you what others have done, and those are almost always opportunities that have already been realized.

You know you are in a promising place as an entrepreneur when the mistakes you make are because you are trying things nobody has ever tried before, as opposed to making the same mistakes others have already made.
To illustrate this point, a choice snippet from that Reddit thread, explaining part of what seems to be considered 'the proper solution'. Please note that my intention is not to make fun of this, but to illustrate that the terminology in which people in the Haskell community communicate makes it impenetrable for someone just trying to pick up the language and do stuff with it.

it's a straightforward lifting of the non-monadic version. You can almost get
it from g_hylo by using the identity comonad, it's distributivity law, the
identity natural transformation, and using T.sequence as the monad's
distributivity law[1]. But this doesn't quite get us there because it requires
that we can refactor the monadic parts of the coalgebra into the algebra.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/cs54i/how_would_you...
"You should tell your coder friends that you are a designer and your designer friends that you are a coder."
What could an investor or board have done to have gotten you to agree with this back then? Offered $5-10mm cash off the table in another round?