skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: App Pricing?
Scratching my own itch, I developed an application, Salesfolio, to let our in-the-field salespeople carry all of their sales materials on the iPad. The thought was that we could take all of the sell sheets, brochures, websites, and every different kind of print material we have and consolidate them in an electronic format. Additionally, because we could distribute materials electronically, we could have materials made for less popular services where reproduction services may not be financially viable. Sales materials can be uploaded through the website, then all the salespeople's iPads will sync and automatically retrieve new and updated documents. They can be showed to prospects on the iPad, and emailed as soon as the prospect asks for a copy. Files are cached so they can be viewed offline, with the application optimized for visual quality and flashiness.

In practice, this application proved useful internally, so I decided to develop it a bit further, and open the application and website to anyone that has a similiar need, selling our by-product. I have the website and application both ready to go, but I haven't decided on a pricing structure yet. Initially I was thinking $50/month for 16GB of storage and unlimited devices. I'm not sure if that's the right model, or not. Would anyone here have a need for this application? Any ideas on different pricing models? I'd like to stay away from freemium if I can, at least in the beginning.

Demo Video: http://salesfolio.s3.amazonaws.com/Salesfolio.mov
Web App Screenshot: http://salesfolio.s3.amazonaws.com/application.png
That's not an answer to my question.

Let me state my point more bluntly. I've tried switching applications with mouse and with keyboard, and it's faster with the keyboard.
I haven't read a single one of those books.

If you're going to substitute anything for a CS degree, just get out there and build something.
Smart marketing, it's perceived stability.

"Oh, you're running Firefox''3.5''? my Chrome is on version 7"*

(*note, I have overheard pretty much this exact conversation)
Jquery.mb.extruder 2.0 is out
I know, and I usually work locally.
This is true, but that wasn't my point. I used coaching as an analogy to point out that even people who are among the best at what they do don't do it alone. There is an attitude among technical people that "the material is out there, who needs school?" which I find too reductionist. Courses are more than just the raw material; they are infrastructure, incentives, and, yes, outside help.
Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing
There are two issues here:

1. The law-technical issue. I suppose we agree that piracy is illegal. That there are different laws for the two things is not very interesting in my opinion.

2. The ethical issue. Do you agree that the end results for the factory and for the developer, namely reduced income, are the same?
"bailed out every state" - uhm no - ND was doing just fine thank you very much. I'm sure there are a couple of other states in the list.
Forget stuff you watched on Stargate. Probably first encounters would be much less interesting. Like we find a few bacterias there. Or with best luck, an animal or something like that.

Really, encountering inteligence life on other planets would be very damn interesting, but IMHO, highly unlikely.
His point was that the patent, rather than some incompetence on Dell's part, may be what is preventing them from using a slower blink rate.
As I think more about it (sorry :D), it seems like the more blog posts targeted for HN that reach the top, the more "closed" the site becomes to ideas and insights outside of the current set of memes circulating through HN. In otherwords, the insight level gets stuck at a local maximum. On the other hand, I don't think anything can be done about this.
No. The Schengen treaty affects (maybe not that strictly) visa policies for the member states in the way that all the members are expected to have the same visa requirements (that's quite logical).

There are only some old EU15 members listed, but not a single country from the 2004 extension, nor Bulgaria and Romania. I live in the Czech republic, which has some kind of non-visa agreement with the USA (ESTA?), something much simpler and easier than regular visas, but you still need some kind of stamp. In fact, there was a discussion about this and how should be our EU membership leveraged in order to get a better position, but there weren't much of a agreement. I believe that old EU states (Great Britain first) weren't happy about the fact that there should be some common policy.

(Indeed, Schengen isn't equal to EU, it isn't even a subset of it, there are non-EU countries included, and some EU states aren't members (Great Britain). But there isn't any common policy, both EU and schengen-wide.)
Quantum Entanglement and Information
If you look a bit further, I'm sure you'll see more. I see chairs, tables, a television, a remote control -- all with rounded corners. So many rounded rectangles, yet I never noticed before I read this article. It's funny how a story like this can change how you look at the world.
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5 of the Best Free Linux Screen Capture Tools
Diaspora: An Overdue Update
Not really, because it has hard boundaries, that is to say it can never "level" at perfectly parallel to the ground (obviously), and cannot achieve perfectly perpendicular alignment to the ground.

Speeds with such limited motion are actually quite limited themselves along the circle.
>(since almost everybody else in this thread who refuses to participate in the Apple lovefest is down -4 right now)...

Don't lead with that crap. I usually stop reading when I see that.

Also its good to have the voice of reason but after reading through the rest of your comment all I see is a complaint about Apple fans and Mac's reliability. You mention <xyz widely known problem> but don't mention anything specific. Whether or not your point is valid it is a good point to make but non-constructive criticism doesn't get anywhere.
Denmark went evil?? What did you do?
Most people aspire to be merely adequate.
I think it's fine...as long as the person doesn't do the whole "I've read so and so story on HN...but instead of replying in comments, here is my reply as a blog post"
Great news! My model tells me that humans no longer have to breathe!
cf. the Borges paragraph-long story:

https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/f2d03252295e0d0585...
Tempest for Eliza
This seems a bit odd to me. Standard advice on writing is to have a particular audience in mind when you write. The Hacker News audience is characterised by greater than usual interest in startups, business hacks and programming, but not everyone in that demographic is on Hacker News.

Are you drawing a distinction between targeting the HN demographic and targeting HN itself? The former seems to me an entirely normal way to write a blog post.
Computer science and software development are not the same thing. This is part of the problem.
I just threw this together for fun. Basically it takes your friend's recent check-ins and plots them on a Google map. Obviously, I'll need to add more features to make it useful... If you hover your mouse over a point you will see the person's name.
That seems to be curbed a bit lately, there is now a 4 vote minimum to get to the homepage, and a short delay before links are taken in to account for the homepage as well. This has removed a lot of crappy postings from the homepage feed.
Elementary Number Theory
Zombie ants controlled by parasitic fungus for 48M years
A few days ago I added the following rule to my Safari stylesheet:

* {-webkit-font-smoothing:inherit!important;}

Frankly I think the whole idea is dangerous; antialiasing settings are not something that website authors should be able to change.
Spain is on the verge of bankruptcy. Just saying.
I don't think that's true. I've written quite a few postings that were interesting to the HN audience and not so much to others that normally read my blog, but I actually get more and better feedback from the HN crowd anyway.

There are lots of links posted every day still and I think we're nowhere near becoming a navel gazing self centered community. When you suggest that I'm thinking of K5, HN is very far away from that.
Can you represent the whole theory in the model? The model would need to represent evidence that its representations of the world are accurate. If that evidence is a mathematical proof, a program could probably encode it. But if it's experimental evidence, I don't know how it could.
Three Things Digg Needs to Fix In v4 (And Three It Doesn't)
Regular readers of Techi know that we love Digg and that, most of the time anyway, Digg loves us.

So when Digg rolled out version 4 of its social aggregation site – or v4 as many have called it – many, including us, were excited, particularly because there have been rumors of Digg’s waning influence.
This isn't really about blogging, it's more about the content submitted to Hacker News. Before Hacker News was big, people didn't write blog posts targeted at Hacker News, so there weren't many blog posts targeted at Hacker News ON Hacker News. Now that Hacker News is big, ratio of blog posts targeted at hacker news to all other links is increasing. So I, as a Hacker News reader am experiencing something of an echo chamber effect.
Stop the Government from Tracking your Car (Illegally)
Yeah, those phones keep switching processors. They used to use ARM, but then they switched to, uh...

Processor portability? YAGNI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_finite_differences
Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export
What do they mean by, "Since the 1st of August is nearly over..."?
Especially not when their profile is blank and their nickname does not hold a direct link to the site posted. But usually when you check their submissions like suggested above if they are mostly submitting from one site that's a pretty good indicator they're at least affiliated somehow.
Idle thought - would it be possible using layers to do selectable text in an image - top layer is 100% transparent text, 2nd layer is the image. The font face is preserved (though it still won't wrap), but the text is still selectable for copy and paste.
The good thing about product related blogs like this is that it reminds me of which products not to buy. I would have a hard time buying a product from someone who wrote a blog entry lacking as little content and exhibiting as much as ego as that one did.

To put another way, there was nothing in the article that didn't fall into one of three categories:
1) Are obvious to most developers.
2) His/her opinion, but not substantiated by any evidence, and probably disputed by as many as would support.
3) Look like possible outright lies.

Not a blog entry I'd consider writing, much less on my company's website.
Sarcasm. They probably promised an update on the 1st of August.
You're misunderstanding my objection.

It does not matter how relevant you find some aspect of this story, it's still poorly told - and this should be especially clear if the focus on the the interaction between Atkinson and Jobs is what you consider key. Half of the story is about details of an algorithm that simply don't matter if the core of the story is Jobs badgering Atkinson into being willing to code rounded rectangles.
Our government could provide us with all the embellishments that the major European Democracies enjoy. Unfortunately, a big chuck of our tax dollars supports our Empire (wars and a enormous military)
I don't find being able to view the mangled pdf on screen worth the time saved downloading the actual pdf. With video and audio I can understand the benefit of in-browser viewing, but why do we need this service for pdfs anyway?
In order: because I think they're harmful, yes, and as I stated, both.

Also, I was not personifying the author.
I don't think he meant that literally. Your taking it as such made for funny reading though.

What I took him to mean was that there is nothing at all stopping you from forming your own company and instilling some edict that mandates 20 hour weeks. Ideally, if this is win-win for everyone it will become a standard and thus, you have "created a new society".
I used to write longish 'self posts' but people were complaining about reading 'gray on gray' so I moved them to my blog with the comments turned off.

So that's one example of posts specifically targeted to the HN audience.

The echo chamber is in the end only as large as the world is, the bigger HN gets the smaller such an effect would be, even if people targeted HN specifically in their writings. But the vast majority of the postings are not like that, and those that are are - at least to me - quite often either useful or interesting.
I was trying to figure out if they lost 2.1B pounds, or if profit fell by 2.1B pounds.
Yep.
MongoDB for example is used for their Dataset Bookkeeping Service.
JSON is indeed used but only for 'good run' lists.
How to measure if users love your product using cohorts and revisit rates
How Facebook sets and uses cross-domain cookies
OpenHatch: Making the first step easier
Intel nearing purchase of Infineon's Wireless unit (iPhone supplier)
Browsers are "smart"- they won't let you select text that's 100% transparent. 99% transparency works... but also looks kind of weird if the texts don't overlap perfectly.

You can roll your own text selection in javascript (on top of the bitmap) if you know the glyph positions though- that's what e.g. Google Books does. It's a valid option if you don't care about zoomability.
Rick Warren on a life of purpose
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/05/05/intel-moorestown-mee...

Indeed.
True but damn, why so many articles in such a short period of time by the same author. It makes me very skeptical of anything else they put out.
Most of the iframe-cookies issues are due to Safari refusing to set cookies in iframes unless the user has "interacted" with the site in the iframe. Even then Safari still likes to block JavaScript.
Why is this feature even available in webkit? I can't imagine any situation where I'd want a particular website to override OS font smoothing settings.
On the 2nd one, reduced income isn't very interesting to me, since I don't believe there's any ethical right to make income from things in the first place. Traditional views on theft I think are justified by a negative right to not have the security of one's person and possessions violated, e.g. to be free from assault, burglary, etc. So with traditional theft, I don't see the wrong being that the thief got something for free, but that the thief removed from me something that I rightfully ought to still have.

That doesn't necessarily mean copyright isn't justified: one can argue for a positive right to control distribution and reproductions of one's intellectual productions. But I think it has to be argued for on completely different ethical grounds from the traditional ones used to justify theft being banned, because someone copying a book in their own home, on their own photocopier, isn't a violation of security of one's person/property in the same sense that assault or theft are.

The main reasonable grounds I can think of are a good-of-society kind of argument: that the government creating a new positive right, the "copy right", is good for society, because it encourages the production of things that society wishes to encourage the production of, by providing a mechanism to reward creators with income.
ya, seriously. There's frugal, then there's just wasting your time. It goes back to the saying I always liked "linux is free if your time isn't worth anything" (not trying to start a linux debate, the quote came years ago when it required technical knowledge to do anything in linux).

Maybe it's just me justifying my spending, but I've always freely bought things to reduce the friction between me and getting things done. A solid laptop would be #1 on the list.
Thanks for the mention Vijay. Just to add, Rootein also sends out reminders via email/Twitter DMs when it finds you slacking :) We have recently launched a Facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/rootein) for Rootein. You can track your habits/routines from within Facebook. We just won't give you any excuses to slack :)
Not truly machine-independent. How can you run x86 code on an ARM architecture, and vice-versa? Although if they do have this feature in Chromium it could make a huge difference in performance of web apps.
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A lot of hassle? On this very site, people talk about doing much more work on a landing page to increase conversion rate by 10%.

Also, cracking software is a hassle too...
ASK HN: Review My Startup: PopFeedback - learn about your customers
Ask HN: Founder vs Co-Founder title etiquette
If person A founds a company, and several months later person B joins as a co-founder, what is the proper title etiquette for person A?

Is person A now a co-founder, or does person A still retain the title of founder, while person B has the title of co-founder?
Here's a bit more info about why we launched PopFeedback: http://upsidedownlabs.com/pop-feedback/149/announcing-pop-fe...
ah, you are correct, I saw this bit in the release note earlier and then assumed that Cldwalker was referring to the same issue.

So, setting rvm_project_rvmrc=0 will still execute RVM's cd script, but it will skip the part that loads an rvmrc
Well, I did, but I helped to write a kernel networking stack. Not really common development. Still, I think it's a fundamental thing everyone should understand. Most people never really have a use for writing a kernel memory allocator but it's still important knowledge to have (especially in systems development).
Wow, I hate it when someone writes a scathing commentary on Java and I have to say they are completely wrong.

Java is still much slower than native code, and you can see it clearly just by looking at any app

Let's see some numbers. Oh, here are some:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

2x difference. Yeah, it's slower, but do you really notice the difference between 2ms and 1ms when your web page loads? Didn't think so.

With people regularly writing server-side apps that handle millions of users a day in languages whose benchmarks run 50x slower than C++, and those apps working fine, it's not really a stretch to pick a language that runs 2x slower than C++ on a device that doesn't even do anything computationally intensive. ("Received 'incoming call interrupt'. Display something pretty on the screen." Guess what, not CPU intensive!)
I don't get it either, looks like more than one person misread your comments[1]. Here's a nice and brief starting point with some citations for further reading: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/E101.full

[1] and in any case, I think down-voting ought to be used only to punish bad form, not to express disagreement - there's not-voting for that.
I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist. </quote>
This is true and mostly because a news in HN triggers an idea in the reader and instead of writing a comment which will be missed by masses they write a blog post and submit to HN, I think it's good but I wish there was a way to link these discussion so new comers to that topic knew what the hell the blog post was talking about.
That seems backwards to me. Theories don't "represent" evidence, experimental or otherwise (I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean, it doesn't make sense to me). You formulate your theory - which is a model of cause and effect - from one set of observations, and test it with another set of observations. The model - the theory - may include facts from experimental evidence, eg G the gravitational constant, but that doesn't seem problematic for theory representation in program form.

Theories make predictions about the world. I'd argue they're useless without this. As such, they are function of a prior state, returning the new state.

Certainly you can't validate your theory without doing physical experiments, or at least having lots of data that the theory was not based on, to check it. But validation of a theory is distinct from its representation.
both person A and person B are co-founders.
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities
Especially since downloading is no extra step if your browser can display PDFs natively. (Safari can, Chrome will soon and I’m pretty sure there are plugins for other browsers.)

I’m using Safari and to me viewing PDFs is the same as viewing webpages. Heck, it’s even a bit more comfortable. (There is one big button with which I can open the PDF in Preview which allows me to rearrange/delete pages and to annotate and there is another big button which allows me to save the PDF for later reading.)

What Scribd does certainly is impressive, I’m just not sure how useful it is.
I think this is an example of a decent patent - it's minor, but it's clever, non-obvious, and a clear improvement on the product, while not encroaching much on the solution space. You can still have a blinking light, or any of a handful of other solutions, just not a blinking light at a specific frequency.
Still, even finding non-intelligent alien life would make it much more likely that intelligent alien life exists somewhere.

(Basically there are 2 probabilities we can't estimate now, other that they are != 0: the probability of life appearing on a given planet (P1), and the probability of intelligence evolving once life is present (P2). The probability of intelligent life then is P1 x P2)
I like it. I've used wufoo for surveys before and have had mixed results. I think being able to embed specific questions on the site is a great idea.

The site looks good. Pricing feels ok to me. I think the biggest competition (around here anyway) is people rolling their own. I still see a lot of use for this. The market is big enough you should do well.
The background about the algorithm helps you understand why Bill is reluctant to go back and implement a new different drawing primitive. His reluctance is the reason why Steve needs to work hard at convincing him, which demonstrates the theme of the story.

I agree that it's probably too detailed in the first bit, but I don't see it as a major flaw for a series of articles about the development of the original Macintosh. The intended audience consists of hackers and developers who get intrigued by technical details.
What's better about Ruby than Python? - comp.lang.python
Not yet, but they're working on a solution using the LLVM bitcode format:

http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf
http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/native-client-documenta...
I know most people always comment on how the Diaspora project is destined to fail, and they're probably right.

However, there's no denying how awesome it is that a few college kids can raise over $100,000 like this to build their project.

Even if the project fails like most people say, I imagine it will be a positive experience for the four guys that worked on it.