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Ask HN: Your opinion on AGPL license
I started to play with some open source software and was quickly told by author to keep all my code available to download on the same site as I am providing service.

In my case this is not a problem, since it somewhat hobby project, but I thought about using my experience in future to deploy commercial projects using the same stack. Now I doubt.

To make clear - it's poker-network software.

It consist of server, which is AGPLv3, and client jPoker which is GPLv3. Author claims everything on the server side should be AGPLed too. But this also involves disclosing code for custom integration with other products as well. And if I would do commercial project, I will definitely need to do some custom stuff. There is still question if I communicate with server through API, will my server code, which in fact is also client, become automatically AGPL...

Anyway, what do you think about AGPL license for open source projects in general keeping in mind that with so much SaaS projects, owners legally able to benefit from GPLed work while not giving back to community.

Do you work with AGPL software deploying end product for client on his servers? How you deal with requirement to make code available to download?
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I'm not sure that's the case, since I'm not sure if government-funded research was more of an effect or a cause of the decline of privately-funded research.
am i correct in thinking that convertible notes can be thought of as a way of changing the equilibrium of prisoner's dilemma? i.e., by introducing a temporal element and rewarding early investors you avoid the equilibrium where everyone is waiting for everyone else (akin to the Nash equilibrium of prisoner's dilemma where both prisoners stay silent, instead you want both prisoner's to confess).
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You are free not to receive the benefits. You are not free to avoid most of the costs. For anyone who values the benefits at less than the full costs, this policy is harmful.
Android App Developers Endure Lower Sales in Search of Growth - Bloomberg
I am wondering anyone here has his/her data point in sales number.

I own an iPhone 3GS and a LG Ally android. I am more inclined to use iPhone just because it has remove a lot of rough edges in user experience.
This is very interesting. Vivitar made a cheap 35mm "toy camera" very popular in the lomography circuit called Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. It seems that they market their products to a completely different demographic. Wonder how much of the sales are from the lomo people vs old people who can't handle digital.
For the record, parent is my cofounder, was unschooled, and is certainly no more awkward than I am.
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Well, the SEC and EPA have similar recent failures to point to, to be sure. :)
will your android client be using c2dm or just doing constant polling?
You can also share actual experiences. "Hey kids, let's climb this tree!"
Great job guys, and excellent walkthrough Paul.
It appears to be down at the moment, but there's a site called Wrong Tomorrow (http://wrongtomorrow.com/) that seems to me like a good start in this direction. Here's the blog post announcing it:

http://www.idlewords.com/2009/04/wrong_tomorrow.htm
c2dm where available (2.2+), polling as fallback for older versions unfortunately. we are as anti-polling as you can get and will only do it out of pure necessity.
Whoa, awesome work guys. I've been using Notifo as a quasi bot for a telepresence robot my friend and I have been building. The new features are very much welcomed. Thanks!
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Apple needs the movie studios and music labels. They don't really need to make a deal with FB.
Remember that Netflix came around in a consumer culture that was renting videos and DVDs from corner shops for maybe $2-4 a pop.

Throughout their history, all of Netflix's pricing structures have been designed to stay within that range.

It costs Netflix pennies to stream movies. ("Akamai charges a customer like Netflix about 5 cents for an HD movie, compared with about 3 cents for standard definition." See: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_34/b41920385...)

I expect their prices to rise, though. If they want to stream first run movies (a la cable), they're going to have to pony up serious dough for the licenses. That means higher costs to the end consumer.
Perhaps a dumb question, but has anyone considered using a trie to manage search query auto-suggest, such as Google AutoSuggest?

It seems like it could be more efficient as you could send to the browser the node ID of the current buffer and then when the next key was pressed, use the current ID to efficiently look forward just one level.
But even if you were going to prioritize, it would make sense to send a note back saying "we're aware of the situation and will work on it as time allows"

Something like that would help.
The scaling is simple magnification.

So since the app uses graphics which are at the DPI of a 3G iphone (resolution 480x320), then you scale that up to 960x640 without redoing the art, you're going to get nasty jaggies, etc, as you just divided your DPI by 4.

Pretty much everything looks that pixelated when you magnify it 2x. I mean, open up your computer's screen magnification app and set it to 200x zoom, and see how bad everything looks.

It's somewhat similar to what standard def television looks like when blown up on a huge television screen which you then sit too close to, especially on PAL TVs (which aren't interlaced)

For many apps, I prefer to use them at 1x in the middle of the screen, especially ones I do not have to type on.
Apple Stock vs. Netflix Stock over past 5 Years: http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
Value-added taxes are hard to avoid because they're collected at every level of production. A black market would only be able to easily avoid the tax on the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price.
The article really should have mentioned the BA-609 tiltrotor aircraft. It's the civilian version of the V-22, and nearly ready for production.

The BA-609, with the speed and range of an airplane, has tremendous potential, and is the reason why Sikorsky started resealching faster helicopters.
I use the logo key a lot in windows. Esp for the 3 shortcuts

Win+E = Opens Explorer

Win+D = Go to desktop

Win+R = Run dialog
excellent. anxiously awaiting your android release!
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This is just as unfair a characterization of home-schoolers as the GP.
You're confusing correlation and causation. Because child actors often have troubled lives after they experience success, you look at two elements of the situation (youth and success) and decide those are the ones leading to the trouble. It seems much more likely to me that Hollywood culture is the "secret sauce" here.
I did not ask to have someone build it for me. I asked a question about strategy of those websites.
This is really a very fun read. Good ol' times :)
In basically all cases I can think of, forcing people to buy private goods (rivalrous and excludible) is harmful to the people who would not otherwise choose to purchase those goods.

Your example of bombs/military spending doesn't fall into that category, since defense is neither rivalrous nor excludible. My enjoyment of Iraqi deaths does not hinder your enjoyment of same, and the military has no way of preventing me from enjoying Iraqi deaths if I don't pay my military bill. Thus everyone has an incentive to freeload and a free market will not allocate enough resources to killing Iraqis.
I love Netflix. They're a role model for other companies, and for me as a person.

Netflix has succeeded on the strength of two things: integrity and ambition.

They genuinely care about their customers. They work extra hard to make sure people who give them money are happy to do it. In their call centers, CSRs are friendly and empowered. They're instructed to err on the side of doing things that are most likely to make a customer happy, instead of pissing people off with stupid "it's policy!" behavior. In their distribution centers, they have a hardcore quality control culture that goes to great lengths to ensure that mailed out DVD's correctly match a customer's order.

Contrast this with their dying competition, who never once gave a damn about customer satisfaction. Who, indeed, codified policies whose direct result was to enrage customers.

As for ambition, Netflix has continually worked hard to make the service the very best it could be, opening more and more distribution centers to minimize the wait between returning and receiving your DVDs. Despite having every reason to rest on their laurels, they decided they'd also be the Netflix to their Blockbuster, going deep on the Watch Instantly strategy that's redefining their business. Instead of waiting for someone else to come along and make them obsolete, Netflix grabbed the bull by the horns.

This is one of the rare moments of modern capitalism producing something truly excellent, on its merits, based on the needs of the market. If only we could see similar disruption in larger and even more corrupt industries.

Honestly: I love these guys.
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My husband has been taking care of our baby full-time and it's been great. Why do you think your situation would be different?
Where did they come up with $35k to develop an app?? That's craziness. Where do I find people willing to pay me that much?
> the consumers never wrote off Netflix and that's pretty much all that matters.

Not that I necessarily wrote off netflix, but I did jump ship to Blockbuster's online service for short while when it was first introduced. The ability to return the movies I got in the mail with any movie at their physical store was a pretty nice feature, in addition I got to rent one game per month as well.

A couple of months later, blockbuster started changing their policies and I switched back to trusty netflix.

When blockbuster first introduced their service I thought that netflix might be in trouble...but my unpublished prediction was unfounded! ;)
as a homeschool/unschool parent, yes. As a classroom teacher with liability concerns, not so much.
I never said I "liked" the scribd service, only that I could appreciate what they are doing, not necessarily the monetization.
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American gas prices include all taxes.
Raising 1MM seems fairly trivial these days in the valley.
I've stuck with Netflix thus far because nobody can compare with their vast catalog of movies (DVD or streaming). However when it comes to value, there are months when I might watch many movies and really get the value out of Netflix's "all you can eat" structure, but other months I might not watch any movies and still pay the full subscription price. I think it probably averages out to cost about the same as Apple's pay-per-view system, so to me it really comes down to who has the best catalog of movies.
Thanks for the explanation, but I don't think I feel better about it. If the recycling center gets my deposit I'm wondering why they need it. I thought the point of a recycling center was that the material they collect (aluminum, plastic, paper etc.) is profitable to collect. The CRV is labeled as a "deposit". To me that should be like a bank term, i.e., you can reclaim what you leave initially. I'm at a loss to understand why this deposit is not fully refunded (which would further encourage recycling!), or at least something reasonable like say 75%.
Interesting discussion in there about intellectual property. How innovative is this paste, since it's so easy to make and there are already competitors?
In new york city - contract through a digital agency.

Every rich company wants an iphone app and they have no idea why, but $35K is a drop in the bucket for them.
Thanks to my American salary and Swedish consumption level, my basic needs can be met for many months even if my salary drops to $0. (Not that I actually want paternity leave - it sounds boring.)
If the core assumption is: 'each area of life is dominated by only a few major schools of thought, and these schools of thought tend to favor the elites' why should disregarding the research produced by the such elites be an issue?
This was so beautiful that i almost cried. But what it certainly did was enhance the charm for NYC. I am a 24 year old Indian with little hope of making it to NY in my 20's but when i get there eventually, i will try to remember this piece.
I will, as soon as sales are stable enough to have statistically significant changes! There'll be a blog post about it here for sure.
>I bypass dell and go to suppliers that don't want to be my friend, and I pocket the difference.

Do you? My relationship with dell isn't just about getting warm fuzzy feelings when I call our rep to order stuff, it's about knowing that, if I do have a problem, it's going to get resolved immediately when I call her.

There is another company that I work with, which is small, and specific to my industry, and I have a very good relationship with one of the sales people there (they're in Canada).

Well, one day, something went wrong with their product so, instead of calling and asking to talk to a CSR, I called and asked to talk to Al. Al apologized up and down because, unfortunately, the FedEx guy had already come and there weren't any more pickups for the day.

So do you know what he did? Got in his car and drove the part that I needed down to the fedex office at the airport. I had the part in my hands a little over 12 hours later.

Another one: Our office buys all of our toner from cartridge world. The guy that we talk to down there, his name is Kent, is really nice. One day, I called Kent and told him that I needed a toner cartridge for one of our printers, but I needed MICR toner (for checks). Unfortunately, he told me, they didn't have any that I could get that day, but they could ship me one in a week. But in the meantime, he would bring me a printer of theirs as well as a cartridge for it, and he wouldn't charge me for it, just thanks for always doing business with him.

This type of thing is absolutely invaluable to my business.

We'll be a Cartridge World customer for life because of this. We're not buying toner from them, we're buying the ability to print documents. I suspect that you're not buying RAM, you're buying servers that work. Do you think anybody from micron is going to jump in their car and bring you something when you need it? Or care that something got messed up and fix it for you immediately?
I will take a shot at this. Netflix does have competition, from RedBox and pay-per-view on cable. People probably spend about $9-$15 on those competing services.

When it comes to those SaaS and dating services: Never underestimate the value assigned to hooking up or getting paid. People will pay if it thinks it will help them make more money or meet someone.

The question I have is how is Match.com still charging $30/month when Plenty of Fish is still pretty much free?
Yes, that's the one. Thanks

from Google cache: Site: http://bit.ly/9JiRrz & FAQ: http://bit.ly/9cQeTb
the music certainly made it more interesting...
Smells like confirmation bias to me.

Unless you go around asking people about where they went to school all the time, unless someone is so socially awkward that it causes you to question whether they had some sort of "different" upbringing, you'd never know whether someone was homeschooled.

It may be that a lot of socially awkward people were homeschooled, but that doesn't necessarily indicate that the other way is true. A kid who is struggling and obviously hating traditional school might be more likely to get pulled out and homeschooled by their parents, or families who are isolated for other reasons (politics, religion, etc.) may homeschool, but none of these demonstrate a causative link between homeschooling -> poor socialization.
I get the playground line. But I really do mean something stronger. As a child, I may have asked why on occassion, but the most common question was probably, "why can't I play basketball?" or "why can't I play space invaders?".

I think you're arguing that children need to be stimulated. And I think this requires a fair bit of direction. And I think w/o a good deal of direction, most children will not learn things they need to. I suspect math and writing/grammar being two big areas that most children would neglect. Not all, but a huge number, crossing or approaching 50%.
Question about (a):

How do you handle special forms? I wrote a toy Lisp interpreter in Clojure, but couldn't figure out how to implement ', which I assumed should be implemented as a special form.
It's worth remembering that pocket size is probably not an issue for roughly 1/2 the population that carries a purse as part of their daily routine.
We use HipChat at Mixpanel and it's really convenient - we previously used standard IM stuff but as the company grows it's a pain to IM a bunch of separate people.

They have a free plan - you should definitely try it out.
Convertible notes, in smaller amounts and in sequential offerings just make so much sense if you combine them with customer development and lean startup strategies.

It's simple, fast and allows investors to measure their risk.

I believe it's good for the startup as well because it really keeps you focused on what's important to most startups - finding product/market fit.

If you don't have "extra" money you don't go off on tangents and you stay focused on finding the customer that will pay for your product or service.

The faster you find this, the faster your value goes up and the cheaper the next round of capital is.
Screen sharing would be an awesome addition to the video chat.
I think you're comparing what I'm saying with the thesis of Illich's book.
Sounds like they could use to increase the deposit and minimum refund amounts.
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So what? That's how America has always grown. Tempted to flag this posting just for playing into the ugly anti-immigrant narrative. And, to another comment, while I wouldn't call the NYT right-wing (in the sense of say, the Washington Times or Fox News), they are definitely defenders of the status quo when it comes to waging unnecessary and illegal wars or maintaining the growing incoming inequality in the USA (excepting their Editorial pieces).
Brilliant - kinda looks like hard candy. But...

If you're planing to use the BonBon buttons for production.. Well, I don't recommend it.. yet! Yes, I'm sorry, life is hard.
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any benchmark against mongrel1 ?
This move to re-sell the archives is really surprising -- I can certainly tell you that Scribd doesn't make much money selling electronic documents (i.e., ebooks) right now.

The conversion rate there is b-a-d bad--my experience has been ~3 sales per 200+k reads. Other publishers have seen similar rates. They have an audience who is simply not willing to pay.
Idea for it that me and a friend had: often times when new users need help in IRC they paste some code, and make some changes, and repaste etc to show what their issue is. The idea is to write a plugin for editors that, at a click of a button, live streams the content to bespin^Wskywriter and they can just link the "view into the editor" to IRC so people can see the code in a real time way. Then when they're done they can kill the "view".
Having just moved from New York to Minneapolis, I second your 2nd point.
Ask HN: Avenues like Google AdSense which pay through Paypal
I am starting an ad based blog/website. I want to know what avenues I have to earn from it similar to Google AdSense? It would be nice if they pay through Paypal than give me a check and also if they pay globally (in countries like India).

Thanks.
Oh, how I identify with everything you just said.
I would down vote you if I could.

1) The article does not say that the main function of K12 system is to be scalable. It says that scalability was an important concern on how the system was designed to accomplish its functions. You are comparing apples to oranges.

2) What is FRPL in the first place? or your full 5 list for the matter. Most of your audience is not a M.Ed. but most are smart enough to follow your argument if you take the time to present it. Please spare us the letter soup.

3) The idea that only the pundits and experts have the right to express an opinion about the subject is not one very favorable in this forum. Do not disqualify the argument because it lacks the "proper credentials".
Everyone ignored the "don't hard-code sizes" thing. Why not, when the only devices that exist were 480x320.

I'm about to start porting my iPhone "Brainstormer" app to the iPad (along with an overhaul of the editing UI). It doesn't seem like it's going to be that much work but we'll see.
Odd, because the one thing that riles me most about reddit is its slow pageloads. It's often slow enough to make me pause to consider whether I really want to load the comments (for instance).
Not a dumb question at all.

Im working on a project to do this right now in fact, since it seeems all the open-source autocomplete implementations I can find just come down to doing a "SELECT bla where bla like bla", which is pretty slow. The one major issue is that tries are prefix-based, so it has to match starting from the beginning of the query. My sort of solution around that is to break up the terms your matching against into groups of phrases, and allow prefix matching on any of those phrases.

As a question to HN-I was planning on using Radix Trees, but now Ive read this article it seems like there might be some other good options. Are any of those structures noticeable better for storing lots of strings?
Twitter finally switched to OAuth
A large segment of the population chooses to pirate instead of pay

Is there any numbers backing this up?
An idea that came to my mind watching the keynote was that, by covering upcoming concerts, Ping could become a rather powerful way of not only notifying users of upcoming concerts, but also allowing them to buy tickets.

Apple would, of course, have to work out some arrangement with the ticket conglomerates; considering the potential market I cannot imagine this would be much of a barrier.

Imagine opening iTunes and being informed of the upcoming concerts in your area based on your listening preferences, or your friends' preferences, or even being notified that your friend is attending a concert and, hey, want to buy a ticket?

In my eye, a ticket buying feature like this would be the most game changing in the long run.
In Norway, which has a similar arrangement, you can choose between

1) 46 weeks with 100% pay

or

2) 56 weeks with 80% pay

This is capped at ~ $70 K, but in practice many employers pay people on leave their normal salary (or 80% if you choose the longer leave period).
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Just launched: http://talkMiner.com
this is a video search engine for lectures and talks. It extracts keyframes like slides, analysis them with optical character recognition, and shows them in a nice UI for quick skimming.
I think only aluminum is unquestionably profitable to collect; everything else is marginal or a loss. But yeah, there does seem to be some bait-and-switch here.