skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, exactly.

It seems pretty clear to me that this is aimed at enticing small developers who are interested in finding a way to get exposure and don't want to deal with the hassle of setting up their own licensing and billing infrastructure. It's probably great for a one-man hobbyist looking to turn a small profit on the side.

It's manifestly not going to be interesting to companies that already have mind-share and marketing arms and multiple retail channels, and why would it be? They don't need the exposure or the overhead.

That more than anything else ought to indicate that this isn't some dastardly plot to lock down the desktop.
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Sometimes the same articles get much better comments on Reddit than they do on HN. Also, for some reason, the Apple and Microsoft fanboys don't seem to be as rife there, or at least they're properly downvoted.
Nope. Yahoo Messenger video chat works on a Mac as well.
A month of BT is going to require a pretty decent sized battery. (I seem to recall 4-5 mA idle, 40-50 mA while transmitting through one of those $40 BT modules.) Call it 10 mA average--you're looking at >7 Ah over a month. Assuming primary cells, that would be two C or D cells (actually, that's not too bad).

I think $5 is low. I'd guess more like $50 each for small quantity (<500) hand assembled in the US, using an off the shelf enclosure.

Does Apple even let you have access to the Bluetooth serial port profile?
It's not so much that the LOC can't do it, but that other libraries cant't do it.
"Plant plant for restaurants"?
http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training?hl=en
This is the sort of design I like in a game; losing access to the central servers only stops features that need a central server (patches, authentication against a central account for multiplayer) and everything else keeps on working just fine.
That's not really the issue. The fact they have adblock installed makes them the type of demographic that's hard to monetize.

Whitelisting Reddit doesn't magically make them a better demographic.
Great article tho I worry that it makes raising seed $$ sound easy.
It's not a perfect solution, but it certainly beats passing around big hostfiles mapping hosts to addresses.
In my experience with business school and engineering school, EVERYONE asserts power before they earn it. Others may call it "fake it till you make it", but I would say that over-confidence and power games are rewarded in social constructs which make me (and other techies I know) very uncomfortable.
Microsoft definitely has a soft spot for blockiness and overly large fonts. There were doing this with the Kin too - I agree that it is overstyled and not the greatest interface from close-up.
No ZFS :( This would have made me move.
I'm not talking about large enterprises, I'm talking about small-to-medium creative workshops, a sector where Apple is traditionally very strong in. At my day job, we got a bunch of composers with high-end Mac Pros with Logic Pro installed on them, and believe me, we're very far from being "enterprise". We got producers, graphic designers and so on. These people would rather quit than ever use a PC. My point is, it looks like that the Mac App Store is not intended for this kind of audience, which is a shame because creatives and media people are a very core user group of the Mac, the kind of customers that were loyal to Apple even during its darkest hours in the mid-90's.
I agree, FaceMail or something would be incredibly nice, especially as I'm not always available to answer a video call, but would still like to see what's up eventually.

I guess it would be used like like YouTube, only privately. That is, often you see an event and video record it for sharing with others. FaceTime would let you share this live, and leaving a message seems a natural progression.
I'm from the US, perhaps that's why we don't see eye to eye?
Have you considered rolling any of the teaching content into an ebook or other type of self-serve information product? That might be an interesting way of leveraging the content you've collated into something that continues to sell even if you don't feel like getting up in front of someone.
I loved this series so much. It is a nice companion to this guide on creating a sick system: http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html
The ability to switch between full screen apps will be quite useful sometimes.
I don't think it sets them up to do that at all.

The rules also block things like MatLab or Photoshop, which have their own licensing schemes and updaters and downloadable plugin systems.

All of which signals that this isn't some plan to lock down the desktop; when the rules exclude the VMWares and the Photoshops and the other Things-Lots-Of-People-Use, it's a good sign that the store isn't intended to be the only game in town for software acquisition.
I'm not sure; I think it actually lowers security in two ways. One is that people just don't take it seriously any more (eg http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/images/terror-all.jpg) and teh second one is by constant reminders of being in a defensive position. For example, most BART (subway) stations in San Francisco still have their restrooms locked 'for security reasons following the September 11 attacks,' which is rather pathetic. Of course, this saves on staffing costs, and it's probably a net positive for public health considering how poorly maintained some of them were, but it's a case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

When I lived in London in the early-mid 90s the threat of terrorist bombing by the IRA and their offshoots was a constant problem - you could figure on a significant commuter train delay at least once every two weeks. Mostly they were false alarms, but real bombings were just frequent enough to make caution a necessity even though casualties were low - arguably the most effective result for the terrorists was to disrupt with a bomb but phone in a warning ahead so that there would not be any casualties, or detonate one where there were not many people. But although it was a constant problem and there were lots of warning signs of the 'be alert!' variety, I didn't feel the sort of theatrical approach I do here. That changed later, after a variety of both terrorist and ordinary criminal incidents were solved with the aid of CCTV video, and the UK went insane for CCTV, putting up so many cameras that (to me, at least) London started to feel like a prison camp. I think over-reliance on technology is part of the problem here. I don't mind seeing a lot of uniformed police or security personnel about, even though many of them may be more for display than anything else. But what I see in the US right now is lots of security devices like magnetic gates and so on, plus the same number of (usually bored) uniformed personnel to man them. These have become so ubiquitous that in Washington DC people can no longer walk up the steps into the Supreme Court, they have to enter via a side entrance where the magnetometer gates (or whatever they're called) are installed. At least one justice has complained about the small but symbolically significant failure implied when people can't walk into the nation's highest court (the rather lame response has been that people can still exit via the famed steps, so justice is seen to be be in the building that way...whoopee). What we have here is a case of 'nondurable precautions' - putting a machine in there to avert liability, because while machines may be no more reliable than humans, if a failure occurs it's much easier to blame the machine and diffuse the liability than to scapegoat someone for being closest point of failure, even if they were truly at fault.
I would say value for the money is not the primary challenge. Expertise is expertise.

You are buying a specialized marketing campaign, hopefully devoted to raising your targeted organic traffic from search engines.

You should expect to pay the consultant's hourly rate. You might receive recommendations for other services like content creation or link building, either performed by the consultant, or sourced on your own.

You don't have to pay a monthly retainer. I would preferably make an RFP to several seo firms for a proposal that outlines their approach to your site. Generally, you are looking at an engagement of longer than 1 month. Like any marketing campaign, testing and measuring is crucial to best results.

http://www.woorank.com will show you how you stack up, and give you some hints, but if you "need" SEO and you have other duties, and you have budget, hire this out. You likely will not outrank me if you are brand new to the techniques.

Auomated services will give you some tips, that will undoubtedly improve your rankings. Submitting forms will not give you an understanding of how to align business goals with search engine algorithms. Nor will it show you how to determine a worthwhile link from a crap one. SEO is a real discipline, a sophisticated art, and a process for repeating results that has been improved over dozens of iterations by the consultant.

SEO and SEM are not unrelated but they success in 1 has little to no causation of success in the other one. SEO and SEM are often connected by the same consultant. I do both.

You should bid SEM and SEO out separately, if somebody bids on both, you could seek a discount. EXPERTISE IN ONE DOES NOT MEAN EXPERTISE IN THE OTHER.

Wizards explain what they are going to do and why, just not how.

In my experience, the better SEO's treat the process more like a developer would bid for a contract programming project i.e. Scope, specs, change orders, deiverables, etc. If you feel like the potential hire is kind of talking like his magic is just going to rub off on your site.

It is perfectly legit to pay another consultant to evaluate your proposal.
> But Nordstroms doesn't own the city. Apple does.

Er, no they don't. This is about the completely optional Mac App Store.

To extend the metaphor, there's a Macy's next door and a Farmer's Market across the street.
When I built my PC, I was having a problem hooking up my optical drive so I thought "I just want this to work now, I'll hook up the optical drive later". It's been over a year later and I still haven't connected it.
Apps will, according to the keynote, be licensed like iOS apps, for all your personal computers.
Curious, what do you like so much about Adium? I find it quite the abomination in terms of user experience (ex the Preferences).

iChat is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
nice ... could be a fun concept on a bored night!
Weird, I always thought you were OP. Guess I should click those usernames more often.
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That's a disappointing attitude. Let me give you a great counterexample.

Chrome was initially a completely fork of Webkit, but Google eventually chose to work with Apple and merge all of their changes to the Webkit trunk. This was only possible because Webkit, unlike Android, allows outsiders to commit.

The costs of maintaining a fork of a project as large as Webkit (or Android) are so huge, even Google didn't want to bear them for long. The benefits of the merge are huge for all users. Not only does Chrome continue to get Apple's changes downstream, like CSS transforms, but Safari gets Google's changes, like web sockets. In Android today, this sort of collaboration would be impossible.
If you sell products through an llc do you have to pay social security on it?
Ask HN: Any stats on success of single versus married founders?
Are there any stats on the success rate of startups for single versus married founders?

If there are no general stats out there, what has your experience been, based on startups you have known personally and via friends and colleagues?
This whole notion that Reddit is one personality is ridiculous. Reddit has idiots, philanthropists, rapists, and startup founders. And those probably overlap.
I'd like a little notebook like this new Macbook Air, it would fits my needs for a thin portable client to replace my actual macbook (I ssh a lot to remote workstation when I need horsepower, coding and so on).

Still something puzzles me:

* No Ethernet. I really can't trust Airport, i have a 13" Macbook and sometimes Airport fails hard (without mentioning the speed transfer).

* No upgradable. I understand the design choices behind this nice netbook (or whatever), but what if the ssd breaks? Or the ram? I'd need to buy a new one.

Maybe my needs would be better fitted by a standard netbook. The truth I am ashamed to confess is that I am too confortable with OSX.
I've been using Hazel with OS X for a while now to further facilitate my bordering on obsessive compulsive desire to keep my machine clean. Hazel takes care of preference files etc. that can be left over after trashing a piece of software on OS X.

I still remember the moment it dawned on me that my new Mac didn't have a registry, I think I almost shed a tear of joy.
In a lot of ways I think the web has informed this. You could describe this as the desktop fighting back.

Obviously many of the web genes have come via the ipad/iphone.
I was watching some documentary on TV about an online porn company, and they were talking about several billion page views. It was one of the youtube knockoffs. All served up, for free. The guy said it was the best way to advertise and the site made money, i'm assuming through affiliate links. I've no idea how you serve up billions of page views (presumably with heavy photo/video content) and still make money. The conversion rates must be high.

The porn side of the internet is something people rarely talk about, but they must have some sharp developers working on some really tricky scaling problems.
> if I used induction incorrectly, I could probably still trick them into thinking it's a valid proof because it looks like induction.

You mean like this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_horses_are_the_same_color

My college calculus professor used this example when she was teaching induction.
You have to pay social security on every dime up to $120,000 you personally make. Doesn't matter if you make it through an Sole Proprietorship, LLC, C-Corp or S-Corp.

Although in Amy's case, she may not have to pay any living in Vienna. But I'm sure the US Gov't get it's share.
Then I really suggest a redesign of that site to emphasize the design services and to make it look less scammy than it does right now.
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Fundraising Hacks: Interview with Naval Ravikant of AngelList
More impressive than the gross number is the 4x growth in Freckle subscription billing YTD, that is outstanding - $3k to $12k in 10 months.

Lesson learned from experience - when you've got a tiger by the tail like that drop everything, hyper focus on marketing, experiment with paid promotion, partnerships, affiliates, a/b testing, etc.

If you maintain your revenue growth rate for another year you can do anything else you want, and it's a great product that's got the ability to scale.
Never knew Paul Graham began as an artist. I'm not that surprised though. Art and programming are both forms of creative expression.
> He's arguing a point that nobody cares about.

Right, that's why it's been in the top 5 of HN for two days.

> Even RMS is probably saying, "You're being a bit pedantic here[...]"

Have you ever read a word of RMS? :P

His position would be that Hewitt is being insufficiently pedantic, particularly with regard to the complete closed-ness of the hardware and manufacturer/carrier-specific software.
It's a good idea, I was musing something similar recently actually.

So, you want to use a sensor type that a common smartphone can read, BT and Wifi seem to be the best choices.

Power wouldn't be a major issue, they would be plugged in to a wall outlet, or possibly even powered from a PoE line.

My mind is thinking about triangulation and the like. If the BT devices were networked, I believe you could have them transmitting an ID and a medium resolution time stamp. The phone would also have to be using network time and you could get a fairly accurate triangulation (again, I think, this part is far from my speciality).

There is a lot of merit to this idea. You could roll this into something to do with digital signage and advertising as well. As stores in a mall come and go, they have to update directories. You could build a system to let a mall auto-update it's layout maps as tenants change.
Needs it's own email validation system otherwise you just type in crap and harvest the email addresses.

I would use FB Connect to validate the user, show a profile pic, and create a less anarchic community compared to (chatroulette)
Another great interview, Andrew. I think it's the combination of fantastic guests, and you asking the really interesting questions (that are often somewhat uncomfortable), and sort of harping on them a bit until you get it across. That's what I tend to do also.

I want to give some negative feedback too: I read the transcript this time instead of watching. (1). It was a little slow to start, so I skimmed a bit near the beginning, but it quickly got interesting (I don't know how to fix this - I do the same thing with many great theatlantic articles). (2). One reason I read the transcript was that I do feel a little uncomfortable with the probing questions - but that's also what I value most. (so again I can't offer a solution). (3). Another reason to not watch the video is that I feel really uncomfortable when you look away from the guest while they are talking (while eg. googling something) - it feels really rude (even though I know it's not). And for this one, I have a solution to suggest! I think it's really demanding on you to maintain eye-contact throughout a long interview, and TV interviewers don't need to do this, because it's edited to cut between the interviewer and guest. So it's your format, of showing both heads, that creates this problem. So a simple solution is to just cut to the guest when you google or otherwise need to look away (assuming your video software has a hotkey for that).

Anyway, the ratio of my negative vs. positive comment length doesn't reflect my opinion, which was that this was another excellent interview - thanks very much!
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To expand on my point from last time:

Android source code is licensed under the GPL and Apache licenses and therefore the source code is open for developers.

The Android project isn't really developed in the open therefore the process is closed for most developers.

Most Android hardware is carrier locked, has proprietary firmware, or has proprietary services loaded on top and therefore is closed for users.
Yeah, I was using a bit of hyperbole with RMS. Taking someone who is the most pedantic about naming, e.g., GNU/Linux, and most extreme about what freedom and openness is, and then making a joke that he even thinks Joe has taken it too far.
It's easy to point out fanboys we disagree with. A better mental tool might be reflecting upon yourself and finding out what you might be a fanboy of, what are you irrationally attached to that you will defend vehemently, even when at odds with reason?

Once you discover the object of your irrational affection, try to sympathize with those irrationally at odds with it (i.e. haters, detractors, bashers, the Other fanboy, etc.)
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Interesting OpenCV filters

http://code.google.com/p/unlogo/source/browse/trunk/projects...
My apologies - I thought you'd moved on to other things !
Apple extends its Video calling to Mac
It's mostly static content, I assume. They probably just use a CDN. It's relatively easy to scale when you don't have dynamic stuff.
Ask HN: I'm an experienced developer but I don't understand the internet
I'm a seasoned developer (mainly VFX & desktop apps), but I'd like to learn how to make web apps and would like to learn by making a simple flickr clone. What advice/resources/technologies would you guys recommend for starting out?

Dunning-Kruger effect aside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect), I'm hoping it will be easy to ramp up since I'm not new to development. (Altho I hate database work so i'm sure this will get interesting really fast)

Here's what I gleaned from fellow programmers: Python, Google Apps, NoSQL: plus. MS ACS/Azure: expensive.

Thanks in advance
For what it's worth, I whipped this up in about an hour. It just keeps track of who's actively looking for a FaceTime hookup and grabs one.

Coincidentally, this entire app is dumb as hell. I love it so much.
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How do you measure "complex or less than very good" user interfaces?
I just use Visor with the terminal (not iTerm) and it works fine for me.
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Seems pretty much an Apple netbook, but 2-3-4-5 times the price.

Jobs said they weren't interested in that market because too cut-price, but now it's died down a bit.

It will be interesting to see if Apple ease-of-use etc will be enough to win yet another market - I think it might.
Very true indeed. I can't remember the last time, if at all, I have used the optical drive on my computer. Over the last few years I've migrated all my music CD, and movie DVD to digital format. I no longer own a DVD player (attached to my TV), nor do I plan on getting a BluRay player. Ah, the age of digital media has arrived.
Depending on the seed. They didn't use plant seeds that were particularly impact resilient. Nuts are extremely impact resilient, using them in these pods could not only provide re-forestation, but also provide an economic source.

However, IMO the best thing we could be doing is taking areas of desertified land and fighting it. Place moisture traps connected to irrigation pipes and grow grass, just plain old grass to bind nutrients. Spread the grass and in desert areas you'll be catching dew every morning in the traps and the grass will itself.

Once you've spread the grass, spread shrubs. The Caragana arborescens is a miracle plant for these purposes. It traps moisture, it acts as a windbreak (stopping desertification), it provides a food source (peas), it's fast growing, it's a dense-spreader. Another benefit is that it can support honey bees, which again provide food but also could increase fertility of any future farm plantations.
You should really make users verify their email addresses.
And while everything you say may be true, I still don't think most people care. In fact, I'm fairly certain most people don't care. Ask your average developer, much less consumer, the difference between Chrome and Android with respect to openess and you'll probably get blank stares.

Clearly Google doesn't think the benefits of public commits outweighs the costs, otherwise it would economically make sense. Additionally I suspect given the current state of mobile OS development vs browser development they probably realize that public contributions would be fewer and of less general utility than what we've seen with browsers.

I still think the fact that one can pick up Android, even if it is just 2.2 today, and build it, and port it to any device they want, and rip out any code they like, and add any code they like is a pretty reasonable definition of open -- at least given that openness is a gradient and not absolute term.
I think the primary thing that Apple has denigrated about netbooks (if not in words, then in actions) has been the cut-rate price. The previous MacBook air was pretty netbook-y as well, in every way but price. The new one is cheaper, but it's still about three eeePCs-worth in price.
The best thing about an optical drive in a laptop is that in many laptops it is a bay so you can easily rip it out and shove a hard drive in there. This is so much more convenient and fast for doing backups or migrating OSes, or just hedging your bets on disk size (small SSD + huge platter is a great combo). Of course, this wouldn't apply to a Mac ...
Best takeaway: "... compressing his chest to the rhythm of the Bee Gees' Staying Alive with the phone operator counting along with me. No, I'm not being funny. The rhythm of that song is ideal for CPR."