skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A service already exists for this -- http://psd2html.com . Not trying to dissuade you from doing it yourself, but you should take a look at them (I've used them in the past -- it's about $100-200 for basic pages, and was totally worth it as it saved me a few hours of work).
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Does your startup rely on creating copyrighted works as part of its business model? Congratulations, using pirated software makes you hypocrites.

(If it doesn't, you've still got the ethical and legal issues discussed here to deal with.)
There's a quote that I can't source at the moment to the effect that "In any reasonable sized group of people there are 10% that are incorruptibly good and 10% that are irredeemably bad and the other 80% will do what the leaders do." If you've got an organization where the leaders think it's okay to pirate software then you've also got an organization where it's okay to not pay suppliers on time or be honest about how much runway is left or any number of other things. It means you can't trust those people. Now there are plenty of monetarily successful organization that run on fear and paranoia and some people can excel in that world. But if you're expecting a bonus or a promotion because someone looked you in the eye and promised it, well, get used to disappointment. The article isn't making a slippery slope argument, it's saying that you're already there, you just might not know it yet.
Exactly, while they might not be as powerful as others, there are definitely free versions of these floating around that are more than able.

The GIMP to replace PS: http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape to replace Illustrator: http://inkscape.org/

Both of these are really good tools and you don't have to worry about any licensing constraints. The only piece of the puzzle that I haven't found an F/OSS version of is for animation.
No, I didn't mean to imply that he wasn't. Just the phrasing seemed particularly sinister, although certainly unintentional, but still funny... at least to me.
Using an educational license for commercial purposes is still copyright infringement.
Related: Erlang/OTP R14B01 Released today: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B01.readme
"The crime may be just as bad, or worse perhaps, but it's not "stealing"."

Is identity theft stealing? You are merely borrowing someone's information. The original information is never gone, only copied.

I also don't know what you are getting at. It seems most people insist it's not stealing to make it seem like it's alright.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...
I'm going to say.. absolutely not. Success takes sacrifice. If that means things are lean for a bit while you save for Creative Suite/Visual Studio/other expensive software, then so be it. Make your software and/or service pay for that software tenfold.

And of course there is the whole point-the-gun-in-your-own-direction argument. But others in this thread have already covered that sufficiently.
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I'm in love with Mockingbird....such a great product for a non-designer to make mockups that look sharp.
I'd also add it is upsetting to see engineers and comp sci grads head off into finance to build credit default swaps and binary exotic options instead of, as you said, working on things that really matter. I'm guilty of it myself, but escaped 2 years ago and started a company to help soon to graduate students find cool companies, rather than just those that can come to campus.

I believe the reason for the Wall St / hedge fund path is the promise of working in a challenging work environment, solving difficult problems, and earning a lot of coin. The first two wore off for me after 2ish years and the financial crisis detracted from the last. They can be a persuasive siren song though and it is easy to settle when there aren't a lot of other options that are immediately available.
The article isn't making a slippery slope argument, it's saying that you're already there, you just might not know it yet.

I'm sorry but you think that anyone who pirates software regardless of the circumstances is also a person who routinely looks people in the eye and makes false promises? This is a ridiculous premise that should require no refutation.
It doesn't solve the photoshop problem, but microsoft has a program that more or less is to assuage small company guilt about needing to pirate their tools.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.asp...

As low as $200-$300 a year buys you 10 "evaluation only" licenses of most microsoft desktop and server software including office, windows, server, visual studio, exchange etc. The air quotes are more or less microsoft's there - they would rather have your company use cheap microsoft tools than go to open source equivalents. I've heard microsoft sales reps recommend technet plus subscriptions to startups for just that very purpose several times.
I'd argue that on the surface everything seems different but that underneath that surface more of it remains than you might think.

I've lived 'east' of Berlin for a while and still spend quite a bit of time there and in Romania and this particular sentiment strikes me every time I'm there. In the big cities the differences are large but outside not nearly as much if at all. Poverty is still quite present and the fat cats have found ways of getting fatter.

At least it's gotten easier for people to get around, provided they have the means of doing so.
> Most interesting opinions come from experience. If the author has never built anything significant, perhaps they ought to stop and consider where their opinions come from.

The problem is that 90% of open-source libraries ARE small-to-medium size projects like the ones I've built. I didn't say I'm new to open source (I've released numerous successful projects) or even argue that for many big complex projects the GPL or other copyleft licenses are the wrong way to go. I'm simply stating that for projects like the ones I build the GPL is more likely to reduce user adoption than help build a contributing community.

> This assumes that the same people contributing code would refuse to do so if the project was GPL-licensed

Not at all. I can't think of a reason that someone would refuse to contribute to an open source project because it was under the GPL. However, my argument is that many people will never even start using a library to begin with if they don't want to put up with the licensing headaches entailed with GPL.

> This is also wrong. The AGPL is, like the GPL, a copyright license. It only applies if the remote application (or derived data) is itself being sent to a client.

I'm not extremely well versed in the AGPL, I'll concede. Are you saying that someone could build a fork of Diaspora (say Facebook forked it and rewrote their entire site on top of it), made it available to the public without releasing the source and it would be compliant with the AGPL? If so, I retract my statements about the AGPL, but I'm under a different impression.
I used to work at OT when Glazer was there, and I attended a workshop once where he gave a talk. Very impressive guy -- I remember thinking "I want to work for the company that guy's working for!"
By arbitrarily accepting or rejecting clients, they essentially determine the existence or lack thereof of these organizations. In the same way that Google has suffered legal action for alleged manipulation of search results (though I must credit them for being very consistent in that regard), MasterCard should also be accountable as not just an actor in a market, but a gatekeeper.

A market that's guarded by a couple of monolithic entities with similar interests is not open, and without credit card transactions a lot of international business is essentially impossible. I believe that's too critical an issue to be left to the whims of corporations.

The situation would be very different if we had dozens of easily available credit card providers who would take our money with no hassles. Whether you consider that a failure of the states or the corporations is no the issue at hand. The problem is one of assigning too much power to aisngle entity.
I (a UK developer) just dealt with a company who were interested in my Pretext software, which finds text in images. I rang at 2PM their time when I rang, and when his development committee finally rejected me after a month of waiting, he said "You have written very capable and useful software - however, we want to develop in-house", I was polite and said goodbye, etc.

Everything to gain. Nothing lost but a couple transatlantic phone calls.
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If I have sensitive (and confidential) health records about my family members and someone steals them and posts them on the web, is that freedom of speech? Do I have the right to get them taken down, or in this case shut the website down?

If my company is working on a new product containing details we consider secret, is it OK to post those on the web?

If the gov't has secrets that could compromise our national security, is that Ok to post on the web?

How do we determine where to draw the line?
Just to update further. It requires something more than what's in the tweets and will not be done for some time. Ugh. I keep getting that block when searching.
If anyone isn't aware of Microsoft's BizSpark program, you should definitely check it out. Basically all of MS's software free for 2 years for startups. This has helped my start up a lot, and makes good sense for them, I think.
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This title is link bait, these are not "low-tech iPads" these are dry erase boards. There is no comparison.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions
What kind of content was put in the CDN?
GIMP might be an alternative, but it might not be a realistic or cheaper alternative.
Don't use privacy as a strawman for censorship. Individuals and corporations have a right to privacy. That does not conflict with censorship.
Must things have "iPad" attached to them for no reason? "iPad" is nowhere in the article, nor even alluded to. News sources do this often enough, does it really need to be done here when even they didn't stoop so low?

Real title:

>WhiteyBoards Introduces the Next Generation In Dry Erase Technology: The WhiteyNotes and WhiteyPads
Of course not! You're trying to sell software right?

If you had some customers at your startup coming to you and saying "Well, we want to use your software, but we don't like your pricing, so we're just going to pirate it instead, is that OK?"

Would you say "Sure, go ahead, we just charge a price for the fun of it"? If not, then you know that it's not OK. If yes, WTF?!?!
I do this too.

In my opinion whether you're wasting time comes down to how you're solving the problem. You shouldn't be doing the same thing over and over again. If possible you should be learning something new about your application or the libraries you are using. You should be taking notes because you will probably run into this problem again.
At a point in time when it was unclear to Paypal whether or not all of the money was fraudulently obtained and was going to be charged back, that action seems perfectly reasonable.
"Finally, many Racket tools depend Racket’s “eventspaces,” which are multiple process-like entities in the same virtual machine, each with its own GUI event loop. Implementing eventspaces on top of modern GUI toolkits turns out to be tricky, because the toolkits insist on a single event-loop per process and they cannot tolerate event-loop actions during certain callbacks."

I can not wait until this is fixed. I can't hardly use toolkits anymore because I keep insisting on programming in languages with sane concurrency stories and that drives the toolkits insane.

(I fully acknowledge the scope of my request and further fully acknowledge that this will almost certainly require something written from scratch. And that writing a toolkit from scratch is a tall order. And that now's a bad time to start trying because the alternate concurrency stories are in flux and it's not really a great plan to write something that works in Haskell but can't work in Erlang or Racket. And also now's not the best time because the very graphical underpinnings in Unix are now being called into question and, given that this is a multiyear project, it could build on X only for X to be on its way out.

But still, I can't wait.)
Here is the link for BizSpark:
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

From the FAQ:
Who is eligible for BizSpark?
Eligibile Startups must be:
Actively engaged in development of a software-based product or service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business. Startups cannot be in the business of providing services to others such as hosting, Website development, system integration, IT support services or outsourced development. For a full description of the terms of the BizSpark Program click here to view the program guide.
Privately held
In business for fewer than 3 years. Startups that are actively engaged in software development but have not yet completed the formalities of establishing a business are also eligible for entry into BizSpark.
Bringing in less than US $1 million in annual revenue. This requirement has been adjusted to add local variances calibrated to local economic conditions in the Startup’s place of business. If a Startup’s place of business is not listed below, then the revenue limit is US$1 million.
When we're specifically talking about how fast your typical GUI app can render toolbars and such, and the app in question sits idle waiting on user input 99% of the time, then that's a wonderful tradeoff.

If you're doing number crunching or heavy 3d, then it requires further thought, but if the code in question isn't one of your CPU usage hot points the conciser code is totally worth it.
Interesting. Can you look at any logo or webpage and tell how long the designer spent on the mockup?
My experience with WhiteyBoard was cool, but disappointing after a while. Installing was really easy, it was big and it was easy to write on. The problem came later: Stuff I had written weeks ago had become pretty much impossible to erase without a lot of effort, which made it useless to me. I'm not sure if this is true of boards in general or it's a whiteyboard thing though.
I remember well what happened when I first saw this: I tried running the text browser via my telnet session, thought "this sucks", and went back to using gopher.

Then at some point Wired magazine removed their archives from gopher and put them on WWW. At first I was like "fuck you Wired" but then I was like "actually this WWW thing isn't so bad after all."
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The conflict with Israel is just a tiny fraction of the issues behind the Middle East problems.

Much more substantial were the efforts of the US government to overthrow moderate regimes for hardlines who would support them, as well the UK's efforts to deliberately screw up the decolonization efforts by drawing up national boundaries with no regards to the inhabitants' will.

It's complex, but it's ridiculously easy to see where things were wrong, and you don't need the hindsight either.
From what I understand SalesForce totally shafted Sitemasher's customers by shutting the service down a month of so after the acquisition. At least with Heroku you can move to another hosting provider. Sitemasher was a closed-system "build a web application without programming!" type of service. So I'd actually start worrying about the short-term right now.
For me, only the main page is fuzzy. If I go to an article, the fonts are fine.
I read it in a condescending tone like "Yes, the big boys are here, time to do your dog and pony show"
I think I remember a lean-back version. Are any of these still around?
I don't think you "screwed" anything. You can't force a relationship, and it is a waste of time to think about the email you didn't send. Had you sent it and got no reply, would you feel better? How about the email they didn't send? Maybe they are the ones who "screwed"?

"Still what could've been. Is better than what could never be at all" -- Tiffany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzGss9QGAk
I could go for some Mikado...
To be fair, this is probably a one-time story that Woz told and the journalist saw it fit to paint him as a loon.
Yeah, we were trying to coordinate that. Jonathan was anxious to get me up there and thought I'd be a big hit with the Writely guys who he seemed to hold in very high regard. But he had to fly back to New York (we were in SF at the time for the conference), then he had some other trip and then it just got complicated. That's why he just decided to pass me up the ladder, but in the end that clearly didn't work to my advantage.
I agree. I actually read this as WhiteyBoard releases iPad app for $8.
Friends don't let friends use floating point numbers.

Computers are so darn fast today that there is no excuse for not using an arbitrary precision library. Floating point should be thought of as an optimization, not as a default.

Unless you are writing DSP code (in which case this article should be nothing new), don't use floating point!
Presumably Google was looking to speed up time to market.

If the acquisition process takes too long, they are not saving time (they could have coded it internally) and they have plenty of engineers already.
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Neat. I've been waiting a long time for them to start implementing all the advanced operators from Alta Vista ;)
I think there are many people who, given the chance, would not do business with WikiLeaks (on the grounds that their actions are perceived to be against the US national interest and potentially putting lives in danger). So I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that this would be "generally understood ... to be against the social contract."
In most cases, I think one will find "unaffordable" to mean a lack of will. Except in unusual cases, shouldn't an essential piece of software effectively be affordable at any cost for a viable business? It might require a deeper initial investment, but one must spend money to make money, right? I'm inclined to view a company's promise to pay upon success as an indication of lack of confidence. If one feels strongly about the model, make the debt visible. Furthermore, if the software really is too expensive, doesn't that seem like a business opportunity in itself?
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Good point, definitely aware. But, I have zero-overhead and am quit fast so $15/page is possible for me. And, of course it would be my intention to deliver equal quality work as those services.
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I am amused they put their comparison sheet in a funky excel file: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/7/8/C78DB720-88CB-4...

That's just silly if people are coming to your site to get office.
> Unfortunately, this will not happen in time for the release date of Firefox 4.

Then why release? Why release a product that is clearly not ready? Think about the developers for a second!
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Ask HN: I need SEO advice
I have done seo on a friend's web site. The main keywords we are targeting "Birmingham Movers." the main thing i did is add keywords to title, h1 tag, and throughout the text.

anyway, his page is stuck at the top of the 4th page of results (on web and more importantly places)... any idea on how to get it up higher?

the most obvious thing is quality backlinks, but I am at a loss for how to do that. any ideas?

http://www.awisemoveinc.com/
If you're a small business and people can take their money elsewhere, that's one thing, if you're one of two giant corporations providing a vital service, that's another.
Have you tried using rubbing alcohol to clean them? This happens to nearly all dry erase boards, and those spray bottles are mostly alcohol.

About the only way to stop this from happening is to use glass. And even that can get hard to remove in time, but it always comes off completely with a little alcohol, where normal whiteboards can still leave ghosts. Though glass does have the uncomfortable attribute of giving you a bit of double-vision (if on something white, marks leave shadows), or having poor contrast (if it's suspended with no back).
Draw new lines over the old lines, then erase. The solvent in the marker works better than any cleaner.
The wildcard operator – * – is close to what you want:

http://www.googleguide.com/wildcard_operator.html

UPDATE: and someone just posted about the AROUND() operator, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983930
Suffice it to say (and for mostly unrelated reasons), he didn't get accepted.

Maybe it's more of an American idiom, but usually when we say "suffice it to say", we mean it was for related reasons :)
> t would be nice if there was a program by the major software vendors that a small company just starting out could get a 2yr grace period on licensing and then pay a small overage when the time was up.

As has been mentioned numerous times on this page. Microsoft has such a program. It's called http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
Just because the issue of race is still emotionally charged doesn't mean there isn't an equivalence to freedom of information and protection of whistleblowers.
That's why I'm building Appignite now. It's something I want for myself and I know it's something other people need. I'll definitely talk in-depth about that in my "Lessons Learned from Preezo" post. Stay tuned. ;)
I don't have any experience with Scheme, but the argument was on whether a GUI written in Scheme would be unacceptably slow. A synthetic benchmark measuring AFAIK mostly number crunching suggests nothing about GUI performance.
Depends on the type of website. The idea is to get a representative view of the type of content your website delivers. So, if you are into downloads of large movies, we could put a custom test object to suit those needs, if you are doing thumbnails, it would be different.

In this case it was a small http object.

Happy to answer any other questions you might have: prakash@cedexis.com
I know it's early, but so far the Chrome Web Store confuses me a little bit, in that almost all the ones I tried were nothing more than a bigger shortcut to the regular website/webapp. I feel that anything that's on the web could be in the Web Store with just the right manifest file.

So isn't it like all Cappuccino Apps could be in the Web Store right away? Does the Web Store make them that much different? (I do see that PicsEngine integrates single sign-on with a Google account, but this is relatively minor in my opinion)
1. Facebook hits 500M users by Q3 2010.

2. Facebook makes a huuuge mobile push

3. Facebook acquires Foursquare or Brightkite

4. Hulu emphasizes the social layer to tv watching.

5. MySpace has a major overhaul

6. Someone will finally make it easy for small businesses to get online

7. Social gaming companies evolve out of facebook.com

8. Electronic Arts “socializes” some of their top games

9. Physical P2P credit card transactions/money transfers don’t take off

10. Twitter undergoes a major re-org design wise.
that's the obvious reply, but it fails for two reasons:

1) SERPs are not fixed; they vary from month to month, and even from day to day as new sites and pages appear and are added to the mix. This is akin to the houses on a street changing order frequently, and ruins the analogy

2) SERPs differ between terms - you and I might be adjacent for "cheap widgets" but for "budget widgets" the SERP might look entirely different. This is akin to shops having a million doors, each on different streets, and ruins the analogy.