skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woopra: Where Analytics is Heading
Facebook to Push “Useful” Applications with “Apps You May Like”
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The GPL isn't a EULA. It is a document that gives you additional rights if you happen to be a redistributor.
Maybe Apple is just being Machiavellian...

"In any case, the iPhone is Apple's best shot at killing Flash, and Apple appears happy to be using it as such...Excluding Flash is a huge slap in the face of Adobe, which is pushing Flash as the basis of its AIR and Flex web application strategies. Adobe likes to advertise that nearly every PC has a Flash plugin installed. Suddenly, nearly every mobile that has access to the real Internet won't have Flash, making it far less attractive across the board."

"Were Flash Lite to gain momentum, it might make Adobe the Microsoft of mobiles, and Flash Lite the new Windows. That also makes it obvious why Apple wants to choke Flash to death before it falls into position as the new lowest common denominator in proprietary platforms on a new crop of mobile devices."

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/879DD82D-559...
It doesn't sound too plausible to me. It's only a revenue leak if the flash applications are going to stop people from paying money for Apps at the App store. But I think flash would mostly be used for free stuff, and would only really compete with the free Apps in the app store.
Where Are We in The Enterprise 2.0 Wave?
Agreed. If you don't mind having another window open, Safari's developer menu is pretty powerful.
Microsoft Testing Prototype of Internal Social Network
Would you say that most of what PG says also can be discounted by your logic? If you're capable of writing one of the first successful web/e-commerce sites and creating a new Lisp dialect and starting a new type of venture firm and writing popular essays, chances are....
Between the tagline ("For Executives, Entrepreneurs, and other Digerati who need to know about SaaS and Web 2.0.") and the photo, I knew this wasn't a post worth reading.

Also, this is nice: "Java is an interpreted language. The JVM is the Java interpreter."
I don't see why anyone would want flash on their iPhone to be honest.

Video works fine on the iphone with youtube etc, and that's only really useful if you're on wifi.

Also as far as I know you can do quicktime video on the iPhone.
If you look at the screenshot on the techcrunch article it says they'll be able to show salary by location and years of experience when they have more data.
indeed. if they could get both url + title in a line (like gmail) that would fix it's horrible visual looks. there's also the fact that sometimes my computer is a bit too slow to lookup favicons for the links in the awesome bar causing things to look even more horrible.
Make your users happy both online and offline
Thanks, that sounds useful, I'll keep it in mind.
Steve Jobs: it's time we design our own iPhone and iPod chips
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Its actually £100 for the 8GB from their website: http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone
I think the problem with such an approach is its easy to lose your motivation. So you put off working a day here, a day there, and then 5 years later you are still in development.

At least when you go all in, you get that extra drive to get your project in gear.

And yes the failure/success rate is not talked about, but I would venture a guess that the guys who work on their start ups full time, have a higher success rate(even if its only a few %) than the guys who do it part time between work, going to home depot, and tending to their garden
They really should do one of two things:

1) Throw AdWords on their fail page

2) Make it a contest; for example if you happen to spot the special green Fail Whale, you win an iPod.
Why do you want a shared hosting company in a specific area? You can manage your hosting just fine no matter their location if it's shared.

And Dreamhost is the king of shared hosting. Fast, cheat, great customer service, employee-owned.
Death of Flash, mobile Java and Silverlight... this is so awesome, go Apple go!
Thanks for pointing that out.

I wonder what their collection threshold is before they begin publishing this data. I imagine it could be a static number or a percentage based on the population and industry in the locale.
This is what I am doing with http://timefo.com . I have a day job, and I do Timefo at night and on weekends, and still have a life. I have hesitated to outright list it on HN as an "Ask HN" item, but let's just see what happens with this comment... My main concern is that I don't have a lot of time for support, so that is why I have not publicized it more widely.
I think all the things you've objected to are 'local minimums' of some cost function.

We have Windows because it was popular, then snowballed. We have C because it was the best systems language for the 'best' computers of its day, the PDP's.

It seems that between people clustering to a local minimum, and momentum, we often get 'stuck' on less than perfect technologies.

I'm sure if we started all over again, we would encounter similar problems.
Kevin Kelly: Communal Genius
Modern Apple Extended II Keyboard shows how not to revive a great product
The person on the video touched on this. Most of the safety features of a car have nothing to do with the skin. If the innards are the same as regular cars, I'd be willing to bet passengers in this car would be just as safe.
While I'm no flash fanboy, I will say that the crux is dead on. Apple is all about razor blades.. They'll sell you a iPhone or an iPod and the find a way to extract lots of small dollars from the sale of music or applications for your device.

Putting a full featured version of flash on the device would be a trivial way to avoid the Apple store, load your Kongregate (or other casual app core) then you've got access to that whole development community and disenfranchise Apple in the process.

Right now as long as you're shopping the isles of wallmart (oh, Apple.com) for your applications they can insure that you get no free stuff and have to pay for everything, thus controlling the pipe and the revenue.
We weren't talking about most software projects though, we were talking about most startups. At least I was, and so was the original article.
This might be my ignorance of virtual machines, but what prevents vm authors to compile bytecode into asm??
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214221
could you possible use this to generate content for your site that wouldn't be penalized as being 'duplicate content'? wonder if google has a reverse filter (or index) of content created in this way to penalize computer generated text..etc...
There's no free lunch - especially when Apple and AT&T are the restauranteurs and servers. But, for some the incremental cost is easy to forget because they are getting such a "deal" on the hardware. IMHO the $20 all you can eat was a steal - I was already paying $44 a month for BB service and web browser that did more to tick me off then it ever did to make me happy. But the iPhone 3G at $35 (now that I've been trained to love to txt folks when I used to just email or pin) is just not. Though I'm sure they'll still sell a cubic bucketload.
Indeed, most of them simply say you have no rights whatsoever. In 30 sections.
Jobs might be underestimating the difficulty of designing chips and the experience of some of the companies that currently help design and produce the chips in their devices. Apple may have some of the world's most brilliant engineers, but Intel, Samsung, and some of the other makers have a great deal more experience in these areas.

Apple will get it done, but it'll be rockier than he expects and could even affect quality.
I heard they're coming out with a black version of this but it will be $100 more.
I call BULLSHIT!
Same could be said about Javascript. But as far as I know, IPhone has Javascript.
To install ANYTHING on iPhone you need to get apple's approval and have apple distribute it for you. iPhone won't run anything without the Apple private key.

Which means if you want to install a JVM or Flash VM you need to install the VM onto iPhone apple won't let you. If you compile the Java bytecode into C-code (as GCJ does) you still have the problem of actually installing that compiled code onto the iPhone.
You make some good points, but I think this debate has been run round and round enough that I just want to see more data.

> DHH didn't write the best web framework in the world. Rails is nice, but it isn't a prohibitively awesome technical achievement. If you set the technical bar at "Rails 1.0", most of the programmer posters here can clear it.

Rails was perhaps not quite as technically hard as other things, but in terms of putting together the right technology at the right time, it was brilliantly successful, far more than most products anyone here will release. So in terms of shining some light on basecamp, Rails was far more successful than doing something technically great, but obscure.
Yes, it's what blackhat SEOers do everyday.
I agree with what you mean but not what you say. If you sign a real contract without reading it you're still responsible. The only thing is that EULAs are pretty far from a real contract. And I doubt the cat argument would stand in court.
This piece in a lot of ways reads like a hack piece, but I'd like to point out the author's repeated examples of Microsoft stealing from Apple. In particular:

Apparently Microsoft has already stolen...excuse me...incorporated "multi-touch" into a preliminary version of Windows 7...I suspect there will be a lawsuit if Windows 7 comes with anything resembling the multi-touch features already found on the iPhone.

Multi-touch has been in development for approximately 25 years, and technically in the Apple Vs MS battle, MS struck first with the Surface, which was usable (if not purchasable) in April of 2007. The iPhone was available in June of that year.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch)
You should offer this tool as a visualization utility and allow for importing to Wordpress and Powerpoint.

Timelines are usually manually intensive to make "pretty" and automating that would be nice.
True, don't ruin your site navigation for the sake of SEO. Good thing its very easy to create a very appealing website that also can rank well in Google.

Having accurate information in local directories would be considered "off-site" factors. Off-site factors are very very important, but does not negate the importance of proper on-page SEO.

And yes, for a website like the example, I think the contact info should always be very easy to find near the top of the page.
As a programmer I couldn't clear the Rails 1.0 bar technically, let alone come up with the insights DHH did to make it so usable. But the good news for other people is that didn't stop me from getting my company to break-even after only six months of part time work. Definitely the team over at 37signals (don't forget Jason) are very good and would have been successful in almost any situation.

I think the key point that they make though, is that their success comes more from their decision to play to their strengths and be pragmatic, rather than their talent.
Not a whole lot, but compiling to the machine is a more difficult task than writing an interpreter. "Just-In-Time" VMs (Java and Flash 9 both do this) do some amount of this compilation as the program starts and executes. That lets them strike a balance between startup time(running a full compile can be quite slow) and execution speed.
I like them too, but I'm a skeptic by nature, and I have some doubts about their story in terms of its repeatability by others. Thinking about it, this is what comes out:

If it's so easy to just create something with less time, less code, less people, etc... etc..., then there is also less of a barrier to entry, meaning that it should be easier for the competition to show up and grab some of the action. What's their barrier to entry? Popularity due to Rails?
For all the blog posts twice the length and half the substance, this actually makes a point, and doesn't take a lot of time to do it. Good enough.
There's only 10?
I apologize for capping on the disappearing salmon story. I'd rather read that than more 37signals marketing material.
Haroon Moqtazarda: Experience Founding
I don't think we would encounter Windows Vista again, to take an example. It seems to require the path from DOS and the company culture that grew along with it.
You'll notice they used a graphic instead of text for the company name at the top of the page. That's a classic SEO "no no".
people in academic disciplines have known for years that the best way to to get joe public to leave you alone is to make your interests seem really boring.
They have some pretty cool webapps also: http://www.apple.com/webapps/ on which you can get listed pretty easily.

I'd say webapps are still the way to go unless you need access to some hardware that isn't exposed to the browser.
1. A high keyword density for the phrase you wish to rank for is very important to achieve your desired ranking.

2. The more content you squeeze onto one page, which could be spread across multiple pages, means the keyword density will be lower.

3. The page will not rank as well as it could have. It's basic SEO. Maybe dentistry isn't a very competitive niche and you can get away with a lower keyword density in the body text.
A good friend of mine shared his philosophy on fixing bicycles once. Try to fix it yourself, and if you mess it up then just bring it in to a mechanic to fix it.

Apple can easily attempt to design their own chip in house, and if things get too complicated, they can switch to outsourcing.
If you can solve Minesweeper in polynomial time, you've got it.

http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/
Not just Javascript, but Mobile Safari has goodies to let you style web forms with iPhone UI appearance, such as sliders for toggling things on and off.

So given that there is already a huge trend away from standalone apps and towards browser apps, Apple is actually supporting that trend by making Mobile Safari apps look attractive and work well on an iPhone.
If I had to do it all over again... I wouldn't have taken my CIS classes so early in the morning. My brain cannot comprehend a linked list before 10am.
Safari's console can also be docked at the bottom of the current browser tab as with firebug. There's no need to have another window open.
I doubt very much that Jobs is underestimating the effort or the risk. This is more likely the Apple response to why an iPhone?

Look, if the COTS chips within the iPhone are available to everyone, (they are), then anyone can implement the same features (they will). The COTS chip makers know this, and in fact often they put only the features that have mass appeal in their SOCs creating a lowest common denominator solution, which maximizes their market.

Now consider what happens if Apple can design a chip that they, and only they use. Then the features within the iPhone will have a full lifecycle advantage over the competition; the SOC vendors will of course copy what makes the Apple feature "cool" but they will always be a generation behind...
"I like them too, but I'm a skeptic by nature, and I have some doubts about their story in terms of its repeatability by others."

I agree. One of the few consistent challenges I see in startup founders (including speakers at YC dinners) is DISTRIBUTION. They all say, don't underestimate the importance and power of distribution. 37s (with the SvN blog, Rails, Getting Real etc) essentially had "free" distribution...

If you add up all of the time/effort required to develop this passionate following, it'd be way more than 10 hours per week.
i guess i didn't necessarily want shared. just something cheap for our clients. and since most of our clients are in vancouver, the hope was that it was close by so hops or latency or whatever were kept to a minimum.
"The big re-write" is a classic anti-pattern. There's hard-earned wisdom hidden in that cruft.
Mac bloggers really liked Loopt's Sam Altam Keynote appearance
slightly off topic, but there doesn't appear to be way to direct msg you.

I live in the Vancouver area as well,
what is the url to your site?
what does your startup do?
I just turned it off all browsers have such great address completion I dont have a need for quick access to bookmarks. I use all the browsers for diferent things opera for general browsing, Firefox for js heavy sites, and Safari when I am showing off my websites to clients because it looks the prettiest.
Thought experiment: survival tips if you were sent back 1000 years
A "guess" is all that is. If you want to be successful, build something people will love, and then charge money for it. The market does not care how crappy your garden looks.

The fields are littered with the corpses of full-time startups. The world is going to try to kill you in a thousand different ways that you can't predict. Your product plan should focus on building something people will love. Your business plan should focus on keeping yourself alive to build that product. The two things are seperate.
just added my email address in there. i don't know if that means you'll be able to message me.

the company i work for isn't a startup. we do client work and we needed a reliable hosting recommendation for them.

on the side i run a small online magazine for arts and entertainment in vancouver. not exactly a startup, but we got high hopes.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch the Microsoft Surface runs Windows Vista and costs between US$5,000 and US$10,000 and the hardware for an open source clone is between US$500 and US$1,000. You're not going to sell many Microsoft Surfaces when your local computer shop can make five times as many for the same price.
You don't think apps from apple could contain flash? I think it is more of a video battle and a lock down on interface look and feel. If we remember, Apple played this closed market approach with the desktop and look where that got them. I would hate to see them make the same mistake a decade or two later.
How Google Measures Search Quality
Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?
Squeak on the iPhone
I think this is a horrible idea. There's virtually no hardware functionality that can't be attained cheaply in the OEM chip market. My guess is that Apple wants to introduce embedded DRM/locks at the hardware level that cannot be circumvented so that they can make sure that their iTunes based media, iPhone apps, and whatever else they have in the works cannot be knocked off.
I doubt it. Apple has some pretty impressive analog engineering talent.
I'm not after an implementation (i.e. code) rewrite so much as more of an interface redesign. I think that happens anyway, but at a slower pace than such a radical cut would allow.
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The Fakebook
Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone
The Problem With Django
Javascript framework usage among top websites
What a great quote: "If lost opportunity is a risk when you try, it’s a guarantee if you don’t."

Nice!
yes, it does, at least if you're running the nightly builds of webkit -- http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18700

go to Preferences > Advanced and check the show develop menu.
I haven't heard of ySlow before. It looks really useful.
I have tried a few python frameworks and as a bit of a beginner developing webapps i found django to be a bit meh.
felt big and cludgy.

I am currently using web2py(not webpy although webpy is a nice small framework too) and it seems so good. easy install(just download and unzip), easy to use(all through an admin interface).

I defy the bloat of modern software!
As far as I can tell from his articles, PG was pretty focused on Viaweb when it was starting up - not working on it 10 hours a week while holding a full-time job.

I'm attacking the idea that anyone can start a successful startup with 10 hours a week - not the idea that anyone can start a successful startup (although I'd say even there there's a bar, but it's much lower).

DHH, in this article, presents a method that he suggest applies to anybody. I'm just saying it doesn't apply to anybody.
I'm happy to pay $10 more per month to get 3G even without the carrier discount on the hardware, regardless of whether or not it costs the carrier more to provide 3G service. But I can only imagine upgrading their infrastructure to provide 3G took a significant investment and I can't blame the carrier for trying to recover their costs by charging more.
So where Facebook wants to own the social map, you're well on your way to owning the social timepiece; excellent.
I'm not sure this is accurate. The proportion of female founders must have changed over time, while the demand for an extroverted, independent, perspective, confident personality likely remains. And for example in third world countries, it's to a large extent the women starting their own home businesses. And there's really no data here, so all it is is the voicing of stereotypes. Unless some surprise is communicated, there really isn't much information here.
Kevin Kelly is always interesting. This relates nicely to Paul Graham's Cities and Ambition essay, discussed here at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373

You definitely can't force it to happen.
this is silly... I think they just don't want it to suck and there probably isn't a good way to get flash to run on the iphone without sucking given the zoom in/zoom out feature in safari.

flash would not challenge a native iphone app, you wouldn't have access to all the cool iphone APIs. It would only be marginally better than a standard web app.
Hey Steve, remember that 3.5 inch drive project? http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
I thought there was a restriction on VMs and interpreters on the iPhone?
Git smart: How we're using Git to track our source code
If you are reading the comments before the article:

Summary - Men are twice as likely to start businesses as women. Other traits are (psychological) are not as good as gender at predicting who will be an entrepreneur.

Note: "The Mall Bathroom Test" is a gimmick. Men go into the men's bathroom, women into the women's. Thats it.
"The fields are littered with the corpses of full-time startups."

Watch your step!
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> And I doubt the cat argument would stand in court.

I wouldn't argue it that way in court. I would say "I popped in the install CD, I went away, I came back and the software was working. If there was an EULA, I never agreed to it." Knowing how buggy software in general is, it would be easy to argue that a bug prevented the EULA from showing. The key is proving that I would have returned the software if I saw an EULA.

Not that anything like this would ever see the inside of a courtroom. EULAs only exist so that the corporate lawyers have something to entertain themselves during the litigation off season (if there is such a thing).
I've stepped in a couple already.
The restriction is telling Apple that you are publishing a VM or interpreter. If it looks like an app and it just happens to use Squeak internally, they'll never know. (The joys of closed source ;)
The winding road from ideas to income
Safari is clunky - hardly any of the shortcuts work, especially my precious middle-click-new-tab.