skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A higher price point is what I'm thinking about for what I'm doing, and I suppose its a bit misleading on my part to say what I'm doing would only be an extension as there'd be main website as a dashboard.

The price you list does bring up an interesting question. Could there ever be a market on the Chrome app store for people wanting to sell +$50 apps. I get the impression the market on the app store leans more towards free - $1.99.(to be fair its similar to the Apple app store, with some exceptions)

Another poll I was thinking of was, how much would you pay for a chrome extension/chrome app?
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You're looking at the limitations of the application itself, not the potential of it, and not the full potential of what Cappuccino is capable of.
Are you looking only for current undergrads, or would someone about to transition to university be fine if we have demonstrable work experience and recommendations?
I felt like helping out, so here's my entry: http://karrisaarinen.com/rubyc/

Tried to bring the minimalistic Japanese feel to it, like Ruby is.

(The signature on the upper corner is only for the heroku preview. I wanted to sign it for the competition, but didn't want to write my name anywhere on the site)
"At 1/6th the valuation of Apple (which is widely considered to be a bit overvalued today as well)"

I had also assumed that Apple was trading at a premium, before reading this.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/03/verizon_iphone...

"Reiner noted that Wall Street investors typically grant companies with 70 percent earnings per share growth a "premium valuation." But AAPL stock is valued at just 14 times its EPS, which is equivalent to the Standard & Poor's average."

The fact that Apple is only trading at the S&P average relative to EPS, and is still the second most highly valued company in the world, with 70 percent EPS growth, puts into perspective what an absurdly good job they're doing.
That's one good reason not to give them your money - they have lousy IT practices.
It is really not a good idea to let your naked record go to a 3rd party. If you need your root to be an A name, go with a DNS provider that will do URL redirects. If you trust them with DNS resolution of your domain you can trust them to not go crazy with your root record.

EDIT:
If you are looking for a host that will do this, http://NameCheap.com is how I do it but I understand GoDaddy and Hover does it too. Seriously... go with a reputable registrar that has these simple features it will pay off in the end.
Hmm.. web apps are usually half app, half information system, which really supports help systems and stuff like that. I like the way they support me, as connected information and easily provided context is ubiquitous, while desktop apps always give me this feeling that they follow too strict rules to match stuff that probably doesnt need the framework at all..
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Wouldn't a company need to explicitly confirm such changes (say by initialing) for them to become effective?

The way I read it is that he's basically hoping that his scratch-outs will go unnoticed when the company brings him on board. That's simply because no reasonable company will accept an employment contract with NDA clause stricken out by a prospective employee. The only way this can happen is by an oversight, and that's what he appears to be exploiting.

On the other hand, I did have my own contract amended at my request to list and acknowledge by participation in a number of my past projects, open source and not. They did not require a code escrow, nor the detailed description, so something like "p2p communication system" gave me a carte blanche for doing anything with p2p in it and keeping it all to myself.
Reducing Firefox startup I/O in libxul.so
You're right that a competition isn't the most efficient solution from a total effort / end result perspective.

However, that's not what competitions are designed to provide. This isn't a corporate productivity debate.

Competitions generate excitement, stroke entrant's competitive nature, provide some openness (in cases where the public participates), and promotes more out of the box thinking.

You see it all the time with sports, the increasing number of hackathons (where yes, developers, designers, and others spend X hours building something nonstop for zero guaranteed reward), government initiatives (challenge.gov), etc.

Religiously calling all competitions/contests bad because there are some companies which exploit the characteristics of a challenge is a bit naive.

Note: I recognize that design is time intensive and not always fun. Hell, it's the same thing for developers.
I love that the Cafepress logo on the page 404s.
Looks like they're using a message-passing dispatcher similar to SICP 2.1.3 [1]; it's only a shame that the article predates the formalization of eval [2], though, which leads to anachronisms such as: "In Scheme, [calculating the method given its selector] is not possible. What is missing is the possibility to evaluate a symbol in the environment of self."

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-14.html...

[2] http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z...
Agreed. We're Americans living in Argentina (http://homeschoolargentina.com though not frequently updated); we're homeschooling three kids, and one of the programs we use (among many) is EPGY, a program through Stanford University for kids as young as six. It brings together kids from all over the world for incredibly hands-on teaching from world-class professors.

The resources that our kids have access to such as this make an education that wasn't even possible a decade ago almost trivial.
I wasn't around then, but I'll take your word for it. In any case, the main point remains valid. We may see the decline of RSS readers, but RSS is alive and well.
RSS is not dead, there simply is no good alternative to it. The only other programmatic ways of to getting updates from a website are either e-mail or HTML screen scraping.
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ZorbaTHut 319 points 1 day ago

> A contract is a two-way agreement, so if you see terms in there that you're uncomfortable about, you can black them out.

This isn't even a housing thing, this is just a global thing. I don't think I've ever signed an employment contract without modifying it. I've never had my employer mention it afterwards.

Excessive non-compete clause? Bam, gone. Clause that conflicts with a verbal agreement I had with the producer? Bam, gone. Cross out some bits, write notes in the margin, make little arrows pointing at what you crossed out with your initials, sign it, photocopy it, turn it in with your employment paperwork, keep the photocopy.

"Your Honor, our ex-employee should go to ultrajail for breaching our horrifying non-compete clause, and also owes us a billion dollars for Section 7 of his employment paperwork."

"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."

"Well, fuck."

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OriginalStomper 157 points 6 hours ago

I am a lawyer familiar with contract law, though not an employment lawyer. You and sporkus are both correct (at least under Texas law and most other US jurisdictions): it is not a binding contract until both parties agree to all the changes.

Until the original agrees (by initialing the changes or at least signing the agreement after your changes are made), the marked-up document is merely a counter-offer. However, that means the employer has nothing to enforce against you. Texas is an "employment at will" state, and here 99% of the time an employment contract was the employer's idea, for the employer's purposes, with little or no actual benefit to the employee. The employee usually comes out ahead if the entire contract is unenforceable, or even if just the harshest clauses are deleted.

Protip: while you are at it, also delete arbitration clauses. Completely and whenever possible. The individual/employee will almost never win in arbitration, unless the arbitration is conducted under a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by a union. If there's even the hint of an arbitration clause in your contract (ANY kind of contract, not just employment contracts), then it does not matter how well you edited the rest of the agreement, because arbitrators are free to be arbitrary. They are not legally required to follow the contract -- they can do whatever they think is "fair." Strangely enough, "fair" will almost always favor the employer or other repeat customer for the arbitrator. Because, see, the arbitrators are in the business of arbitrating disputes. If no one chooses them to arbitrate, then they have to find a real job.
Sometimes it doesn't even need to be signed or written down.
This is pretty much the greatest setup for a mass-lemonpartying known to man.
can't it just get one from the server?
I've made quite a few comments that were upvoted detailing things I learned on 4chan and what I like about that site. I'd think it's safe to say 4chan is not highly regarded around here. The key is to present your views in a way that people on HN will appreciate, say, to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.

If I say, "4chan FTW, lulz!", I will get downvoted, and rightly so. Compare:

"I think a lot of people on HN tend to dismiss 4chan as juvenile and immature without giving due regard to its tremendous creative potential and brand recognition. Just look at the Cheezburger Network, a multimillion dollar company whose sole business model is to recycle 4chan memes. Additionally, it would be hard to name a site as seemingly pointless as 4chan that enjoys its popularity or notoriety. Even Someething Awful, which arguably did what 4chan does, but better, never enjoyed the number of users or visibility that 4chan does. It's clear they're doing something right, even if they manage to piss just about everyone off."

Now I've presented a contrarian opinion in a way that presents a clear argument for why I hold it. These types of posts are far more palatable to people who, really, are just looking for interesting things to think about.
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Definitely. I think at the end of the day, Id still be wary of lack of ethics (or professionalism) regardless of an uber IQ (or HQ - Hackability Quotient!). While there may be a lot of value from this person, the costs of managing would certainly be high as well (from the point of view of ensuring there are no negative effects - both tangible and on team morale)...
a) It's free!
b) Their homepage clearly says it's in beta. They probably still have some features they'd like to launch.

So far in the 30 minutes I tooled around with it, I picked up a few interesting ideas for a project I'm working on to teach myself more css. In so far as I've already improved my skills, I'd say I can see myself using this tool. Dropping $40 or more for a native app like CSSEdit is probably a good idea if your work will pay for it (or if you can write it off as a tax expense), but I can't easily afford to do that every time a good app comes around.

In short, this is a decent app at the current price.
Yes, they're valid. What you are essentially doing is creating a counter-offer instead of accepting the contract as-is. The offering party is then supposed to review your modifications and accept (sign).

If the employer simply doesn't do anything after the employee has made the modifications and returned the document, then they really don't have a leg to stand on.
You are disingenuous because you are trying to change the discussion from "does not get preferential treatment" to "is not the subject of discrimination". You realize these are different right? (First clue: there are different words with different definitions and connotations involved).

As for why it is not like the gender question: asking why a 37yo is doing entry level work is asking about things which it can reasonably assumed to be direct consequences of the applicants choices in life. Preselecting on gender is selection based on something the applicant has almost no control over (excluding the extremely tiny portion of post-op transgenders).

Edit: also I'm not blanket saying discrimination is bad, some types of discrimination are OK some aren't. For instance, discriminating based on "this applicant doesn't have the required skills" is perfectly reasonable. Any attempt to claim an all or nothing approach on a vague notion such as discrimination is nearly the definition of disingenuous, so please don't try and play stupid games with that either.
IANAL, but it's quite common to alter a contract in the margin and have both parties initial it
Anotehr article about the same study: http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/precognition-real-corn...

From the article : "The sequencing of the pictures on these trials was randomly determined by a randomizing algorithm … and their left/right target positions were determined by an Araneus Alea I hardware-based random number generator."

At the very least they were using Araneus Alea wich is a hardware random number generator, so the numbers were not predictable. It's possible that the "randomizing algorithm" did something dumb and made the sequence not random, but I doubt it.

I think that it's more likely thet the sudy was done so many times that it eventually gave significant results than it is that the sequence was not random. Or maybe prescience is real to some degree, or the study is a statistical glitch.

However the replication package they provide has the compiled program without the source code, and that is a red flag to me.
Avatar Kinect Promises Second-Life-Like Thrills Through Your XBox
Where to Draw a Line on Ethics
American Way? The in-flight magazine? The source is funny in and of itself.
As cool as it may be, I was actually hope for an Avatar game leveraging the Kinect to the fullest. Damn.
Not to hate on Cappuccino (I'm actually a fan of the framework), but this is the most common defense of web apps that are trying to perform the same functions as native apps. There are some definite strengths here, as well as weaknesses, and it doesn't pay to ignore one while praising the other.
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I don't want to disagree with your main point, but it's wrong to link risk and return so closely, as though one always brings the other. Just because there is a lot of risk doesn't mean there will be a lot of return. Risk is simply the likelihood that you will get your original money back, plus any return. The higher the risk, the higher the chance you won't get any return or indeed your original capital. While this often means that people will only take on risky investments if there is a chance of high return, the way it reads is that all you need to do is create some risk and your returns wil flow. It's entirely possible to have high risk, low return and low risk, high return.

However I agree entirely that SEC always fights the last war like the French building the Maginot line, and that this type of innovation is just a response to the Sarbox rules.
If you heard of a website launch with partial data without your state, how often would you go back to check if your state was added? My opinion is that users would initially see the site, and not visit again for a few months. You have a larger target-able market by waiting.

The truth is they have a lot more than 5 states in github. They could have probably gotten away with launching 20 or 25 states.
>but you guys do realize that this is not a "simulation of an ipad"

How is it not? Regardless of the code, doesn't it perfectly emulate some key features of iOS? Understanding the point is another argument...
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Groupon sues Scoopon (an Australian coupon site).
To counter this effect, charge for the service instead.
You are probably asking the wrong crowd ...

I tend to believe that most people who are coders, developer and into FOSS, tend to buy very little software and only pay for the absolute necessary

This is not a bad thing, software is our thing, so we just won't pay for anything

But I've seen people pay for less trivial stuff, like items on a facebook game.

So probably we won't, but that never will mean, that millions of web browsers won't! I can almost bet that if you sell an extension that claims to make chrome more secure, enough people will buy it to make you happy!
I didn't get through much of Atlas Shrugged, but I'd have to agree with this. Rand didn't admire large corporations, she admired the highly talented individuals that (supposedly) made corporations successful despite themselves.
How Twitter is laying the foundation for its own photo service
when I saw someone retweet about this service in my stream it was a bit confusing... can't really see the purpose myself, when you, as you mention, you can handle this within the confines of your own registrar.

I'm curious as to why the developer felt the need to make this.
Do you have a trial version? I'd rather have them include that, possibly for free if they review the app, than 500 dollars.

That is assuming they have a bigger subscription base than 50 users.
The owner's no dummie, but dang, maybe a little more planning?

How about they just buy my company (or hell, hire me), rebrand to sex.com, advertise mainstream utilizing a real ad agency, and easily turn in 20-30 million over the next 3 years.
No he's expecting the signing party to read the blacked out parts and either agree to them (by signing) or not agree to them, by countering back.

I black line and edit contracts regularly. Usually not on printed contracts with notes in the margins but with Word Docs with "Track Changes" turned on. I then return it (unsigned) with an email explaining my changes. They then either accept the new contract and sign or return it with their revisions and we go back and forth until we're happy.

I'm always surprised by the number of people who don't negotiate language. I was told once that a company only pays invoices in 60 days. I changed that to 30 on my contract and they didn't even blink.
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Oh big deal, who cares if some people have their faith in the paranormal strengthened. Something like one in two people or more believe in what scientists would consider paranormal already.

Good scientists know there is much yet to be discovered.
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Google’s Chrome browser hits 10 percent market share
If you memoize, you can do it faster the next time.
>If you were forced to choose between eating 100g of a random "chemical" molecule, or 100g of a random "natural" molecule, you would be much better off with the latter.

Here, have a delicious puffer fish. I prepared it myself!

Rating chemicals by whether or not they occur naturally is a really piss-poor way of judging danger. There is a practically unlimited number of naturally occurring chemicals what will knock you dead, and there are similarly tones of synthesized chemicals that are completely harmless, or even beneficial. Bringing "synthesized vs. naturally" is always disingenuous, we have had better ways of judging danger since the dark ages.
You've got it. The other half of the problem is that there's a chance that when you start flipping coins the first 100 flips will all turn up heads. Now, does this mean that the universe is bent and has begun preferentially treating Mr. Lincoln's head different than his backside? Does this mean your testing apparatus is biased? Is this an inherent property of coins? If you stop flipping at 100 it'd very tempting to conclude that this is the case.

The only way to find out is to do enough flips to eliminate the chances of your final result being influenced by statistical flukes. Measuring small differences, like trying to answer "does a coin preferentially land on one side vs the other?" usually takes hundreds of thousands of tests to guarantee you're seeing objective data, rather than seeing patterns in noise.
I think this might actually make it worse. While XBox Live, WoW, and others have been successful, I think most people expect to pay once for a program, and get to use it for free in perpetuity. There's strong resistance, at least amongst some segments of the population, to pay service fees. Oddly, I would have described gamers as being the ones least inclined to pay monthly fees, although they've been almost the biggest fee-payers, perhaps behind porn.
Games like Farmville are a fad, like Rubix cube and Cabbage Patch Kids. That's not to say that casual games won't continue to an important segment of gaming, just that they will not provide an income stream that justifies a 50 billion company valuation. If it wasn't for the fact that "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent", I would short a Facebook IPO in a heartbeat.

Facebook's core value is that (nearly) everyone is on it and it is considered to be "cool". The cool aspect will not last. I'd be amused to hear any arguments as to how it possibly can. Young people will move on to something else.

I also think it's very likely that their power as a centralized manager of personal contacts will be eroded over time. Really, it's not that hard of a problem and some other applications will end up being compelling enough for people to switch. They will try to prevent it (e.g. like trying to prevent GMail from exporting email addresses) but ultimately will fail.

The history of the Internet is filled with the corpses of technologies that were supposed to be "the future". Who remembers PointCast? How about Orkut? For a while RSS was touted as the solution to all of mankind's problems. ;-)
> "someone will develop it for free"

Perhaps a fair point. But I sigh nonetheless...

---ignore all---
On a totally unrelated note, I like your about quote, always one of my favourite simpsons line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY
Look, this guy is right on from an OS fragmentation perspective (which is what he is talking about). Both iOS and Android have OS version fragmentation in the real world and the fact is that Google makes it easier to test for and Apple makes it very hard. I have an app(game) written for both and dealing with the iOS side of things for this is always harder then on Android.
I definitely have no problem paying for a good browser app, if it helps me:
1. do my work faster
2. give me a competitive advantage in my business
3. provide a higher level of service to my few clients

I'm not sure I would specifically pay for an extension to analyze social data. I'd have to see the end results first, and evaluate it based on that.

In terms of pricing, don't limit yourself at the $1 to $3 app level. Evaluate the pricing based on the value provided to the customer. If it helps your customer earn $10,000 more over the course of a year, there's nothing wrong with charging $100 for it, or more.

For the customers not bothered by the transaction cost - there's not much different between $1 and $30 or more.
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I've fixed this now in all the PHP branches.

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=307095
If your on a top 1000 website GA can lag 24 hours ;/
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah achieved widespread popularity in the indie scene through MP3s with a self-release debut, no record deal of any kind.
+1

And native printing to a usb connected printer
Using IM vs. Twitter or Email to convert Customers
I totally agree. I started working on a side project 2 months back and I feel great. It even increased my productivity at my day job.
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