skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you do then when Country X ignores the patent and incorperates it into THEIR military? Your idea sounds like voluntarily hobbling yourself for idealistic reasons.
No. http://bit.ly/a4Qb2Z

EDIT: Bit.ly'd because apparently HN doesn't allow apostrophes in links.
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I haven't ever seen an Atheros-powered laptop

My Thinkpad has an Atheros card in it.
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The user logs in on Facebook's server, there is no opportunity to change a uid. Facebook might return the logged in user's id, however that's not useful, the only way to interact with their API will be with the access token (which only grants you access to the logged in user's scope).
Doesn't the smaller Mac market mean that prices will be higher than those for iOS?
Link that works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
On the contrary, I found the book engaging and interesting. Maor's passion for trigonometry shows through in his clever examples and humorous stories. (Read the prologue about Ahmes the Scribe)
Just a thought, why not just use http://www.meetup.com/ ?
Nothing against Racket, but working through examples in a book with Common Lisp source using a Scheme implementation is going to be unnecessarily confusing.
I wasn't trying to provide a comprehensive mobile services price comparison, I simply chose a service I knew to have comparable terms across the 4 national carriers that own their own towers. MetroPCS and Clear both provide significantly different services being online only in certain metros.

I had skipped handset service because when fully loaded they have service tiers that make it difficult to do direct comparisons, probably intentionally. However:

AT&T unlimited voice: $69.99/mo

Verizon unlimited voice: $69.99/mo

T-mobile unlimited voice: $59.99/mo

Sprint 900 minutes (max): $59.99/mo

and:

AT&T ala carte SMS: $0.20 per

Verizon ala carte SMS: $0.20 per

T-mobile ala carte SMS: $0.20 per

Sprint ala carte SMS: $0.20 per

Considering the radically different cost basis of the two programs it's hard to believe there isn't some de-facto price coordination going on.
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I see a lot of people crying "bubble". By my calculations, it doesn't look like a bubble price; it looks like a relatively conservative price, one incorporating a substantial risk that Facebook will collapse. I posted them at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062222 a couple of days ago.

My calculations could, of course, be wrong. But I'd like to see comparable calculations from the "it's a bubble" crowd, instead of just sneers at the idea that Facebook could really be more valuable than Time Warner, Du Pont, and Morgan Stanley.

To me, of course Facebook is more valuable than Time Warner. It already intermediates the friendships and owns the private information of almost 10% of the world's population, including nearly its entire upper class, and it's an unregulated monopoly. The question is only how much more valuable.
>This example is a bit larger than the sh script, but it is
>certainly more readable.

I tend to disagree with the author on this point.
IMHO The author is blowing this out of proportion. He is comparing an iPhone photo editing app to PhotoShop or asimple iPhone game like chopper to games like Halo.

These are two different levels of software. It is amazing what software can be written for mobile apps today but they are still not as fully functional as their desktop equivalents. The Mac App Store is going to be a big push for Desktop App developers to lower their costs slightly but you are still getting more functionality out of Pages for Mac OS X rather than Pages for iPad.

Though Mobile Apps may continue to grow as an industry I think we are still a few years away from seeing a serious threat to high functionality desktop applications.
Apt to type .com.au - Really? As a red-blooded Australian I can't recall the last time I typed .com.au. Sometimes I look at it as an indicator for e-commerce purposes, but it doesn't count for much, at least to me.
Amazon is a big player and has potential to disrupt the Android app economy. Already their pricing mechanism is set up where they WILL undercut the Android marketplace. That is why people will choose to buy and download Android apps from Amazon. They have an easy payment system that millions have purchased from. And they will work with carriers and manufacturers to get their Amazon AppStore on as many phones as possible. Overall, I think this is good for developers because more people will purchase apps. But the developers will lose control over pricing and you'll have two markets - Android marketplace at retail price and the Amazon appstore at discount price. Maybe people will download free apps from google's marketplace, and paid apps from Amazon's. Not as seamless as Apple's ecosystem, but people like a deal.
This might actually work.

One of the main reasons why Apple's App Store took off is that 100 million customers already had an iTunes account with a credit card on file.

Amazon is one of the few other online retailers that has payment details for 100 million customers. Along with tons of retail experience, that gives it a huge advantage over Google.

The only thing that worries me is that Amazon is still very US-centric. It only has localized sites for Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. 8 countries is far too few. Compare that to the 91 countries where Apple has App Stores.
This is a content-free comment. There may be a bubble, or, the decreased cost of capital afforded Facebook by Goldman's work will allow them to make major strategic investments, maybe multiple where they only could have afforded one, that will drastically increase the value of the company. This "bubblicious" stuff is only valuable if you support it with evidence.
hmm, I'd better find those America Online CDs....
Blackbird Pie.

http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/
If you mess with Processing, Cinder, oF or any other creative coding frameworks, using HSL is much easier for programmatically creating visuals and gradients...
This is not really a valid use case for meetup.com, which is good for recurring, topical meetings.

Plus, its not free to start a new meetup.
The article says that one of the potential military applications would be the ability to disarm or redirect a weapon as it reenters the atmosphere -- Having taken the same topical look at the article that you have, I am not sure why you think that is a categorically bad thing to implement, from any standpoint. I mean, you could make the case that having that capacity will make the fingers that rest on the big red buttons all the itchier... if you wanted to be all ad hominem about things. I for one think that gapingly general fiat mandates like the one you propose are just as potentially damaging as any weapon.
The document uses a ligature ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fb00/index.htm ) for ff. Apparently the font your browser uses by default doesn't have it. Some font replacement algorithm decided that the script font you're seeing is the closest! :-)
XMPP does have a lot of use (Google Talk, Facebook chat, Chrome browser sync, ...) and is the most successful non-proprietary instant messaging protocol.

I wonder what the state of the world would be like today if XMPP had been more approachable for developers. Would we still have instant messaging silos like MSN Messenger and AIM?
Apparently no support in IE8.

Which means that I will probably use it anyway, just because it's that nice to deal with mentally.
It seems to me that lowering phone prices[0] -- making subsidies, and thus long-term contracts, uninteresting to consumers -- and LTE compatibility across networks will create a more competitive market, lowering prices and forcing these tactics out the door.

Obviously, the carriers will do everything in their power to prevent the commoditization of their networks but am I crazy in thinking that's at least a path we are inevitably moving on?

[0] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/the-smartphone-explosion.htm...
Sure, but sometimes you may not have the time, inclination or ability to train someone on a technology.

Anyway, I view it more as "this is what experience we imagine the ideal candidate has" rather than "you literally need 4 full years of platform X experience to get hired"
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It's well known that Zuckerberg wants to keep secret much of the information that Sarbox (and various other rules affecting public companies) would require him to release.

I'm sure Facebook could afford several million/year on Sarbox compliance. But what is the benefit to them? As you said, connected insiders (such as Zuckerberg and Goldman's clients) are doing just fine with Facebook remaining private. So why bother with the hassle of Sarbox, potential minority shareholder lawsuits, and liquid markets that might go down more quickly than the current illiquid one?
No, because GS isn't an engineering firm; they're a finance firm, so what they do is decrease the cost of capital for Facebook's own investments, which might include:

* Rolling up other companies in their space (Yelp, Twitter, 4square, Instagram, Rdio, who knows)

* Buying their way into a strategic but lateral market (search, advertising, mobile, hardware, ISP, who knows)

* Drastically improving hiring and retention by improving comp packages and adding headcount

* &c &c &c

Your comment seems basically nonsensical, suggesting as it does that there is no way to improve Facebook that isn't visible in a commit log.

I also object to the comparison between the Internet bubble and the mortgage bubble; the structural causes of both were different, the underlying value of the tulips being sold in both were different (at the end of the Internet bubble we had, you know, an Internet), and most importantly the mortgage bubble was a financial black hole that sucked every homeowner involuntarily into its gravitational field, whether or not they were jackass speculators.
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. If iOS developers try to sell a ton of copies for a dollar, they'll soon discover there are less people buying. Prices may go down some but they won't hit iOS levels.
Solving this problem has been a pet project of mine for some time.

There's some solution space between a forum and a wiki. You need a question-based navigation, with common questions pulled out, multiple answers and viewpoints, and all of it rated and commented on.

To put that structure in a forum involves too much overhead. to put that information in the structure of a wiki involves too much editorializing.

I've seen many attempts at coming at this from a strict UI standpoint, as mentioned in the article, but I have never felt that they worked that well. There's also the issue of whether a question is an actual duplicate or is different, or if the difference really matters. All of this is pointed out in the article.

I know I got tired of folks asking about book recommendations on HN and finally wrote an app that keeps track of what hackers recommend to each other. I tried to base the entire site of navigating from common questions to books that help answer those questions. I'm not entirely happy with the solution, but I find that trying to write a solution in code many times helps with the problem more than just talking/writing about it.

Looking forward to hearing more about this as the community continues to engage the problem.
1. Choose a goal related to your new business. It could be a tiny MVP that you will launch, certain number of potential clients you will interview or a website with a specific amount of traffic.

2. Set a date at least a few weeks from now when you think you can get that done.

3. Quit only if you accomplish your goal.

It will help you build excitement, stay focused on a real target and give you a better base to talk to future collaborators.

And you will learn how hard it is. :-)
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It has always been damn near impossible to get a business loan. It was damn near impossible to get a line of credit, even for a business with steady cash flow and multiple years track record, in the mid-late 1990s†. Debt financing for IP-driven businesses whose only physical collateral depreciates at near the speed of sound sucks. Don't blame Goldman for that.

† Unless the companies I was at that tried were doing something wrong, but, before you whip out the snark, I wasn't the one running those companies.
> I wonder what it is they think they're using that as a proxy for and why they don't just mention it directly.

A very smart developer who I respect once said something like: when you are young, you have lots of energy and want to learn/use the latest technology. As you get older and gain more experience, you start to see the patterns. It's not about the technology, there are repeated themes and solutions. But when you start realizing this and have accumulated 7 years of experience, you may be transitioning out and wanting to begin starting a family. So the people who might be most qualified might be wanting to leave the intensity of coding for the relative stability of management.

As someone once said - the entire premise of capitalism is based on overpaying the first few years and underpaying you for the next 20 or 30 years.

So perhaps 7 years of experience is a cludgy filter for the relative graybeards who understand that technology is just a tool, not an end.
Yes. Me. I have refrained from submitting my apps now for 2 reasons:

1) They say I have to get their approval 14 days before submitting new apps to Similar Services

2) 20% of "List Price" that they can set???? I'm still confused on this, and I get A LOT of sales from the Market, so I'm not interested in Amazon deciding what's best for me.
That speaks more to the quality of your Facebook campaigns than Facebook's profitability.

The guys actually spending significant money on Facebook are not paying more than 30-40 cents CPC.
O is not a hexadecimal number
- even if it was "BAD F00D" it still wouldn't be a full 32-bit word
- it's also not use by existing libraries (libgmalloc)

cafe babe, dada dada would just as well as dead beef

In short, either you are familiar with magic numbers or you're not. If you're not, you're certainly not qualified to work on anything really low-level and may not be qualified to do C/C++ development in userland either (without strong evidence to the contrary).
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Throw yourself into the fire!
What I'm trying to say is, find a small business owner and build something for them for free. That way you'll:

- Learn the new skills
- Be motivated to do a decent job as someone will actually be using your stuff
- Have something to showcase on your Resume

-Sid
Sorry guys, botched the title. It's called How To Use Monkey Math To Prove Anything You Want

My favorite numbers:

1. $10,000/year on house cleaning and "maintenance," and $450/month on gas and electricity. That mansion won't support itself!

2. $13k a year on groceries. Are they shopping at Dean & Deluca?

More importantly: these partisan articles are toxic to discourse and friendly debate. If we cannot agree on facts, how can we hope to debate opinions?
Bill Broussard is a longtime friend in Austin who has a lot of start-up experience as both outside- and in-house counsel. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-broussard/0/660/a61

Some questions I'd ask, having been on both sides of the table:

1. For approximately how many start-ups have you been lead counsel for (a) incorporation / LLC formation, (b) angel funding, (c) Series A-[n], (d) IPO? How many in the last two or three years?

2. References? Any clients we've heard of? (The lawyer might not be able to tell you s/he represents Client X if it isn't a matter of public record.)

3. Any litigation experience? (Other things being equal, give me a lawyer who has tried cases - it changes your perspective quite a bit.)

4. Any in-house experience? (In-house lawyers often get some valuable lessons about business life that you just don't get in a law firm.)

5. [EDIT:] Your billing rate? Likely total cost of this matter? Do you do any fixed-fee work for specific types of project?

6. Whom do you use as backup? (Even in a law firm there can be de facto sole practitioners.)

7. Who will actually be doing my work, what kind of background does that person have, and how much work do you do with that person? (An associate who gets a lot of work from Partner X might be just fine, because (i) s/he will have an incentive to keep Partner X happy so the referral work keeps coming, (ii) Partner X will probably talk to the associate a lot, meaning Partner X can ask how your matter is going and may well do a lot of day-to-day mentoring, and (iii) chances are the associate can get ahold of Partner X whenever needed.)

8. How often do you bill? (Some firms bill quarterly, which might be fine, but most companies prefer monthly so as not to get unpleasant surprises.)

9. Is it feasible for us to establish a fee level where you'll call me if you're going over that level? (This is a tall order for many firms' billing systems, but it can't hurt to ask.)

10. [EDIT:] Is your usual inclination (a) to try to negotiate the maximum possible concessions from the other side of a deal, or (b) to accept a good-enough deal quickly and move on? (My experience has been that option b is usually preferable, especially if you're negotiating with someone with whom you're likely to do business again.)

11. [EDIT:] Will you call me with updates, or should I be calling you? (Good lawyers are busy and might not always take the time to provide real-time updates.)

12. [EDIT:] Do you carry malpractice insurance? (Some sole practitioners don't.)
You can't set the list price any higher than anywhere else.

i. List Price. The “List Price” for an App is an amount that does not exceed, at any time, the lowest list price or suggested retail price for such App (including any similar edition, version or release) available or previously available on any Similar Service or the lowest actual price at which you make or made such App available for sale through any Similar Service. You will update the List Price for each App as necessary to ensure that it meets the requirements of this section 5i.
Drupal 6 will still be supported until Drupal 8 is released in a few years and it will for a while still be more stable than Drupal 7 and have more modules supporting it.

So no need to rush an upgrade - you can safely stay at Drupal 6 for at least a year or so.
I was in the same boat 14 months ago: worked as a corporate attorney at a top tier firm, folks were actually really cool and the pay was ridiculous. Oddly enough, even my hours weren't that bad. So I knew I had a lot to be thankful for.

But I wasn't thrilled about my job. I didn't feel proud when I told strangers what I did, and that really got to me. I wanted to work on something that I cared about, and I wanted to try my hand at risk, learn some new skills. I also had zero interest in turning into those who were above me at the firm.

So I quit with almost no plan, and I ran a startup I created out of thin air, Trendero.com. It launched, it worked, and I saw a bright future stretch out before me.... Thing is, it actually still hasn't taken off. I haven't made a dime from the idea, and now I'm looking around at BD roles with other startups, since I've basically burned through all of my savings.

That all being said, I'm happier, prouder, healthier than ever before. I fought some battles, lost a few, made some awesome new friends. And I'm proud to talk about what I've done, happy to wake up to my new, much more frugal life.

So do it, screw the plan. That's the story you'll want to tell your grandkids.

Caveat: I have no kids, no wife, no dog, no mortgage. I knew the window was closing for me to do this kind of thing when I quit, which was largely why I made the decision. But if you have other burdens/responsibilities, think a bit more carefully. Chances are, you will be substantially poorer for a while.
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Awesome! I'm currently working on a project to deal with all sorts of phone numbers in bulk. I've already duplicated some of this in my own way, but I think it might come in handy for the rest.
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I am not certain it is more beneficial to buy/license IP in all cases. Plus they are getting IP/Human Resources/Revenues from Atheros perpetually - they do sell fair amount.
I'm not sure what your central statement is here.

Are you criticizing the technorati for not explicitly mentioning different types of traffic in relation to their value, rather than just their popularity? That info isn't usually available to outsiders, and it is difficult to convey in a concise manner (i.e., no more than a sentence in an article).

Are you criticizing people who compare Google and Facebook? Beyond the fact that they (along with Apple) are 2 of the highest technology companies, with the best public ratings, they are also 2 sites that have the biggest impact on the internet. Also, they are currently lining up to fight for traffic at the point of purchase (which causes different values for different types of traffic, point 1 above). They can be framed as philosophically different approaches to the same problem: how do you get people to buy something on the internet? Even their approaches are fundamentally different: algorithmic versus social graph. It would seem to make sense to compare those two companies (although I agree, we probably aren't going to see one "beat" the other, because there is room for both of them).

Also, what's with the URL and signature on your post? The HN comments guidelines state "Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile."
Besides trying to pivot to a big-government/little-government argument, what specifically is your objection to Chris' comments? It seems pretty plain on its face that SOX materially increases the cost of going public; not simply because of what compliance requires you to disclose, but because of how it directly increases outside accounting costs.

If you want transparency from companies, you have to see them go public. It is not reasonable to demand public-company transparency from a private company. The word "private" means something. If the markets worked today like they did in 1996, do you seriously believe Facebook would be a private company? Why or why not?
Right, it could be either.
I'd bet everyone has transient cancer cells in their body, the problem occurs when the response mechanisms break down. Not sure how much clinical value a test this sensitive will have. Any oncologists out there?
I would be interested too.
"perceived financial value" - is there another? All measures of "value" are based on perception.
The thing is that websites are different from apps. If "everyones" able to deploy content as an app, it will bloat app market space and the devices. If that content (or whatever) is deployed through a single app, it's basically a browser.