skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know how much price to offer.
So I built a web app that kinda have a buzz lately. Actually this web app is a personal project of mine that I built during my weekends and I have no experience building an app that I got paid or somebody bought it. Two days ago somebody contacted me that he likes my app very much, like the design yada yada and wants to use it on his own site. Actually he wants a little twist on it but the functionality, design and programming logic will be the same. Now he wants me to make an offer for the price. I really don't know how much to offer since haven't been in this situation before. Does anybody here experience this before ? What did you do? I don't want it too high (like unreasonably high)that might turn him away or too cheap that it will be not worth my time. Please help need your good advices. Thanks in advance.
Since this article doesn't mention it clearly, the demo is really nice, and worth a look: http://edwardworthington.com/
I know some people like to make fun of the Comics Code Authority, but given that comic books have always been intended primarily as entertainment for children I'm not sure what the big deal is. It was voluntary, and the restrictions required in order to get approved don't seem entirely unreasonable for children's entertainment.
I have a friend who is one such "wrecking ball". She would sacrifice pay and reputation for the satisfaction of some quick payback and cheap drama. She is however wicked skilled, but most who still deal with her do so with a grain of salt large enough to satisfy a herd of deer.

Man, it's tiring just thinking about her drama.
WP7 is the commercialization of what is primarily a Microsoft research project - running Windows on ARM (coming mainstream in the next version of Windows). As a product, it is a long term strategy, and it is no coincidence that it is leading out with ATT just at the time when Apple has announce their love for Verizon (who used Microsoft Kin to gain Apple's interest).

Keep in mind that WP7 was under consideration from 51% despite being new to the market and exclusive to one carrier...while the admitted market leader Apple was barely edging Android even after the big news that they were headed to Verizon.
Does it really make sense to add a workaround-to-a-workaround?
Louis IV of France would make a minor change in every play Moliere wrote under his patronage and add himself as an author.

Jobs probably does at least some product development. However, having a single "auteur director" type heightens the image of Apple products as true masterworks, so Apple spends a lot of time focusing on Jobs' larger-than-life genius image.
why are you setting the price and not he?
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The Groupon Model
I posted the below 48 days ago and got a lot of somewhat negative feedback. Then, google tried to buy Groupon. As a result of rejection, Google is now building it's own Groupon. BOOYA!

There is all this hype about Groupon and social buying. Why aren’t advertising platforms doing this instead of buying platforms that do this?<p>Currently, the advertising platforms such as google adwords, facebook advertising, adbrite, buysellads.com, etc are all based on models that support “the highest paid advertiser will have the best placement.” I know when I search, I want the best deals to show up - not who paid the most to give me the potentially worst deal for me. Opinions?
His recommendation is brilliant. No one is saying that the platform the 4 engineers build has to be identical to Groupon's.

Do you know why Groupon needed a $950 million round? Because scaling the business model requires the scaling of the sales and service organization. And that requires a lot of cash and working capital. Finances are the limiting mechanism on how fast they can grow.

Also, their centralized sales and service organization, cloistered in their Chicago office, is not going to be as knowledgeable of local markets as natives. Local folk will always have an advantage in forging relationships with merchants.

The point?

If the platform the 4 engineers build externalizes the merchant facing function (sales/service) to local affiliates who are far better positioned to do it - and incidentally adheres to Google's own model of just being a platform - Google won't have to invest in building a sales and service organization.

Local affiliates would deal with the merchants, do the marketing, sign the contracts, and do all the promotional design - essentially all the stuff done by the merchant facing side of Groupon - all for less than the 50% of revs, and would then use the Google platform to push out deals.

The platform could follow an auction model like their current Adwords and Adsense platform. Local affiliates would bid to run the Google daily deal for their area.

Groupon's business model is only version 1.0. If they don't innovate, they will be in trouble.
That would be wonderful. After the 3rd or 4th SPAM farm I usually decide the information I was looking for wasn't really that important and give up. The Instant Search feature was kind of the breaking point for me. It showed me how useless most of my carefully crafted search terms really were. You can sit there and type it in 30 different ways but you're going to keep getting the SPAM results over and over again.
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That's how he want me to do --- offer a price. That's why I'm kind of confused on how much I will charge. I know it's kinda silly to ask how much price to offer since I'm the only one who can understand the situation but is there any pricing scale being set out there, any formula? What you do, do you research, etc. or just set a random price?
Then perhaps I wouldn't need Quora after all, if all the answers are going to come from within my existing social network.
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Tell him you don't have a price in mind as you weren't looking to immediately sell. Tell him to make an offer.
ban the IP of the spammer who submitted this.
The wonderful ironic twist here is that the parent poster (Long Nguyen) is actually a close friend of mine AND went to Harvard.
I like Visor, but it doesn't play nice with Witch.app at all, which I use to do per-window alt-tabbing (as opposed to per-application cmd-tabbing, which isn't always what I want since it brings all the windows of an app to the foreground). It also makes cmd-` behave a bit weirdly.
Calibre can do that and so many other things too (e.g. converting, etc).
Funny to see this on HN after seeing something very similar at a Ramstein concert on Friday night. The singer has a cheek piercing which he feeds a wire through to light up his mouth.

Good photo here: http://en.affenknecht.com/first-professional-pictures-from-t...
Agreed.

I've been programming Java since the Alpha days and it is getting to the point where all the extended syntax is a bit outrageous.

The real problem is that most of these extensions are required to make Java more powerful, certainly generics / templating was a huge boon. But examples like the above make my eyes hurt.

I suppose my question is whether you can add all the features that make functional languages powerful while also retaining static typing. That's what Java is trying to do. In same cases the type safety is a huge boon to building a large system with many people working on it, in others something more dynamic allows you to be far more productive. I'm not sure you can have both and still have code anybody wants to write.

I haven't played much with Clojure yet, not sure if that is the best of both worlds.
Is there not, however, such a thing as a Moral Panic Panic?

For instance, if I manage to round up a dozen mouth-breathing parents to join my group Concerned Parents Against ASCII Porn On Twitter and it'll immediately be picked up by thousands of new outlets. There'll be a hundred front-page articles about the "New Puritanism" by next Sunday.

Bingo, we have a moral panic panic, and there's a moral panic panic to go with every moral panic, usually on a much larger scale.

My real point here is to point out that the moral panic about Dungeons and Dragons was probably never more than a very small number of people making a small amount of noise, amplified by a media hungry for controversial stories about stupid people.

PS. 8======D ----* (.)(.) pew pew pew
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256 colors - the only reason I use MacVim instead of vim in the shell.
Sounds more like that's a problem with the typical behaviors of CEO's.
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No mention of Apple 2's or Commodore 64's is a bit odd.
The Apple 2 was the first major breakthrough in making colour displays available to home users.
Amiga certainly has it's place - it was just a disconcerting jump in the article's history.
GNU screen can also split, but tmux's paning is much nicer, yeah.
So that's how stackoverlow works...
Don't burn a bridge.
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Why quit? Why not try to do the 4 hour work week approach, by working a couple of days a week at home. Then, begin building your product. Once you have a sellable product, then let them know.
It already works, automatically. It just uses a separate pasteboard than the native OSX one. Try selecting in Terminal.app, and then middle-clicking.

If you want it in the OSX pasteboard, you need to use cmd-c.
($=[][(__=!$+$)[_=-~-~-~$]+({}+$)[_/_]+
($$=($_=!''+$)[_/_]+$_[+[]])])()[__[_/_]+__
[_+~$]+$_[_]+$$](_/_)

on the last string trick to write 'sort' it fails if there's no $=[$=[]]

all the other parts just $=[] works just fine. and they are in the same scope as the 't' i can't understand
Option 1 sounds about right. All distributions are going to be tax on your personal income tax and exempt from payroll taxes.

Reasonable wages are NOT corporate distributions, they're simply wages paid by the corporation and deducted as an expense. The payroll taxes would be paid on the amount that you deem wages through the corporation. Please note, payroll taxes are also deductible. hope this helps
> NYC is the second easiest place in the USA to meet women.

Out of curiosity, what is #1?
Are we really still making "nerds can't get laid" jokes?

Yes we are. We are also still making jokes about amoral lawyers, lying politicians, vain and vacuous models, lunk-headed bodybuilders, drunken frat boys, obese and poorly-dressed Walmart customers, and unintelligent, docile cows.

If you're offended by the subset of these which are about nerds not getting laid then, dude, you need to get laid.
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Nothing wrong with it; but saying 4 years of your youth + $100k + all the opportunity to learn and grow is somehow worth wasting just for the sake of meeting "girls" is stupid.

There are women HNers too, but you don't hear them say boys are the highlight of the university experience.
Wasn't the .com bubble more mid-90's than mid-2000's?
My apologies for not clarifying...I meant when the dot com bubble burst in the mid-2000's.

Edit: to prevent any other miscommunication in the title.
His code uses an invalid technique that go against the spec[1]. You cannot add generated content to a replaced element IE8 and Mozilla follow the spec, webkit and Opera don't. It's a shame that this is the case.

[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/#replacedContent
Fair point. I was not aware the developer was outside of the US. However, I still think their reputation stands to suffer if other potential clients find out that this is their modus operandi when bills go unpaid.
Cupertino Middle School. B-)
My experience is that this applies to "normal" management as well, not only self-employed. A manager of a team above some size can't possible know and control everything. Either he finds a way to delegate, or his team will be disfunctional.
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I'm from '90, so in school... :)
Should we be worried about solar flares in 2012 with a breached magnetosphere?
I accidentally down voted but meant to up vote. I agree.

Also, this appears to have no risk-oriented portfolio construction. You are calculating alphas somewhere, right?

(not to belittle this or anything. I'm just not a big believer in technical analysis, which is what this feels like. You should apply this kind of focus to real stat arb.)
Isn't that data available if you're willing to pay enough for it? For example: http://nseindia.com/content/research/res_histdata.htm
Nowmov - Part Time / Intern Sys Ops
Well congrats, it takes a special kind of effort to go to that much trouble to disprove yourself.

I'm interested in the complete lack of UNSW and Monash. I think it supports my idea that if you're the kind of person who really wants a Rhodes Scholarship so you can go to Oxford then you're the kind of person who'll choose the ivy-covered alternative over the just-as-good 20th century one.
We here talk about the internet, mobile, geo and all this cool stuff... but after reading more about the NASA's recent discovery that the magnetosphere has been breached (by an unusual event, too -- the magnetic fields were ALIGNED when the breach occurred, which flies in the face of what scientists know right now, it seems) -- I am pretty worried that everything we take for granted right now is at risk. Including electrical power lines, and worldwide communications systems.

Anyway, the link I posted may seem dubious, but it in fact seems to describe the situation pretty accurately. By itself, a solar flare is not a big deal:

http://www.universetoday.com/14645/2012-no-killer-solar-flar...

but this 2008 article didn't realize that our magnetosphere has a giant hole in it 10x bigger than we previously thought. It is 4x bigger than the earth itself. And it's directly on the day side. The earth's magnetosphere has been breached AND the sun is entering its solar maximum period.

Can any people more knowledgeable than me weigh in and tell us what is possible and what is likely to happen? Is there anything we can do to prepare ourselves?
If you've got a structure like that, you've got bigger problems than the verbosity of the declarations!
If you're a valued part of their team your boss(es) are unlikely to be as excited about your new adventure as you are.

Fine to say you're leaving to pursue your own thing, but it's not the time to be offering anything other than help in finding or training a replacement and making the transition easy on them so they look back at you in the most favorable light when you do approach them down the road.
I don't use ruby a lot. Is there any special feature that you need?
Apple hires former NSA, Navy analyst as security czar
splitting the window into multiple terminals makes me happy. this is the same functionality I love in Terminator under Linux.
How does one create a sustainable open source business?
Moved from Tumblr to Jekyll+GitHub
WebKit is essentially equal: http://www.ohloh.net/p/WebKit/analyses/latest
Parker must have hated the cocaine and underage girls scenes.
I believe all three of them were profitable when they took their first outside investment. That seems to make a big difference.
I usually ask for a short summary and then tell them about possible conflicts.

A surprising number of entrepreneurs either think their idea is so special that a one-liner will give it away OR want to meet without giving a summer. Hmph.
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Nice idea, unfortunately I don't have an iOS device.

Would love to see a longer write up of this - maybe one article about your manual data collection + analysis + insights (if that's not too personal for you!) and another article about how your app does it all for you.
This fails on chrome on os x. The background windows flashed when toggling.
App Store Downloads Hit 10 Billion in Under 3 Years, iTunes Music Store Took 10
For the curious of how this was compiled, and the source:

http://ghewgill.livejournal.com/145305.html
The Guardian Jilts Old iPhone App in Favor of Subscriptions Model
Well it's more embarrassing when someone does it to you. And I have a suitably fragile and inflated ego, which is why I picked Sydney out of the offers I received way back in the day.
"Playing startup." Most apt description I've heard of the New York 'tech' scene yet.
Turnitin? They get the works from students/academics who submit works to turnitin system. By get, if the students/academics want to pass the course/check, some graders/reviewers require use of Turnitin. Compulsory courses tend to be big and graders use it as a tool to reduce grading time. I even saw a lecturer requirement to submit code in via Turnitin.

The system works well but some people do not appreciate their works being devalued and reused forcefully. In my last two years, I've attached a licence to my works that's uploaded. I suppose if I find my works used elsewhere with profit made from access to it, then they're infringing on the licence (CC Non-commercial).
Chrome users can also just use the userscript, thanks to Chrome's greasemonkey-devouring magics :)
I find that one of the most enjoyable procrastination activities is to plan out the thing that I'm supposed to be doing. I have something I know I should do, but I can't make myself do it. So instead, I sit down and break down the big task into a number of little tasks. That keeps my procrastination demons happy because I'm not actually doing the task. Except I am, because at the end I have a list of (hopefully) much easier tasks to do. If necessary I do that recursively - break down my new list of easy tasks. Eventually it gets silly - the next task is so simple I could do it very quickly without thinking. So I do it. And then often I find that once I've done the first thing, it's easy to carry on with the second, third,... that's the momentum thing kicking in. Sometimes things don't start flowing after doing the first task. At that point I put it to one side to do another time.
FTA: Comics analyst Scott McCloud, on the other hand, later commented that it was as if, in drawing up the code, "the list of requirements a film needs to receive a G rating was doubled, and there were no other acceptable ratings!"

Also, no child would be able to afford collecting comics from that era... Instead, those comics are most certainly
"targeted" at adults now.
Why don't the values for year-to-date and month-to-date match? Is it a fake mock or a bug?

Why is Liquid Equity significantly greater than Account Value? Is it another fake mock thing or are you currently employing a leverage slightly greater than 3x?
If you look at his P&L sheet he has some largish drawdowns, with a lot of neutralish trades. I'd prefer to see smaller, but more consistent wins.
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Journalist
A tangent to this: I happened to look at Eduardo Saverin's Wikipedia page today, and there's this ongoing problem of people rewriting it to reflect what happened in the movie. Because they sincerely believe it's accurate, I guess.

In the movie, Aaron Sorkin has one of his characters deliver a strong rebuke about how blogging can cause permanent damage to reputation. But he himself doesn't seem to feel the same responsibility when writing a major Hollywood picture.
Another very important point to keep in mind: ACM helps students cover travel expenses to conferences if they cannot be covered by the students themselves.

This is a tremenduous help for students that are not employed by their universities or are not covered by a professor's grant. In addition to the access to ACM's digital library, I think that a membership is money well spent (and it should be tax deductible in most countries anyways...)
Of course, because obviously this won't imply starving to death. So the choice is : working an incredibly shitty job for little money, or staying at home for little money, which is quite obviously the most rational choice. The fact is that despite that, a very large number of people accept the burden of terrible low wage jobs, for different and largely non economic reasons; so instead of being lazy that's the other way around, the working poor are indeed courageous.
I am able & interested , mail is at my profile.
Any plans for another one between mid-March to mid-April? :-)
Normally I'd agree with you, for those exact reasons, and my first prototypes were all generally flat (also being a fan of the Ultima series.)

But when I tried the current isometric style on a whim, it managed to solve all of the problems I was trying to address. Probably because I use a hybrid approach: only the underlying battlemat tiles are isometric. The miniatures are flat, slightly-transparent stand-ups and always face the player.
Learning how to learn and why students don't like school
There are two of you. It's all about compromise between the two. If you don't compromise one becomes weak and the other dominant. If one becomes dominant you, as a whole, become unhealthy and unstable. There are a few hacks here and there and yours sounds interesting but all hacks are useless with out having some fundamental balance.

A well rested mind is your best weapon against imbalance. Meditate and stop drinking coffee.

Procrastination I find is a side effect of an discontented and imbalanced mind.
Point being?

Every community has its unique array of people, for better and worse.
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Not sure about Cook's ambitions. If he's been eying for the CEO title and he's not made the successor, he can be easily lured away. Ive on the other hand, I would imagine he's happy where he is now. Ive designed devices are probably getting close to a 1/4 to a billion units sold. I'm not sure if he can have that kind of influence anywhere else, nor his desire to be a CEO. Jobs has to know these points. So unless Ive is more ambitious than Cook, making Ive the CEO won't be playing the cards right.
I used Quora a bit, mostly in movie section. The main problem is the quality of the questions are not so good. Something like "What is the best films of director XXXX?" seems so pointless and subjective. And it is not in only movies; in travel, web design etc... You see all around the "What is the best....".

There is no best and the answers will(have) change in time.
There could be some pretty serious effects, but the stuff listed in the linked page? Utter nonsense.

Let's run through the list:

"disabling communication satellites"

Yes.

"mobile phones"

Maybe, but probably not.

"effective sleep patterns"

Nonsense.

"radiation poisoning of humans"

Nonsense.

"Also as earth has to absorb extra radiation & energy this will cause possible changes within the earth's core - with energy being re-dissipated from the earth with new volcanoes formed and crust movement."

This one is such complete and utter nonsense that I have no choice but to flag this submission.
Short answer: no.

Long answer: I'm no heliophysicist, but I haven't heard any of this before. In any case, I'm prepared to wait for doomsday scenarios to appear somewhere other than abovetopsecret.com before I start worrying about them.
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how did nowmov get funding for this idea?

It's against youtube's terms and conditions to make any $$$ (ad revenue, sponsorship, endorsement, etc) off the youtube api, if it's the main feature of the website.
I was a developer at a startup that specialized in creating some cool fleet management software for the trucking industry, as well as some way-ahead-of-its-time mobile technology (WAP).

I personally believe that if this company re-booted and started up again today, it would rock.