skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plaintiff's assertion is not just that they are unable to compete with a free product, but that they are unable to compete with a product which, according to them, is only being given away for the purpose of harming competitors and establishing a monopoly.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing>;

No OSS developer can establish a monopoly, because the terms of the license permit redistribution. Thus while they may drive other vendors out of the market, they can not hope to charge monopoly prices, as anyone else could promptly undercut them at no cost with their own software.
It wouldn't be rival dating sites; it would be affiliates to rival sites. I guess the best way to see it is; once you have identified a sucker, take them for all they are worth.

Possible scenario:

1) User signs up for free on WooMe

2) User is enticed by fake account to signup because the picture alone suckered them in, and the unknown of their message just made it too much.

3) Fake account tells user to check out their profile on fake account's website

4) Fake accounts website is a redirect with affiliate code to rival site

5) User signs up for rival site, thus giving the commission to the fake account's holder.

It sounds like a lot of work, but it's all automated and easy to pull off.

Edited for formatting
I get the feeling Google is using the same strategy Microsoft used against Apple in the late 1980's. They seem to want to create a market of shovelware in an effort to simply damage Apple's marketshare rather than creating truly unique products.
For a co. that is handled by just a few developers, this is just phenomenal. Hats off to the team! :)
Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations
Reddit hits 1 Billion pageviews
Every download should be actionable
Is that why you're still single? ;-)
Ask and ye shall (maybe) receive: The Daily checks in on Quora
I like the "history -c" before logging out, while leaving downloaded files and extracted archives all over the place.

Oh yeah, he's really covered his tracks now...
Interesting metrics on the growth and engagement rate. FWIW, I am seeing similar metrics at my group texting site (groupflier.com), a 15% engagement rate and linear group growth. I wonder if that is the natural growth rate of closed groups?
I hate to come across as even more of a pedant, but I think that that was specifically the reason he chose that word; he was using 'insubordination' as a rhetorical device to describe the way he feels about his relationship with the agent, even if it's not literally true.

<3
Wow, this comment would've been downvoted to oblivion in the old days. What does this mean?
Weird, I find VLC to perform much better on my 2009 MBP than MPlayer. I tried switching and gave up after 15 minutes of constant stuttering in MPlayer OSX Extended.
How did they burn through $2.5mm that quickly?
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If you have nothing of value to add to the conversation, you could refrain from adding anything and trust in the intellect of your fellow HNers to read the sentence that you quoted verbatim for themselves.
Out of curiosity, what resources were you not finding? The language itself and the standard libraries are pretty well documented on golang.org, and searching for "golang <keyword>" has always worked quite well for me to find any third party library I happen to be looking for.
Google has kept a record of all of the apps that you have downloaded over the life of your Google account. What does that mean?
If you loose your phone and need to re-populate it you know what you had. Nice, paid apps as of now will re-download after a few clicks. I have not found a easy way to re-populate my android with the unpaid apps, hopefully that is coming soon.

Update; You can remotely updated apps from your computer: Awesome.
I'm in! But, it wouldn't be complete w/o social Q&A - maybe Quopath-on?
IOS T&Cs Updated to Allow In-App Subscriptions
I completely agree.

I was considering a MBA several years ago. My friend made the statement: MBA is about brand recognition. Since you want to be local, go to only MIT or Harvard, otherwise just start your company.

Apparently Jack Welch made a similar comment when speaking to Sloan students a couple years back that angered the dean. When asked which courses to take, Welch replied (paraphrased), "it doesn't matter. this is a country club. network. That is value you are being provided."
Hackers to keep Egypt online
This morning, the Egyptian government finally restored internet service across the country after a week-long mandatory blackout meant to stymie the organizational efforts of protesters. But if it ever goes down again, there’s a backup plan: A promising system developed by programmers around the globe that would get thousands of Egyptians plugged back into the grid in no time...
I wonder if Google is worried (or should be worried) about these recent high-profile rejections of its very generous acquisition offers? Yelp, Groupon, Path, etc.
> ^ Can't reply to your post, but I'll just do it here.

To prevent too much back and forth, the 'reply' button disappears, but if you click on 'link' to go to the page directly, you should still be able to reply anyway.
The Daily isn’t as bad as Virgin’s Project | Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
A cute physics pun that accurately describes Reddit
I can report that it doesn't seem to work on my 2.1 Sammy Captivate. It complains about content filter settings, yet I haven't set any content filter, can't seem to find where to set it, and regardless of all that it was just a newsreader app (Pulse).
You do need to define things a bit more. Daily data or tick? Stock, futures, etc. Just US data or more.

How are you going to allow any languages to run on your server? That seems pretty dangerous.
It's a case by case basis. Those who want to lead do a startup, those who want to follow and live the easy life go get an MBA, CPA, Masters.
It's unclear to me why I shouldn't pay for an online dating site from reading that article? The only thing that he says that really drives that point is that they're incentivized for you to fail. But I'm not sure I buy that, since churn is probably higher when you get no dates than when you're dating but maybe just haven't found the "one" (if that's what you're looking for).

The main argument seems to be that number of profiles and active profiles are different. It seems like the takeaway to me is to be cautious and try to learn the number of active profiles.
Ask HN: Review our startup, PollerBare
Hey everyone. Our site, http://pollerbare.com has been live for about 10 months. It's a site for indie musicians to post their music in a downplayed battle of the bands theme.

We have kind of put this project on the back burner because we don't see how we can monetize it right now.

For a while, we thought we should pivot to pictures (become a hot or not/dating site, ehhh) or videos (via youtube). We even finished sketching up the UI/UX for the videos pivot, but pulled off last second.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
Notes on Trimble's Writing with Style
At this stage, Ars reports that the subscription service is limited to content subscriptions for apps like magazines and newspapers. However, I'm sure this payment model for apps will be lucrative enough to see expansion into other areas within the next year.
Given the app isn't particularly popular or compelling, I'm a bit incredulous over the fact that you only need a couple of internet-famous co-founders to warrant a $100MM offer.
All my physicist/video gamer friends love it for that.
I'll preface this my saying that the last time I touched .NET was about six years ago, but my biggest turnoff with the .NET community was that it seemed like everyone wanted their $5, $10, $50 for everything. Libraries and tools that I could get for free with C++ or Ruby or Python seemed to all have price tags associated with them in .NET world. I don't remember the last time I saw the source for an assembly on GitHub et al.

I don't mind paying for good tools (and I would absolutely class Reflector as one), but there seem(s/ed) to be this very top-down mentality in the .NET world that everyone in every step of the chain has to make a buck. Reflector was a shining example of a great free tool in a sea of pay-for dreck, and it's quite sad to see that example die.

It's a bit disappointing, because this mentality seems like it really does a lot to stifle hobbyist exploration of the platform when it's doing cost you $48 in assorted widgets to build the toolset you need to try out an idea.

Edit: I should clarify that I don't think this is a bad thing, and I absolutely feel that Reflector justifies the price tag. The story just sparked some memories of my time in .NET that go a long way towards explaining why I'm not a .NET developer today. My time doing .NET development was in a professional context for my employer, so it's not like I couldn't get the tools due to cost issues, but the massive culture gap left an impression on me.
> Google’s “experiment” was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as “click fraud.

hunh?

> So big and noticeable that we are told Google took notice and began to worry. Then a short time later, here come the honeypot attacks. Is the timing purely coincidence? Are industry discussions about search quality to be ignored? Is this simply a response to the fact that some people in the industry are beginning to ask whether Bing is as good or in some cases better than Google on core web relevance?

I can't believe this was written by someone with 'Vice President' in their title ... how childish.
I took it as satire on the whole 'Reddit got bought by a giant megaconglomerate yet still had to beg their userbase for money to keep going, and their site is still slow as a dog' fiasco.

Then again, about two days ago the Inbox stopped taking 2+ minutes to load, so...
What does it actually do? Executes the body of the case for the channel which has output?
Wall Street and The War On Iraq
The total Wall Street compensation for the year 2010 is strikingly close to another number that is a US priority – the war on Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless...

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[edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.
A reading program/discussion group is a great idea. I'd join up but I'm based in the UK.
Facebook is Why Students are so Miserable
Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?
Open Cloud Solutions
Sidebar: The only way to update your own path is with an iOS4 only app? It can't even be done through the website? This just seems wrong to me.

I know they must be working on an Android version as they are hiring for that position, but still not being able to update through the web interface seems silly.
But where can I get the initial English version? I can only see menus and no apps in the country I'm currently in.
Not only that, there's too many hypothetical, open ended questions - they don't really address anything. Instead they leave it to the reader to imagine. Not impressed.
Cool idea, though.
Glad to be a Rapportive Angel Investor too :-)

The linkedin integration was already Great!
@KimaVentures
We have always been at war with Oceania.
Massive Health - Own Your Health
See http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Select_statements for the relevant documentation. What select does is selects which communication option to do, and it blocks until one of the options is available. So if you select on one option, you will block until you do that. But default is always available, so now you don't block.
Money flows like wine in the valley.
The concept of focus was mesmerizing. It's well-accepted that our brains do amazing things under the covers, and the idea of bending our brains to a single focus speaks volumes about human intelligence and genius. Very evocative.
Quality is definitely lacking compared to the App Store in a number of ways.

I wonder if the poor quality stems from the fact that Android is probably not even paying for itself internally at google and they don't properly account for all the mobile web traffic it brings to google.com, so the team size is really small right now. This is certainly not the place for using the whole "beta for 5 years" concept because the competition is already polished.
Huge congratulations to the reddit team, old and new.

Does this mean you'll be doing your next round of hiring for a new dev soon?
I'm working on a wrapper for BLAS (basic linear algebra subprograms) that will hopefully be able to interoperate between CBLAS and CUBLAS (nvidia's GPU implementation) by the time it's done.

BLAS has fortran/C heritage so it expects matrixes to be a single contiguous chunk of memory, indexed by column first and then row. Whereas a go [][]float64 is a pointer to an array of slices, which are pointers to noncontiguous arrays. Additionally, the CUDA API has a "special" malloc function that does some bookkeeping and gets big performance gains. So, trying to figure all of that out, plus this is my first go project (great first project, huh), so basically every other newbie question I've had.

Basically obscure enough questions were better to search golang-nuts directly.
Yes, that is what I also experienced with the GUI.

Try to run the MPlayer binary itself. In MPlayer OSX Extended, you can find it here:

/Applications/MPlayer OSX Extended.app/Contents/Resources/Binaries/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/mpextended.mpBinaries/Contents/MacOS/mplayer

Just give it any video as parameter.

And I really wonder why the difference is so immense. Maybe the MPlayer OSX Extended GUI totally sucks. But all the other GUIs I have tried seem also to suck performance-wise or with other problems.
This hurts my eyes, plus it took me 10 seconds to understand why the window was zooming when I was scrolling down.

Ground breaking. Not in a good way.
I'm surprised at the lack of Stross--Accelerando describes a fairly Hansonian singularity.
Nice try, Tim Ferris.
3 Scrum Types
I got a LOT out of 4HWW, I haven't quit my job and gone freelancing yet - but now that you mention it, it sounds like a good idea.

4HB I can say that I don't feel like I've gotten anything of value from it. I felt really disappointed and let down by it. I also felt like some of the advice in there was so wrong it bordered on being dangerous.

Tim Ferris is highly controversial on HN. He's got a lot of supporters and a lot of detractors on here. I've been both.

As for the 4-Hour dentist, I think that it was really funny. Actually laughed.
Coopération algéro-britannique
It seems that CPMs are more in the $0.50-1.00 range[1]. Which still translates into a very nice chunk of change and that's not counting other initiatives such as reddit gold.

[1] http://www.winningtheweb.com/reddit-homepage-advertising-res...
Interns! - Mixpanel Analytics [SF]
I have a particular aversion to the 'social signaling and influence-via-association' you mention. However, I very much enjoy the substance of Tim Ferriss's content.

Why? 1) TF accomplishes things first, and then publishes these accomplishments - martial arts, ballroom dancing, swimming, building muscle mass - he really did these things.. better than others. 2) Regarding the substance of his book, nearly all important info is either grounded in his direct experience, or referenced by thoroughly researched science. He picks his words very carefully when making claims. 3) TF is goal oriented and rational in his approach to learn skills.

Yea, I wish his writing style was a bit different.. I'm just more cerebral than his average reader. However, when TF releases the '4-hour Promoter', I will be buying this. His promotion skills are just another area he has mastered. This guy is not a natural promoter, rather he is a golden example of how to learn skills and apply them with measurably improvable results.. his ability to promote is just another example.
Keep in mind 90% of the ads right now are just games or reddit ads (keep refreshing the page). Not mention a good percentage of their users use adblock and are extemely anti-commercial. I think they are making significantly, significantly less.
Maybe because nobody else except Google values them at $100M?
Hacking HTTP Status Codes
Frontend Engineer - Mixpanel Analytics
I still haven't heard a single remotely plausible argument for why a kill switch is a good idea. What's the worst that a "cyber attack" can do? Take down the internet? So why do it for them?

Including text in the law forbidding the president from using it to prohibit citizen's communication is incredibly disingenuous, too, given that that's one of the main points of the constitution.

We already know the US government isn't allowed to do this kind of thing. So why give them the tools? If there's no tool there isn't even any temptation to use it.
> trying to force people to pay for an extra feature (debugging through code w/o source) that many people simply don't want

Isn't that the way software businesses work? They build features that they hope will convince people to pay for upgrades or renewals. If people don't want the new feature, the company won't make any money.

It doesn't seem to be an evil or malicious route to me; it's just charging for something which was free before because they can no longer maintain it that way.
For keyboard complaints, get Swype. It chagned me from never using the soft keyboard on my Droid to using it 75% of the time, and I specifically got a Droid to have a hard keyboard.
I love "Clear and Simple as the Truth" for a very authoritative voice which can present complex things without dumbing down: (Non-aff) http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-As-Truth-Writing/dp/06910...

And "Style: Towards Clarity and Grace" for a more humble, direct, simple style for non-complex presentation: (Non-aff)
http://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publishi...
In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
I also really liked Rich Dad, Poor Dad. :)
The top of the article says "humor." This is satire. Satire can use whatever kind of attack it wants to get it's point across.
this is really impressive, especially considering that they have just a couple of engineers
Well, presumably now they have access to the real, not benefit-of-the-doubt, numbers. Which only makes Match.com look worse...
What I also experienced under Linux: It eats more power. When playing videos just on battery on my notebook, I could play much longer with mplayer and the CPU cooler stayed very slow/silent. This difference was very notable on my PowerPC notebook but also later on x86 notebooks.

But I never tried it on Windows.
79% of Twitter Critical of Obama & Clinton’s Response To Egyptian Riots
I think they're waiting for an offer from the mothership, AKA Facebook.
Thanks for your feedback! We will clarify it on the page, but the short answer is both daily and tick data. We plan on starting with US equities unless we get strong feedback to the contrary.

As for security, we plan on running each user's code in its own sandbox, with restricted permissions.
1. It depends on how the node fails. If there's just a network partition, then you still have N nodes, so no issues. If you're running with durability enabled, and you experience, say, a power outage, then the member should rejoin the set and resync with no issues. If a node's drive crashes, then you'll need to restore from a recent snapshot (within a day or so) or perform a complete resync if you don't have snapshot. But this can all be done without taking the replica set offline. In that last case, there is some manual work involved. But your post, unless you've corrected it, implies that replica set failover is completely manual. That's certainly not true.

2. Outside of some kind of hardware failure, you won't have situations where writes succeed on the primary but fail on a secondary. And as I stated on your blog post, if you're really concerned about it, you can specify a write concern on insert, and if the write fails to replicate in the desired way, you'll know about it.
If I were Bing I'd be showing how Google Toolbar does exactly the same thing as the Bing one right now.
So are we Eurasia, or Eastasia?
1. The UX needs some work. It looks late 90s-ish.

2. The name is a little cheesy. I'd really consider changing it.

3. It's not immediately obvious how to play songs. Can you put a play button under each song? Ditto for picking the winner - put a "This is the best song" button under each song.

I do like the music though. :) And it's a cool idea. Have you considered approaching local Battle of the Bands competitions and getting them on the site? Sell it as a all-in-one promotional type of thing.
No site like Reddit can fill 1 billion impressions at $2 eCPM. Closer to $0.25 I'd bet.
Great decision, Path. $100M is not cool. You know what is cool? $1 Billion.
Hmm, doesn't seem to allow me to sign in with my Google Apps account (which I'm using on my Android just fine).
When a core dev steps down from a project and forks, I see that action as a vote of no confidence in the current leadership.

While I certainly don't want to stir the pot, I do see a bit of irony in that a stated goal of ChiliProject is transparency but there isn't a lot of transparency on why the fork was created.

I fear bad blood will be inevitable as developers/users pick their sides. All that being said, I wish your project the best and I will be looking in from time to time to see if we might revaluate our issue tracker.
Wonderland! People do answer questions like this an they do it in imposingly practical way! (as for a person from Central Europe it is a surprise)
Is there a chance for a long experience business sensitive creative person with a lineup of new brands ideas as well? Do only technical geeks have a chance in new business development? What/where could an advice be?
I don't understand why we have to blame something or someone else for our own miserableness. I'm a firm believer that happiness is a choice. And that a majority of people choose to be miserable because somehow, some way, they "enjoy" it (consciously or subconsciously).
I suspect this is because all the young developers who have the free time and inclination to release their efforts as open source are writing Ruby rather than .NET and Java these days. In a few years, they'll have mortgages and families too and will try to start charging for their work. The wheel goes round.

> this mentality seems like it really does a lot to stifle hobbyist exploration of the platform ...

It definitely does seem to stifle innovation on these platforms. Although if you need to use a bunch of commercial widgets in order to try out an idea, you're probably doing it wrong.
If you are going to a World Top 5 - then it might be worth it to network with the people who are going to be hiring CEOs.

Maybe not even then. I don't have the reference in front of me, but I seem to recall something about a study of the Fortune 500 CEOs, and there were as many from some state school (University of Wisconsin, maybe?) as there were from Harvard.

Edit: some links about this point.

http://content.spencerstuart.com/sswebsite/pdf/lib/2005_CEO_...
(Warning:PDF)

http://bernardmoon.blogspot.com/2009/05/go-wisconsin-most-fo...

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/...

Here's another fun observation from that 2005 study (said as a North Carolinian who resides in Chapel Hill):

Of the Fortune 100 CEOs, the top schools for their undergraduate degrees were:

Harvard, Stanford, Yale, U. of North Carolina - 3% each

Which one of these is not like the others? :-) (To be fair though, even though it's a state school, UNC is generally pretty highly regarded and their business school is usually pretty high in the national rankings.)
Nokia has no devices running Android, which was what I meant to refer to.