skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need new laws for most of this stuff. Selling crap that you know is crap as AAA security's is simple fraud.
http://www.correctionscorp.com/

http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/

Yes, you can buy stock in them.
Obama to Meet With Zuckerberg & Other Tech Execs During San Francisco Trip
Anonymous not only is composed of the technically savvy people, but has immense potential. If say, tomorrow, Julian Assange is conclusively killed by the United States (with some evidence saying it was the US Govt.) they would probably gather many new recruits.
If an election was stolen in the US with a load of evidence of massive voting fraud, I imagine anonymous would add half of hacker news to its membership. Anonymous is pretty much a nerd-mob amassed as a response to whatever they're massing against. And their technical capacity is determined by what they're fighting. If its something stupid, its probably just the script-kiddies involved. If it's something serious and massively threatening the societal sense of justice, I imagine some pretty tech-savvy otherwise-professionals would get involved.

It's composed of a demographic that tends to lean anarcho-libertarian with a _very_ strong sense of justice and fairness, also coinciding with a demographic that tends to run most of the revolts/revolutions throughout history (men between 18-35). And is pretty much a subset of the 4chan demographic (which isn't too hard to get into/understand if you're a redditor; and who isn't a redditor these days?).

They aren't dangerous unless you're doing something wrong in their eyes: and while their evaluation of what is right is rather hazy, and their responses ranging from ineffective outrage to very disproportionate rage, I find it hard to condemn what is essentially a very democratic volunteer amassed group of people.
This isn't uncommon, but it's certainly annoying. Video card manufacturers got so bad at "releasing" products which no one could buy for months, that most respectable review sites simply refused to write anything about them. The problem seems mostly solved in that market (for now).

I remember Microsoft announcing the Zune (I think) and making a Big Deal about it being $X cheaper than the iPod touch. Problem is, by the time it shipped some 9 months later (or so), Apple had cut the price. (Microsoft is notoriously bad with this in general...anyone remember the years of WinFS marketing speak?)

Marketing Driven Development?
Totally, there's something about putting a pen to paper that makes me focus
Sure, I said in another comment that one would expect - intuitively if nothing else - to find some female founders. But that section reads like the OP found it to be some horrible, horrible thing just because - due to circumstance - all the advisers were male and the attendees were female; and went off on what felt like a bit of a weird digression.

Balance of power? Not being treated like a peer? I'm just saying that if you're at an event where you are - by nature - positioned in something of a "advisee" or "student" role, that you are in the "advisee" or "student" role regardless of your gender. And sometimes it's ok to put the ego aside, quit worrying about getting the other person to accept you, respect you, or whatever, and just listen and learn.

I mean, nobody likes being talked down to, or patronized, right? I think that's something that transcends gender. But sometimes we accept it because there's something to be gained.
One obvious way is to get the memories onto physical media or devices and sell it - a 1000 memories digital photo frame or album for instance.
an industrywide scam that involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities

Sounds like he's calling the risk ratings "fraud." It would be a tough case to prove, though. There were two convenient mistakes that nobody wanted to stop making. First, the incorrect ratings, which were motivated by a conflict of interest: the folks selling the mortgage-backed securities paid the ratings agencies to rate their securities. Second, the fact that people bought the securities as if the ratings were trustworthy, despite the glaring conflict of interest.

To make a criminal case, you'd have to prove they weren't just stupid. (Sorry, Ivy League grads, that degree is not sufficient evidence by itself.) Somebody would have to find a paper trail that proved the criminals' state of mind, like an email saying, "Hey Joe, I just finished rating the latest mortgage-backed CDOs. The computer gave them all AA (LOL!) I wonder how long we can get away with using this stupid formula to overrate CDOs. Our customers love it so much, and we are getting mega rich. The people who buy these things are suckers, but they're probably getting rich selling them to somebody else LOL. Everybody gets rich except stupid grandma when her pension fund goes broke LMFAO"
The fall of HBGary
Lil Wayne Looks To Set World Record On Facebook
Interesting. Could really take off. Seems like something Google would do (in terms of the website specific options) for Chrome.
See... I kind of agree with you but I had a different take on things... It seems to me the time is right for people to get better at making web applications that provide really rich functionality. I know right their don't seem to be web applications that are as good as native clients but if people really work towards that direction they can avoid the walled garden all together... Of course then they have to convince users to go to the webpage and 'install' it as an icon in the dashboard..
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Groupon Spars with Tencent; Joint Venture Isn’t Inspiring Local Confidence
+1

Though I do think the author's title was (unsurprisingly) more accurate than the poster here.
Well they were making enough to survive for 15 years, that's more than most businesses can say.
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The OPs perspective contains a lot of false assumptions. I was one of the YC alums who went to a dinner (though not the same one the OP was at).

The truth is YC consists of mostly men. I believe PG has said that YC accepts the same % women and men, but they have many fewer applications from women. This is an unfortunate situation, and is something I assume this event was meant to help correct (I had no part in its original planning).

With that being said, there actually aren't enough female YC alums to populate these dinners. Hopefully events like this will help create more YC alums, but you can see the chicken-and-egg problem of demanding women hosting these dinners.

From the article:

YCombinator created a dynamic where every man at the table was there to “advise” and every woman at the table was there to “be advised”....
[A]t this dinner table, for my life I could not convince these men to engage me as a peer.

From my perspective, every YC alum was there to advise and every prospective founder (or prospective YCer or what have you) was there to be advised. Why does gender have to come into play? Did any of the alums talk down to the OP because of her gender? Possible, but I doubt it. I would have loved more women to be alums giving advice, but only because they might be able to better answer gender-oriented questions from a first-person perspective. Saying the event should have only female alums, and then implying that the men did not view you as a peer because of some gender issue rather than the context of the event, is borderline offensive to me.

When I'm put in the situation of giving advice as a YC alum, I do just that: I give advice. My primary mindset, regardless of the people at the event, is that of a question answerer. I was sharing my experiences, just as most would do if you were at any event where you were the "alumni".

When one views everything as a male-female breakdown, any situation where there are more women receiving information than doling it out is going to seem sexist.
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Your argument only works in the context of someone like Rhapsody, who is a pretty bare-bones wrapper on top of content.

But consider services like last.fm, Netflix, or Pandora - where there is a significant value-add on top of merely distributing content. They are providing consumers a valuable service but yet also cannot afford the steep cut that Apple is now demanding.

The "they're distributors and deserve to get cut out" argument is a fallacy, because some distributors actually do provide consumer value - and they're all getting taken to the cleaners with Apple's new move.

Besides, a diverse crop of distributors competing with each other is a far better situation to be in than exchanging all of that for a monolithic monopoly of another distributor. Make no mistake, this isn't some populist uprising where the producers make their work available to the consumer and bypass the middleman - the middleman still exists, it's now Apple, and now Apple has all the cards.
Having ideas - A conversation on product development
It's the idea that counts, not the language. The number of OpenGL function calls balloons very quickly when using immediate mode.

For example, I recently prototyped a simple 16x16 tile demo over an 800x600 screen. In immediate mode, that's 1900 tiles on screen at once, and each one demanded 4 calls for tex coords (GL_QUADS) and 4 more for vertex data. That came to 15200 OpenGL calls every single frame, enough to stress my modest hardware. With vertex arrays, buffers or display lists, that could be brought down by orders of magnitude, probably with a dramatic performance boost.

Most people hardware is much better than mine, but my point is that OpenGL immediate mode doesn't scale well even for simple things.
I do wonder whether Stack Overflow will become a victim of their own success. By providing a place to get answers from experts to technical questions, actually employing an expert is worth much less than before. In other words, Stack Overflow is turning knowledge into a commodity. This makes experts less valuable in the marketplace. It therefore makes running a job-listings page (or "elite CV service") less profitable.

Furthermore, since SO profiles are public, other job-listing companies in the market can easily leach off the reputation mechanism just by adding a "Stack Overflow profile" field.

Stack Overflow is a wonderful site, but I think their free services are a long-term threat to the profitability of their premium services. When knowledge is free, there's no reason to employ an expert.
Emacs mode in Eclipse? It has almost all of the navigation keystrokes.

As far as emacs not being everywhere, I recently just learned about mg on openbsd. If I had just rtfm I would have found it years ago.
s/uninteresting/unexpected/

Mental slip.

My friends and family were the ones who were most excited about that job, it seemed a bit boring and confining to be engineer #80.

I love the uncertainty and possibilities that I face with Catch.com

I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

edit
Amazon doesn't manufacture the device you view your content on. Amazon VOD support is available on a wide range of hardware from multiple manufacturers.

So yeah, the DRM is still there, but if you're not happy with the way Samsung is doing things, you can hop to LG or Sony just as easily.

Compare with Apple where if you bought video content on iTunes and don't like the AppleTV... well... tough.
I think they already are doing "something". The article does note that botnet-tweeting doesn't appear to have any effect.

Whereas a tweetstorm from "real" people is probably indicative of actual (if temporary) interest, hence legitimate pagerank.
On a somewhat related note, are there any tutorials out there for a guide to emacs and org-mode for vim users?
Homeless People Start Tweeting for New Awareness Initiative
Apple will take whatever the market will bear.
Bootstrapped, baby.

And really... thanks for the compliment. We weren't so sure about it :)
Step 1) Stop!
Setp 2) Consider WebGL, C, or C++
I'm saying Javascript should've thought out its exposed number api a bit better. Either give me the bytes, or give me a number object that does infinite precision behind the scenes for me, don't make me do backflips to figure out whether I'm under/overflowing.
I think it is more likely that a sudden twitter storm on a tail keyword triggers Query Deserves Freshness.

Example: there currently exists a bishop who will be the next pope. His web profile today is substantially smaller than BCC's, and is likely dominated by 200 word wiki articles, a page at his diocese, and perhaps some Time Magaxine profile from when there was speculation as to who would follow JP2.

His Holiness will eventually pass away, which is going to ignite an immediate Worldwide News Event that will cause query volumes for the top ten candidates to skyrocket. Google wants to return fresh results for those (e.g. not the pages currently ranking). Using Twitter to trigger QDF gets that hours before the link graph will reflect the new speculation articles' popularity, without requiring manual intervention.

This is, of douse, just one signal. Google News feeds, the query spikes, and sudden radical increased appearance of branded terms on trusted pages all point to the conclusion.
They were investigating selling their own wine at one point (that I know of - maybe other points too). Wine. Not... getting better at selling books or coming up with new ways to engage readers. Wine. I wrote them off at that point, and it's been painful to watch the slow decline. I liked them - I'm from SE Michigan and it was great to have a local 'home grown' company succeed. But between their early fairly major missteps in ecommerce to ceding control to Amazon for a long time, they've been in a slow death spiral. This has less to do with the shifting changes in publishing (ebooks, mobile, kindle, etc) and more to do with ... I dunno. B&N is still around and seemingly able to adapt. Why couldn't Borders?
IBM Computer Thumps 'Jeopardy' Champions
How Open is Your Internet?
LearnBoost Becomes A School Platform
When I read the title, I thought it was going to be an article defending BitTorrent as a technology.
http://wiki.mechcore.net/
I like it. Although the login process failed on me several times.
Because the bottom line in life is power, not laws or beliefs.
Yeah I thought about QDF, and I sincerely hope you are correct. I could swear that things like links from HN are showing the same decay thing, though, just at a different speed. There have been a couple of sites that I started from scratch and only posted over here -- they showed the same kind of peak/falloff.

Of course, it's not an either-or situation. Both could be true.
I think you're grossly underestimating how much 30% of revenues means. Let's look at how this could actually affect you. Lets forget for a second that Amazon is even part of this issue. Let's stick to straight software development, what HN knows best. Let's look at the profit margins of some of the best software companies:
http://www.google.com/finance?catid=us-54399928&sort=ANI...

Look at what percentage of revenue that net income is, and count how many are above 30%. Now, isn't it a bit more difficult to make money on a product if your 30% margin is gone? Sure, Apple deserves some money for payment processing and distribution, maybe something for acquiring a new customer but certainly not 30% of all revenue.

Yes, you may say you can just raise price, right? Well, to compensate you would have to raise price over 40%. Meanwhile, the customers have already demonstrated the prices they are willing to bear, so that doesn't quite work.

So now, if you've started a business of developing iOS apps, you're severely hampered by this 30% revenue cut you're giving to Apple. The small guys will probably deal with it because they won't know better, but think of it this way: Apple has just taxed 30% of the value you have created for your users. That's 30% of your income.

You can argue this is a retail model and they should get a margin the same way you do if you sell something through Best Buy, but it becomes anticompetitive when they've blocked off any option you have to sell directly to a customer or through any other channel. The companies on that list do very little business through retail, and they would suffer if they had to give up 30%. Moreover, Apple's own margins would take a hit if they had to sell everything through a retail partner.

(Also don't get why it matters that Rhapsody, Netflix, Amazon don't create content. Apple doesn't create most of the stuff that goes into an iPhone, but that doesn't mean they don't add value and shouldn't be able to make money)
I'm surprised that Mr. Gruber patience with RIM is so limited (six months, really?) given that he was anticipating the iPad's immanent release as early as November 2007.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/11/07/asus
I don't, but comparing Zynga to this is apples and oranges. That being said, I think Zynga is overvalued right now.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that more and more I'm seeing startups that are features, not products. It's certainly not limited to this instance, but this was the most glaring to me, which is why I brought up the comparison and posed the question.
I guess that explains the lack of bios, then.
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I imagine the decision at Apple went something like this:

We can always go from 30% to 10% later, and all publicity is good publicity, so go for it.
98% of companies that apply to YC get rejected. Around 10% of startups succeed. Given this, YC rejects about 3 out of 4 successful startups even if their selection method is absolutely perfect.

YC is in an amazing position where hundreds (thousands?) of great entrepreneurs come to them, and they get to pick and choose the cream of the crop. So please, don't their their rejection too seriously.
Watson is just Jon Skeet typing into a terminal while he's blocking on network input.
Steve Jobs’ cancer clinic sighting sparks new Apple worries
Congratulations Andreas! I don't think that getting passed on by YC invalidates an idea and means it's no good. You clearly had a vision you knew was great and kept pushing. An inspiration to us all.
Why did you remove the comments? Now all we see is some changed comment that was downvoted before you changed it.

Yes, people do not understand the purpose of voting. It's not to express agreement or disagreement but rather to rate the validity of the points made in the comment.

Anyway. I did disagree with you, but I upvoted your comment and I would have liked to continue the argument. Now I can't because you removed your comments.
pystatsd is now in pypi:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pystatsd/
I spend so much time in it looking for the "optimal" way to do what I'm trying to do. I know there's a command for it somewhere!
Oh, this is very sad if true. Whether you like Apple or not, there is no denying Jobs has been a visionary and leader in the tech space since its inception.

A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was Steve Jobs' personal assistant. He was very frail and not looking good in my dream. Here's hoping it is still a (bad) dream.
> you gotta wonder where we'll be in say - 5 years from now?

Is it possible that the market won't coalesce and will instead stay fragmented? I wonder about the likelihood of that happening. It seems unlikely that either Android or iOS will capture 90% market share any time soon, plus, there is Blackberry to contend with (perhaps the Playbook will revive their fortunes somewhat) and you can never completely count out Microsoft either, as we've seen with the recent Nokia situation.

I think there are perhaps a couple of ways this could go. First, regardless of who executes best on technology, there may be a company who executes best on earning money for developers, and this economic factor could really boost the platform - if developers start coalescing around a platform, consumers may (will?) follow. (I think iOS has the edge here.)

Second, if the market remains fragmented it is going to be untenable for many companies, particularly small ones who develop software for clients, to support all of the platforms. They'll either have to specialize in one, perhaps two, of the platforms and avoid or subcontract work for the other platforms, or they'll need to start relying more heavily on HTML5 and workarounds like Phonegap. From that perspective, it may be in the best interest of web developers to see the platform fragmentation continue and perhaps get even worse.
I'm not so sure SO will lead to a smaller pie. The walled nature of EE limited its appeal to the largest part of the audience (the people looking for answers). So although their business model was more direct, they were basing it on a smaller corpus, with fewer viewers. An indirect (advertising-based) model over a much larger number of eyeballs could well make for a larger pie.

The challenge for SO is to see if they can maintain a high quality corpus as they scale, so people will keep producing and consuming their answers.
Developers: Rackspace gives you $10,000 in prizes for building in their cloud
Great to hear Andreas.

I recall following your 3banana posts on lurking about on AWOT/WayOT years ago. Again, best of luck.
(I for one welcome our new computer overlords)
We're working on both the learn more page and the screenshots right now, thanks for the feedback.

As for monetization, we're considering some kind of "sponsored questions" offering that could be used for both advertising and market research purposes.
As an example of why Java+OpenGL could be an interesting thing to study even today I would say a single word ... minecraft:

http://www.minecraft.net/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/?p=50710
Plot Predict (before you watch it)
Headline makes it seem like they were meeting one on one. Not the case, but still interesting. Not sure what this really accomplishes besides PR for Obama, though. Will they actually get anything done?
Smooth animation on (kindle model) e-ink display
Holy cow, can we please format that post better.
I would say take their rejection seriously, and let it motivate you even more (now that there's an added incentive to prove them wrong).

At least that's what I've been seeing here in HN recently.
Woah, fellow awot/wayoter here, too.

Small world, it is.
Would love a version of Safari that looks like it came from a Vectrex, too (think Tempest).
hi - all the startups i work with are B2B. gotta tell you that A LOT depends on type of solution you're selling, the types of companies in the industries you're targeting (are they typically early adopters, Luddites, etc.), are you going large enterprise or small businesses, how many users will have to use the solution, is security important... i could go on and on but this is core to B2B approach.

best advice i could offer in this situation from an appregatta perspective is get yourself positioned with someone that already has access to the customers you're trying to reach (a consulting firm with domain expertise, a reseller, etc.). ask them to be your product experts and hook you up with just a few prospects. there are real tricks to this to get it to work but it's doable and i see it work all the time.

another often viable option is to sell a very small piece of work as a consulting deal, and provide the prospect with real and tangible deliverables in terms of what they will get... if they get to "try out" a product also, all the better for them. but the deliverable is often an assessment and process improvement recommendations. if it's a real problem, they're likely to be willing to pay $500, $2,500, $10,000 for a consulting gig if you're team is credible and the pain is real. done right, mini consulting gigs can be easier to get meetings for and get deep into dialogue about nature of the probs at the very early stages.

so much is situational with B2B selling, it's borderline not even appropriate for me to offer much. but hopefully this gets you thinking and pushes your process forward a bit.

congrats on the biz and best of luck!