skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. The flip side is I've got a friend who as a company that has almost gone under just from the threat of a legal battle he can not afford to fight. Those things are time consuming and suck the life out of a person.
Great idea. It'd be fun if I could either login or get a link mailed to me of a Google Map overlaid with all of my current shipments, annotated with data about them.

Definitely like the simple nature of your app though. Signing up is as easy as adding you to the address book.
(OT, but...) What I can't understand is: why can't FedEx/UPS tell me approximately when they'll deliver my package? Or send me an SMS say, 15 minutes before the scheduled stop, so I know when to expect them? Surely the drivers are not following a stochastic pattern and performing a random walk through the streets?
You're the one who keeps making assumptions!

My statements about darwinism and also about Moose being better for Perl/CPAN are factually correct.
Haha, that's awesome! The FTP scene is so big they need distributed ftp agents to FXP their wares?

I always thought their drama and "wars" over shit like sharing files (....like it's not going to happen? not like they're using DRM or something) was incredibly overblown, even as a kid. Glad to see they're just as retarded now as ever.
the kids are all right man; the kids are all right.
Both Chrome and Safari get ever so slightly jittery on my four year old MBP. The most important thing to test is probably whether performance is affected if you want to use drop shadows.

There are other factors which can make scrolling less than butter smooth on slightly aged hardware, this seems to be a weak spot of many fancy designs. I don’t know whether those designs are just not tested in all browsers and on slightly older hardware or whether that’s an intentional trade-off. I’m extremely annoyed by even slightly jittery scrolling, but that’s probably just me.
So, where is profit for groups like XviD?
Which they don't do.
The scan takes too long, I already backed out. Maybe add an e-mail field that sends you results?
Not everything, but the public good is in fact what copyright is about: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8)
This seems like a terrible idea. Not sure why it's getting so much attention, is it just because Dropbox is mentioned?

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting is where I would say people should start if they want to host a .git.
>I'm not saying the books are racists, but it's not a stretch to think of these people as indian and black respectively given the book's description.

It's a stretch because Indians and other people live on this Earth and not in some fantasy reality created by an author.

Sure if you want to imagine that one species/race in the book is visually akin to a race/group/country of real humans that's fine, why would it matter.

This sort of argument to me is like saying that the books stereotype elephants because the great war beast Mamulik (sp?) are elephantine.

In short I think you're over analysing it, it's just a yarn.
I realize that both of these companies are private, but is there a way to learn more about how company "splits" like this are structured?

The article implies that Hammerbacher left Facebook before starting Cloudera... is that actually true? I imagine that Facebook might have said, "Whoa, hang on now -- you wouldn't have gained that experience anywhere else. We want a piece of Cloudera!"
It sounds like someone playing a Kazoo in the background whilst a floppy disk is filmed
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Yes. Free and unmaintained from Lutz would have been better. There are A LOT of free plugins for Reflector out. Everyone is thinking about Reflector itself and ignore the work of plugin authors who extended Reflector because it WAS a GREAT FREE TOOL for the .net community. Without a free version all those plugins are useless. I see no problem if Lutz tried to monetize. I would have bought a license first and foremost as "thank you".

Also, how the fuck they tried "really hard" to maintain freemium ? Since they brought Reflector they basically added the VS debugger integration FOR MONEY. How is that trying really hard for the free version ?!

Just to be understood correctly. I don't have anything against RedGate. In fact , as i said, they made some great tools. But grabbing one of the best FREE tools in the .net world and trying to monetize (after pledging for a free version) just makes them seem assholes.
The description given in the article is of a bubble, not a pyramid.
Hey Dan!

The first internship I had at a startup I found on craigslist.

If that doesn't cut it for you, you can always check out YouTern (http://www.youtern.com/) and InternMatch (http://www.internmatch.com/).

Lastly, and possibly the most effective would be just going to local start up events and networking and asking around. The startup community (at least here in Montreal) is really friendly and are always up for helping others.

Good luck!!
FWIW, I use http://twitter.com/TrackThis. You just have to follow them (they don't post anything, so no stream spam) and send them a dm w/ the tracking number. They send you a dm whenever there is an update to your package location while it's traveling.
If these issues still happen in Firefox 4, I would be very happy to debug them if you can reproduce.
Companies that don't want to handle distribution are covered - Apple handles that for you (that's all built in to the 30% cut.)
I checked back at my comment on the announcement (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170957) and was amazed to see it was only two weeks ago.

Either they work fast or were already working on this.
Sorry, you are wrong. The entire apple business model is about vendor lock-in. Only recently did iTunes remove DRM from their songs. The reason is because iTunes won. Apple used iTunes to lock people in by forcing them to use an iPod if they wanted their music which they "own" or rather "lease". Sure you were free to get ANY other mp3 player in the world, as long as you were ok with losing all your music.

The same here. Vendor lock in. You got ebooks from the cheapest store (iBook?) cool, iOS only, oh and a non-jailbroken one too.

Apple's history with the i... product line is content lock-in onto a device. They lure you in with pretty interfaces, then they hold your stuff hostage. Apple wants a piece of the pie, and they want to be able to undercut all competition. They know they can't ban kindle or face antitrust so they will do other things.

This is monopolizing pure and simple. It has nothing to do with apple making "enough" they want to make sure that they sell the cheapest stuff on the iOS, and they control where you can see the content - on the iOS - and if you leave you are fucked.
Class action? Alright, let's see what a self-respecting judge would do in such a situation. Especially when your evidence is that Apple's actions "feel hostile" and "leave a bad taste" in your mouth.

When a customer purchases an Apple device, he/she knows what that Apple does not guarantee continued service. Apple does not contractually promise that apps will continue to be there, it does not promise it will work with developers, it does not promise it won't change the rules, it does not promise that it won't get out of business in six months and close the app store altogether. The customer is aware of all that beforehand but still buys the device.

Many people talk about user rights. The only rights a user has are 1) to sue Apple if the company violates a written contract between itself and the user and 2) to refuse to buy Apple's products in the future.
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From reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, when I was a young'n, I remember that 'saucering' was considered rural, unrefined behavior. That kind of thing goes out quick; I bet none of the Silver Screen movie stars were seen saucering their tea.
love it :) Great job!
What & How would you earn bucks out of it?
Why don't you make some thing you can make money from, then invest your own money in the start up idea?

Either that or do I did and keep a full time job and work evenings and weekends until your startup matches your salary.
I'm an italian erasmus student in London, I live in the east end (good place for startups) for 300£ per month in a nice double. Totally I need ~900£ to live well (good food, pubs and discos).

Bit of self publicity: I'm looking for young startups in the area. I'm the author of hackurls.com and I'm following other web startup-like projects. Honestly I'm a competent and passionate programmer (git pyhthon django mysql mongodb java..). Feel free to contact me at vuotomeccanico on gmail.
Probably your pension.
I'm using it and like it a lot here are my reasons:

- I like C# as a language. It's easy to work with and the compiler catches a lot of things that would be runtime errors in php or python.

- I like Visual Studio a lot. I'm far more productive in that environment than anything else I've tried in other languages.

- For what I'm doing the cost of Windows is far less than the lost productivity working in another environment would give me.

- SQL Server 2008 is just awesome.

- Using LINQ to SQL has saved me a ton of time.
Thanks for the input. There's definitely a lot more that can be done, especially for those who need to track a large number of packages. More features, possibly requiring a login, is something I've thought about, however this super simple service meets my needs perfectly, and my guess is that I'm not alone. Depending on how this goes, I'll be looking at building out more functionality.
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Should Google allow commercial link trade?
By "distribution", I meant creating the app, marketing it, setting up downloads for the content, etc. That's not covered by this payment system, but it would be by a middleman.
Actually that view challenges the Wikipedia idea more than democracy.
Not necessarily a bad idea. I've been on interviews where the interviewer was in a rush, and didn't have a hard copy of my resume on them.
iTunes most certainly does compete with Netflix and Hulu especially, and iBooks is obviously there to compete directly with other ebook providers.

I agree that both iTunes and iBooks are rather horrible products, though.
Reeder is also available for Mac: http://madeatgloria.com/brewery/silvio/reeder

It's public beta, but it works pretty well so far.
By using an unmodified MySQLdb driver, FriendFeed did not make asynchronous calls to the database. I searched around and found this comment w/ response from Paul Buchheit about the issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479301

Do you need to make async calls to the database because your queries are slow?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230205

And that submission links to the single page version.
The guy has a very good point.
It is probably time to change your job. :-)
Well, I don't know how late everybody will be hanging out, but I have to pick up my son later in the evening, so I won't be able to stay much past 7:30, which is why I suggested meeting earlier. Hopefully we'll be making this type of thing a regular occurrence. Not the last minute part, but the getting together monthly part :-)
As an aside, what is the fist graphic in the posted article? I probably just don't understand the mark, but I interpret that kind of logo with revolutionary, "fight the power" kind of stuff and this is just corporate positioning, not revolution.
That would be extremely valuable. The newspaper industry will need this.
> I have no sympathy for computer-literate people who would willingly take part in an ecosystem which has DRM built into its DNA.

I'm inclined to agree with this, but only until I consider other DRM-laden platforms that I take part in.

I have a Steam account, and have many games tied to that account. Steam is DRM.

I have a Kindle, and I have many books on it. Kindle books use a DRM protected file-format.

The difference betweens these, and Apple's, ecosystems is in the value provided to the user, as opposed to the alternatives. Amazon's Kindle gives me multi-platform access to my books, Steam allows me to install my games on any Windows (or Mac, for some games) computer that I interact with.

Apple, on the other hand, actively assaults the freedom to use your purchased data/products/info on any device that isn't made by Apple.

So while I think you have the right idea about DRM infused systems, I think that the intent of the system should be judged as well, and in a more vital role than the DRM itself.
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So it's looking like Pizza Bella, 5:30ish. See you guys there!
i am still a svn user so i dont know exactly how git works, but how are you supposed to get your data on your other machines if you dont push it to the git server which is available from anywhere? Thats the point of syncing the working copy with dropbox, so you dont have to get it manually from your work machine.
As i understand it git repos are local so my other machines wont have access to that repo, or am i wrong ?
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I think that the antitrust suits are just around the corner. Which is good, because there are a ton of corner cases beyond the obvious ones that just got damaged. I think the books / movies / tv are just the ones that we heard about first. Pretty sure this is going to effect flickr, vimeo, and more.
Article needs some proof reading.

TechCrunch has been watch Forbes for a few

Thursday, Web site administrators for major sites including the Washingtonpost.com, Techcrunch, and Engadget (as well as Forbes.com) found that their "pagerank"--a number that typically reflects the ranking of a site in Google.
i'd quit.
There's plenty of legal precedent for this kind of thing in Non-Compete and Non-Disclosure laws, especially in creative industries. I don't have a concrete example (sorry), but I know that places like Disney have them. A Disney employee can't sit around thinking up scripts and selling them on his own- Disney will claim that they own whatever creative output he has while working for them.

The question here is how common it is in twinn's industry and whether it seems ethical and worth putting up with. For a programmer to be barred from freelancing, consulting, or side-projects AT ALL is pretty extreme. But it's probably easier for his company to leave that in place instead of trying to define what is or is not competing with their product line.
I suppose Cuban's comments ring true if you think that Twitter and Facebook are adding no value.

I am unsure how any rational technology-minded person could state that they add no value; the idea that a technology which is one of the first Governments try to ban when they are under fire -- that the technology must not be worth anything -- is pretty staggering.

Facebook has a pretty clear path to socially connecting THE ENTIRE WORLD via the Internet, and has proven it can do it in a cashflow-positive way.

I fundamentally don't understand the 'bubble' complaints right now: these companies are the anti-boo.com's of our time: Wildly successful, working, scaling businesses which millions of people rely on every minute to do their work and socializing.

Focusing on valuation for smaller companies also seems silly to me: the YC class that just got $150k per company will be able to punch out some incredibly great and useful technology for that money. In 1999, that money would have purchased 2-5 servers, and no co-location for them. Really. You can worry about a bubble, but if these companies even produce 300k in value, then the investors didn't invest in a bubble, they got their principal back plus a little.

I do think it likely we'll swing back to a slightly less founder-friendly funding regime at some point in the future, but it may also be that we're just at a new plateau given what's currently possible in software. Another shift might change funding dynamics again in our industry; but right now, a whole lot of useful tool can be created for a couple hundred thousand dollars.
On what basis do you make that claim? I don't see any made in your or the previous post. I don't think that stretching the truth to make it seem like the Valenti quote is relevant is at all justified.

For comparison, here is the introduction in his testimony:

"My name is Scott Turow. I'm the president of the Authors Guild, the largest society of published authors in the U.S., representing more than 8,500 book authors and freelance writers. Our members represent the broad sweep of American authorship, including literary and genre fiction, nonfiction, trade, academic, and children’s book authors, textbook authors, freelance journalists and poets. Guild members have won countless honors and all major literary awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature."
The point is that creators already have to deal with worse than 30% scalping when dealing with other distributors of their content. For example, Activision/Blizzard has the infrastructure to sell/distribute games from their own website, however, when they also sell those games through a big retail distributor like Walmart, they have to give Walmart a huge cut (I'm guessing more than 30%) to entice Walmart to sell that game through their stores. Now, Activision/Blizzard cannot sell the game for 10% less than the retail price from their own website (at least, not initially) because otherwise, Walmart says to Blizzard/Activision "If you don't sell the game from your website at the retail price, we won't sell your game through Walmart."

Even though it's a negotiation, it's mutually beneficial to the content producers and the distributors.

The game Apple is playing is that they want to take the same cut from content distributors as they would from content creators. It's a gutsy move by Apple because those content distributors are already taking a cut by reselling content from content creators. They wouldn't be willing to do this if they weren't also making an aggressive push to be a content distributor of all digital media.
Hum... born after 96 ?

It was the famous B:\ drive discs, they could keep 1.44Mb of data, yes that stands for Megabytes

I had a game called Rex Nebular that was 25 discs :D hahaha it toke forever to install.
Chrome for Mac was exceptionally bad at drop shadows last time I checked...
No, it means if you offer a subscription product, people have to be able to sign up for it through the app using Apple's subscription service. They can still let people sign up on their website, but they also have to let people sign up on the app, and they can't charge more even though Apple is taking a 30% cut.

What Apple is doing is worse than what credit card companies do. --At least with credit cards merchants can offer a discount for paying with cash.
What sealed Nokia's fate?
Sure ... some of these have source code available, and some do not.

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#examples

In particular the TileMill example (launched yesterday) is a really sophisticated map editing application, with annotated source code available, here:

http://tilemill.com/docs/models.html

(Use "Jump To", at the top right, to get around)

If you'd like to get your feet wet, and play around with models a little, try visiting http://www.documentcloud.org/public

Pop open a JS console, and try...

Documents.length

Documents.first().set({title: "Changing the Title Syncs the View"})

Documents.first().set({description: "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet"})

... then click on "Annotated Documents", at the top left, go back to the console, and try:

Documents.first().notes.fetch()

Documents.first().notes.first().set({content: "Writing a Note."})

You get the idea.
I am fine with Apple hosted content being at 30%, but when I have to do all the work for hosting and delivery, 30% is beyond reasonable.

I would even be fine if the rule said that an app developer can provide no link / no in app purchase unless it is through Apple. People using Amazon, B&N, Netflix, last.fm, etc. wouldn't of had a problem because they know to go to the website to buy stuff. The "must also" crap is the problem.
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"They caution, however, that there is no way of knowing whether the hackers are Chinese, or some other nationality routing their cybercrimes through China to cover their tracks."

From the article
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22102
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Any money paid for private or public companies is entirely voluntary on the part of the seller and the buyer. If you don't like what your investment manager invests in, it's easy to move your money elsewhere, unless you weren't smart enough to insure you had a way out of your investment promise. If you want to be one of the early investors who gains the most reward, then be one of the early investors who takes the most risk.
I've been wondering recently - a phenomenal amount of money and investor excitement is circling around these few big companies. If it turns out that they are overvalued and the 'bubble' does burst, does this mean there could suddenly be a surplus of capital and investor attention that will spill over into smaller, less well known businesses?

If everyone who is waiting to get their piece of Facebook or Groupon suddenly thinks better of it, could they decide to redirect their money toward smaller interests, increasing the availability of capital for 'the rest of us'?
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But every app developer who has a subscription model for their iOS app already has this in place. And they can do it for a 3% fee from PayPal, where is the other 27% of value?
Not unless your pension manager has some really huge cajones.
Hey Dan,

HN is a great place, right now we are in the middle of a pilot internship program in the spring and are putting one together for the summer (announcing next month). We are based in NYC.

http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs fill one of the job applications and put (internship) in the last question.
But Kindle is still there! I would be surprised if Amazon remove it. I guess time will tell though!
Poll: Tech Bubble?
Cause for concern? Are people overreacting? Perhaps a little bit of both?

*Would love to hear PG's thoughts on this
Yes, we're in a bubble
No, we're not in a bubble
Something's going on and it's likely going to have pretty significant (negative) consequences
Something's going on, but people are overreacting
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This is unoriginal. And as someone else stated on FT, the last layer of the pyramid scheme is probably aimed at dumb money. Unintelligent mutual funds (mis) guided by S&P and Moody's ratings for inflated assets. Just like it happened in 2006-2007. I believe more "AAAA++++ would buy again" ratings from random people on auction sites than credit rating agencies. It's a scam with many players. The agencies get their cut, too. And there's no downside for them (mostly).

Edit: it happened with government bonds, too; in fact it seems they move on to the next scam every year.
Yeah because when you can't compete in the market, it doesn't hurt try and get the government to smack down your competitors...
I agree that the dev tools license costs for a startup are/should be negligible, I was just pointing that Azure isn't a substitute for a dev environment (and it's licensing costs).

I also think that the problem of the production environment costs is a good one to have, nobody should fear to start a business because of them. If you can't solve that problem it means you have the wrong business model or really bad engineers.

Oops my bad, I tought others did the billing by CPU load instead of by hour.