skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, the guidelines have been changed in the past. That's one of the issues everyone has with Apple's behavior - changing the rules. So let's not take the guidelines as the final arbiter.

Last.fm, Netflix, Pandora, Hulu and so forth are on the platform. They are not "essentially 'rental'" as you argue. They are subscription streaming services. They clearly "read or play approved content" as mentioned in the guidelines.

Content owners are _not_ ecstatic. They don't want an Apple-only marketplace. They want multiple healthy resellers.
All bubbles are Pyramid schemes. That's the definition. See The Financial Instability Hypothesis by Hyman Minsky:

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky

When the economy reaches the third phase of "Ponzi Finance," entities must recruit additional investments to meet their interest payment obligations. This is the classic pyramid scheme and also frequently called a bubble when it's referring to a financial market.

Ponzi scheme, Pyramid scheme and bubble are all synonyms.
All these initiatives to help women in tech, make me ponder if the same courtesy is extended to men in fields dominated by women. Is there the same desperation to attract new male recruits? The same incentives? For example, does anyone know of similar initiatives to increase the number of male elementary teachers or nurses?
S&P / Moodys are rating companies for debt, not equity. The investment proposition for someone lending a company money as a secured creditor is very different to someone investing equity, and I'm not sure that it directly results in investors getting any profits.
Mozilla's "modern browser" attack on IE overlooks Firefox shortcomings
True, though it would be more accurate to replace "failed" with "didn't see any need". Why would that invalidate my criticisms?

(A patient is feeling sick. Someone comes by and says "Recite a prayer over him, and paint his face green; that'll make him feel better". Do I need to have an alternative treatment in mind in order to say "You've given no reason to think that that will work. And if prayer is going to do any good, surely it matters just what sort of prayer to what deity." ?)
This is my basic use case exactly -- living in an apartment building in NYC, I have packages sent home all the time. The building staff sign for and hold them, but I have no way of knowing they arrived so I can go and pick them up (no 24/7 doorman).

Other possible use cases: sending gifts, work-related purchases going to various locations/offices, returning items, etc.
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>My statements about darwinism

Darwinism has nothing to do with this. At best you're trying to invent a connection that doesn't exist.
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Ghostnet, Anonymous.... the world is really shaping up the way Neal Stephenson imagined it...
Why Are Vendors Annoyed by this IAP Thing?
Thinking about this a bit more, Mark Cuban is essentially arguing that recent VC investments are equivalent to the activity that takes place on Second Market and others like it. If that was so, Twitter, Zynga and Facebook would have to buy all those servers and pay their employees out of profits. Of course, most of these VC-backed firms aren't profitable, so VC money must be going to the firm.
That's what I'm asking. I don't think it's particularly clear cut.

If the people pumping up the value of Facebook are thinking strategically about the tech sector - and see Facebook as the best place in the tech sector to put their money - then perhaps. If they're just opportunistic, looking to make big bucks on a new household name during a time that the old household names aren't doing too well, that's another thing entirely.
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thank you i will definitely look into these
It seems like Apple's MO now is to over reach on everything, and wait to see how much people push back. It actually seems like a real business tactic they're using now.
I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
When I signed up last year for a WebOS developer account, I was shocked at how much I had to go through. This included giving my company info, EIN, and a declaration of if I was developing for open or closed source apps.

All I wanted was to download the SDK and experiment. Palm should have saved all the corporate declarations for when I actually want to publish an app.

That said, this frustration is the opposite of the experience using the Pre, which I find very well done.
I am in the process of filling out your application - thanks for the tips
Show HN: My Android app, SemiSilent
Long time lurker, short time member. A few weeks ago I released my new Android app, SemiSilent, which allows you to whitelist contacts so that they ring your phone even when it's on silent mode. I've found it useful when on call or when my wife is working hours that I'm sleeping. I've already released a few updates, and I'm working on adding a few more based on feedback I've gotten.

I'd appreciate any feedback you'd have, whether it's feature requests, criticisms, thoughts on how to market, or any other wisdom you'd care to share.

My site with information: http://www.lyote.com/p/semisilent.html
Android Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lyote.SemiSilent

Thanks!
So you think the government might use their power to affect who gets the money and to try to buy influence and votes? Preposterous!
Who is Glenn Beck, and why should I care what he thinks?
Did Microsoft ever have a monopoly on OSes? Hardly. Look at Mac OS, OS/2, BeOS, AIX, Solaris, Debian, Slackware, SUSE, Red Hat, RISC OS, BeOS, QNX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, VMS, Palm OS, EPOC OS (nee Symbian) etc.
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So policymakers have wrecked traditional capital markets through regulations on raising capital, interest rate distortions, twisted tax policy, patent law abuse, and anti-hiring labor policy, and now they are going to "fix" VC markets for us. Thanks.

The feds can't even protect the border or catch Osama bin Laden and now they want to run some fascist incubator to give the political class even greater control over our society.

This is the first step of course. As the program grows, Congress will start creating demands like set-asides for racial groups or veterans, and it will just so happen that a phone call from a politician will seal the deal.
Thanks, just checking ;)
If they allowed this old version to float-around, it might tarnish the brand.

Also, what stops people from saying "it's money grubbing to have a crippled freebie like this and demand $35 for full version".

$35 is nothing. I wrote decompilers and they're pretty damn hard and require constant upkeep and testing.
Sure, feel free to jump ship and go for it. Just make sure you've got more than 3 months saved up. Real businesses take time to build.
Are there any sites for selling iOS apps?
I have an iPhone/iPad app that I've built and I'm looking to sell it and move on to other projects. The app makes good money (between paid and free versions w/ ads, around $10-$30/day over the past 4 months, and has pretty good reviews.

It's a matter of changing interests, and lack of time/budget to make the improvements I'd like to.

If interested, the app is http://zazensuite.com/iOS - there is also a Mac App that should be live this week.
Its nice to see posts about python and django. Ive only played around with them a little bit but having options is always a good thing and right now it seems the frameworks discussion is really dominated by Rails.
"It is clear from the FAQ that TAI hopes that fundraising will provide the financial resources to allow the organization to dig into projects that are difficult or impossible for all-volunteer organizations to take on."

This implies to me that it will actually pay programmer salaries. Why would this be a bad idea? Most open source software is developed by developers paid to do so.

Secondly, I certainly hope that Valerie Aurora does more than administer the project. I want my union mounts!
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While that may be desirable, reality would depend on whether unemployment is high or low. If there's too few people to fill jobs, then this will absolutely be the result. If there's too many people to fill jobs, then it won't.

It's like an article I read a while ago about the dating scene in universities. A few years ago, there came to be more girls than guys in universities, and so the average guy could afford to become a slob and still attract the attention of pretty girls. It's just a matter of supply and demand.
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Cool. I basically asked you to build me a pony that I already have, so I fully understand. Dig what you've done already.
The difference this time around is that:

1: People started worrying about profitability years ago and are actually trying to make it happen

2: There are quite a few tech giants and hundreds of smaller tech companies with stable income sources

Remember that in '99 Microsoft hadn't launched XP, Google was years away from an IPO, and cell phones were still a luxury.

I think there are little bubbles here and there, but the pop won't be as devastating.
... now they want to run some fascist incubator ...

Are you seriously calling this fascism?
How does the article get it right? If the answer can be "him", the question should be "whom", and if the answer can be "he", the question should be "who". Having said that, "Whom am I speaking with?" does sound pretty weird, "With whom am I speaking?" sounds much better.
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Clickable links:

Site: http://www.nordicinnovation.is/

PDF: http://www.nordicinnovation.is/issues/pdf/nordic-innovation_...

Web/image: http://www.nordicinnovation.is/issues/web/1
That is precisely my goal, I think it's eminently feasible using 2to3.
If bubble means too much money invested in shitty companies, YES.
If bubble means all those investors will retract and stocks will go to hell (like 2000), NO.
This is several steps in the right direction. Good stuff.

One thing though - some people in my social circle are (obviously) more important than others. Is there a way that links from these folks are ranked higher than those from less important people? If not, this is something that should be configurable by the user (e.g. "See more links from Jack [x]" or "See less links from Mary [x]").
That's pretty neat -- sounds really useful for trying to better address a customer.
The organizations, communities behind those female dominated fields need to feel there is a value in increasing their representation of the male perspective.

I don't think communities feel that nursing or elementary school teachers are missing out on the male perspective.

Society is still exploring how to handle the wide variance in what individual women and men want to do with their lives, what men as a group and women as a group are culturally interested in doing, and what men as a group and women as a group are innately interested in doing.
From Wikipedia:

"An inherent aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigisme, meaning an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence, and effectively controls production and allocation of resources. In general, apart from the nationalizations of some industries, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state."
Yup, when you start introducing countless rules like these topped with the tightly controlled procedure of approving/rejecting apps the whole iOS ecosystem just doesn't feel enticing (or easy) anymore. I can't believe that people actually have to put up with some dude sitting somewhere approving what apps are worth it and getting content via them will cost +30%. It's unreal, if content providers go on with this they'll pass the 30% down to user. How is that not a "tax"?
Anyone want to pull out a packet-sniffer and verify?
Its absolutely a bubble.
Oops, sorry, what I thought was a transcript was just links to that section of the video (updated the title to remove "with transcript")
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I can't decide if this comment is a troll or not. "Whom" is grammatically correct.
Ask HN: The Effects of the New Bubble
There are dozens of stories pointing to a growing bubble in startupland, especially in Silicon Valley. Many of the stories have been on the HN homepage the last couple of days.

My question is, what effect will this have on the economy at-large? With most of the bubble investing happening in VCs and other private investments, how will this affect the public markets?
Don't forget that while they may overlap, IRC anon is usually an entirely different beast from 4chan anon.
We are not in bubble - this is refection of our monetary policy. Look at commodity prices. Look at stock market.

I think the real bubble is bond market - which is causing froth all over the market.
I wonder why women are so unwilling to contribute gratis to the world's informational commons?

I used to think the reason women didn't contribute to open source was simply a lack of relevant skills - programmers are primarily not women. But Wikipedia exhibits a similar disparity, and I seriously doubt there is a skill gap in writing neutral point of view articles on every topic. The data on wikipedia strongly suggests my skills hypothesis is wrong.

An interesting empirical question: do women contribute to open source proportionately to their involvement in programming for pay? A quick google search finds weak evidence [1] that they do not:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10173

http://infotrope.net/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-crowd-my...

If not, then that might indicate a more general phenomenon: women are less willing [2] to contribute (gratis, at least) to the informational commons than men. It's an interesting question, and I'd love to see more data/speculation.

[1] This is the only primary source I've found. A number of other secondary sources cite this one.

[2] Wikipedia demonstrates the issue is not skill. Women's contributions to Facebook strongly suggest the issue is not free time. The ATUS also suggests time is not a factor - women have about as much free time as men (men spend 8.1 hours/day on work related, household and care providing, women spend 7.85 hours/day). http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t08.htm
I'm replying to the reply to your post, and not your post because for some reason I can't reply directly to it.

Microsoft has >90% market share in OSes. The existence of a rival product doesn't negate a monopoly. The existence of a true alternative negates a monopoly. Apple doesn't even have a dominant share of ANYTHING except portable music players (which, incidentally, play content from other vendors just fine -- oh and you can _legally_ rip your Apple DRMed music to CD and play it anywhere so where's the lock-in?).
MS had over 90% of the market. Apple is selling 90% of phones?
Eventually, that is the beneficial effect of a bubble bursting. On the downside, the short term of a bubble bursting brings risk aversion and particularly aversion to debt.

I'm in agreement with the linked article that the "valuations" of companies like Facebook and Groupon are facially absurd. Facebook is worth $60 billion? On what planet? Yes, they have a lot of users, but are they monetizing them to the degree necessary to sustain that valuation? Facebook's books are a black box so we may never know, but my strong suspicion is no.

The little mini-bubble going on in some tech startups as well as the bubbles building in asset classes like commodities are the direct result of nearly every nation in the world pursuing the "beggar thy neighbor" (read: currency devaluation) strategy at the same time. The money pouring off the printing presses and/or being borrowed by national governments is heading straight into these types of investments. When that cycle ends, prices are going to drop like a rock.

Back to the original comment, the "boring" or smaller companies being ignored in the frenzy will benefit from that, eventually. But first the damage done by bubble will have to be healed, and that can take awhile.
Let's call if corporatism. It means the same thing but people will whine less about the semantics.
This is just the first release and all ideas are warmly welcomed. Our
efforts will go in the direction of improving the user experience of Stock Bubbles for future releases. As
antirez said, the goal of this app is not about giving more data than all the other
apps. The basic idea of the app is to give users an original and less tedious interface to quickly monitor stock exchange fluctuations, but we'll work to improve other features too if we realize that they really add value to the app.
If it's a bubble for sure it's not as big as the latest one. At least now acquisitions are happening either as an alternative way to hire good talents, or about services that may not be profitable but are surely really popular among users, and most of the time there is somewhat a business model that makes sense.

That is in general, but I think we saw a few very strange things in the latest couple of months.
>could they decide to redirect their money toward smaller interests, increasing the availability of capital for 'the rest of us'?

Probably not. That money is pretty much stuck there, as VC is an illiquid investment. Money invested in Groupon isn't going to get paid back until they have a "liquidity event", like being bought or IPOing, or until you can sell it to another investor. However, it's possible a larger fraction of new VC investments could be targeted at "the rest of us".
What should the contingency planning consist of?

Personally, I'm seriously considering quitting my job and moving to a startup hub. Should this affect my plans? Should I wait for the pop, plus 6 months, saving up money from my day job, then move?
Ur missing the blinking GIF animation, 'WARNING: your website may be infected!'
Who is a subjective pronoun. Whom is an objective pronoun.

First hit off the Google: http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html

Doesn't matter really, just made my brain twitch when I read it.
google (according to Florian):

Even if such files were identical to Oracle files
(which they are not), their use is de minimis and
is not actionable."

Florian:

This baffles all description. If you think about it,
this "logic" would constitute a carte blanche for
everyone with a large software project to steal smaller
parts of other people's creations. Google's less-than-
one-percent-claim may very well be true, but this kind
of reasoning must be rejected altogether. Imagine a
music publisher who puts out a collection of 101 songs
and steals one or more of those songs from different
other companies,

Example is wrong:

The copying is not on "song" scope, but on a smaller scope.

If nobody was allowed to use a sentence that was ever used before, most writers would face a serious problem.
Perhaps tech is the strongest future financial bet in business.
When this was first announced a couple weeks ago, I read the "fact sheet" posted. In it they talked about an emphasis on putting the money into "disadvantaged areas" and "focusing on innovative technologies like clean energy". So, your concern about investments being made more based on political pull than on merit is well founded.

Over 50 years ago an environment of heavy government regulation and anti-competitive legislation (as you describe in the first part of your post) was posited by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged. The argument being that it is in politicians interest to make business hard so that businesses are beholden to politicians. She called it the "aristocracy of pull".

I like to point out that taking $2B out of the economy will prevent the creation of- in my estimation- 4,000,000 jobs over the next 10 years. The money must come from taxes or inflation, and that lowers the bottom line at the end of the year when business owners large and small are deciding whether to expand or not. The lack of expansion in the first year means the businesses lose out on the profits that would have come from it on the second year, and like compound growth the missed opportunity compounds as well.

Better to let people allocate their own resources and capital. Central planning doesn't work, and inevitably leads to the aristocracy of pull.
Not a bubble. Relatively few high valuation investments do not make a bubble.

I think there is an inverse correlation between the likelyhood of a bubble versus the amount of people talking about a potential bubble. Perhaps almost by definition.
I completely agree. This is a perfect example of 'just because you can do it doesn't mean you should'.
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as long as money is free, this is not a bubble.
I'm not too qualified on the specific sector, but if I were looking for a stable job, I'd look at the company's income sources and investments.

I'm sure someone will be along with specific advice shortly.
I think Apple will be happy to have all the music subscription apps go away. They bought lala.com and I expect them to have an iTunes subscription service before long.
750k? That is a pretty uncommon "big square" disk.

(5.25" were 360kB and 1.2MB).
It was the same way when the Android Market was released. Less apps means less noise that people have to sift through.

Definitely case in point though, you shouldn't ignore WP7 as a mobile developer just because of its small market-share. Taking advantage of it can be quite successful.
Not only that, but he implies that, if they're successful, this incentivizes making things worse for regular businesses so that they are more beholden to their "representatives".

Absurd, I know!
> Then again. Does Joe Sixpack benefit from being more productive? After all, usually they aren't paid more when they do more work, so there isn't that much incentive...

My initial reaction to this was: of course! Doesn't everyone benefit from spending less time doing repetitive, thoughtless tasks at work? (even if they don't use the extra time to produce more output for their employer?) But you're right: the evidence is pretty overwhelming that either this isn't true, or it's true but most people don't care or realize it.
>Using the GPU requires extra-integration and extra-work that most developers are not willing to do.

Once again, microsoft's decision to deliberately stagnate the browser market making life difficult for us all.
Agreed, but shame on the competition if they're unable to build a product good enough to convert dissatisfied iPad customers.
Ask HN: Best way to avoid first-timer bounce for stats site?
I'm working on a little site that produces a daily statistic based on correlations between each day's survey and all previous surveys:

http://correlated.pressbin.com

In order to track each user's responses over time, I need them to create an account ... but I'm struggling with how to prevent the typical high bounce rate when a user first encounters a site and then realizes they have to sign up before they can participate.

I'm specifically looking for suggestions for that problem, but would welcome any general comments about the concept or my implementation.

In case you're interested, if this site develops any sort of meaningful user base, I'd probably try to monetize it by including advertising -- possibly targeted advertising based on survey responses -- in the daily e-mails.
Loopholes aren't going to work because your app is not going to get approved.
There's a difference between visual design and architectural design.