skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some customers don't care. Some very much do. At my last full time gig, we were trying to sell enterprise software to publicly traded companies. Not only did they want to know our full time head count, they were extremely cautious about doing business before we had received outside funding, despite the fact that we had been operating for over 2 years.

However, for my bug tracking app, http://trackjumper.com, I am the only one involved, yet I still say "we". Not because I'm trying to be deceptive, but because I'm talking for the company, not myself. And there is no first person pronoun for "the company" - so "we" it is. And I agree, in situations like this, the customers really don't know or care.
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The CMS strategy strikes me as being very similar to how Azuls concurrent GC works.

Could anyone with better understanding of GC comment?
the code is publicly available, but this is a different problem, consisting in basically declaring that people can safely use it
Non existing problem with Redis (not possible at protocol level), for what it is worth.
The gotcha here is that the selectors in that example SASS file are pretty inefficient. In that screenshot, you'll end up with a selector like ".main .site_box p .name", which the browser is going to parse from right to left. By putting everything behind a class namespace like that you force a potentially unnecessary class lookup on every selector. When you factor in how far nested SASS lets you get in combination with how much CSS a large webapp will require, it can have a large impact on page load speed.
This is so funny. Android is gaining it's share and everyone is trying to create iPhone killer. Noone is doing an Android killer:)
thx for testing it out, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll look into the changes not reflecting when hitting the back button. Also thanks for the other suggestions I'll look into to implementing these. I know you can change the tab name in Facebook now by editing the app from within your page.
First, music sharing and then car sharing. Now get ready for plug sharing.
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That's correct, I explained my view point about the NDA in this comment: http://merbist.com/2011/03/07/hey-apple-please-be-nice-and-s...
Its also a great source for finding design metaphors, icon patterns etc.
i guess it matters if you are publishing an app of 100k but you have to include 40MB of additional libraries that are _already_ in the os
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Octopart if you want to start making money, build in some BOM management features. It's not a sexy area but BOM management is a pretty good problem to solve with designers, suppliers, CMs, etc. Don't forget the EOCs and MCOs too.
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Not a problem. Send me a message if you want to me look at a later version.

And yes I know you can do it on Facebook. But I am using your app to make my life easier. It is impossible to find anything on Facebook these days as an admin. Help me solve that problem! That is a nice mission for your app, right :)
Clickable link: http://www.hoursales.com

It sort of reminds me of competitive shopping sites like http://www.dealdash.com/ and http://www.sellmoo.com/. Looks like you've got some traction though, pretty nice!
Not so much for business ideas but there are always great ideas for the Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/
If they did, though, it would make sense. Apple's business model is to make money by selling hardware; Google's is to make money by selling advertising.
I don't believe you. Apple includes OS standard versions of packages like SQLite and Python, are you of the opinion that developers shouldn't use them?
Blink (http://icanblink.com) is ok as a client. I'm not 100% on the interface, but it does seem to work well without crashing. It's gpl, and it does seem to have some momentum behind it.

There's one called simply "Telephone" which is very simple, just a textbox to call. No contact list or anything. (well, it wasn't much in december, since then they've moved from code.google to github: https://github.com/eofster/Telephone)

Gizmo5 is a crashy piece of ...something. It's the only app I've ever had on osx that has crashed so hard it's needed to be reinstalled. Several times. OTOH, you can't get it anymore, and Google is shutting down the sip service behind it.
Posted by the founder a few months ago along with some Q&A:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829255
Apple? ;)
good call ;)
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The issue is whether MacRuby is part of the public API for OS X. If it were, you could ship a MacRuby app in the Mac App Store without having to include MacRuby itself in your application. But the framework API is currently private, so you can't do that. Of course MacRuby itself is still freely available.
Ask HN: How do you stay focused on one idea?
I have been working on one startup or another since I was in my teens. Not one has been super-successful, but that's ok because I expect that as an entrepreneur. I've learned a lot along the way.

What I can't seem to do, however, is stay focused on just one idea. I am a developer and an ok designer. I'm good at what I do (in general, as a developer) and am constantly coming up with new ideas. I have a few that I really like, and I've spent serious time on a few of them, but I find myself becoming bored of each idea before too long, and then I am off thinking about or looking into some other new and exciting idea.

How do you stay focused on just one idea? It feels like any decent idea could be profitable enough to help me leave my job with enough persistence, but I can't seem to stay focused or excited about just one idea. What I want is independence and to build something that other people really love to use. I'm fine with a lifestyle business instead of a home-run, if that means I can work for myself. I'm now in my early 30's, and it feels like time is slipping away. I work on my projects in the evenings, generally around 20 hours per week.

I think of myself as a single founder, not because I don't want to or won't work with someone else, but because I haven't yet found someone who is as dedicated to actually building something, anything, as I am. I've teamed up with people a few times, but they all fizzle out (they underestimated the time involved, got married, had a baby, etc). I'm open to really finding someone else to work with, but I'm not sure that will really fix the problem.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how do you stay focused on just one idea when its no longer "fun" (for me that would be things like marketing, building the back-end, etc)? What can/should I do?
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It is a matter of scale. They are asking you to trust a couple founders of the company whereas you are asking them to trust thousands (potentially millions if they are successful) of users. Better to have Facebook filter out most of the bad actors up front and not pollute their site with spammers, trolls and other shenanigans until Facebook-only login is retarding their growth.
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Yes, that's in the article:

>If your idea is good enough, competitors will pop and try to crush you.
this is an interesting point (I've up-voted you).

But my gut feeling is that it doesn't matter. While I don't have any experimental data, I have to imagine this rendering penalty is in the noise of page/site performance. Asset packaging, gzip, using front end static server, etc are probably orders of magnitude more important for page rending speed than DOM traversal of CSS selectors.
I believe it's all constant growth, spike aren't indicating the growth, just a spike in growth. If that makes any sense. So if it's flat for example it's 100/day, if it's going up it's probably a spike over an average day, say 200/day for that day. I think the give away is that people don't seem to unfollow on twitter.
I used to work for a boss who had Lyme disease (I didn't know until he told me). He was amazed at how much traffic he got to his free page that he had just setup to discuss and cope with the condition.

Misinformation is a problem but the rarity of the disease would likely increase the people-bond and make a tight-knit group.

The size would, in effect, prevent spam/scam/disinformation issue in other larger groups as it would be too difficult to be worth the effort (unless your name is Tyler Durden, I suppose).
Why? Apple makes much of the profit. A report claims that Apple makes with 4% global market share 50% of the profits:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/31/apples_4_mobil...

Google does not even really sell a phone. Google sells you, the user.
Apple is pretty secretive already. Would it really matter if they got even more secretive? I find myself on the opposite end of the spectrum as you with respect to NDAs. I think it's a sad state of affairs that so many companies today use them to stifle discussion about their up and coming products...or use other legislation or agreements to prevent power users from realizing the full potential of the products they already own (EULAs + DMCA). Are there cases where NDAs make sense? Of course! Is an NDA really an appropriate reason to stifle conversation about an up and coming OS? I personally don't think so. Plus, it's just exciting to talk about new things and leak info and it really doesn't hurt anybody in this case anyway. If anything, it just builds up the fanboy marketing fervor that Apple works off of so well. To say that they are unaware of this effect's existence would be rather strange to me.

As far as being lax about caring for contractual obligations, I think it's a side-effect of living in an overly litigious society where you have to agree to umpteen EULAs a day to get anything done on a computer (and many electronic devices).
Google "makes" advertising though, the more eyeballs it can get in front of, the better for its model.
loops represent the economy.
Other than new currency from the Federal Reserve or Treasury, or physical dollar media being destroyed, its a closed loop system.
> Google's is to make money by selling advertising.

They also collect licensing fees when phone makers use the Android name, Google trademarks and Google's software in the phones.

I assume their foray into mobile phones is to fragment the market and prevent any other player from gaining a dominant market share.
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This guy isn't complaining about source code or licensing issues.

He's complaining that MacRuby isn't in a shared location, like say libc or some other standard library. He wants to just be able to type 'macruby foo.rb' (or whatever) and have it work an any Apple anywhere, so he doesn't need to distribute his own versions of the library.

Hardly the end of the world. And if apple did include it, then people would just complain that they only had 0.9 instead of 1.1 or whatever.

Anyone who remembers the days of redhat being stuck on a particular python version because all the internal tools used 1.5 might even think it's a good idea to make the system copy private.

If they're using an unmodified copy, then section 3 applies, which means they basically only need to the macruby site somewhere in the docs:

3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:

a) distribute the executables and library files of the software,
together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent)
on where to get the original distribution.

b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
the software.

c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, with
instructions on where to get the original software distribution.

d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
Here's a little more info:
http://www.thelocal.se/32436/20110307/
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8 years and you didn't know this? I assume it's the part where it turns [] passed vars into arrays. Even still, this is only a problem is you are blindly passing around user input without any verification. The same thing is just as easily accomplished in numerous other languages.

Honestly, I'm trying to figure out how someone could sanitize their input and still be affected by this.
The way I think about it is that if the idea is so good then you should rather go implement it. There are many advantages here. First, by implementing you can validate a lot of assumptions you made. Second you got some experience in the area and likely know a bit more and your idea is more refined.

Because what's worse than someone stealing your idea: to see someone who had a similar idea as yours and they have already implemented it. It happened to me a couple of times and since then I just start thinking about how I am going to execute on my idea the moment I feel striongly about something.
That's because the iPhone is where the profit is at: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/21/pie-chart-apples-outr...

That link basically says that Jan-Jun 2010 Apple sold just under 3% of all smart phones in the world, but they took in 39% of all profit made in that sector in the same time period. It's really astounding what they've been able to do this relatively established market in just 3 or 4 years. No wonder everyone else was so blindsided.

Apple isn't after market share or any metric in particular, they never have been. They're after making great products they want to use.
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To comment: is he saying that the things you need to do to advance your career inside a large institution are actually risky? I don't think so, it's more like he's saying the non rich live in constant fear of getting sacked for stepping out of line, and this fear itself stops them advancing their career, rather than the inherent risk of any career gambit. As such, his point is somewhat tenuous.
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Or, for the job seeker, choose the startup employment opportunities that do so.

Pretty much everyone works from the basic assumption that 90% of startups fail. But most people put logical blinders on at that point, and treat everything as an equally risky gamble. Obviously, not every company has the same odds. Some have better products. Some have better people. There isn't as cut-and-dried a dichotomy between "big/safe" and "small/risky" as is commonly assumed or suggested.

Don't be afraid to kick the tires a bit on any opportunity, big or small. Turns out that some small startups are safer than others, and some big companies are riskier than others.
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I think we actually got that exact same comment on the last version of this story I saw. I assume next week we'll get this one as well, and so on. :-)

The story was news at some point, at least. It's a major milestone in the mobile OS wars.
Love this! The biggest learning curve for me is the lack of a decent layout editor. I know I'm supposed to be teh hardcorez, but Interface Builder is really nice for at least getting your items to line up right.
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(I used Cormen as my algorithms textbook in college, too, but never heard it referred to as 'CLRS' until just now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms)

edit: Ah, i see why. Stein wasn't listed as an author until a later edition. I guess I did refer to it as 'CLR' on occasion.
Anybody know if there is a Silverlight version of network speed test application?
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It appears from the article that this is one half of the connection of Google Voice to SIP voip, the inbound sip call to gv number.

The other half, delivering GV inbound calls to a SIP phone, is still missing in action. It's also now getting a lot more attention due to the impending shutdown of the Gizmo5 sip service.

As much as Google seems to want me to switch my gizmo number to GV, GV solves a fundamentally different problem than I need solved. They are working on getting one number to any end point, and I need to map one number to my desk (without using a cellphone or hard wired phone.).

I'd love to find a good provider, but they all seem to be geared either to monthly fee for all inclusive, which is way more than I need for this application or not providing both an inbound number and the sip termination. (like ipkall) I could hack a combination, but it's probably going to wind up being less robust.
that's what a build process is for. organization during dev / optimization during production
To be fair, it's the Mongo Security page, not the general security page, which can be found here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.php
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Yes, that definitely made it to my todo list! Thanks!
I know Firefox bundles its own sqlite on OS X because the native sqlite is far too buggy.
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12 steps to 12 zeros, when will somebody see the truth....

http://worldtize.posterous.com/how-can-the-world-be-so-blind
ok...
I think the problems lies in trying to control something out of our locus of control. We can't control the rich having an advantage, so much thoughts shouldn't be given to such matters[as related to personal advancement, not social]. What's within our control[concern] we have the quality of our work, how much we take initiate, building a social network etc.

I find the author built a prison for himself by attacking the problem through an avenue he has no control over.
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Ask HN: Is there a viable alternative to applicant tracking systems (ATS)?
ATS's are those ugly things you get when you apply for a position at a medium to large company. They basically institute a ticketing system for candidates' application with the defense that they don't have the "time or manpower" to deal with lots of applications.

Forgive me if this has been discussed ad nauseum before, but I can't believe how common these terribly designed systems are, even at "human-centered" companies like IDEO (hah!).

I've been scouring a few blogs of proactive recruiters that say that ATS's make recruiters lazy, discourage good candidates, and amount to treating your candidates like crap.

Can anyone think of a possible solution for a medium to large size organization that doesn't just take a dump on their candidates? I like the idea of speed video interviews but that may not work on a large scale.
It's always being hacked/targeted, requires constant updating, needs plugins for some functionality, and these may throw a hissy fit when you perform one of the many essential updates. Basically it's a general tool and a victim of its own success.

I'm going to built something that fits my exact needs and produces a static site hosted on S3.
This. I'm not about to tattoo all the most controversial opinions I hold now or ever across my forehead, and it's not because I expect they're incorrect (though that would be reason enough). I have to negotiate for food and shelter with members of a nosy, judgmental, sometimes irrational species.
According to The Local's article, a system like this is already in place in Germany, and will launch in Denmark in April. It might be available in Sweden some time this year [see http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.566988-sms-kan-ersatta-fr...].
http://icanblink.com/
The technology business may only be one component of the economy, but attracts a disproportionate share of ambitious people.

If you want to avoid social logjams, all you need is one domain where people aren't judged by their origins, and the people who want to get ahead will find it. History is full of examples of that. The world of startups is certainly a large and conspicuous enough target.
Only a million records? That's waaaay too small.
Awesome! They could easily offer tracking of letters or just notifying sender when letter was delivered or innovate even more on top of that.
In the past few years, they had the lowest failure rate, by a large margin, on professional grade drives. I say that having set up and sold many thousands hard drives since 2003.
Why don't you level with:

"We use Facebook because we think you'll be less-inclined to share naughty videos using your own account. This is our lazy effort to censor you and can easily be overcome using dummy accounts and/or by simply not caring about your trusty Facebook account being associated with naughty content. We know you want to be naughty but we don't want your naughty because we recognize what a cesspool YouTube is and would sincerely like to avoid that. By using Facebook only."

"We won't guarantee to add any additional login options in the future as we had no plan to implement them in the first release, even though they come standard with any auth package, because we want everyone to use Facebook to upload and share their videos, due to the XYZ revenue/bubble model that we decided to use. Don't believe us? Email/pass setup is easier than Omniauth. Go ahead and try it."

"Our users, and by extension any HN reader, is a fucking moron who won't mind someone pissing on their face whilst talking about the weather."

Try being honest. It might work.

I hope that sometime in the next five years, designers will stop using the picture of a phone to communicate the platform upon which they desire you to use their product, as much as I don't send my girlfriend a picture of the back seat of my car when I want to have sex. She's not stupid.
Revenues may not be as good, but it seems like Android treats its developers nicer than Apple does. No chance of rejection, no harsh guidelines, no long review process (for acceptance or for updates), no taking 30% of subscription revenue... overall, it seems like they view their developers as equal. When you're developing for iOS, you're developing on Apple's platform (not sure if this conveys what I mean here completely...). You can't compete with their applications, you can't be sure they'll let you in, and you can't even chose how subscribers will pay now. Yes, on Android you're developing on Google's platform, but it seems less like a "sharecropping" situation, even though it technically is.

On the other hand, your point about revenue is still spot on. Fewer paying customers, less expectation of paying for apps, and the glaring fact that you simply can't buy Android apps in a large portion of the world. The first two are difficult (a culture shift is required, and that can't be passed down from Google in an OS update), but the third is perhaps fixable. The issues with iOS aren't likely to change, because that's Apple's culture.

I don't know about RIM, and "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent".
Another "reminds me of...": amarok moodbar

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Moodbar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/niels_olson/504888318/

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