skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the related article adds a lot.
Having free users is only cool if you can both; afford it and have it add to your bottom line.
But I think the old-fashioned idea of receiving income for delivering value, should make a prompt comeback.
I think the bubble argument is more that they're expending nontrivial resources on artsy commercials rather than figuring out a business model.
If you really dislike the benchmarks game, don't look at the benchmarks game and don't show it to other people :-)
There is a difference between not getting a joke and not finding it funny.
If you can't see why this belongs here, I'd say you're in the wrong place.

This is a story of a tech company gaining a huge PR win for an incredibly low price by performing a feat of over-the-top customer service. Apple is going to get a lot of mileage out of this, and it will make up the $500 it cost them dozens if not hundreds of times over by the time the dust settles. If you run a software business, you should be paying attention to things like this and trying to figure out ways of emulating this behavior to your favor.

That's the reason we're here. The place used to be called "startup news" because most of us are entrepreneurs who just happen to be computer programmers. If you're here and you're just a programmer, you need to understand this, and not get offended when you see an article discussing things other than the inner workings of haskell.
It's a shame but they kind of had this coming. Amazon's book-lending feature only really works with their business model as long it is just small groups of people lending to each other. They were never going to stand for people circumventing the whole model of individual payment by sharing books with random strangers over the internet.

I'm not saying Amazon (and the whole e-book industry) is morally right in restricting sharing like this, but you can't expect them not to stand up for their own interests.

In the long term, I'm sure we'll end up with freely distributable e-books. But that won't happen via Amazon's or Apple's online stores, which are quite clearly on the side of restricting distribution in order to charge for it.
I wonder if part of the reason is because the name "Lendle" is a little too close to the "Kindle" trademark... similar to calling your app "Lendazon".
Stammy, please fire up Parallels and test it in Opera on Windows XP before I lose all of my karma points!!
The importance of supporting OWASP
Why I think it is important to support the Open Web Application Security Project.
I don't know why you think that, it's just as simple.

Go to http://www.asp.net/get-started.

Although I would recommend going down the MVC route as asp.net forms are sucky. http://www.asp.net/mvc

I know there's an anti-MS tendency round here, but fast experimentation is just as easy with MS these days as it is with everyone else.

The only gripe I've got with MS these days is that they seemed obsessed with videos, which are irritating as you can't go at your own pace (i.e. faster) and it's a nightmare when you just want to find that way of doing x that you remember seeing in the video but not at which point.
well, i don't see any scared lawyers or doctors though we can come up with a lot of ways to outsource and automate [significant part of] their jobs. Actually the outsourcing and the automation have been successfully happening there (an actual example, the detailed hi-res microscope pictures are sent to India, analyzed there and results here are signed off by US licensed professional - everybody is happy, software provider, India employees and the US professional) and so far these industries have mostly embraced it.
Most of the companies being sued over mobile patents are bigger than Google.
http://www.peakoilblues.org/blog/?p=2630
I think you are being too harsh on WEKA.

One of the cool things they've taken the trouble to do is to make sure that almost all functionality is accessible from the command line.

As such WEKA is easily scriptable.
This is great for integration into bigger projects.
It can easily be chained like standard unix tools; I've used this functionality in projects with good success.
Consider that there is very little separating an "ironic" sexist joke from a plain old regular sexist joke.
People rarely look at diffs closely enough to detect intentionally obscured malicious additions.

Unintentionally malicious additions slip through all the time: they're called bugs.
Some sites seed their userbase with fake profiles. Today you're probably better off trying to convince people to fill out profiles as part of a pre-launch viral campaign. People seem willing to provide pretty detailed info as part of the "securing your username" come-on these days.

Now, when you do actually launch, you're sure to lose a large percentage of those that signed up. Please make sure to provide a mechanism for easy account cancellation, and I wouldn't recommend activating every sign-up without another click of approval from those that did sign-up during the pre-launch phase. The last thing a happily married person wants is for their profile to pop up on a dating site because they didn't know they were signing up for a dating site. But I'm sure you'll get some level of users that convert to active users of the site once you're live if for no other reason than the fact that their info is already in there ... they're single ... and they're curious.

There's really a lot of ways you can go about it though. Maybe a Mechanical Turk task. Or maybe rewards for referrals that actually convert. Just be creative and think of what might convince you to sign up for your own site.
If you're interested in attracting investors, then definitely ownership is indicated. A licence to use the code can of course be granted to the programmer.

But if you're not, then whatever makes you comfortable works. Just make sure (and it's important) to have in in writing and reasonably solid.
Checked out the site. An hour I later tried to remember name to tell a friend but couldn't remember it. You don't have munchery.com, so I don't know why you're going with that name. You might want to get a better one. IMHO.
Because it made us laugh. It's not attacking an individual or being sexist towards an individual. It's funny. Sorry if you disagree.
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Wasn't Qt originally from Trolltech?

I think Nokia's problem with software quality was company wide. After I left to work somewhere else, the CEO of Korea Telecom told our sales team that "Nokia is finished in Asia" and went on to complain about "Nokia's crappy software."
What I would do -- what I actually do do, as a matter of fact -- is dive right in and learn on the go.

Necessity is the mother of invention -- or, in our case, the mother of resourcefulness. I.e. nothing will make you learn something faster, and better, than having your website crash/not-work if that particular something isn't done right.

That being said, don't go overboard; or be overconfident. Do practice the basics, before diving head first into your new website/app. And by "the basics" I mean getting a website up and running.

Then, you take that and you run with it -- as fast and for as long as you can. There; that's the secret to startups, right there :)
You already said (http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=2351451) you'd give cash in that case. It seems clear to me that you're just trying to invent reasons to attack Giftrocket.
Baidu's Google Maps: Hand-drawn images over photographic landscapes
If you assign copyright to the programmers, then you have to create a license for the company. If at any future point that license turns out to be suboptimal, you have to renegotiate with all current and past programmers, at a disadvantage. This is a major headache.

Furthermore as soon as programmers start touching each other's code, they no longer have the legal benefits of ownership. So they have the choice between licensing code to each other (winding up in the same bind as the company), or else refusing each other's changes for their personal benefit (which will be a nightmare for the company).

By contrast if you go the standard way and assign copyright to the company, the company has no such potential headaches. Programmers who wish to use company code have to get permission to do so, but they only have one party to negotiate with. And programmers have no copyright incentive to block each other's changes. This is better all around. Remember that the goal of a company is to reduce the necessary friction in getting work done. Do whatever reduces possible friction the most.

If programmers are bringing useful code from elsewhere to the company that they plan to use elsewhere, then I would recommend having them either license it to the company under very generous terms, sell it to the company and get it licensed back, or rewrite their software. (Rewriting will likely take much less time than they think it will.) But in the end the company really, really needs to wind up with code that it controls and has full freedom to modify in any way that it wants with a minimum of intellectual property encumbrances.
Actually it seems to be use Android and you will pay us. Which is absurd. The US patent system is totally out of control.
Disclaimer: I love women. As a heterosexual male, I don't have much choice!

While these comments are sexist, that doesn't necessarily make them incorrect.
... and you missed the whole point of my argument.

That the original author can major features quickly does not necessarily imply that an ongoing concern after the departure of the original author will also be able to implement major features quickly.

Choosing your environment with your successors in mind usually increases the value of your business (assuming, of course, that your valuation has a rational basis, which tech companies aren't always good at determining).
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The battle rules look a little problematic. Seems like you'll be coding up formations and counter formations rather than overall strategy.

https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Game-Sp...
Why it's all about # of iterations for startups
I have reviewed links. I am sure they will help me with this work. Thank you!
I get it. But do you need to use "fucking" and capital letters in "SPACE"?

I'm sure you also like hip hop lyrics.
I just wanted to say that I like the way the article refers to "great teachers" in the plural, and to "the one" bad teacher in the singular.

Also, to misconception #4, I just finished reading Gowers' "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction", where he tangentially makes the point that sometimes putting too much effort into trying to get students to understand "the meaning" behind some piece of mathematical technique may be misguided, in part because a given piece of math can represent multiple meanings (he uses the example of xa + xb = x(a+b), which can perhaps be taught more easily axiomatically, instead of teaching "exponentiation is really repeated multiplication").
What hypocrisy? The two quotes you give do not show any sign of hypocrisy.

Microsoft's position is that software should be patentable, but that the standard for obtaining software patents is off and the courts are not doing a good job dealing with them. Both of the quotes you give are consistent with this view.
> Or maybe the spec can be changed somehow (ask for host first then start SSL handshake?).

SNI does exactly this. Sadly, MSIE doesn't support it under Windows XP (and earlier), so we have to live without it for a while longer.
That would actually make sense and solve a real problem. As such, I'm pretty sure it'll never happen. ;)
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Sentry and Greplin look like they have a extremely similar feature set. It would be interesting to see a comprehensive comparison between the two.
I started working on it a couple of weeks ago using this wiki page: https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Strateg...
Later on I found a more extensive wiki page about the same thing: https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Starter...

Perhaps the Python and Java kits used the latter (as I should have done).

More example bots with probably not be added to the CL package by me (but feel free to do so!). I agree with the description on one of the wiki pages that the starter packages should be pretty minimal so that users will see improvements quickly when they start tinkering with it.

I've just taken care of the plumbing so the participants can get started with the fun things right away :-)
If any of the major webmail providers, with millions of active users, offered "brain dead" PGP (i.e., PGP signatures by default, and automatic PGP encryption and decryption whenever possible), many of the others would follow suit and a lot could be done to counter this kind of program ...

... and, furthermore, it would take a huge bite out of spammers and phishers while allowing you to, e.g., talk to your doctor and banker over email without needing to sign in to some other closed service.
I would say what they threw away was essentially a gimmick. Assuming the functionality of Heroku was the same before and after, publishing from github rather than publishing based on editing files online doesn't change their offering.
It belongs to the company.
It amazes me that the e-book providers think they can head down the same road as the music industry and not end up in the same spot.

I'm a serious Kindle user -- I have dozens of books. I've thought about using DRM-cracking software to free up my books, not because of any desire to share or lend but just because it's not right having a book in my possession locked away under a secret key some other bunch of people control.

This announcement doesn't bode well for Amazon. Technology can help you find markets, technology can enable markets, but using technology to force a market to appear where none did before doesn't have such a great track record. Everybody understands that you read a book, you share it (or give it away). There is no further sale. Lendle was simply trying to help Amazon work in a natural way that people commonly understand.
I recommend you to find a developer. There are guys on the market that are humble and really kind people, besides being awesome developers with style. Try to find mini projects on github and check their developers blogs/tweets to get a feel of what kind of person they are. I've found a developer for my team this way and he is magic. Ruby communities are especially vibrant and all of those guys will understand UX importance when you speak to them. Be nice, it attracts nice people and a nice future to you :)
Adding a prefix or suffix to your domain is a reasonable approach. Dropbox was originally getdropbox.com for example.
They should do lending/selling via USB or wifi, that'd add some of the 'physical proximity' aspect back in, in that you couldn't lend to everyone all over the internet, just people you live with or work with.
What a retarded article. First, all the reasons listed therein simply boil down to "I am old, unhip asshat"

Sure, there are aspects to twitter which are unlikeable - yet I dont see a solid argument here. I am also skeptical of the quality of the opinion based on him being "mr redmond"

I have been a really really light user of twitter - hardly a tweet in my past, but I see its value. Especially in the ability to send short messages - it can route global attention.

This is evidenced by the massive use of twitter during the revolutions and disasters currently hitting the world.

Being confused by tags such as # and @ its a joke as well; you know how to use things like @example.com and usernames and password and how to host a blog and write articles online but are confused by a few context elements? I doubt it.

All in all - while I dont use twitter that much at all - I do think that this article is fluff and not worth the time to read it.
Display a loading image while waiting on a document? The only "innovation" that got them the patent was that they claimed displaying a smaller image on a smaller screen was somehow groundbreaking.

Don't wait for a background image to finish downloading before displaying web page text? Who would think waiting was a great idea in the first place?

I don't think either of these is somehow an feat of software engineering that should grant them the ability to extort money from companies creating innovative software in 2011.
Developing a new drug costs about $1 billion on average, from initial research to final testing and regulatory approval. A temporary monopoly of several years seems entirely appropriate, even necessary if you expect private industry to be involved in pharmaceutical research.
Google having few patents is not relevant in the case Microsoft's patents are invalid. And every manufacturer who is yet to be extorted should pool the resources they set aside for licensing Microsoft's IP to invalidate Microsoft's patents for less money than would otherwise be needed (and to reap profits from the inevitable countersuit).
There's no point being angry with Microsoft as, like any company, their stated goal is to make money. Anger should be directed at the US patent system which creates an environment in which businesses must act this way -- not an entirely fair statement given that companies like Microsoft no doubt influence patent legislation, and do so generally for the worse.

If this bothers you don't rage against companies for playing the game, donate to the EFF https://www.eff.org/ or call your elected representatives.
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The only reason I marked it as "supported" is that it's "supported" like like any other purely semantic tag is (e.g. &lt;nav>) It's just in with the forms stuff because it's specifically for content coming out of form calculations. I didn't even test the "for" attribute stuff, but wouldn't be surprised if that's not supported.
Well in this case I have a grudge against AT&T, specifically as a consumer. I don't like that they can get away absurd customer relations, and I think we need to check them. If Sprint goes away one day I'm not sure what I'll do.

EDIT: You know what I'll do? I'll say screw the paradigm, and start looking into VOIP, and other alternatives, and encouraging everybody else to do it so economies of scale work out.
There were about 5 identical jokes in this thread and this is the one that irked me the most. Mostly because I nor any of my other female friends are particularly interested in any of the stuff listed here. As I age I've transitioned by being equally amused as every other guy here, to mildly annoyed as the jokes don't evolve AT ALL.

Please stop telling me I like furniture! The closest I've ever gotten to purchasing furniture is picking some off the curb for free in response to a Craiglist ad.
This is precisely an example of what I was arguing in my comments to the other two recent discussion re: this new merger.
It makes majority of HN feel good =)
I crack the hell out of my Kindle purchases. Not for piracy, but so I can read them on Apple's superior iBooks app. It's pretty simple to do. Funny part is, I didn't start buying Amazon eBooks until I was certain I could defeat their DRM.

The Kindle iPad app is anus.
Apple uses all these techniques. I wonder if they are already tithing.

IIRC Apple and Microsoft have a cross-licensing agreement. Plus, it's in both their interests to kill Android and establish a duopoly without any pesky suggestions of user freedom. (For the same reasons, I'd expect Verizon to not have anything bad to say about AT&T swallowing T-Mobile).
Chris point of writing down your assumption and verify against it is really important to find your path to success.
To summarize ones assumption is not that hard. I found that the real challenge is in analyzing and making the right conclusion against the assumption made.
Great customer service is some of the best advertising money can buy. It's something that's been known for years, but hasn't made its way into corporate culture for a long time. Kudos apple/newegg/amazon/all the other startups out there/etc who've been successful with these principles.
Lack of attention to superficiality can cost you in the long run. You might not get that promotion, you might not get that term sheet, etc. It probably won't be the reason, but it could be one of the straws to break the proverbial camels back.

I'm not suggesting you focus on it, but ignore it completely and utterly at your own peril.
My start-up lifestyle choices.
Despite the fact that Operational Knowledge can be hard to replicate with the efficiency of someone who has more experience. I find talking to more senior engineers about their development process (or even just pair programming with them) to be very insightful.

Even if it's just a matter of how they have their key bindings set, terminal aliases, window management, testing integrating, etc. Stuff like that is nice to pick off of people who have honed it over some time.
Because news.yc is a pretty sexist environment.

I've been biting my (virtual) tongue, holding back the same observation that you made.
Do you think T-Mobile's spokesperson is going to make a factual correction to that claim, something along the lines of 'don't worry all our customers are already wiretapped?'. Since this will never happen the argument is valid.
Why is it superior to the Kindle app?
Well, so here's a study by the congressional budget office:

http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/69xx/doc6902/11-28-CorporateTax.pdf

Puts the effective corporate tax rate a cool 10-15 points under the statutory one, depending on sector, and has some graphs illustrating that our statutory rate is one of the highest while our effective rate is one of the lowest.

So it's not just the dirty hippies saying this.

The dirty hippies tend to get angry about stuff like the fact that Exxon apparently pays little to no corporate taxes (citation needed), and whatever else they have going on they certainly haven't posted a loss recently.
What I'm saying is that being based somewhere other than the US does not make you immune to the effect of US patents.

Even if you refuse to sell your product into the US market (good luck), as in this case, your customers can be sued in the US.
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That should teach you.
For you, maybe shoes online are a non-starter. Zappos doesn't sell paperweights though...
Will this be better than Python?

No. It is (was, actually) a research project, not a widely available general-purpose language, so python wins on most measures of being-something-ness, which I think is a pre-requite for being better.

Some of the ideas in it have already fed into c#, especially into LINQ. That was its job. Now, you can compare Python to C# 3.5 or later with LINQ, but that's a different kettle of subjectivity :P
So, ultimately, what's more important? Keeping a number of competitors in the market. Or helping build a better network for consumers?

Can anyone possibly believe that a company that is notorious for bad network coverage will change it's behavior pattern because they have a larger share of the market.
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And by trying to publicly extort a company that hasn't access to endless legal resources that made a really successful product using patents that are blatantly obvious and/or a rehash of things invented by others a long time ago while at the same time pretending patent reform is needed is what?

And to think someone just ruined their reputation by putting Microsoft in the top 5 more ethical companies in the software business...
Where do all these subtleties ever get used?
Two major differences:

1) Dropbox is/was not a webapp. The site is just a place to download the app once or twice (for most users).

2) Dropbox is an extremely good name, so living with getdropbox.com at first is understandable. The equivalent in quality would be something like munch.com, in which case gomunch.com would be reasonable at first. The domain gomunchery.com is a double compromise.