skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm looking to build one this summer."

Build one this summer? And then what are your expectations? That it will be making $5000 a month from then forward with no further input?

If you want to make $60k a year by the end of next year, advertise $30/hr computer fixing services, advertise locally, and schedule 60 hrs a week of work. (The extra is to cover advertising overhead.)

If you want to build a product or service bringing in more than $100/month, you need to spend 5-10 years building it up to the quality where it can compete with the others who have spent that much time.

Anything you can throw together with "3 months work" that can bring in $60,000 indefinitely is going to be cloned right after release by 10 other people, all of whom will deliver a cheaper better product.

It's not really all that reasonable to expect to create something that will support you indefinitely with only 3 months work unless you are a blond bombshell that targets sick elderly men for marriage.
The Flex SDK which the 3rd party IDEs and Adobe's own Flash Builder* IDE use is actually open source too.

* formerly Flex Builder, renamed to avoid confusion with the SDK
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It's also a great VCS that's huge on Launchpad.
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
— Aristotle
Not all of their servers are moving away from RoR. This is just their search servers.
This event is being organized with a 9 day window to coordinate with the TechBA program, so that's the reason for the short notice. The blog post is marked Nov because it's a template.

In general I'd recommend plancast, meetup.com, and startupdigest to find out about events like this.

Actually, I put together a list of goings on bet April 15th and May 15th for TechBA: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=tristankromer.com_2...
Just a note, the original 1.2 million Facebook shares are before the 5-for-1 split last October. So in terms of "new" shares, the settlement contains 6 million shares.

The irony you point out is very telling, but would be less ironic if Facebook's stock value had not risen since the settlement day?
IIRC, the traditional way around such legal ambiguity is for the project to offer a configuration variable akin to "input your favorite private key here." If the user is in a country which permits use of the AirPlay key, great, if not then the project can continue to operate as before. Either way, the project is indemnified because /they/ didn't provide the key.
I had a buddy also respond on the title thinking I was writing about contributing to RubyGems.org itself. I should have worked on the title more.

If not for a link-title mismatch, I would change it now.

Edit: URLs are still the same, but this seems to declare intent a little clearer: Bundler makes contributing to ruby gems easier.

I do want to point out that using bundler to depend on a project fork is all well and good, but I feel the big win is contributing back and eventually moving back to the latest gem. No one wants to manage a slew of forked projects.
I don't think Higher Education is in a bubble for one very specific reason: there is no way to open the investment flood gates and attract a large number of speculative investors.

You can't flip college degrees the same way you'd flip a house or a startup. They have zero re-sell value. It's pretty difficult to base a bubble on a product that cannot be resold.

The only option is that more kids and families go into further debt to pay increasing fees to colleges. I don't see a way to combine this with the derivatives markets by the mass re-selling of investment products to mostly non-professional investors. So the hallmark characteristic of a bubble is not to be found here.

I'll agree higher ed is in a true bubble only after some financial wizards figure out a way to re-package college loans into "special investment vehicles" and re-sell them to the general public, and then those securities rise in value by a respectable bubble multiple. Until then, high ed can be argued to be an inefficient, get-your-ticket-punched diploma-mill of bureaucratic drain on society's resources that does more harm than good, but it's not a financial bubble.
huh nice.. never used quicktime anyways
I think you misunderstood the quote. Specifically, "even if presented figuratively", and "Many programs are loaded with “assignment-style” operations now done by more expensive attached procedures".

Setters are assignment-style operations, and a.f() is an attached procedure.

Also, in http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging you can see "[I realized] that assignments are a metalevel change from functions, and therefore should not be dealt with at the same level - this was one of the motivations to encapsulate these kinds of state changes, and not let them be done willy nilly"

Alan Kay really is for segregating mutable state.
And most of that source was already available direct from Google git anyway.

But to be clear it's Asus fulfilling their GPL requirements for Linux, not the Google originated Android stuff.
I pretty much meant the areas where it is not well known, which is most of it. I went back and forth about whether or not to generalize it to smaller, less robust economies or not. The comments thus far in this thread seem to support the thought that I should have constrained the question more.
QT on Windows is horrible, but disabling it outright and requiring users to start Chrome with a custom commandline, without warning and after an automatic (and hidden) update? Let's just say it did not go down well at work, where we use Chrome and QT for inhouse enterprise applications. I understand the need to push the envelope on web standards and that needs to happen at a rapid pace, but at least give us enterprise developers a chance to override it. Enterprises do not develop software at breakneck speed Google, it's just not worth it.
Wasn't there a site like this, but for just meetings in general?
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So We made this app. www.glowapp.com. We think it is pretty cool but we have a weird situation where for it to be remotely useful we need users. So how do we do that? Obviously promotion and buzz and all that is great. But we may put ourselves in a chicken or the egg scenario.
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some people will die because we don't have the resources to save them.

Except for organs, which are "rationed" by transplant committees of doctors and not health-insurance scumbags, I don't think this is true. And if it is true, health-insurance executives need to be the first ones to go.

Also, yes, the American health care system is terrible. It's not only unfair, but it's extremely expensive and just doesn't work very well. Even upper-middle-class people would be better off under a European-style system. You're mean-spirited or an idiot if you think American-style health coverage is a good thing.
As a pro-Apple, so-so-Google kind of guy, I have no problems with disabling the QuickTime plugin by default, since it won't affect most users and quite a bit of malware exploits bugs in QuickTime (generally the QuickTime/Java interface). But Flash is worse in every respect, and Google isn't disabling Flash.

If you had to pick between QuickTime and Flash for playing H264 (given that Google has pulled native support for H264) I'd pick QuickTime since it doesn't allow the website designer to festoon the video with ads, links, stupid overlays, and random UI decisions, but better yet would be if Google supported H264 directly and fixed the ugly and buggy <video> tag support.
1 nanometre = 0.000001 millimetres. This is not nanotech.
I'm still waiting for the supposed competitors that are supposed to take the remaining 53% of that market to appear.

We're talking about a market where the number 2 device is last year's model of iPad.
just looked at the source. man that really is bad. I dunno why you would use tables when divs are actually the right paradigm for a layout like this.
That converts a trivially solved technical problem into an insoluble political problem.
I was mostly joking, since their formatting made it look like those two were the same bullet point.

My question still stands though, has anyone heard of a SEO degree, or some kind of online marketing degree (maybe with a SEO class on the curriculum)?
I don't think "monopoly" requires 100% market share. Apple has over 75% market share, which may be enough to qualify.
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ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone
The only issue with it so far and I haven't submitted a bug report yet is that it slides the entire page down without turning on the scroll. So pages like gmail end up losing the chat and tasks.
>There's nothing monopolistic about having a hugely successful product.

What is a monopoly then?
What do you need help with? The development of the idea? Marketing the idea? It's hard to answer the question because I can't tell what it is you're looking for.
Kohonen forever.
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I wonder though how skewed our view of the legal system is? We rarely hear success stories like there where rulings are made in what is seen in favour of the greater good. Is that the result of either selective news reporting or consistent bad judgement alone or a mixture of both?
To be clear, it's not that the judge found that the trolls don't have the right to be trolls. The decision seems designed to eliminate the use of the courts themselves as a weapon (as opposed to justice being done). It significantly reduces the amount of money that a defendant must invest to defend himself.

The money quote from the judge:

"Whether or not this case settles is not my primary concern," wrote the judge last week. "Although Plaintiff’s business model relies in large part upon reaching settlement agreements with a minimal investment of time and effort, the purpose of the courts is to provide a forum for the orderly, just, and timely resolution of controversies and disputes. Plaintiff’s wishes to the contrary, the courts are not merely tools for encouraging and exacting settlements from Defendants cowed by the potential costs of litigation and liability."
Isn't YC like plan B or C...
Ok, I found the Simcard only option. They still require to give the IMEI number to link it to the SIMCard.

I updated the blog post appropriately.
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We have a novel approach to autoscaling and we'll make an announcement later in the beta with details. :)
Haha, I suffer from that too. Then again I have lots of internet addictions with a slant on startups.
Yet again? You mean there was some time when it wasn't? I missed it.
E.g. Clean. And perhaps Curry. (Though Curry is logical-functional and nowadays compiles down to Haskell.)

There are also Spreadsheets, which are also purely functional, and even more popular to say the least but not leading. (The problem is that you can not define your own functions in Spreadsheets (without using imperative languages like Visual Basic).)
That's pretty shitty behavior. I guess they figure "that's just business" or "we did what we had to do." But I'm a little confused as to how it all plays out legally.

Suppose, for example, an employee negotiates a package with a company, and part of that negotiation is for a stock package that the company estimates is worth X. Now, it seems to me that the estimate has to be a good-faith estimate in order for the negotiation to be valid. If the employee signs an NDA or a non-compete, it would seem like finding out that the company lied should invalidate the contracts signed as a result of that negotiation (the NDA or NC).

It's one thing if something truly unforeseeable arises which destroys the value of the stock. It's something else if it's done in bad faith.

But, I'm not a lawyer, and there's probably a reason that I am not one.
Tiger has lost his competitive advantage - The Superstar Effect
There are many Startup Weekends going on throughout the year. The schedule is on the main startupweekend.org site ( I believe there is a Bay Area event in May).
Apparently the great majority of visitors to Sony's PlayStation blog haven't experienced the joy of developing their own firmware and operating system for their home supercomputer appliance.

Poor souls. I always knew video games would destroy the mind and the ability to appreciate the finer things in life.
Looking at the adobe site - there is a young designer guy credited for creating this.

Check and see if he has an HN account. Check and see if he commented in your thread.
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Is Google AdWords for me?
My experience with Google AdWords campaign so far has been horrible. According to their reports, I am getting approximately 30k impressions per day but only ~25 clicks and no buy. That is expensive given my product was launched only 11 days ago and I have already spent $60 on the campaign. So what is AdWords doing to me/my product? Creating brand/product awareness? Or, maybe AdWords is not for me (tiny budget, small startup, etc)? I will watch for couple more weeks after changing the campaign messages. I may try AdBrite. Do you guys have experience with that platform?

Was AdWords effective for any of you in my position? If so, how do you run an effective campaign?
Finding an Itch
As per Transparency International India, Bihar is the most corrupt state in India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar#Economy

Keep your corruption/suggestions to yourself.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Forward_caste community has brainwashed Indian voters to believe that voting in elections = democracy and a solution to
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Caste_system_...
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Corruption_in...
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Poverty_in_in...
This is the way the case ends: not with a bang but a whimper

solid TS Eliot reference
Seems to be a similar idea to reCAPTCHA (I'm a big fan), but this time crowdsourcing language translation.
"Why aren't there 100 Harvard franchises?" is reasonable to ask, but is also largely a red herring, irrelevant as an indicator of a bubble. The total market impact of the tuition paid by Harvard College students might number in the tens of millions, while student loan debt in the US is measured in billions.

The answer to the question is that what makes Harvard Harvard cannot be franchised. You can't franchise the interpersonal interaction with dozens of the highest quality professors and postdocs in the world. You can't franchise Cambridge and Harvard Square. You can't franchise the interaction with the other students.

To the extent that the education and experience can be imitated, they already are, at hundreds of Universities in the US and around the world.

But again, the whole question is a diversion. The core question is whether the higher education purchased by millions of students every year is worth the investment, not whether Harvard or any of a select few Ivy League schools is worth it.
Or go even further back. Or just post some of the eternal favourites. Like "You and Your Research" or something about Feynman and the Connecting Machine.
Miranda, Clean, etc.
Creative Commons has a search engine for finding documents licensed via CC and there are a ton of results for TOS:
http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=TOS

Also good for privacy policies.
Restricted stock, as relevant to 83(a) and 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, is a form of property granted in exchange for services. It is not taxable immediately under 83(a) upon its receipt by the service provider while it remains subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Once that risk lapses, it is subject to tax. Thus, anyone whose grant vests over, say, 48 months at 1/48th per month would be potentially subject to up to 48 taxable events, one for each increment of stock that vests over the 4 years. Of course, people don't want to be subject to this, and that is why they file 83(b) elections. With an 83(b) election, the restricted stock recipient elects to be taxed at once on the full value of the grant on the day it was made, notwithstanding that it remains subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Thus, when you get your million share grant at $.001 per share, you elect to pay tax on the difference between the $1K you paid for it and the $1K that it is worth on the date of grant. Hence, you pay tax on $-0-.

In this context, the "substantial risk of forfeiture" analysis is not relevant. The idea of "risk of forfeiture" applies only when someone already owns stock and can lose it. Here, the Winklevoss brothers never owned the FB stock (nor were they receiving it in exchange for any services they were performing and so neither 83(a) nor 83(b) applies).
UsingMiles raises $2.7 million, names eBags co-founder as CEO
(note: I have no opinion on whether iPod is or isn't a monopoly)

A monopoly requires that a company uses it's position of dominance to put up barriers to entry for competition.
I have no actual basis to back up my statement that more technologically-savvy people are entering the legal profession as judges, but it will happen inevitably as each generation gives way to the next.
I guess its a matter of opinion. I prefer a connection that get slower rather than being overcharged for it, and I consider unlimited because I do not have to pay more for it.
I have been to two events in NYC. They were great for me to learn and netwotk with people with similar interests. I liked it enough that I now volunteer to help organize these events. There is a great balance between ui/ux, developers and business/marketing types. Also is a gpod way to vet an idea quickly. Theleanstartupmachine.com is another similar event, more focused on the lean startup methods.
My views are of little use here (autism) but judging by what my friends say about celebrities, brief celebrities (they even have a sexual view on rebecca black shudder), any possible random woman in the street or online - No, no this isn't the case. They are very vocal with their views on so many more people because all the worst (or best, depending on how you look at it) pictures of celebrities are brought to their attention.
Rapes may well be down, but it seems so much more misogynistic than when you only had terrestrial TV and the street to comment on.
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I see that as the judge telling the trolls to stop trolling. Without the threat of protracted legal costs the trolls have no teeth.
What is FTP Search?
Clickers:

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Adobe's Product: http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/nav

HackerNews Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622890
Facebook and LinkedIn definitely have good data about college education and employment outcomes. I really wish they would just compete head on with USNews for college rankings.

For example, I'd love to see income distributions by university/major. The universities themselves cannot be trusted to provide it in any accurate fashion[1], but mining it from a large sample of graduates would be much better and less biased.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?_r=1&#...
I think there's pretty good coverage of the egregious attempts to abuse copyright and patent law and due process. I suspect that rulings in favor of limiting IP rights are truly rare, because most plaintiffs are smart enough to drop the case or settle rather than risk setting a precedent that would prevent them from being able to file a similar suit.

(Case in point: The Sony v Hotz settlement)
I agree. The only thing standing in the way is state licensing. The AMA lobbied for medical practitioner licensing in the earlier 1900s on the grounds that they would set high standards for future doctors. The end result was different:

"The licensing boards in each state soon began refusing licenses to health professionals who had not been trained at one of the 'approved' medical schools. Only half of the existing medical schools were approved, so most of the others had to close their doors by 1920. By 1932, almost half the medical school applicants had to be turned away. Those who apprenticed, went to unapproved schools, or developed their own therapies were stopped- at gunpoint, if necessary- from healing. As a result, the number of medical doctors per 100,000 people dropped from 157 in 1900 to 125 by 1929. Specialists, such as midwives, were usually forbidden to practice unless they had a full-fledged medical degree."

Source: http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap5.html
Startup Profile - Nimbix (HPC in the cloud)
Putting in a vote for "yes". I use a 2010 Core i5 15" MBP. I upgraded the internal drives by replacing the optical drive with a 120GB SSD and the internal drive with a 1TB Western Digital. The SSD acts as my boot drive and runs my OS and holds the "working files" that I'm using, along with any apps I run. The 1TB drive holds media (video, music, photos) and archived projects. Works great and it's a huge speed boost. Way more noticeable for me than switching from 4GB to 8GB RAM.
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It actually happens a lot in situations where people know the landlord. If you agree to it ahead of time, even moreso.

I'd see nothing odd with Adobe giving people who've leased for 6 months a 10% discount coupon to incentivize them to get a 'full' version ("you've like it so far - lock in our current pricing now and save!") Adobe gets more cash quicker, user's been able to try it out without a lot of cash down up front.
It doesn't compare. At all.

Your Landlord can't just create an infinite number of apartments on the fly and rent them to an infinite number of people at almost no extra cost to him.

With software, this is a very real possibility and rent to own makes perfect sense.

The minute Adobe says they will do this I'm in. I would love to be able to pay for 12 months and finally have my own copy.

At about that time, they may release a new version, and at that time, heck, I might just stay on the subscription plan so I get the newer one. BUT, if I stop, I still have version 5.5 that I paid for in full.
I voted no. I lived in the South for over 15 years and still have family down there. I'd visit, but wouldn't live there.

What I remember:

- Hot. And not just any hot, but sticky humid hot.

- It's a very small part for me, but racism. I'm mixed
(Asian/Caucasian). I've seen and experienced racism first hand (as recently as a couple years ago.) When I was younger, I remember being asked "why you watching that nigger show?" while Family Matters played. That deeply disturbed me. I mean, who doesn't love Steve Urkel!?

- "Red state." My friend, a dear childhood friend of mine, went on a rant about "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" and how he was a Kenyan who wasn't born in this country, so "how could he be fit to be president?" I've heard similar things from other friends and family members who live down south. I'm definitely not saying all southerners think this way, but I believe there are higher concentrations of them down south...

On that note, I've lived 13 years in the "north" and what I miss about the South are the people. They're some of the kindest, friendliest people I've ever met. That, and the cooking. My god, southern cooking is amazing. Most northern people don't like them, but boiled peanuts are amazing.

BUT, to answer your question: I wouldn't move down south; It's just way too damn hot!