skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Apple makes money selling high-margin complements to piracy, not competing with it."

I read that iTunes was originally launched as a ploy to move hardware and then it turned into a major profit center for Apple, albeit not one they are eager to advertise.

"iTunes is a low-margin (to Apple) strategic incentive to convince labels not to look so closely at how many billions of dollars Apple makes drizzling the magic margin-increasing white paint on top of commodity hard drives sold, primarily, to pirates."

I don't think that most iPod and iPhone purchasers and consumers are pirates. Did I misread you?
I'd love to hear more about the trials and tribulations of mvp'ing your product as a non-technical founder... and it would be cool to see some background as just how non-technical you are :)

One small suggestion: You have a required field that's only has one checkbox option. This is weird to me from a UX point of view. It's also a weird question. I think what you're trying to do is find out if the user is serious about their application or not...
This is not a case of Serial commas. The title "Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences" has two adjectives and one noun. It's not a list of three.
I think this writer has an excellent point about the importance of locality on the internet, and I think that the idea of online cultures and communities needs to be explored more as method of creating organization within the internet. Really, aside from habit, mutual interest is the only bond holding most internet communities together, and I think that is a concept which can be explored and built upon.
While it is true, computing requires repetitive, continual retraining, I disagree about the parsing/logic/etc stuff.

In class you're taught principles of X Y or Z and how they relate to Q V and R, or at least they do.

When haphazardly picking up skills, you often do not come across the greater, abstract ideals, and instead see craftsman level heuristics to solve a problem. For your example, the parser thing, recognizing if you need an parser, a regular expression engine, or a simulator is a pretty heady, abstract thing for some cases. Very few people would ever educate themselves on the difference between the cases just to do so. But that difference is one of the ones a college trained CS grad should have.
Pitch your idea to executives flying on Virgin
You totally can, with basically the same calls!

e.g. to find the film Triplets of Belleville:
http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-results/?name=triplets%20of%...

id is hn_3575764, so then we can get movie recommendations for someone who likes Triplets of Belleville:
http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?likes=hn_35...

Seems pretty reasonable:
Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Dr. Strangelove
High quality jobs improve the tax base, lessen the demands on social services

Except in this case, not only is Twitter asking to be relieved of $500K/yr in payroll tax burden, but also to get $250K in additional police presence in the area.
Depending on how lucky you are, you may only have an opportunity to do this once, maybe twice. +1 to the crowd urging you to wait until you have something you really feel passionate about.

Also, I'm not sure where you reside, but physically uprooting one's entire life is usually a pretty intensive process. Doing that WHILE trying to go out on your own for the first time financially might find you lacking the focus necessary to settle down and get back to work once you do find your passion.
And if they can't get the goal, they'll take the handout.
Really good info.. Can surely be a one stop link to get some insight into starting up a Startup.. Cool Paras..
Yes, my code is just range/6418 or so. It just produces unexpectedly slow results when you don't realize :)
One thing I was astounded at was when I counted calories (instead of of the weird food change diets like atkins/southbeach that I've done before) how MUCH I could still eat.

I started nutrisystem (which sells you a bunch of shelf stable, high protein, low calorie food to add to all your meals for the month for about 240). While I still feel like I'm constantly eating (all good diets seem to have this), I am astounded how much food ( in a good way ) 2000 calories is.
That quote is pretty typical TC blathering of third-hand info roughly translating to "one side says X, the other says Y!"

Hey, if Twitter doesn't like the SF tax code, they're free to move somewhere else, right? It's not like companies are running away from SF otherwise.
I don't think he's claiming that someone can't learn those topics, but rather, that most self-taught programmers don't learn them, whereas those in university are more likely to end up in math classes.
It's the knock-on effect. The city anticipates that in ten years, other businesses attracted by Twitter's presence will create ~3-4,000 more jobs, paying about 25% more, than if Twitter does not move in. The company is big enough for other businesses to coalesce around, whereas without them it's questionable whether enough small businesses would have the critical mass to sustain economic growth. 'We're in the same building as/next door to Twitter' sounds encouraging; 'we're the only tenant on the 13th floor of the Scary Neighborhood Tower' does not.
Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says
I could see something happening like at Yahoo where different groups of people end up developing the same thing, both with different benefits, and have to kill one off.
MSI X-Slim, Samsung 9 series.
Windows 8 To Have Built-in PDF Reader, Platform Independent Apps
One of the most important things that sadly isn't taught at many colleges/universities, is that often the required textbook sucks.

I had a hell of a time learning digital controls theory (Z transforms, etc) from whatever book we were assigned. On a hunch I started looking through the library and found a few other books that explained the concepts in a much more transparent fashion.
Yeah definitely the next blog post will be about how I launched the page/what I'm using in terms of tech. I am probably as non-technical as they get...I've been reading HN for a while now but have done no db programming before and my skills are limited to front-end stuff (read the blog post at http://www.hustlebee.posterous.com if you want to know more about my background).

Re: the required field, the goal of the site is to have people commit to take the position upfront. This is what makes it valuable because it allows companies to cut down on time spent trying to gauge how committed their applicants are.

Thanks for the feedback!
The article clearly explains the current situation in India,
I am an Indian myself. I graduated two year back from a decent engineering college.

In a decent engineering college most of the bright students will be hired by one of the software services companies like Wipro,Infosys,TCS,cognizant. Those who are considered "unworthy" by these companies will end up being a lecturer at some engineering college. Most of the bright kids never choose teaching as a profession.

The CS degree taught in these colleges are not worthy, most students copy their lab exercises and get their job done.Again if you look at the quality of the lab exercises they are not worthy enough. A typical lab exercise will sound like "Implement library management system with Turbo-C", (yes Turbo-C) where the student will be given with 100% mark if he creates a structure and prints the contents of it.The point is, a student in 4 years of his college life never create something real and useful.

No one from a decent college will go to a call centre.

Here is a paper done by one of mentor, who is into free software advocacy among students, this paper clearly explains the mentality of students and tutors in most of India's engineering colleges http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/shakthimaan-paper/s...
I think we're wildly extrapolating in this report -- it's a Canadian-backed report, sure, but it's about emerging markets "at the low end of the socioeconomic ladder". I think a more interesting discussion might be about how the marginal costs of digital goods pushed towards consumers is going to be pushed closer to the cost of production for certain market segments. I don't know how to guide the discussion but I can offer some questions. Can we resegment the market and make apps for the wealthy? What is the elasticity curve, exactly, and what various strategies can we take to maximize revenue under it in this global economy?

I also don't see how you are jumping to the conclusion that ease of acquisition is the only way to compete with piracy, based on that report, or how it's particularly germane. Not to say that I disagree with it -- it's been my intuition as well, simply because people love convenience...
It seems to me that it is more accurate to say that Twitter is seeking to not be specially treated with an extra-special tax that appears to exist nearly nowhere else in the US.

The article says "Going public from San Francisco could cost companies like Twitter, Zynga and Yelp as much as half of the IPO proceeds in taxes." I can't back this and would be interested in anybody who has more details about whether this is true, but if it is true, this isn't a company that is asking for special tax breaks that nobody else gets. This is a company that literally can not go public under a regime like that as it is, as the article says, an immediate failure to honor their fiduciary duties. They literally can not continue to function and grow normally and must leave.

(However that number seems high to me, even assuming it's 50% of what's left after everybody else gets their taxes. I have no inside information but my BS detector is twitching.)
Twitter can put "San Francisco" on their letterhead no matter where they're headquartered. As long as the zip code is correct, it'll get there.
From the screenshots, it reminds me a bit of Comfy Helvetica, which we discussed here a while back:

https://comfy-helvetica.jottit.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098340

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106056

(Not passing judgement on this theme, which seems quite nice; just thought I'd throw in a recommendation for a theme I've been using on HN since it was originally posted.)
TI is definitely the largest player. Why shouldn't market consolidation by TI be questioned?

Diversity may also be misperceived, as the companies may not compete directly on all product lines. If you need a chip for something, there are times when it is only produced by one company.

Here are a few quickly-Googled numbers:

TI
Revenue: $13.966 billion
Net Income: $3.228 billion

ST Microelectronics
Revenue: $8.465 billion
Net Income: $1.131 billion

NXP Semiconductors
Revenue: $5.44 billion
Net Income: $1.823 billion

Infineon (Siemens)
Revenue:$4.688 billion
Net Income: $937 million

Freescale
Revenue: $4.46 billion
Net Income: $1.15 billion

Analog Devices
Revenue: $2.8 billion
Net Income: $712 million

ON Semiconductor
Revenue: $2.131 billion
Net income: $395.8 million

Maxim
Revenue: $1.998 billion
Net Income: $129 million

Fairchild Semiconductor
Revenue: $1.6 billion
Net Income: $193 million

National Semiconductor
Revenue: $1.42 billion
Net Income: $209.2 million

Linear Technology Corp.
Revenue: $1.17 billion
Net income: $361 million

The US used to have a consistent anti-trust tradition. With Ma Bell reuniting and mergers like this, it seems to be waning.
Winning: Giant Hot Wheels ad on a bridge
The central problem of B2C tech companies is that their value proposition is to make complex things simple enough that the everyman can have them. When things go wrong, they can go wrong in literally millions of ways, because there are literally millions of everymen. Fixing those one-off problems is not a scalable business proposition.

Companies like 37signals and Craigslist manage to keep a good rep for customer service by ruthlessly pruning what's expected of them. 37signals wants only a certain type of customer, usually a fairly technically savvy small business. If your needs differ from that, 37signals' customer service sucks as well, but they just say "We don't want you as a customer" and that's that.

Craiglist works by managing expectations - they're a classified ad service, no more, and no less. If the hooker you paid for turns out to be an FBI agent, that's your problem. If the contractor you found turns out to suck, that's your problem. There's no expectation that Craigslist will fix it, while there is a widespread expectation throughout the general population that Google is the Internet, and if the Internet sucks, it's Google's problem.
Fixed costs are usually the biggies, especially R&D and the infrastructure for supporting production.

Probably the biggest impediment to lowering launch prices over that time period was the existence of the Shuttle. It was sold with promises of capabilities (especially in terms of flight rate) that it would never have, and that disrupted a lot of other launch vehicle development at the time. Worse yet, it kept billions per year of NASA funds locked up maintaining jobs for the standing army of Shuttle engineers instead of being spent on improving launch systems.
Yeah, I suppose it depends. I tend to feel cramped and annoyed at having to manage windows whenever I'm on anything smaller than 2 monitors < 19" or something equivalent.

I think the 10GUI idea linked above is great because it's intuitive enough and still robust. The intuitiveness and engagement of the iPad is great, but I find it restrictive (the input bandwidth is limited by the direct manipulation paradigm). I think it's fantastic for people who have trouble understanding or don't particularly feel the need to spend time learning the intricacies of indirect manipulation, but I don't see that as a problem for my generation (cusp of X/Y) or subsequent ones.
And look at startups. Many startups are a lot more flexible in this regard.
Some excellent recommendations, I love it.

One small bug, a confirmation window shows up to select a restaurant, even when there is only 1 match to the text entered.
How much traffic have you handled and what was the architecture like?
We've been dealing with, to me, a large amount of traffic lately on a number of apps and I'm curious to see how it compares. Three recent Rails projects have had to deliver between 15k and 25k sustained requests per minute serving dynamic content. On the low side, I think we had 8 app servers; on the high side, we spun up over 20. In retrospect, I don't think all of the app servers were necessary, but of course it's better to err on the side of caution when AWS is so cheap. This was all Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3, and MySQL.

What have you had to deal with and what was your setup?
March 2011: two Cisco vulnerabilities
Ah, but we're not talking about Brisbane vs Marina or SoMA. We're talking about Brisbane vs Tenderloin, and the Tenderloin is really not the most enticing part of the city. The advantage of working in the city is somewhat nullified when the only available lunch options are "grease burger" and "strip club".

> You can't reasonably get to Brisbane without a car.

Perhaps, but you can't reasonably get to the Tenderloin with a car, so working at Twitter is now inconvenient for those who don't live close to one of the Bay Area's few good public transport options.

Besides, most of the big tech companies in Si Valley nowadays run shuttle buses to San Francisco -- there's nothing to stop twitter from doing the same.
Here's the top 20 list for the German Wikipedia:

1. PHP (32519)

2. Java (31965)

3. C (27128)

4. C++ (24163)

5. JavaScript (22146)

6. Visual Basic (16598)

7. Python (15463)

8. C# (13792)

9. Visual Basic for Applications (9302)

10. Perl (9204)

11. Assembler (9084)

12. Brainfuck (8254)

13. Objective-C (8202)

14. BASIC (7209)

15. Ruby (7115)

16. PostScript (6633)

17. ABAP (6192)

18. FORTRAN (5984)

19. Visual Basic Script (5887)

20. Pascal (5803)
"The only way beginners are going to learn is experimenting
with the command line, not having their hands held with a
a tiny subset of what's available."

function public_ip() {
curl -sL myip.dk | egrep '[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}'
}

Do you seriously think that people should have to type that text mess for the sake of "learning?" In fact, except for the sed and base64 commands, I'd say none of these are anywhere near trivial.
I'm pretty sure they lifted a non-functional mockup with similar weight characteristics, not the final functional Dragon model...
Eh, the original link is better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411500.
1) I'll be sending applications to companies and they can choose whether or not to interview candidates.

2) I haven't figured out specifics but I'll probably charge companies that successfully make hires through us something similar to what they'd pay via employee referrals.

3) Hustlebee is better than applying directly because companies will treat you as a more serious candidate (just like if you were to create a website dedicated to why you want to work for a company). This streamlines the process for people that REALLY want to work for a company and cuts down on the number of applicants that companies need to vet and the number of companies that people need to apply to.

4) I decided to start with designers/engineers because those appear to be the positions in highest demand right now. I may expand to other positions later but haven't yet decided exactly how I'll go about doing that.

5) I'll try to do this.
GitHub's new image compare mode[1][2] would work really well for designers*

[1] Blog Post: https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes

[2] Demo: https://github.com/cameronmcefee/Image-Diff-View-Modes/commi...

Coupled with Kaleidascope on the desktop: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/

I think the problem is introducing the IDEA of version control to designers. Once they grok the idea, they usually like it. But with the exception of web designers, most designers aren't introduced to the concept.

*I was a designer before I was a developer
As somebody who has experienced the education system both in India (Bachelors in CE from a decent, but non-reputed school) and US (Masters in CS from a very good school), here are my thoughts on the article:

First off 24/7 is a terrible, terrible company to take as an example, being and ITES company the only skill they require is the skill of communicating in a non-native language, which unsurprisingly is not a strength of most of the college (some of them being Hindi Medium) graduates. If we consider real programming work (which is language neutral), there are absolutely brilliant programmers in India. In fact Indian students were the second highest fraction in GSOC last to last year.

Secondly the point that the curriculum is outdated is totally ridiculous, the books I studied during my Masters and those during my Bachelors had a big chunk in common.
One big difference I found was the quality of teachers is top-class here in US, while not so much in India, and the argument from the article about low pay scales for the teachers, being the reason, stands water.

But the biggest difference is in the teaching methodology and the grading system. Here in US there is a great emphasis on 'Learning by Doing' and a majority of the grades depend on the homework even at college level. While in India, as the article mentions, it is almost solely based on end of the term exams, which encourages cramming and discourages daily learning.

But as an encouragement to the Indian students, I would like to add that if you wish to pursue a field in today's world, there is no stopping you back, specially with the advent of places like Khan academy, MIT open course-ware etc. All you need is will and a little persistence.
No thats what it becomes, not what it should be.
I take it Reddit is having problems again?
Modern British universities have always required you to 'read' a particular subject. The major change after WWII was to make them available to more people by changing the funding model rather than the educational system they provided.

The move to vocational courses for things outside the obvious (such as medicine) is a more recent phenonemon, in part bought on by large numbers of people going to university as it is the 'done thing' rather than by a desire to be educated, and in part by a return to a funding system requiring the students to pay for the education and wanting something tangible at the end of it (a job).
I’m Getting E-Mails From Epsilon’s Clients. Are You?
Palestinian VC fund backed by Google
Pretty cool stuff, especially the tool. I usually just graph the memcached hit/miss ratio in (cacti|ganglia|zabbix). Isn't that much easier to determine current and past cache performance than adding additional logging?

(Doesn't allow for simulation of course)
Developer frustration growing along with Android market share
I wanted to start with startups because they have the most difficulty finding candidates and have the least resources in terms of recruiters/HR/etc to help. YC has a great list of awesome startups so I figured they would be a good jumping off point. I may expand later but I'm not sure how/when that will happen.
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Yeah, that'll look good.
Protecting users from malicious downloads in Google Chrome
Burn the Rope Games for iPhone
Can you only trace a phone call if they don't hang up?
3) Why? All I've got to do is fill out your very simple form. Hardly the same as building a dedicated site targeting a particular company, and no harder than just applying directly. If anything it's easier: no CV, no covering letter etc.
It wasn't fair, but I wasn't intentionally taking you out of context. I was kinda heated and paraphrasing from memory (not an accurate way of quoting).

It's not specifically against you, but against an attitude many other people have. The people that believe that knowledge must be handed down to you by authorities. Sometimes those authorities are handing you someone else's logic and experience even though I could understand it on my own. I don't believe every idea/concept needs an interpreter.

Apologies for the misquote.
I know those numbers sound high, but the number of high-quality jobs required to offset them are probably lower than you think, for two reasons (among many others): first, payroll tax incentives aside, Twitter employees still pay increased property taxes on average; second, low-income SF residents consume significant amounts of money in public assistance funds of varying forms.
It's a statement about stereotypes and why the stereotype is disliked.

I can recount some anecdotes that fulfill the stereotype if you'd like.
Because young employees want to live in SF, not Cupertino, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, or even San Jose.
No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first. Working for hustlebee might be my dream job but if I were offered $0.50/hr then you could probably imagine what my response would be. No check box on a recruiters sign up page is going to change that. More importantly it's almost certainly not binding and so the applicants have no reason to not check the box. If I were launching this site I'd be more worried about how this would hurt the number of people that take you seriously. Going back to the first point, if I'm not going to agree to accept a job without seeing the terms I'm also not going to work with a recruiter that requires me to accept any potential offer.
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