skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has owned Apple stock in the past:

http://ask.metafilter.com/30833/How-much-of-Apple-Computer-d...

From Apple's 2003 SEC filing:

"In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock."
Ask HN: Advice in finding a technical co-founder. 
I have been brewing on an original IP on the iOS for a little while now and I am at the stage for someone to join me on this venture.

While I am of a technical background I am no hacker or coder and my limits here are starting to show. Plus I am realizing that without a tech co-founder my runway with the idea isn't just limited to my perception, but will amount to much less than it would with a good coder.

I live in Redwood City, and would love to connect with local hackers that are in search of a great IP to recruit to. The idea has generated a modest buzz in some investment bodies, but I rather have a partner than a hired gun.

Any advice would be highly appreciated!

Ron
And David Hasselhoff singing about freedom, don't forget. He's huge in Germany.
It is not a very good proxy for how likely you are to get 0wned. It is available, though, and I'm not convinced that it's so bad that a 5x (Linux kernel/FreeBSD) or 9.4x (Linux kernel/OpenBSD) difference still doesn't say anything.

Linus' words don't affect code quality; but wanting to move quickly does, and Linux does move quickly. I agree that Spengler is pretty awesome, though.
What am I not giving them credit for?

I am saying that they couldn't have managed Apple if they'd bought it as well as Apple managed Apple, not that they did or didn't invest 150 million in Apple as part of an attempt to weasel out of punishment for their illegal monopolistic behaviour.
A recommendation to young developers: Carefully choose your college.
>Marketing targeted at either gender is tacky, transparent, and often insulting.

Marketing obviously targeted at either gender is tacky, transparent, and often insulting. Marketing intelligently targeted at either gender is, I would wager, more effective.
Hey guys, this is a huge milestone for Lean Designs. You can now design complete websites and export them to quality HTML/CSS without writing a single line of code.

This tool started out as jMockups, a high fidelity mockup tool, and has evolved into this web design tool with feedback from a lot users, including many of you.

Here's a quick blog post summarizing the changes in today's release: http://blog.leandesigns.com/2011/05/lean-designs-can-now-exp...

I'd appreciate any thoughts you have.
Do you have any social network contact here? Plus, where are most of your meetings? Peninsula or the city?
From the article: This time is indeed different, though not because the boom-and-bust cycle has miraculously disappeared. It is different because the tech bubble-in-the-making is forming largely out of sight in private markets and has a global dimension that its predecessor lacked.
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Fascinating as Mr. Spock would say.

I got goaded into teaching a class on Robotics at Google, it was well attended and the first thing we did was build FreeDuino's from Solarbotics. When coming up with a curriculum I chose the Arduino because it's development environment ran on MacOS and Linux (every engineer at Google had either a MacOS or Linux laptop, no Windows) and its use of C++ lite type models was a good match for the codebase they worked in on a day to day basis.

I designed (but sadly never got into production) a 'super sheild' which, if you installed the connectors in the Freeduino 'upside down' (relative to the instructions) you could plug it onto the robot shield thing which had 6 AA size batteries, a couple of motor controller chips, mounts for the GM8 (Solarbotics again) wheels with wheel encoders. And a bunch of bits for sensor logic.

That being said I certainly can't take credit for Google picking the platform as some of the folks were already familar with it but still its nice to see that this effort has lived on as it were.
The real problem is Communist China. Without China's support, Countries like North Korea and Burma would have changed a long time ago. If China catches up in military power, it can be scary considering its relationship with Japan,Taiwan etc and its support for dictatorship. (Disclaimer:there's a difference between criticizing chinese communist regime and chinese people)
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. Do you have recommended followup resources? Opinions on recent books such as New Jack or When Brute Force Fails?
This is one started up last year in Norway:

Ten years and 1.5 billion Norwegian kroner ($252 million) in the making, Halden is spread over 75 acres (30 hectares) of gently sloping forest in southeastern Norway. The facility boasts amenities like a sound studio, jogging trails and a freestanding two-bedroom house where inmates can host their families during overnight visits.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.... / http://www.good.is/post/halden-prison-who-cares-if-it-coddle...
I was around at the time, I remember it well, and this is entirely orthogonal to my point. My point is that they couldn't buy a company like Apple and do as well as Apple did being independent. Had they bought all of Apple in 1997, Apple would not exist today. Microsoft would probably be doing a lot better due to the lack of a competitor, but you never know, Jobs might have founded another company and be killing Microsoft with it.

My post is about management, not stock picking.
i've noticed that my linkedin mail from recruiters has doubled (or more) in the last year. i'd say it's a valid trend
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Bubbles require genuine belief of a large group of experts and leaders. They need to be convinced that eyeball counts will rise forever, that real estate will keep going, and that the growth potential of users is near infinite. They will come up with lots of analysis to protect their viewpoints and their belief will get more profound with every passing minute. I dont see that type of blind naivete in today's tech community
No, the (just-expired) antitrust settlement would not allow Microsoft to make Windows free or "less than free". However, PC vendors ship crapware that pays more than the Windows license cost.
I think it was more luck than anything else.

Apple was failing. It had an ancient and crufty OS and needed to find a new OS outside the company because it failed to develop one internally at least twice. They could go with BeOS, NeXT or MkLinux (I run MkLinux on one Mac in my collection). NeXT came with Steve Jobs bundled for free.

At that time, Apple leveraged its bets making Java development a first-class citizen. It was not clear whether Objective-C would gain any foothold because it failed to get traction during its NeXT years.
I'm still not quite sure where Mongrel2 fits in the stack. Is the idea to just take care of the nitty gritty details of writing an asynchronous HTTP server and expose it to app servers via ZeroMQ? Like an asynchronous version of FastCGI?

If I already have an app server that has a good asynchronous HTTP server built-in (Tornado, Node.js, etc) is there any reason I'd want to use Mongrel2?

From the documentation:

"Other web servers will let you talk to any language as a backend, but they insist on using HTTP proxying or FastCGI, which is not friendly to asynchronous operations."

Maybe I don't understand why HTTP proxying isn't async friendly? Node.js does it quite well.

Not trying to knock Mongrel2, I'm just trying to understand better.

Zed if you're listening, some example deployment scenarios would be helpful.
An Infographic book of your online Social Interactions
Many times it is good picking up enemies, it's good PR, but the fight has to be in the open, not slimy, otherwise it can turn into a PR disaster.

Whatever negative PR they cold pull for Google, it's much less than the heat they'll be getting for this ... and when you're taking risks, IMHO, you need to make damn sure those risks are worth it.
Justified text looks weird, and I'm sure I'm not the only programmer that despises being called a coder. I am not a coder and I don't write codes. I'm a computer programmer or software engineer.
The power of a first impression in consumer web products
Sigh. VWAP isn't an algorithm, it's a benchmark. Volume-weighted Average Price. An algorithm that is attempting to trade VWAP is trying to get the day's average price, whatever it is. And a good algorithm is quite hard to detect.
I got asked to make a film about Charlie Bit My Finger - so I wrote a musical.
there's nothing to be said for technical analysis. it doesn't work.
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Saying that we're better than most but not as great as we could be is a cop out. The implication of your comment appears to be "let's be upset about N.K., but you're holding the U.S. to too high a standard. The institutions of the U.S. are not nearly as deserving of public outrage as those of N.K."

It's been my experience that most of the wealthy/privileged in the U.S. are simply unaware of how horrible things are[1]; that it's nicer to believe convenient fictions than be faced with a moral/emotional imperative to "do something". For these and other[2] reasons, America's institutions are more deserving than N.K.'s of American/Western public attention and outrage, proportional to the degree that they violate American values.

[1] e.g. http://bit.ly/mwO0dP

[2] another important reason is that American outrage can actually do something useful in the U.S., but is almost completely impotent w.r.t. N.K.
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For the most part, Usenet operators (e.g. EasyNews, GigaNews) would end up being the ones targeted.

1. Most of them seemingly don't keep any logs of who downloads what, so the most info they have on you is: address, name, credit card, volume downloaded per month.

2. All of the prosecutions thus far for file-sharing have been for distribution. The pre-BitTorrent lawsuits were over files shared on Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, etc. The more recent lawsuits over BitTorrent downloads are due to the BitTorrent technology which has you uploading and downloading at the same time, thus by participating in a torrent you are aiding in the distribution of it.

3. In addition, some Usenet providers provide NNTPS connections, thus (virtually) eliminating the ability for someone (i.e. ISP) to inspect what you were downloading from the server.

4. It might be possible to get sued for downloading something from Usenet, but the likelihood of extreme damages awarded by the court is pretty small. The most likely reason that someone would be sued in this fashion would be to prod them into taking a $2k-$3k settlement offer to avoid the hassle (and cost) of defending the case in court. If someone were to battle such a case through court, it would likely turn out in their favor (though IANAL). Though the cost of getting to that point would likely be higher than the settlement amount. So basically, such cases would be even more like Mafia shake-downs than they are now.

Though, none of this speaks to the recent push to criminalize copyright infringement. I have no clue if that would only cover downloading, distribution or both (or what the penalties would be).
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It's pretty standard practice to roll out a feature as optional and gauge reaction before making it mandatory.
Well yeah but that slows everything down a lot. This wouldn't slow it down at all.
I see! What type of companies are you looking for? Or are you looking for startups?

good luck =)
Ask HN:  Rails 3 hosting?
Hello. Im trying to find some decent rails 3 shared hosting. Ive tried 2 hosts over the past week one which was running a 6 months old version and one that simply didnt work at all. Is Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2 too new to run via shared? Is getting a vps the only option? If so are there any that are recommended?

I know about heroku and engine yard but im new to git and have been having difficulties understanding it plus im concerned about the cost of each.

Thank you.
that'd be osm! I'll give it a try and keep you posted!

haha.
I think it only looks weird here because the text looks dense and unapproachable. Too much text, too little visual breaks. Justification is only accentuating that problem.
If you don't need native widgets, one possible angle is to use the v8-gl OpenGL bindings, and an OpenGL widget toolkit. No activity on v8-gl in over a year though, so it may have bit-rotted (I haven't had an occasion to try it): https://github.com/philogb/v8-gl/

SDL bindings for v8 would be another way to get from v8 to a cross-platform graphics environment with a reasonable set of widget libraries, but it doesn't look like there's any available v8-sdl binding.
For $2000 maybe you can hire someone to setup a staging environment? :)
Ask HN: How could one turn the web into a brainstorming partner?
The idea is to use the web and some clever algorithms to create a brainstorming partner on a wide range of topics.

How might one accomplish this?
This happens over and over. Compare the internal combustion engine.

A powerful technology is realized. At first, it's really expensive, and used only for industrial purposes or where it can serve many at once. The cost comes down to where wealthy individuals, professionals who benefit most, and sufficiently motivated hobbyists can get them, and there's huge growth. The cost comes down further, and soon everyone has them. At this point, the market becomes disjoint: you get products aimed for the wealthy (Apple; BMW, Ferrari), products aimed at the hobbyist (various DIY outfits; Jeep), products aimed at professionals who most benefit (RIM, Lenovo, Dell; some Ford/GM/Toyota products), and everyone else (LG, Nokia; Kia, other Ford/GM/Toyota products).

I think that middle stage is the most exciting; unfortunately, we're just leaving it. It's still a very exciting time to be a developer, but I would barely hesitate to trade it all to work at Xerox PARC or Bell Labs in their heyday.

On the upside, certain areas of biology are poised to move into that second stage any time now, in no small part because of the power commodity computing provides.
Thank you , Jeff, for staying focused. I love my Kindle and wouldn't want anymore features and capabilities. I wouldn't want to be able to check my email on Kindle. I wouldn't want having full browser capability. Because all of that would distract me from reading.

I noticed that I can't read on iPad for more than 15 minutes. I always want to check my email or play a game.
uh, what do you guys do exactly ? Folks on TC are asking the same question btw. Are you building a fastclick 2.0 ? fastclick++ ? fasterclick ? fastclickclick ?? Heh. Seriously would like to know what it is you use scala for. "next-generation online media technology" is just too vague.
Surround-Sound ‘Audio Battlefield’ Reproduces Cacophony of War
A shared host isn't going to give you very good performance. You could try looking into http://heroku.com to see if that would serve you better.

Otherwise a VPS from Linode should serve you well and it's not too much money this way either.
Wow, this is some crazy.

If you start by assuming they have access to the cell carrier data (which is a super-mega-wacky assumption), why do they need you to provide your number in the first place? They can just look it up in the billing, which ties to a verified address.

And even if you really are this paranoid, you can just use a $10 burner phone for this authentication.
Yep. To upgrade the memory on the compact macs one needed a hex driver, a soldering iron and a spare resistor. I'm still shocked my Dad let me tinker with expensive university property like that.
Bullshit conspiracy theories.

Hyperbole would be a more apt description.

How can something that is opt-in be an erosion of privacy?

Quite easily. You can choose to use a service without fully understanding the privacy implications. I don't think we can expect the general public to be infosec and personal rights experts.
Try, e.g.:

curl https://socialgraph.googleapis.com/otherme?q=<yourgmaila...

Here's what they have to say about me, to anybody with a web browser, even though I've tried my hardest to opt out:

https://socialgraph.googleapis.com/otherme?q=facebook.com/km...

{"http://twitter.com/keithmadams:{attributes:{atom:http://twit... at Facebook, dad, cyclist.","exists":"1","rss":"http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/keithmadams.rss,ur...},"http://www.quora.com/keith-adams:{attributes:{exists:1,photo... Adams","url":"http://www.quora.com/keith-adams,profile:http://www.quora.co...
I'm sure this is a gross oversimplification, but Google is in the business of monetizing people's interest in content it doesn't create. Who will it perceive is the better partner for that monetization, the scraper who understands how to apply Google's tools to maximize monetization, or the original content author?
Puppet/Chef
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Several people seem to believe that Office was key to Apple's survival. I do not understand this claim. Apple's big markets were pre-press and education. Neither really cared about Office.
"Well, it still has destroyed these industries."

No, the industries have destroyed themselves by letting piracy go out of hand when they could have done something about the root causes of piracy. Instead, they have focused their efforts on treating the symptoms and not the disease.

What can they do now? They can make it available, convenient and priced reasonably. Piracy may never go away but giving people an option between illegal and legal means of obtaining content can improve their chances of making money.
Yeah right. We should freeze all CS s/w h/w R&D now that time-tested stable for loops & RAIDs have been invented. That'll teach them!
Poll: LDAP or Puppet/Chef?
I've always used LDAP or NIS for central user authentication. I've never worked in a company that had more than a few dozen employees, and I only work with production systems. The only reason I set it up is so that I don't have to add users everywhere, and for authenticating against local web tools. I'm starting to think this is silly, and that I should just manage all of my users in Puppet, and write a method to turn those user statements into htpasswd files, then call it a day. What do you think, LDAP or Puppet?
"The difference between American prisons and this one in N.Korea is the size of it and the blatant attempt to keep it secret from the rest of the world."

Right. And the calorie counts, and the min / max temperatures. And the habeas corpus, and the due process prior to incarceration. And the press freedom to investigate. And the public election of legislators making the laws defining criminality, and executives running prisons. Otherwise, no difference.

See, in North Korea, when you start a "push to increase monitoring of prisons", you go _into_ the prison, do not see a judge, do not pass Go. And your family. And you don't come out. This alone strikes me as a really important difference.

Maybe people aren't sufficiently exercised about US prison conditions. But suggesting those are the same as North Korea only flips the "not credible" bit for every further comment you make.
I love this idea but it feels like these types of sites have become overly popular and I've noticed some problems. For context, I'm an entrepreneur with a budget, mock-ups, some angel interest, and I'm having a tough time finding senior development talent (mobile app & camera experience, some web talent). Anyway, if you solve some of these problems I'd get interested in a hurry.

-there's no upside in describing my project to an unknown community, If I describe it blandly nobody thinks it's interesting, if I describe it in detail I've given away our secret sauce.

-black box effect; it's unclear when/if I'll hear from the match-maker service.

-qualifications; while I value other people doing the pre-screens on developers I won't be comfortable unless they pass screens from technical people I know/trust but I seem overly picky and slow to decide if I have multiple interviews with all potential candidates.

For what it's worth, I think if you put more information about yourselves and your qualifications for screening devs it would help soothe these concerns.
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I've heard "nasal demons" in some C circles (as in, "the compiler may cause demons to fly out your nose").
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Thanks for the quick reply. Im not looking for quick response time although the last host i just tried had horrible response time. This would only be a development account. As i said ive looked at heroku but the git aspect of it just confuses me.

Also i wanted something cheap which i guess for rails 3 isnt going to fly. Ill look at linode though.
> Wouldn't it be far more productive to skip threads that might not interest you?

Actually, no. If you ignore all the stories you don't want to see, you allow a site like this one to drift towards the lowest common denominator. Promoting what you like is one part of helping create a community you will enjoy, but actively discouraging the stories/comments you don't want to see is another part. An even more important part, if you want to see your community stay focused and true to the spirit it started out with in the face of an increasing (and increasingly varied/diluted) user base and funny pictures of cats.
Remember how pg outlined grumpiness as one of the biggest problems HN is facing? Yeah.

Flag the thread like the rest of us and don't be an internet martyr about it.
Good questions. It fits at about the sample place you'd put nginx or apache, with it in front of your other language application stacks. Mongrel2's protocol also tends to remove the need for any "middleware" like WSGI or Rack since it's protocol is already similar to what those do (minus the insane chaining and wrapping they do).

The reason I say "HTTP isn't async" is that, while it can be async over a single socket, you can't really do N:M responses with it. For example, you can't have nginx send a request to one Python backend, and then have 6 other backends respond directly to the client before closing the connection in a 7th. Mongrel2 does this by sending 0MQ messages to one target, but allowing any handler to remotely "write to the browser socket" with any number of 0MQ response.

The closest you can get with HTTP is having specially written proxies that know how to do individual HTTP requests to each backend, and then take those responses and use chunked-encoding to build the final response. I believe Amazon does this fairly effectively for their applications (or used to).

So, I think the confusion on the term "async" is that you're thinking "async socket IO via callbacks in Node" vs. "10 processes asynchronously responding to one browser".

That answer it?
I've looked at TemplateMonster, who should in theory have lots of themes, but have found their site such a nightmare to navigate that I just gave up. ThemeForest doesn't have the most themes, but by and large they're consistently good.
tl;dr: It lists conference speakers and their decks, organized around Twitter handles.
You notice a small subset of bad marketing targeted at gender, and draw the conclusion that all such is tacky, transparent, and insulting.

You do not notice that 99% of all marketing is gender-targeted, and that most of it does its job so well that it is unnoticeable.