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pretty sure you're wrong on this

only needs to be available as an in app purchase if the app itself has a way of enabling you to purchase same content from outside the app (for example, a "subscribe now" button that links directly to a purchase page in Safari). I'm not sure where just a "you can subscribe from our website", sans link, would fall, but I'd hope that would be ok.
The purpose of Go isn't to replace C at what C does best, like being wicked fast and having very direct access to the hardware. It's meant to replace programs that Google used to write in C++, like web servers, data aggregators, etc. Go was designed by Googlers for Googlers, and that's very obvious from both the design and standard libraries.
In the interest of correctness I should point out that the half a million fee is not a fee but a bond. The state does not take it but it is kept in a trust for people that may be injured by the particular money transmission business that gets a license.

Thus, if a money transmission business steals someone's money you can sue them and when you win you can take your money from the 500,000 bond so you are sure they will not run out on you.

I am not sure whether it is a good law (I have not done enough research to figure that out), but I just wanted to clarify. The quora post made it look like the state was just greedy and taking all the money for themselves.
find a customer, quick.
Why not have a systems language with garbage collection?

From http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/52716/tr-2005-135.pdf:

3.4	Garbage Collection
Garbage collection is an essential component of most safe languages,
as it prevents memory deallocation errors that can subvert safety
guarantees. In Singularity, the kernel and processes object spaces
are garbage collected.

I appreciate that Microsoft Research is saying "why not?" rather than "why?". Singularity is a fascinating OS and I hope it, or some derivative or something like it from someone else, eventually reaches the mainstream market.
That's a dishonest thing to say. The truth is that you can't possibly know which companies, if you had funded them, would have become great companies.
"Wiser men than I have explained in excruciating detail why you're an idiot"

Never call your readers idiots. Which this author has. It just makes you look like a giant dick head. Which this author is.
I'm based in Malaysia, but I can't seem to find them.
Can't I just live as a shareholder in silicon valley, basing my limited company and shill directors in Alabama, and leasing the limited company software produced by my other company in California?

Requirements:

2 limited companies.

Licensing agreement.

Alabama-based Non-executive directors (cousin Ed and Chuck).
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It can be a bond or a cash payment, but either way, the money is locked up and not available to use for operations, or gone.
and why is self driving car the future ?
Is there still opportunity in the crowdsourced customer support?
It seemed clear and fairly idiomatic to me, though it was clearly trying to reduce the line count. For maintainable code, I'd expect more newlines and a little more separation of assignments from comparisons, but not much more.

Intuitions like these are rough though - it depends on how low in your perception stack you have the C operators etc. embedded.
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Good - sounds more competitive.

It cost us 100€ with min of 1€ capital in the Republic + 10€ legal swearing fee. I filled in the form myself.
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In a talk/interview on Go Rob Pike (on infoq maybe?) explained that with "systems programming" they don't mean OS development (at least not now). GC technology will improve so that sooner or later it won't be an issue.
Few users prefer the archived versions; only when they need information that has disappeared (or is temporarily unavailable) do they try the Wayback Machine.

Many, many web designers are delighted to be able to see their old creations – or even recover past work from the Archive when all other copies are lost to organizational upheaval and system problems.

Finally, note that by blocking archiving, you're opting out of history. Those who look back to see the web of today won't see your contributions. Alternatives, competitors, and other projects that are open to archiving will be seen and vividly remembered. Being invisible to the future may be OK for your projects, but many others prefer to part of the shared memory.

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Interestingly, if Telstra has any US assets, servers or domains, they can be seized.
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Ask HN: How to sell my startup
I have a small start up software platform with high value to higher ed marketing companies. We did get some angel funding, but have sine paid it back so we (myself and co founder along with 2 employees) are the only shareholders.

After much deliberation, we decided to shut down shop in pursuit of another idea.

Beyond sites such as sitepoint, how does one go about selling their early stage start up? How should we value it and price accordingly?

We're not talking about anything huge, but we do have demonstrable traction, were growing. With a higher budget and a better engineering focus, a larger company could benefit. Or, it could be a good early stage "turn key" start up for entrepreneurs who want to start selling a pre-built product. I don't expect to make hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions, but something in the tens of thousands would be nice.

Any first-hand or second-hand advice that HN can share? You guys have always been so helpful in the past :)
Looks great. I did find a couple little bugs. One annoying, one not so much:

1) The annoying one - When backspacing over values in entry fields (such as opacity, or distance), backspacing over all the characters causes NaN to appear in the field. Sometimes you have to fight with the input field a bit to allow you to re-enter text. (Usually shift+home+the key you want to hit will work)

2) If you enter a ridiculous value such as 500 for percentage then the slider behaves strangely. Not annoying as it pretty quickly snaps back to where it should be.

I love the site, so please do not take these two critiques as a slight against it.
Thank you.

I wouldn't presume Ebay had better uses for the capital though. Skype has clearly had a faster rate of growth than Ebay. (although, paying an effing dividend would in my personal opinion be better than maintaining a thirty percent share of a telephone company)
I would be interested in knowing the reasons why that startup was so far behind.
Is it the constant feedback about the startup/idea from mentors and other YC members that make the startups better Or the ability to solve technical issues quickly because of help from others?
Here goes one more reason to use Bitcoin, that's where the real innovation is.
"Wake up"??

If my Android phone is off, it's off. It doesn't turn itself on, period. If it's just idle, screen off, with lots of stuff asleep, sure it will "wake up" in that the screen turns on, and sound an alarm. But that's it.
I am in the same position,have got admission to a CS grad course with an undergrad in something else.Earlier had thought that it would be doable thought now it seems pretty daunting.I am almost thinking of not taking it up as I think of the nightmarish scenarios of not being able to do well.
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His formatting style is just the best way to get lost !

if(...) ...;ELSE {

}

That's the first time I see this and hope the last.
Yes, Paypal is a bank in Europe. They have a bank license in Luxemburg and have devised some pretty nifty technique's for porting that around the rest of the EU.
"lacks novelty [and] an inventive step" Nicely put.
It also reminds me of the productivity tips “Don’t break the chain” from Jerry Seinfield : http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-pr...

Never break the chain of working every day on your most important project, even if it's one hour per day.
This was available for quite a while already, though in beta/labs. I'm not sure what is new.
It's more accurate to say that now that he has as much money as he can spend (he can cash out multiple $m's in a financing round whenever he wants) that he doesn't need 10 times that right now.
'Law' is not just written legislation handed down from legislatures and other 'sovereigns'. It's also made on the ground, by custom and consensus, and then recognized as wise and just by the courts in the case of disputes – at least in common-law jurisdictions like most of the English-speaking world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

Robots.txt has a lot of custom and implied authority behind it by now – and as others have noted, some recognition by courts as well.
No doubt there are many organizations capable of building an operating system, and a few with enough influence to cause widespread adoption. Indeed, Google is a great example, as they are responsible for more than one OS: Android and Chrome OS. Both of which are Linux-based, and therefore C-based OS's.
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No, the real world could really do without a Jack Bauer.
Nothing. Facebook credits are not a money transfer system, it's whats known as a 'closed loop' system. If they opened it up so that anyone can take a payment with a facebook credit and receive dollars then they would start to fall under the money transfer arrangements and would require these restrictions.

I don't think $500k is much of a barrier to them getting into this business however...
I'm awaiting the first autonomous car to get its driver license. I imagine the day is not far off.
no offense taken. thanks for the observation! also don't mind to fill out bug reports on github https://github.com/mrflix/LayerStyles/issues or directly push fixes
Bitcoin is operating in a legally very grey area, you can bet your bottom-dollar that as soon as they get real traction laws like this are going to come down on the ecosystem extremely fast.
The iPhone alarms do not work when the phone is turned off. If you've muted your phone this also means that all alarms are muted too.

May be useful in business surroundings, but this makes the iPhone an awfully bad travel alarm.
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Yes, Paypal operates with a Luxembourg banking license in Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status ).

Note that banking in Europe is in part regulated by national law of the member states. To operate as a bank in Germany, you need not only 0,5-5 million € as starting capital (depending on the type of financial transactions you are getting into), but you also need two reliable* executive managers who have at least three years experience leading a bank of the intended size (or similar experience).

Thus, the barrier to entry is rather high in Europe, too. But after that, if you get big enough, the tax payers will pay all your bills, like in the US.

* no criminal record and no other facts known that would cast doubt on their trustworthiness.
Bear in mind that this is a decision of a delegate of the Commissioner of Patents. This decision won't bind anyone except, presumably, the Commissioner of Patents. Its value as a legal precedent anywhere else in the world is roughly zero.
Been using this for a year now, there's also a hack to use it in the Chrome bar by entering a custom search engine. Very handy and works nice.

Only miss is that I can't immediately click through to image searches, they're only available over unsecured HTTP.
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If recognition from YC is the only piece that is missing from a startup's puzzle, I would be disappointed if they cannot make it on their own.
Many of us are at different levels of competence at being a successful entrepreneur. Many drop off from the startup world altogether, some drop off from applying to YC and endup with a small business, a tiny few will show up as groupons of the world.
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Oh, nice. I didn't catch the link to github previously. (That seems to be a theme for me tonight.)
Or in any legal system (see another of today's posts re changing the rules of online money transmissions in California).
Awsm FB-App will analyze your profile and creates book (incl. nice data viz)
built with mongodb, python, running on highly- scalable cloud-infrastructure.
As a iPhone-user gone Android, I can't wait to see all the awesome services which will be coming my way as Apple makes iOS an unfeasible platform to build on.

So far their greed has been tolerated due to an early iOS lead on app-profitability. Now that the iPhone is getting (severely) dated with next to no advantages to bolster, and with Android overtaking iOS in every way (including the one which counts: marketshare) I can't see this holding up for very long.

Soon enough enough people will say "Fuck Apple" and just head to Android, leaving iOS as a niché market. Why develop for 10% of the world's smartphones when you could be doing 80%? Even if Android customers were 400% less willing to buy apps (and no, no current market trends indicate that is the case), Android would still be more profitable to developers.

Apple is doing some serious gambling here, and I honestly don't think it will play out to their advantage.
For a startup at such an early stage it would be a mistake to worry about "cannibalising existing business" - if they don't do it, someone else will. Disruption is all about finding a better economic local minimum. This is what abnb does anyway - more efficient accommodations market.
This is the financial services industry cranking down regulations to prevent competition as the coming onslaught of digital payments is about to take place.

This is nothing but downside as it relates to innovation in the payments space. These companies like their business models and don't care for it to be disrupted. They love regulations at this point.
To do a Phd, you have to find a problem domain you can obsess about for years. Do you have one?
Yes, but robots only need to kill one to be demonised. I think this is because the human theoretically can regret it and be punished, whereas there can never be a feeling of justice with the robot. The manufacturers take on a lot of liability (GOOGLE'S CHILD-KILLING DEATH MACHINES!)
Good, but to make this truly useful we need a really simple way to specify which country-specific google search engine we would like results from.
legally there is no diffrence but his lawyers say that its much harder to extadite him from england than from sweden so thats where he wants to stay.
And so we have one more reason to use Bitcoin.
My couple months old Nokia C7 does this (but I'm more grateful for the convenience than worried about covert tapping devices..)
The main source of frustration with this is the fact that they see music as a physical product, while using "intellectual property" laws to prevent any other form.

If it were up to "them" the only way to listen to music is either commercial radio: which pays for licenses, or purchasing physical media and with it the "license" to play it in the privacy of your own home. Anything else is difficult, and DRM and other measures try to institute the same laws governing physical products on digital media (you can't copy your car ;-) ).

This is the argument they get attacked on time and time again, with people saying they don't innovate their business model and try to prevent anyone from innovating as well.

Wait... is it really 2011?
"We deviate from standard style for compactness."
I bet there are many static typed, compiled languages. But they never get any traction because they are not "sexy" like the newest hyped dynamic language. There are many devs who don't care for static typing - they just want to hack their backend in a weekend and be done. Those devs seem to be the vocal ones with blogs and social media power users behind them.

Look at Python. Python is over 20 years old. It has been here since before Windows 95 but only got prominent (in the broad public) in the last few years because some opinion leaders of the hip and young crowd found out you could make cool web apps with it and hyped it into oblivion.

I bet if Go hadn't the names behind it it wouldn't get any more traction than any other of the gazillions of programming languages that die silently. I guess not many home brew languages get talking time at a Google conference.

Let's be just happy that Go seems to get a little popular - maybe it will be enough for a break through. I'd love that.
I'm going to file a patent for a 3-click checkout system, designed to provide just the right amount of user input and confirmation.
Several Indian websites hacked by a Pakistan-based group
The idea that we are even considering an internet censorship bill in the United States is appalling; and for IP protection of all issues.

Also, how long will it be after it is enforced that the affected sites start moving to underground networks like I2P?
The better question is: how will it affect the Windows client? Don Marti writes: Really, this is good news. While users are trying to figure out whether to download "Skype Live Small Business Edition" or "Skype For Windows Professional Platinum 7.0", some startup will eat their lunch.

http://zgp.org/~dmarti/business/msft-skype-news/
I don't think it's that flawed.

Would you elaborate?
Im quite sure most of what Bitcoin is used for is already illegal, but that doesn't mean anything. It's just being used for what people have always done, this is the government outlawing perfectly normal things. Thanks to bitcoin (and it's growing network of services that operate from cypherspace) we nolonger have to dance to the governments tune.
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I know that shared libs are prominent and a better support for them would probably help Go's popularity. (Though the idea behind shared libs is somewhat flawed.)

But it rocks to deploy a Go app by just sending the binary to a dozen of servers and never have to worry about any dependencies on shared libraries.
The only thing I dislike about this is it hides the refer, screwing up my analytics. I'd have to completely convert all of my sites to HTTPS only to be able to make use of the additional headers for analytical purposes. Not really a big deal I guess, but kind of unnecessary to have to purchase wildcard certs if you have many sub domains.
Bret Victor on working at Apple.
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I'm pretty sure you'd get used to it very fast. I think it's a good idea to enforce one style from the start: it kills all stupid arguments in the egg, and lets people focus on the important stuff.
Trustworthiness is not tied to money, the ability to make large sums of money, or the ability to convince others to loan you money/invest in you.
Have you ever tried to get someone to use gpg?

Now take that pain, and multiply it by a million or more.

I do agree with you, and am using gpg.
It will feature on your balance sheet as an asset, though.
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I find this attitude to be a legacy of the IRC channels.
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Honestly what is problematic about Apple here?

I mean if I start selling ebooks in the corner at Starbucks they may tolerate that but when Starbucks gets into the ebook business there should be a huge red flag going off telling you that the rules will eventually change: either they'll disallow my ebook sales or demand a cut.

Another huge red flag is a business model based on buying egoods from a wholesaler and reselling them in another vendors shop.

Another question: why couldn't they continue as a reader app and a web app store run by a separate company?
(the store licenses the DRM to the reader company)
If the answer is that the business doesn't work without the legion of customers the app store brings to the door that's another red flag.
Ask HN: When you're not doing the interviews during Customer Discovery?
Applicable when for instance your target market does not speak your language.

How do we participate in this process (apart from drafting the questions and helping organise the flow)? I am a little worried that since someone else other than us is doing the discovery, will the all important interview time be used well? On the good side, since we're not doing the interview, the questions will hopefully be unbiased and independent (no bravado/no "we're gonna change the world" tenor).

How have your experiences been when you've been forced to use someone else for customer discovery?
One of the main references, and other interesting stuff can be found on Bob Coecke's site:

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/bob.coecke/

Personally, I think the NLP problem is, and will always be, a graph problem. To the extent that you can approximate and accelerate graph algorithms with vectors, then fine, but vectors are not the fundamental space.

One interesting aspect of Coecke's work is the reuse of Hilbert spaces and mathematical formalism from quantum mechanics. In fact, the most fascinating papers on his site are the ones where he simplifies and visualizes QM intuition based on monoidal categories, very much in the spirit of Baez & Stay:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf

Neither Clarke nor Coecke give enough prominence to the great work of Aerts & Gabora on QM-style attribute spaces and 'collapse' of knowledge vectors, e.g.

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402207

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402205

Coecke clearly knew of their work, even though he's now at Oxford, he did his PhD at the Free University of Brussels with A&G.

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