skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What lesson should he have learned, exactly? I think rather that he has taught us a big lesson of late -- open or not, if you create a compelling product, people will break down your doors and line up for hours in order to get it.
I'm not so sure. The only thing Apple is dominant at right now are mp3 players, and to my knowledge those don't/can't compete against any sort of open platform. There's no question that their computer sales are doing pretty well, and that quality sells, but they're still far from dominant.
From the comment on the original post by the author.

"But a company like Google that has such sky-high margins today will find it hard to stomach to adjust to lower margins. That is my real point."

As far as I know financial statements don't reveal how many people are allocated per business unit ... curious how the author arrived at these numbers for the profit margins. How does Zoho plan to adjust to its own decreasing profit margins? Does Zoho believe that the off shore development cost advantage will last forever?
Why? At nearly all times in history there have been more people on earth than ever before.
but I don't want madmen :(
Or to paraphrase William Gibson: The Street finds its own use for technology.

And often it involves getting laid. I'm waiting for location-aware GPS smartphone apps to address this big time.
Amen to this.
Most of that involved over excited early adopters. This is a bad strawman. Most folks over the last year (for 2g) did not experience any of this at all.
for me it's a nintendo, look one of those on my friends home, holy shit, the graphics is cool, the music is much more cool than my atari
Have you ever been to common-lisp.net? It's no CPAN, but same idea. In practice you've got everything you need to work with, no need to reinvent the wheel.
And runs slower than a retarded turtle? The iPhone has trouble running its Springboard GUI efficiently as it is.
Early mainstream stage.
Alas!

http://qwili.com/Search/index.aspx?q=chu-hi&btnS=Search

http://qhoga.com/Search/index.aspx?q=gnomes&btnS=Search

http://karatr.com/Search/Index.aspx?q=replica+rolex&btnS...
Was very interesting to see quick clips of the different videos. A diverse group, and some great ideas. Hope we'll be treated to more in-depth videos of the pitches, eventually.
While poetic and thoroughly motivating, I don't know if I'd apply for a job with a description like that. It reminds me too much of the "need python ninja with postgres jiu-jitsu skillz" spiels you see on freelancing websites. Unless you had a professional advertising company, that description says nothing relevant the actual job he is talking about.

This isn't to say that creative job descriptions aren't amazing, I just feel that they could be better tailored their target audience. Preferably something along the lines of the resume-free job posting, exemplified at http://www.ryanholiday.net/archives/help_wanted.phtml.

Personally, I'd also ask for a description of the applicants favorite algorithm and why. You can gauge their interests and passions from a loaded question like that, and it would be a hell of a lot of fun to write.
"Early stage" of the market. That does not necessarily equal in the technology.
One interesting idea is that of printing every book you want, on demand. Using http://www.lulu.com/ you can get prices of $8 per copy plus $8 postage, and you provide a PDF (around 250 pages is ideal). It's $16 per item too - no need for an order of say 30 books. Multiply that into $300 and that's quite a few books you can stack on the shelf.
I totally agree - this annoys the hell out of me and is one of the reasons why I love hacker news.
Couchdb. Easily scalable, understandable data storage using JSON and REST, built in Map/Reduce, open source, built in replication and doc revision, and it's not SQL!
You have to keep in mind that the app store was a response to people jail breaking the iphone and installing 3rd party apps. Apple never wanted developers messing with it's precious device but they finally gave and look what happened.
This isn't digg?

:)
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Aren't most (all?) high dollar / low probability prizes paid with insurance?
What seems odd is that Amazon seems to be trying to avoid a game change.

They want to make reading /book ownership & retail different with as little effect on what goes on further up the value chain as possible.
Prices are more or less the same, for one.

That doesn't seem to make sense.
Enjoyable read. I especially liked the conclusion.
If you use Firefox, you can use the NoScript Addon to disallow JavaScript on that particular site.
You're factually inaccurate.

Android being released under the Apache licence, it's taking it's sweet time about it but that's what it should all be licenced under: http://code.google.com/android/kb/licensingandoss.html
Well, sure, that wasn't a complete job description. It wasn't meant to be. It was a replacement for TFA's "We’re looking for great developers who are passionate about contributing to and shaping the web."

In short, it's a hook to get people to look at the actual job opening.
What makes a bug a security bug?
I think the current practices, which enabled this domino effect where the security level of the whole is that of the weakest link, are also to blame. We must find something better.
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It's unfortunately also criminally convenient.
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"Now it is clear why we compete with Google. Google is perhaps the most stunning technology success story ever, but we simply don’t believe Google has the rational business incentive to get too deep into the business/IT software category. The lower revenue and profit per employee figures would be tolerable if there were huge growth opportunities there, but when very successful companies like Adobe and Intuit pull in revenues well shy of a Yahoo, when even the enterprise software leader SAP is smaller, and slower growing than Google (Google makes nearly as much in profit per employee as SAP or Oracle Salesforce make in revenue per employee), it is fairly clear this market is not going to make a material contribution to Google’s growth and profitability objectives. So what is Google’s plan here? It is fairly obvious they are in it to put Microsoft on the defensive on its home turf, so that Microsoft’s offensive capability in the internet is diminished. It is also perfectly clear why Microsoft wants to be an internet player - as Google has shown, it is a higher margin business even than its monopoly-profit core business."
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Why go all the way, when a smooch is sometimes all that is needed
That is the worst logic I've ever seen. Loosely translated:

"Microsoft makes hit tons of money, both per employee and overall, a huge chunk of which comes from their Office products. Google makes slightly more money per employee, but far less overall, none of which comes from their Office products.

Therefore, Google would not want to succeed in the Office space. Why? Because Adobe doesn't make all that much."

Huh? I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar, that he actually just doesn't speak English well enough to express his thoughts coherently, because it is either that or he doesn't have them.
You will have to look at documentation like everything else having to do with your startup. Document only if it provides a high return on your time and resources. Ask yourself at each point while you work on your project: 'What can I do now that benefits my business the most?' When the answer is documentation, then document. That's a major benefit of running your own business: no one gets to dictate your priorities to you. So enjoy that freedom.
He's outed me: I began an experiment about four weeks ago, changing my home page from Google to Yahoo Search for the first time in ten years. The (admittedly imprecise) verdict? If you swapped in Google branding, and added an "I'm feeling lucky button" (the only thing I truly miss), I wouldn't notice the difference. (I'd wager Microsoft Live would yield similar results.)

Google leads now by branding. The gap between the major search engines has narrowed to indistinguishability.
What the fuck is this shit and what does it have to do with Y-Combinator?
Comercial software comes to the OpenMoko/FreeRunner
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Eh, you might be right in that it's not entirely typical, but it's a pretty significant chunk of their users. There have been many other problems as well, especially with the 3g model. Lots of people have been returning them.

My point wasn't to enumerate its flaws, but rather to point out that it's far from all roses in terms of owner experience.
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yahoo's search is competitive to google's. so is msn's. and
clusty's. yet all the while, google's marketshare increases. this is
the value of being good at the right time...you establish the value of
the brand. a company can coast a long time on a reputation. google
will be toppled one day, but it won't be by a "better" search
Of course, I don't think that anybody credible disagrees with that.

That doesn't mean that REST "does not mean anything concrete", though.
Lol, yeah. Mobile device processors are still quite a ways away from that.
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wtf! am i lost or does this blog post make absolutely no sense?
It's a freemium model in disguise.
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For pay apps, I would much rather develop and sell on the app store and not have to worry about license keys, copy protection, credit card merchants, and testing on multiple devices like you probably will if you are selling an android app.
Who hired their service?
I don't think the iPhone was so much a bet as it was an escape from a dying market.

It's Apple's answer to the 2004 problem: "All phones will soon include free MP3 players. As this will eliminate the iPod cash cow, how do we compete with these new telecom competitors?

"Answer: We'll add a phone to our MP3 player."
Are We Walking A Fine Line With All This Openness?
My startup project: pwgen.net
WordPress or TypePad or....?
I'd like to start a blog and I am wondering which platform HN suggests. Thanks for voting/discussing!
TypePad
You don't, but historically Google were more developer oriented then most other IT Giants
1) Why do I need to enable Javascript to use even the most basic functionality of your website?

2) Why would anyone use this? The security implications are obvious and severe.

Congrats on building it, though. Certainly a useful exercise.
They look so cool smoking all the time :(
Cool. I've been waiting for this (as Garry well knows :-).
I've heard (and found from experience) that wordpress is a bit more professional and polished. Not having used TypePad a bunch, I couldn't give a very detailed comparison. But those are my two cents.
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A firefox plugin might increase my comfort level in using something like this.
Wikis work good, too.
Tried that. In order for the login entry fields to be visible, and the javascript routines for login to work, the script has to run.
Ask YC: Graduate funding going down?
My roommate just got back to school, and he said something about how his department (machine learning at CMU) didn't get as much funding this year. I noticed that FERMI lab got less funding, and some of my friends in Berkeley also have said similar things.

Does anyone have any personal stories or links to share related to this? Will there be a research fund shortage within the next few years?
Is Z still used? I once read a book about it - but that was some time ago.
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Wordpress. Have used WP, Typepad and Drupal, but Wordpress is what works for me.
(The you read the Innovators Dilemma? They argue this point very well..) The logic goes something like this, as companies grow, they tend to move from lower profit margin businesses to higher profit margin businesses. Each company needs a specific profit margin over their overhead costs to justify investment of resources. Google with find it hard to invest in lower margin Office Suite business.

> 2. I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar, that he actually just doesn't speak English ...

Thats generally a wrong assumption, I have lived in India all my life, and >70% of my communication is in English. I am pretty sure everyone at Zoho uses English at Office
Testing only on your own searches is not a good measure of overall quality.

A good measure of quality can be found in your own webserver logs. In my experience with mass-market sites, page-views-per-user from Google traffic is much higher, indicating that they do a better job of matching user intent with content. Googlebot tends to be much faster and smarter than Slurp and it's fairly easy to get good ranking on long-tail stuff in Yahoo.

A caveat: the userbase of Yahoo versus Google is different in character, so that may account for the difference in behavior. For whatever reason the Yahoo traffic tends to be celebrity gossip-type stuff and basic noun searches.
Bookmarked! It's nice to have a generator for passwords.

you have a small typo: diffrent should be different

Cheers :)
Seems like goodpassword.com.
SUN actually promised to deliver a J2ME interpreter to the iPhone
I'm not the author, but I assume he wants everything client side. If I'm going to have a web site generate a password for me, I certainly don't ever want it touching their server in the process.
An early employee of youtube could have made a similar post.
I get downmodded for answering someone's question? Phew, tough crowd.
Yes.

If you're going to join a social network and amass an entourage of close friends and distant acquaintances, you'd better be prepared to stand up for what you believe in. Privacy is not really about privacy. It's about integrity.

It is seldom few in our culture who pay respect to those standing to hold us accountable for our actions.
The Android SDK is in its early stages and suffers from some bugs which is expectable.

It's a good set of Java namespaces that provides a good control over the device resources. As it Java the environment is managed which makes the application development process quite easy. The GUI development is using an XML based documents that the developer can set widgets into.

No one outside google knows what the performance penalty of the managed environment, and please don't start with the Java is slow blubber, blackberry is all Java as well.

My vote: if google will deliver what they promise than they should be a strong player in the market.
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a highlight of what the diet is about:

Carbs, not fats, are modernity’s most deadly assassins. And, even if they don’t kill you, they make you feel worse. I sleep better without them and I seem to have become a nicer person; what with that and the weight loss, my friends – or were they enemies? – barely recognise me.

The good, the bad and the tasty

The fundamentals of Arthur De Vany’s diet: bin the carbs and packaged food, and delight in lean meat and at least two veg meals

- Cook by colour and texture so that meals look beautiful. If busy, skip meals with little worry. You don’t have to have three square meals a day. Snack on nuts or celery. Drink plenty of water. I also drink tea, coffee and a little wine.

Carbs
Avoid bread, muffins, bagels, pasta, rice, potatoes, cereals, vegetable oils, beans or anything in a package — empty, high-calorie foods with a high carbohydrate content.

Flavour
Spice up your food with fresh ingredients such as basil, garlic, parsley, rosemary, spring onions, avocados and nuts, and use various oils, such as olive oil, for flavour.

Celery adds texture (and is good for testosterone too).

Fruits
Fresh fruits of all sorts are good; I focus on melon and red grapes. Fruit juice is out. I have one or two fruits with most breakfasts; now and then a piece with other meals.

Vegetables
Eat lots of fresh raw, steamed, sauteed or grilled vegetables. I never use frozen, canned or packaged vegetables.

Protein
Eat plenty of meat, such as ribs, steak, bacon, pork loin, turkey and chicken, but trim fat from the edges. Fish, seafood and eggs are also good choices.

Breakfast
I tend to eat last night’s leftovers: turkey with jarlsberg cheese and fruit, bacon with red grapes, omelettes with rosemary, olives and spring onions.

Lunches
Usually salads, with red cabbage, romaine lettuce, spring onions, garlic, kale, broccoli or cauliflower, with salmon, tuna, turkey, chicken, pork or steak.

Dinners
I sometimes eat a whole rack of ribs with salad and vegetables. Or a large steak, trimmed of fat. Almost always there is a beautiful salad and vegetables.
So... I'm unlikely to use a website for password generation. Even if everything is done in JS (which from a cursory glance seems to be the case here), that could easily be changed without me knowing it. I think that is a showstopping issue for this app, because any competent administrator will avoid handing out passwords, and nobody wants to read through your sourcecode. You need to seriously rethink the trust issues here.

Other than that, please get someone who is a native English speaker to look over your text. I haven't the foggiest idea what some of it means.
Everyone wants to be a superstar, yet nobody wants you to know who they are.
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Screen, in addition to a lot of the other stuff already mentioned here.

Recently, CherryPy.
I started searching on Yahoo when I started working with a very passionate colleague from yahoo. It is truly brilliant that for a lot of long tail queries yahoo does a great job. If they can crawl as frequently as google then they are definitely superior in terms of ranking.

Google really got its edge being the default on many browsers. Every time I use a new box or a new browser installation its a long time (months) before i change to Y! search.
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> Even if everything is done in JS (which from a cursory glance seems to be the case here)

It's not. It downloads passwords from the server.
You want to use passwords generated by someone else's server, but first you want to install a Firefox extension, which would give them access to all your existing passwords and cookies?
#13 is not quite best practice.

GZip minified JS. Don't pack it.

http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/
This is mini tools. And This application don't keep password. This is source code. I think write with js this app but maybe firefox add-on or iphone plugin etc usable api can require.

Source Code: http://code.google.com/p/pwgen-net/
Privacy is about integrity? What does that even mean?

"It is seldom few in our culture who pay respect to those standing to hold us accountable for our actions." -- wha?

Social networking only means the end of privacy if you let it. I don't let it, and although I'm an n of 1, all you need is 1 to make that answer "no". Other people seem fine to lose their privacy, it doesn't mean the end of privacy.
If you have hosting, Chyrp is an interesting newcomer:

http://chyrp.net
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I'd like to hear why folks prefer Wordpress...I use Typepad for Altgate.com and I have to say that I'm not terribly impressed. I also use Blogger for a company blog (virid.us/blog/) and it's fine.

On a related note, has anyone done a Typepad-->Wordpress conversion? How'd it go?
TypePad.
I have read it.
I also watched Sam Altman.
I would never think it will come to this!
This iPhone "thing" is the greatest invigilation system ever created.
I saw communism first hand, I saw people prosecuted.
This is much worse.
... and guess what, we all LOVE IT !!!

... unbelievable !
on the other hand, some colleagues at Georgia Tech's Info Security Center got $200k or so to buy hardware for researching and what not.. much more than previous years
i think he meant password generators in general.. and not a ffox extension that talks to this site. ?
WordPress is great! Another cutting-edge blogging platform is Habari - http://www.habariproject.org/en/
I'm not really sure why you'd ever want a website to do this, even client side. There are tools like apg that do exactly this; what does the javascript version offer?
The logic is that Google, whose Internet cash cow probably has more milk left in it than Microsoft's Office/OS cash cow, is already more profitable per employee than Microsoft, so its incursion into the Office space is not a serious quest for higher margins but rather a tactical move made primarily to put Microsoft on the defensive. It makes perfect sense.

Not knowing anything about you or your startup, I will nevertheless go out on a limb and guess that Sridhar Vembu's English is better than your Hindi, and that his fully bootstrapped startup's $40 million in revenues and $12 million in profits [1] puts it in better financial condition than your business.

Try to open your mind and learn something from the man behind one of the most successful fully bootstrapped tech businesses in the game today. Most entrepreneurs wouldn't consider going up against both Microsoft and Google with no investment backing, but Vembu saw an opportunity, took a big risk, and is now in a position to reap sizable and well-deserved rewards.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/22/mitra-zoho-india...
Going out and doing is great. So long as you can make the time to truly recognize your shortcomings and learn from them.

Makes me scared for the knucklehead product manager who absorbs Nike's slogan as mantra; a substitution for reason and understanding.

Do, learn, plan, repeat. Always starts with Do, just don't forget to learn.
The OP is actually pretty close to the money. Android applications are virtualized on Android phones (see: Dalvik). It wouldn't be impossible for Apple to implement Dalvik and a few wrappers for the APIs and tie it to Springboard.

Actually, apart from the Springboard part, and some questionable clauses in the dev agreement, there's nothing to prevent any Joe Schmo from porting much of Android to iPhone and putting it up on the App Store. Apps are written in objective-C which is an ANSI C superset, so there wouldn't be any speed issue.

Compound this with the fact that Eric Schmidt is on Apple's board of directors, and I would say some form of Android compatibility is pretty likely in iPhone's future.
This is similar to the philosophy maintained in the project I work in, x264: code duplication is the enemy and abstraction is your friend. Even in assembly coding, macros are used heavily to turn thousand-line functions into four lines of macro calls. The maintainability difference is unbelievable--the less code you have to write to do something, the easier it is to understand and the easier it is to change in the future. Furthermore, the shorter the code, the more you can fit on the screen at one time, and therefore the easier it is to get the whole picture.

The mark of an effective programmer is that he is able to do this abstraction no matter what the situation he is in--regardless of language or platform.
I see more blogging around ideas like this. Maybe it means we're winning? "We" being the small language/simple but powerful ideas camp.

Coders tend to be the kind who like complex mechanism. So we err on the side of too much of it.
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wordpad. sorry i couldn't help myself =)
He also had quite a miserable experience with the ill fated SLVR. This had to have a considerable effect on the tactics used as he got into bed with AT&T. I would imagine having his creativity vetoed by the suits at Motorola had a silver lining.
They probably got that from the government (war on terror, must protect against 'cyber threats', etc).
Muxtape is down because of other reasons, think server wise. The RIAA thing is just a smokescreen.
Wordpress or Chryp if you want something lighter. But Wordpress all the way.