skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes. The Glenn Beck approach.

I'm very glad to have never had to deal with it.
Wow, thanks for pointing out that second one. That's bugged me for some time too!
... and these idea people have automatically weeded those developers out by looking for people on GitHub.

Maybe they need to be looking somewhere else?
First one was in 2002 and I was 20. Last one was about 21 months ago.

I've heard that a lot of rules have changed as well, but I don't know how much changed after I got the last one. Some changes definitely affected me at that time, but the hassle in my case was related to the fact that I was buying another house before selling the current one so I need to hold two mortgages simultaneously. Required more documentation of cash in the bank due to debt/income ratio.

Ironically, once around 2007 while trying to take advantage of a 10% off deal from a home improvement store on a big purchase, I got turned down for their line of credit due to lack of history. (Glad it happened that way in retrospect.) But mortgage companies have never given me trouble.

Maybe I'm lucky. (I'm not independently wealthy.) Mortgage companies are inscrutable. :)
Apple is a corporation, but we like to delude ourselves thinking they are a different kind of corporation, founded on different values.
Good content. I'll be back to read more. Keep up the good work.
Post an article asking HN "what is the low end salary for a junior/graduate programmer in the U.S.".

How much seed money do you have? Do not pay per hour, pay a salary, assuming you have enough money. Ideally you will have enough to employ a low end graduate for 12 months. That is your runway. When that money is gone your startup is gone. Do not be tempted to spend one cent of the money allocated to the graduate salary on anything else.
A side note, Charles Stross's Accelerando is a great Sci-Fi book that deals directly with the ideas of a DDOS using the legal system and courts. Really a great read.
Is "graf" an actual term for a paragraph? Or is this some new Californian thing I haven't noticed?
College2Startup - school is out, find a startup to join
One of the most daunting parts of running and growing a startup is finding the right people for the roles available. Startups are different from other companies, the skills required are a peculiar set and often times, hunger and passion trounces experience in this industry.

College2Startup is a website that wants to take a lot of the noise out of finding new hires. The site takes its extensive list of brilliant grads and undergrads looking to work at startups and connects them with the startups they will fit into best.

Startups often find themselves buying other startups, more for their engineers and other employees than for the revenue potential these days. Finding the right people is a big deal, and that is the reason for college2startup. The site is currently in beta and is inviting subscribers, the earliest few receive the first batch of invites, hence access to available jobs.

Url - http://college2startup.com/
Note that sometimes you will also have to register in your home state as a "foreign LLC" if you have created the LLC in another state.
Right, and its that sort of bureaucracy that'll kill Wikipedia.

Heck, the organization is bureaucratic enough as it is right now (visit the Administrators' Noticeboard, if you want proof). Do we really want to be injecting UN levels of bureaucracy into that?
I guess I'm not sure how that jives with:

“There are some people who just get what they want in the world. If you want to start a startup you have to be one of those people. You can’t be passive and wishy-washy.”

Does wishy-washy mean something other than unsure?
From a couple months ago, their estimated revenues for 2011 are $1.8 billion [1]. This is a completely different beast to linked in. I'm very interested in seeing how it goes.

[1] http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/03/02/zynga-revea...
Google [graf hed lede]. I use them, as I think many other people do, because they're very easy to type, and you knew what it meant without being told.

"Tk" also another great journalism shortcut; it's like "XXX" in code --- easy to search for and fix later.

I'm in Chicago.
I'm a dev, marketing, and investor. This would be my 9th business, my current business makes my living with no work. I like money, but would like to do something good and make something people want more than anything.
Thanks for the feedback and good wishes snikolic.

I was in a similar situation to your customers - I would rent an L4D2 server for a few months, then let it expire if I was spending "too much" time on a new game. This was the initial inspiration for Cloudfrag.

It sounds like you might have some interesting ideas and experiences in this area - if you would like to share, my email is in my profile.

Thanks again!
He is probably imagining that the name of that function would be "nameofproject_assign_user_activity/2", and that you would typically use it along with some others from the same source, following some conventions. Seems that obviates modules to me. In Erlang you give the name of the module with a function anyway, so names like that harm nothing. It would be real nice to type "map" instead of "lists:map" though.
This is a suit about trade dress, not copyright or patent infringement
The money is in the presentation of the data. There is still plenty of money in the software.
Clickable: http://college2startup.com
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Really? So the article has it wrong or am I misreading it?

Samsung has been ordered by San Jose Federal Court judge Lucy Koh to provide Apple with samples of its unreleased tablets and smartphones as part of an ongoing patent dispute

EDIT: I see the court house news article cited gets it right, quoting the court as specifying the look being directly relevant to their trade dress complaint. Thanks for the heads up.

The concept of trade dress is new to me, wikipedia says: "Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from packaging or appearance of products that are designed to imitate other products; to prevent a consumer from buying one product under the belief that it is another."

It's hard to believe a court would find consumers are in danger of buying a galaxy tab believing it was an ipad.
Huffman Has No Immediate Plans to Sell Hipmunk (Bloomberg interview)
It's long-time journalistic slang for paragraph.
From the picture in the article, the 4x4 with a bottom 4x1 fixed row is clearly a rip off. OTOH, the other devices are quite obvious. I remember seeing a keyboard with a connector on top like the one to the right for my Palm (not the WebOS one, the ancient Palm Professional)

And, quite frankly, I would really prefer a vanilla Android interface to this.
Alright, alright, I'll make time for it tonight.
It’s such an exciting time to be building a startup…
I unfortunately know very little about their business model (advertising? pay-to-play? gifts/items?), but would be very curious to see how it all breaks down. Specifically, where their special-ness lies, and how high the barriers to competition really are.

I want to criticize the high valuation, but in fairness I don't know enough about the company or industry.
It's $30 from Amazon US; that's not so bad, surely. (And yes, it's a very nice book; Halmos was an outstanding writer.)
Just 14% of Australian start-ups use social media
We rag on PR people a lot, but this is definitely a case where a tech company needed a good PR person or good PR company to back them up.

A PR rep being in the room during the interviews never would have let this get out of hand in the way that it did, and they would have framed the interview better to suit the tech company. This is just a case of an unsophisticated tech guy being trodden on by an experienced journalist in order to suit the journalists goals for the story.

PR might be 90% useless now, but there are good PR people out there who could have helped in this case.

Btw I am a huge fan of VF but I thought the Stuxnet piece was weak. I am surprised that some of the more experienced tech journalists are not all over the story releasing articles, books, touring lecture, etc. the mainstream mass market would eat up this story in a hurry (movie deal!)
Include what you use, remove superfluous #includes
I don't know. I'm not sure how broadly this would be used. Why wouldn't I just post something to HN or Reddit and get way more eyeballs that way?
Sounds a lot like Solr, but can't imagine the search is nearly as powerful.
Nobody can ever break all the rules - the laws of physics might have something to say about it.

If you limit your statement to "all the rules of the society in which you live", I'm not sure your statement is true. What do you think of Oskar Schindler? Womanizer, cheat, Nazi, fraud, and traitor. Yet he saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during the holocaust, and ended up as the hero of a movie.
I have made money directly from the data. My startup scratched its own itch, and one of the byproducts was a dataset that we sold directly to another company. The price was in the low 5 figures; we estimate that we have approximately 1k times as much as we sold (initial sale was for proof of concept).

There is huge value in data.
So true. If you focus on the payday you lose, if you focus on the product you might win. The only way to win every time is to relish in the journey.
It was sorta obvious after the success of LNKD last week that they were all going to pile in now. Profitable and related to social? By all means, after you..

Somebody had to test the market out.

If LNKD hit $12B then Zynga will hit .... a lot more.
Is there a valid estimate between time to file and time to trading? Or is this always on a case-by-case basis?
I read the article, and I couldn't find any explanation of how to regain the lost encapsulation.

I see him mentioning anonymous inner functions and that "reusing modules" is hard. Did you mean to refer to this?

Anonymous inner functions are more difficult to share across multiple components that share their intricate knowledge of the implementation details and would be stored in a module. I do not think they are a viable replacement for an explicit boundary around multiple components.

About reuse of modules being hard -- I think this again stems from poorly designed module APIs and semantics. Well-designed modules (e.g: STL's modules, Haskell's data structure modules) are very easy to re-use.

I completely agree with him on the difficulty/arbitrarity of module naming, though. I don't think modules should be given a made-up name, but rather found by more informative "meta-data" and addressed by auto-generated unique names.
IE6 is single vendor, single platform, it is closed source, so it does not at all compare to webkit which is cross platform, open source and on top of that multi vendor.
"national security state"

nice term.
Newegg stores your password in plaintext
That will suck when their server is down. Also, what are the privacy implications of this?
Not meant to.
> Nothing necessarily sinister but lazy/cheap.

This attitude really irks me sometimes. Once you've signed off on that overly broad language, do you think that the management company wouldn't take full advantage of it if there was a way for them to profit off of it?

Lazy/cheap is no excuse for attempting to pool as much power in your corner as possible 'just in case.' Once you've gained all of that power 'just for defensive purposes' there is nothing to stop you from using it offensively.
Transformation and educational purpose do not mean what you think they mean.

1. Transformation is more than adding your own translation on top of the movie. You need to change the meaning or expression of the work. The meaning of your version is exactly the same as the original by definition (you are making a word for word translation).

2. Your "educational purpose" argument is diminished when you affect the market for the work. The movie studio will argue your students should rent/buy the movie and watch with subtitles. Your website is taking away sales. Also, if you try to earn money from this you are no longer seeking any educational purpose.

3. You are broadcasting the original movie without permission. That is copyright infringement.

4. Regarding your quote, you should read the Blanch v. Koons case and look at Blanch's original work versus Koon's alleged infringing work to see what transformation requires.
Touche :)

We went through a few iterations with test paid customers. It took a while to properly convey that our value is in reducing complexity, not selling ram. It's a long process but we're very close.

I can tell you we have a date to reveal pricing, and we intend to stick to it.
Sorry, but it happened in the mid-80s. The newspaper it happened in was The Victoria Times-Colonist. The journalist in question just would not give up trying to get access to my family, and in the end we wound up changing phone numbers 3 times.

In short, you'd be amazed at what happens to the families of movie stars.
At some value in excess of ten billion dollars? I won't be buying.

Sure, they're making huge profits right now. But prices should reflect future earnings potential, and what are they going to be doing in ten, twenty, thirty years from now?

They were the first folks to stumble across the secret of making addictive social games. But I see these as a fad, not a long-term trend. There's only so many variations on [ * ]ville you can play before you get bored of it, and only so many times you can be talked into spamming all your friends.

Sure, maybe they'll keep on adapting and having hit after hit. But what are their real advantages? A few programmers who sort-of know how to make a sort-of good game, and some rather nebulous slice of social graph. Compare to some game publishers who have a lot of experience in making many profitable games instead of a little bit of experience making a couple of variations on just one:

Activision/Blizzard: $12.87 billion

Electronic Arts: $7.75 billion

Take Two Interactive: $1.38 billion

If it's 1967, you might want to buy RCA Records, but you don't want to buy The Monkees. The record company can keep on adapting to changing fashions and business conditions and will keep putting out hits for decades to come, but the band will have a brief revenue spike and then vanish.
The global namespace in PHP is awesome. I don't have to learn a framework to solve a problem, there's a function for it.

Namespace qualifiers in names are a fine solution to the collision problem. That's effectively what's there already except every darn function has to be in a module.

Names don't have to be treated like property, you can invoke policy on them and change bad names. His dreams about rich metadata probably include version tags and hashes that would prevent this from silently breaking anything or in a way that couldn't be repaired by a tool.

Modules don't solve the problem you think they do, they just make the name of all functions longer and harder to figure out. They're not hierarchical.

He addressed issues of visibility/encapsulation and gave a great example of where modules fail to solve the problem. Though I don't quite follow his suggested fix, it looks like using lexical scope to encapsulate fib/3 but my Erlang is actually a bit rusty.
The Atlantic put Mark Bowden (for crying out loud) on Conficker and turned in a clunker. I think the problem is that a narrative journalist's instincts and pressures aren't compatible with stories like Stuxnet and Conficker.
Yes, we use container technology. We were the first to do so (first prototypes in 2008) although others are catching on. That's not the key differentiator of the platform, though, anymore than Xen was for EC2.
Skype cancels Asterisk integration
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"From the picture in the article, the 4x4 with a bottom 4x1 fixed row is clearly a rip of"

Didn't we do this dance over two decades ago? Wasn't it decided back then that you can't patent look-and-feel? I don't really understand how this is different.
This is approximately the dumbest thing I've seen since the "no www" movement.
As a consumer, the way deal with this stuff is to cross out the objectionable provisions, sign, and hand it back without a word. Walk out if they put up a fuss, but they usually won't.
TomOfTTB's point is not that what the doctor's did is justified. It's that if we want to deal the situation, we're barking up the wrong tree.
I'm referring to the section where he talks about a new syntax for hiding helper functions so as not to expose them to the outside world. That was specifically about addressing your encapsulation concern.
It seems like a strange thing to provide as a SAAS. Unless you're hosted in the same datacenter, the web latency would surely make the speed of it irrelevant. They mention they're "working on a way for developers to run ThriftDB locally" which might make it worth looking in to. I could see it being useful for some things, certainly, but it wouldn't provide enough benefit as a SAAS to make calls over the web.
One of my co-founders hacked something similar together in JS using an different technique a few years ago, but never got around to going anywhere with it: http://www.zettabytestorage.com/gloam/

I don't think it's been touched since sometime in 2008, but it's still fun. (Though notably more primitive)

Edit: The website for it is rather sparse and stale, but drop us a note at 'support' at the above domain name and it'll get to the original author of the code.

Edit: Also, not trying to steal your thunder or anything, what you're doing is different and new, what I linked is quite unmaintained. Just pointing out some similar work who's author I know well, and who might be fun to have chat with about it.
>>>Very useful stuff, thanks for your time.

The price of the advice....... if you find someone using this approach then please do a "Tell HN:" post explaining how you used this approach to find the first developer for your startup.
RIP: Tom West (Data General, "Soul of a New Machine")
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In my personal opinion offsetting a few KB of extra download size with perhaps years of system resources lost to run an extra add-on makes no sense for something that has been there all along. Not to mention that removal of the 'status bar' required the addition of a new bar to hold Add-Ons, the code to overlay the link preview on the URL bar is far more complex than a single status label, etc. The status text removal made the code more complex, making it a draggable element would have been peanuts extra. Not saying it applies to every case but this one was about as simple as it can be.
Some people build stuff for themselves and don't care if others "want" or "like" it.
I think depression, as distinct from unhappiness, is something you dismiss as unhappiness (i.e. circumstance driven) until you experience it and realise it is an illness.

The clearest example I can imagine is, take someone who is down on their luck, unemployed, in debt, medical problems etc. and fly them to the best doctors in the world, then give them a great new job with a million dollar signing bonus - I think they'll typically be pretty happy. Do this to a depressed person and they'll probably try and kill themselves because they consider themselves unworthy.
I don't think it would stop you from posting on HN or Reddit.
I think this is designed to accelerate the sharing of your links through social media. The advantage of that is that a personal referral has more impact than a blind post on HN. Of course, The devil is in the details. How it's executed will make all the difference.
irahul has been exceedingly rude and hostile, and demonstrated not even a hint of intellectual curiosity. It's pretty clear that he's already decided that nobody, claiming that a humanities education provides benefits vis-a-vis a technical education, can be right.

All of his responses have been a defensive, reactionary manifestation of that prejudiced conclusion.

My response is largely in jest -- a lighthearted guess as to why somebody would be so rigidly opposed to the benign and obvious concept of comparative advantages -- since it's either that or flame him back. I can't provide a defense for what he thinks other people have said on other comments.

The first response was out of line, that's why I removed it. I think this one is much better.
Good point. We decided to make it available as a (free) cloud service just so we could get hacker feedback as quickly as possible. If we had waited until we had a version that was easy to install, it would have taken us a lot more time. If people like it, the plan is to open source it.
I think your argument is that Zynga, essentially being a video game company like the other three you mentioned, can innovate itself out of the -ville space once people start getting bored out of it. While this is certainly possible, we haven't seen any hint of innovation from Zynga remotely at the level of Blizzard, etc. This makes their long term prospects questionable, and thus I would be wary of their IPO.

I also would be extremely wary of a company that is so reliant on a fickle third party for its very existence. Unless of course all this Zynga exuberance is at the prospect of a Facebook buyout...
Cloudfrag - Game Servers On Demand
Wow, 180k for a 4BR house!? Houses in the poorer suburbs of my city (the poorest capital in Australia) are still $400-500k +. Rent for a 4BR is about 450+ a week.
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Would love to hear more about hummingbird db. Email me at andres@octopart.com. We chose Thrift because the schema was flexible and that was the biggest problem for us at Octopart.
> Also, It lets symbols inside the module call their friends by quux instead of foo_bar_baz_quux.

This is the main point in support of modules: they make you use names just like you are used to in real life. In a given context, shorter names suffice. When more contexts are involved, then you need qualifiers.
ATM fraud has a long and storied history. Kind of a must read for security types since some amount of 'loss' through the ATM network is planned for by the banks. At a surety conference hosted by First Data and SWIFT there was a lively discussion where everyone agreed that the old "tie a chain around it and take it with you" was the most difficult one to guard against. But at least it met the critical criteria of detection.

The serial numbers of every bill that goes into an ATM are recorded, the date they leave the ATM is also recorded, the serial numbers of every bill that enters a bank are recorded and their source. Cash is anonymous but it's life cycle is not.
I certainly hope people do not mistake anonymous forum posts from unknown people, who make no attempt to claim or establish credentials, for legal advice.

Seems like I said that doing legal things such as filing lawsuits is legal, and companies often use threats of lawsuits or lawsuits to attempt to influence the behavior of other parties. Can you point out where I've gone wrong?

It appears to me that the only unusual element in the entire plan is several companies choosing to file papers against the IP troll on the same day. The article says "fight the trolls in court, but a bunch of us should agree to do it at once". You're asking me, how would 50 different judges in different jurisdictions see this... is there some reason they would care or notice?
RIP, Mr. West. I read the Kidder book in high-school, and it was definitely a factor that motivated me to get involved with computers and this industry. Feeling a tinge of nostalgia, I went back and re-read it a few months ago... and found that it stands the test of time well. It's a very interesting read, even if the technology has moved on considerably since the Data General days. And I still wish I'd had the chance to meet Tom West, but sadly, 'twas not to be.
Haha! Interesting story! I would definitely be amazed if I were to use a pen for 20 years.
Factual post on local data - A Billion Points of Local
Do you have a date to reveal the date to reveal pricing?