skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your about page and it looks like you would be privy to such a solution but I still think people really value branding, deliverables and personal training because of risk-aversion. If the idea is so simple, that's perfect. You could decorate it a bit and sell your support. Your experience selling balloons is probably much deeper than two sentence that share why type to sell and which businesses to sell to. And I'm sure you can think of a number of conveniences and types of support you would have valued in the beginning. And you don't have to share your secret upfront. You could probably get a down payment higher than $10 and then share.

Just because you wouldn't take the franchise or quasi employment opportunity (you've been doing small businesses since college!) doesn't mean the vast majority of people are like that.
i use notepad++ with Consolas under the zenburn theme, for clarity its the best, especially with long coding days
Hmmm, highest correlation with "ibm" is "patent office". This tool is ripe for weird meme and joke generation.
You stated that a project would look like perfectly valid employment experience. IMO that's a ruse.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't get involved in projects, just that they shouldn't attempt to make a project look like employment if it isn't.
But it's because of those lofty ideas that we have so many great things now. Just because someone does not posses the knowledge of his/her peers regarding a certain field, does not necessarily make them unqualified to work in that field. On the contrary, they are not as bound by all the previous work done in the field, and they may very well come up with something ingenious.
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Has anyone written any Clojure for Android so far as anyone knows?
Ask HN:  What's the first website you read everyday?
Other than the obvious: HN, email, your own website(s).

I'm curious to see where other like-minded people go online first thing everyday and why. A news site? Twitter? Google Reader? Reddit?
Now seems to be a good time to remember...

"correlation is not causation"
I do all my programming in Source Insight and it lets you switch between monospaced and proportional fonts with a keystroke. I find it easier to read code in proportional mode but find editing is best done in monospace mode.

I don't want to start an editor war but Source Insight is the best editor I've ever used and that includes Emacs and Vim. Yes I said it :-)
My Google Reader stream. So I can get everything in one place.
Interesting to go to Winter example then shift the lag-time (lefthand side). If you shift it 2 months, you get summer internships. If you shift it 4 months, you get summer camps. Five months, you get baseball. Eight months, you get spiders fleas and fire ants.
There is not much detail there about how the feature will actually be implemented but here are two scenarios:

You see that a friend with a similar taste in music to you listens to song you don’t know so you click to listen in. That would be useful. This integration also could allow your friends to play music for you. (“Hey, listen to this cool song I discovered!”) I find myself sharing links to songs (mostly some video on some video platform) all the time when chatting with friends, so maybe this will be an easier way to do that.

Whether or not this is actually useful depends in my opinion mostly on the UI and how easy to use it is. If it is more tedious than googling for the song and listening to it that way it won’t work.
I tried both Mirah and Scala and I'm sticking with Java for the IDE integration.
Awesome! Glad to see I'm not the only one who still finds Google Reader useful.
It's not easy to broadcast to mars. They use the deep space network of satellite dishes for that. I doubt it's something an amateur can do. The frequency is the X band, but I couldn't find info on the protocol.

Also Opportunity is still active and they use the same protocol, and they probably won't want you messing with that :)
I agree with the permit restrictions in San Francisco. Without it, you would have monopolies dominated by big business and the rich, which hurts minorities from having their own taxi services. Uber is a clear example of the rich trying to take over business from minorities and people who need money most.
Nokia talks Windows Phone
A request to cloud providers: Give us access to the logs, please?
Hah, he best hope that this on-the-record comment isn't taken in court as a tacit acceptance of guilt/culpability/whatever.

IANAL, but isn't this the kind of offhand comment that frequently comes back to haunt people? I guess its very dependent on which country you're in.
Yes. It's a curse.
My desktop's monitor is about 100 dpi and it looks fine. I have a laptop with a 125dpi screen and a netbook with a 150dpi screen, and it looks fine there, too.

Just tried it under a Debian chroot on my phone (N900) and it was tiny but very readable on the 250DPI screen as well.

As this is entirely subjective, the answer for some people might be that it's unusable above 75dpi, while for me it's fine up to >3x that.
I actually made a flash game a while back that lets you iterate this much faster. ( http://spu.co/get-to-philosophy ) But in fact it often ends up at Science much more than it does Philosophy. The trick is what things to exclude, what links don't count as the "first link". Changing that parameter radically changes what page you ultimately end up on. To answer your question as to why it works, you should check out wikipedia's own page about the subject -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_to_Philosophy
Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no.
It seems like he was wrong, from this letter.

"Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody".

Also worth reading the next few sentences:

" Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
Place holder as its blocked from work.

Can you provide more details about TinyFund?

Thanks
Weather, followed by my email....
Which coincides with Europe, who also has 150 million Facebook users according to the same wiki.
Every once in a while, signing into Twitter I get redirected to 'twitter.com/sessions' and instead of it handling my log in, it's an actual Twitter account which is inactive. Pretty odd. I think they finally fixed it...
The Science Behind the Need to Stand - Results of Take-a-Stand Project
Twitter's European boss warns users may face court
Hustling for Seed Money
Bacteria as the agent for forming ice
Thank goodness for that, I shudder each time I hear of someone using a Mac or Linux antivirus program! Not because viruses are so terrible, more that the antiviruses are.

My main concern is how long Linux and Mac users (e.g. myself) can continue to be considered comfortably immune to such threats. I'm glad to hear you think things will be safe for the Mac for years to come, esp. since that would mean desktop Linux should be safe for a long time.
There is a tremendous gap between the rich and the poor. Clearly, something needs to be done. Raising prices will help these tax drivers who are paid 100x less than the typical Silcon Valley CEO. San Francisco is clearly doing the right thing by intervening before costs of living gets out of hand for their taxi drivers.
So Your 4-Hour Workweek Plan Failed...
Ok, this is an interesting twist. Bacteria that cause ice nucleation resulting in snow and hail. It also makes you wonder if we should add a disinfectant to the deicing sprays for aircraft.
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Any body have experience using Dolphin?
This article seriously tries to cast doubt on CDN usage by poorly quantifying the performance of a couple services that don't even deserve the title "CDN". The saddest part is that these services not only are poor performing, but are even much more expensive than established services like Akamai (seriously, talk to them: they are much cheaper than what CloudFront users seem to believe).
Maybe I misunderstood the post, but I believe that you can't fake internet access permission. The way I read it is that the data you were supposed to be able to fake was stuff like phone serial number.

As for the "piracy" argument, the line is, as always, blurry. I guess that I could agree to calling it "piracy" if your app somehow verifies whether you have access to a resource on a server and shuts down if you don't, thus preventing me from using your app if I don't "pay" by displaying ads. The fact that I dislike that practice doesn't mean that circumventing it should not be called piracy.
I've heard that folks have done it (more than a year ago) but, apparently, the runtime takes a while to load and that makes the app practically unusable.
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Same experience. They always back down. I would never in a million years offer to ride to a nearby ATM. They can do card-not-present auth with their dispatchers even if "their machine is broken".
If I'm running a few web apps, how does a "Business Intelligence Suite" help me? What can I do with it?
I was part of that trap. My parents wouldn't or couldn't help me and they made too much for me to get financial financial aid.
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My wife is seeing this now. I commented (under my old nick) on her great experience and inability to get a job here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725852

At the time I thought it was due to her not being a US citizen and others in the thread thought that perhaps it was due to location (Toledo/Detroit area which is suffering).

We've since relocated to the SF Bay area and she is still not getting any calls despite having fantastic IT experience. At this point I can only attribute the lack of interest to the fact that she is unemployed and/or that she hasn't worked in 5 years due to marrying me, moving from Spain and the time it takes to get a visa/work permit.

EDIT: Technically she worked for one year in Toledo at a Kohl's dept. store unloading trucks and folding clothes. This is soul-crushing for someone who was at a Director level position in IT, but she is the kind of person who will do whatever is necessary.
This cartel appears to be the product of a joint effort between the taxi corporations and the drivers union. I don't hear the cab firms arguing for greater competition or an increase in the number of taxis either.
Not even remotely. Photoshop has a well defined sticker price. It is well established (at this point) that in order to get a legitimate copy of Photoshop, you have to pay said sticker price.

There are no EULA agreements that people agree to when downloading free apps.

Furthermore, when an app is 'ad-supported' it is not clear at all what agreement you have implicitly engaged in. Have you agreed to allow ads to collect data that you enter into the app itself? Is the author only receiving funds if you click on the ads? Are you morally obligated to click on the ads then? If not, how is my decision to never click on ads any different than blocking them outright? How much data from the app to the marketers is being collected? If I plan a trip with your app, are sponsoring companies receiving this information as well? Are ads simply keyword identified or are they using a profile?

Without transparency about how the ads provide funding (which actually violates Google ad words TOS) I don't see how this is a simple black and white situation. I believe most people operate on the assumption that the ads are "you click, I get paid". As a result, most people view ad supported applications as a variation of donationware. If you don't want donations to be optional, don't use this method.
Show HN: ShoutFast Spontaneous event creation app.
There was a post on here a while back about spontaneous event creation, something we've been working on for a while, so we hustled to complete our app. Please take a look and let us know what you think - any and all feedback is really appreciated! There is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but we think ShoutFast can be really useful once it reaches more users. It's really meant for iPhone / Android, so you'll get the best experience on there.
It was meant as a joke. I know there's a huge market out there for cats that look funny. (LOLcats is worth 30M).
Yeah, that always gets to me, for some reason. "You expect me to demonstrate loyalty to you when your corporation is not willing to demonstrate the same loyalty to me? Yeah, right."

Of course, what I actually say is, "I really enjoyed my time at BigCo, and I learned a lot there, but I'm looking to broaden and deepen my skills. Your job, because of <differences x, y, and z> seems like it'd be a good fit for that."
Hey, just to throw ourselves in the ring: We're Chart.io, a Y Combinator company. Our product is "Google Analytics for databases" and we've basically stripped out a lot of the complexity of BI (and a lot of the cost :)

We're in private beta now, so email me at dbeyer at chart dot io if you'd like to give it a shot.
This is one of the very, very few enlightened comments that I've seen on the issue.
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Great article. I was very worried at the beginning, because honest feedback is incredibly important. But I agree with most of the conclusions - attacking an idea directly is the worst way you can go about helping an entrepreneur.

I know that these days, when I hear someone pitch an idea, what I do is this:

1. Try to figure out an MVP to get out of it.

2. Convince the entrepreneur that an MVP is the right way to go (depending on the person/idea, this may be tricky).

3. Talk about how to get the MVP made the most cheaply. If the entire idea can be tested by throwing up a quick WordPress-powered website, get them to do it.

I will tell people what I generally like about the idea, but the truth is, after so many failures of my own (failed startups and failed predictions), I really don't think I can wholly trust my intuition about what ideas are good. And I'm pretty sure I'm not unique in that. But those other ideas, about MVPs and customer development, etc, are things that I've just learned from my time in the "business", so it's the best knowledge to impart.
I was in the Entrepreneurs Organization (http://www.eonetwork.org/) for a few years, and the organization had a required protocol for advice sharing called 'Gestault Protocol', loosely derived from principles in Gestault Therapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy#Overview). Effectively, the protocol prohibited you from sharing opinions as advice, and forced the sharing of specific experiences through personal stories.

This protocol becomes very useful in situations where other people have been down the same road as you - things like business processes, development processes, hiring, dealing with employees, raising money, investing money, etc. However, it also provides a nice boundary for giving advice - only share experiences, never share opinions. So, when I'm asked for advice, I listen careful, and try to see if I have any relevant experiences to share, or I try to think of who might be better suited to share experiences.

Further, when I am asking for advice, and someone lends an opinion that seems interesting, I ask pointed questions about this persons experience to determine how I will weight the input, and whether the experience indeed does apply to my situation. So overall, I've found experience sharing to be a relevant boundary for giving and receiving advice.
I think the issue with Clojure is that it does runtime bytecode rewriting for macros, so to get the whole language working on android they had to bundle the dalvik translator as well.
Oh, but think of the poor, struggling entrepreneurs — working night and day to get their next round of venture funding!
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The flat fee game the OP describes is pretty much standard operating procedure even for big consulting companies like IBM and Accenture. First they agree to a flat fee (sometimes after a bit of requirements exploration) that cuts their margin for error fairly close. Then, after the work has gone down the road a bit, they bury the client under a blizzard of change requests for every last detail that wasn't documented in the initial requirements. The change requests are where the real money is made for consulting companies, especially if they're getting their employees to work unpaid overtime to fulfill the extra requirements.
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Ease of use, ease of use, ease of use.
That's precisely the crux of the problem. Is your app marketed as "free"? If it is, how can I pirate it?

It's not that I consider the word itself a troll-bait, but the misuse of it. Like other commenters already noted, there are other terms that apply to what you're complaining about. Claiming that people are "pirating" an ad-supported application seems to me like a misuse of an already widely-misused word.

On the other hand, if you're arguing that ad-supported applications should not be considered or labeled or marketed as "free", then all I can say is that dragging piracy into the discussion is not the way to support that argument. The flaw, in this case, would be in confusing the cause with effect, just like saying "It's not free because you're stealing it!"
Doing a popular movie name gets other things related to that movie with shift=0, and other popular movies (or other things that spike like them) with shifting. Movie names were just the first very "spiky" thing I thought of to use as a filter like that, there might be something else better (short of loading a spike time series, of course).
Why should they be forced to subsidize your credit card fees? Do you understand that they are barely surviving living in a high cost area such as San Francisco? The city shouldn't be a place where only the rich tech billionaires can live. They're forced to save costs anyway they can because of the large income gap that they're suffering. Capitalism has stolen from the poor and elevated the rich. It's classic 21st century colonialism.
As someone who occasionally has to order cabs from unusual and hard-to-describe-over-the-phone places, ordering with GPS would be a bloody godsend.

Most of the people on the end of taxi numbers dont even seem to have a map in front of them. If you can't give them a street address, they don't seem to comprehend that you're describing a real place, on the same planet as they are. The drivers naturally know where everything is instantly, the issue is persuading the phone operator to relay your directions to them.
I'm in Chicago as well, and I've had drivers give me a 'free' ride when I try to pay with a card. It's only happened a couple times, but both times they were quick trips less than $5. When I pulled my card out they would have some choice words telling me to get out of the cab...
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Hey there, I'm one of the Co-founders of Nestio. Two versions was certainly a consideration for us, and as you point out certainly not the most difficult thing in the world to implement in the code. However, that code produces two binaries that essentially double the time then needed to QA, distribute to our beta-testers, maintain and submit the app. Given that we have a pretty small team actually gets to a pretty significant time suck.

Regardless, that additional work definitely could have the potential to be worth it if users typically tried out the free-app and then followed and upgrade path to the paid app. But after gathering some data from devs who have gone the two-app route, it looks like generally they don't. People who download the free app stick with the free app forever, whereas when you only have paid, a portion of the folks who would have downloaded the free app, are willing to pay when that's the only option.
Mirah is what finally got me started with Android development. Coming from a Ruby background there's practically zero learning curve, plus you can install it from RubyGems (which when using RVM makes it dead-simple).

That being said, for my first application I decided to do it in plain old Java - since I had never worked with Java, I imagined that a rudimentary understanding of its workings would help me down the road in debugging issues that might arise when working with Mirah (somewhat like knowing JavaScript before working with CoffeeScript).

There's even a tool for writing Mirah for Android called Pindah https://github.com/mirah/pindah/ .

All in all, it's quite a nice package.
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What's even easier and more feature rich (ok I might be biased) is my approach: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535463

It requires a free indextank.com account, my Jekyll plugin and a few lines of JavaScript.
Why not? Look at what kind of projects he was doing and you know exactly what kind of person he is. You are what you do.
How do non-english speaking people code?
For ex. how does a chinese person who doesn't know english write javascript?
>>an upgradable free app

>It's a bit more complex than a simple #ifdef.

Yes, I know in app purchase is more complex than a simple ifdef. However the secondary version (the fully paid version with no in-app purchase) is just an ifdef from the in-app upgradeable one. You take out the ads and in-app registration code and voila, fully paid app.

(I know, I wrote said ifdef in an optionally upgradable app this week for a client).
Laws making it illegal to discriminate like this would also help the people who are currently unemployed.
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Your question is leading though. "Watching" heavily implies television. Being at the stadium involves much more than merely watching the game. I don't know of anyone who uses the verb watch in reference to actually going to an event.
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There is another issue which generally gets swept under the rug--the liabilities to both parties related to disclosures of Intellectual Property. Non-disclosure agreements don't really work, particularly if both parties are actively working in the same area of technology. There is always the potential that one or another of the parties may (inadvertently) insert IP owned by a third-party. Even casual IP disclosures can pollute an employee and prevent them from working in a particular area because they are tainted. Given the problems and liabilities, it is amazing that any business ever gets done.
Take a look at this: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm

Who's going to get a competitive advantage by hiring the 5 million people with a HS diploma or less?

Edge case whizzes are not effected by this. Anecdotally, yes, but in practice it's those without economically valuable skills. Two hands and a strong back ain't what they used to be.
<quote> Also, but "this" I mean simply accepting that will power is limited and learning to focus it on the things you truly want out of life instead of the things you tell yourself that you want. </quote>

Spot on