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I used SOLR for a site about a year ago, and I was absolutely shocked at how little documentation there was, and how low quality the existing documentation was. Everything was spread out over some awfully-maintained wiki that seemed to have no logical organization. Ugh, what a nightmare.
Previous discussion (on the initial proposal by shahedkhan30) at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311

There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm about the idea there - a mixture of discussion about the "build it first, then see if anyone is interested" mentality and people wondering what benefit it would provide. I'm sure it could work - a forum would make the "who is hiring" threads much, much easier, as they could be pinned so that they wouldn't vanish - I'm just not sure how easy it would be to get enough users to migrate, or use it in parallel to HN (which seems more likely). Sorry if I'm being too pessimistic.

EDIT: It is definitely worth noting that the discussions was very low profile. It didn't hit the front page, and it fell off the front page of /ask really quickly. We haven't actually seen the opinion of the community as a whole, just that of a few people who happened to be around when the discussion was happening. So it's totally possible that there are enough people who would be enthusiastic about the idea to build up enough of a community and make it work.

A side-note: the email field in your profile isn't public, and when you're soliciting inquiries it might be useful to have an email visible in the "about" area, which is publicly viewable.
+1, I care about my writing utensil a lot.

I'm a big fan of the Pilot G-Tec-C 0.4mm (also known as the Hi-Tec-C if you buy from Japan). I don't think I can ever go back to another pen. I'm still in search for the perfect notebook, my next candidate is a notebook from a Crumpler store in Amsterdam--as soon as I'm done the last few pages of my Moleskine sketchbook whose pages are far too yellow.
I think their current efforts are nothing to scoff at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
I second that. Gems are great and even though this whole rdoc, ri stuff is slow to build it is certainly not the dealbreaker in rubyland. When someone spends too much time with something like rubygems they tend to overestimate the importance of this or that feature. The importance of rubygems still working on the otherhand cannot be overestimated. When I try to get a company to accept ruby in lieu of PHP the last thing I need is installation upgrade nightmares with the sysadmin there because I can't figure out how to bring his server to run some library I use.
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"Apple's usual ways is beating down the little guy."

Some sort of cognitive bias is probably at play here since Apple engineers are generally not allowed to publicly comment on most of their work while Arl-- the people who get screwed over by Apple tend to be more vocal.
Ask HN: On H1B right now, can I be a co-founder?
A friend and I have been working on an exciting software project for a few months now. He's a US citizen and I myself am staying in the US on a H1B while working for a big software company. We would like to incorporate, but I'm really not sure about what that means for me from a legal standpoint.

Would I be breaking any laws if I were to be the co-founder?
What happens once we receive any kind of investment, can I pay myself anything? Supposedly you can't have a "salary" unless you have a H1b, so can I get myself a H1B sponsored by my own company?
Is having equity against my H1B in the first place?
Can I even "work" for this corporation or do I have to use some kind of loophole?

And yes, I went to talk to an immigration lawyer already about this and he basically asked for an extra couple of grand out of me just so he could spend time researching this question, and even then he said he couldn't guarantee to find an answer and might require additional cash :|
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Holy Crap! Yes, these guys have done it now.

Goodbye anonymous internet - as we know it today.

As much as I love freedom of speech and 'David' taking on 'Goliath' as the next guy, this is seriously bordering on Terrorism. This seems so unprovoked.

All this is doing is challenging the government to regulate the internet. This does nobody any good.

Now it seems Anon has gone too far, and has crossed over into 'psycho' territory. Once you start attacking the state, there is no coming back from that.

I am sorry, but this isn't a war that Anonymous can win.
Wow, thanks for posting this.

I was equally inspired during undergrad and grad school by Feynman's "unusual tools", and ended up checking out a copy of Advanced Calculus by Woods which was apparently the book he used to learn calculus in high school. If I recall correctly, Woods goes over integration by both differentiation and integration under the integral sign, including some interesting ways to set boundary conditions to get the answer you want. It's a nice book if you ever get the chance.
Pattern matching is the process of defining multiple functions with the same number of arguments, where the arguments decide which function to execute.

E.g.:
foo(0) -> 1;
foo(n) -> foo(n) * foo(n-1).

calls to foo(0) would execute the first function, while all other calls would execute the 2nd. Note that it is often necessary to define the functions in order of most specific first.

A similar concept in Erlang is guards, where an expression can be evaluated instead of simple pattern matching.

foo(n) where n == 0 -> 1;
foo(n) -> foo(n) * foo(n-1).

Might have screwed up on the Erlang notation in that example though.
I wasn't quite sure about my memory of it when I wrote it, thanks for the correction. That's still not clang though.
No, he got it right. His point was that Groupons customers are merchants, and they have been screwing their customers. Excluding the first sentence, your point completely validates what he was trying to say.
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I think what people are referring to is what is about to happen, not what has already happenend. The Ponzi aspect unfolds when the unwashed masses listen to the talking heads and invest half their savings in Groupon, and get taken to the cleaners.
How many more of these 'Groupon is a Ponzi' articles are we going to see before the trend dies down ?
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Full Disclosure: I work with myGengo.

We offer machine translations for free, but also offer human translations for (IMO) pretty good rates, and they can all be gotten from the API. I assume the parent comment (of the parent comment of this comment... yeah) was speculating on how we were planning to deal with Google ever deprecating their machine translation. :)

tl;dr I don't believe we were ever too worried, as we're certainly no slouches in the tech department ourselves. Initial shock was there though, definitely a "wtf" moment.
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Manufactured by Bandai, no doubt.
Just an interesting note, from implementation perspective, random projection is used for both cases (LSH or CS).
> This seems so unprovoked.

Constant citizens' surveillance and infringing of their rights by "righteous" Governments is also unprovoked.
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Put another way;

If the student still can't remember that basic C programs usually start with

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Or what

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Very interesting, especially considered how many societal changes these countries have gone through post-WWI. I wonder if similar results could be drawn about the Roman Empire, for instance?
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Yes, you would be breaking a law if you are a co-founder of a US company while on H1-B.

>The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H). It allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa

Many people get this mixed up. Non-immigrant visas mean you can only do what your visa specifies that you can do.

A student visa is a non-immigrant studying visa. You can only study.

H1-B visa is a non-immigrant specialty work permit visa. i.e. you are working within your area of study, for a pre-approved company that has sponsored you your visa.

It's probably not the answer you want to hear, but I spent a lot of time researching it and speaking to multiple attorneys while I was trying to do the same thing. I eventually decided to return home, for a number of reasons.

That being said, I have friends that have done it and not gotten detected, but that's a fool's errand. You are risking the company if you do that.
That is surprising to me. I bet you couldn't park a boat 7.1 miles out to sea and sell heroin by the tonne!
I think it depends on the kind of business. I think it is useful to break Groupon deals into a few categories, as well as the number of customers involved in any given deal:

FAST-FOOD DINING
Depending on the number of customers. most, if not all, fast-food restaurants will probably be able to make a profit of a 50% deal. These businesses thrive on large numbers of customers, and their profits scale extremely well. It is also relatively easy to win over new customers if you are more convenient, providing a reasonable opportunity to gain repeat customers (ex: Dominos does a deal and people find it delicious and cheap).

SIT-DOWN DINING
This is a much harder category to map a profit on a Groupon deal. These restaurants have a much more rigid number of customers they can serve on any given night. For a popular restaurant there is to use Groupon as they can already fill the seats and it is not a good value for them. For unpopular restaurants, people will attend but it seems unlikely these will be repeat customers. They are already bargain hunters, and it will be hard to wow these customers enough to return to your restaurant repeatedly.

ONE TIME USE ACTIVITIES
These deals have a similar problem to the sit-down restaurant. These are fun the first time, but repeat visits are much less compelling and it will be challenging to permanently pique the interest of bargain hunters. (ex: Deal on a boat tour)

REPEAT USE ACTIVITIES
Repeat activities seem like a reasonable set market for Groupon. These activities suffer from the same fixed-sized problem, however they stand a reasonable chance of retaining customers. Deals such as training and introductory courses are explicitly designed to attract new customers, and a Groupon top get them in the door seems fairly reasonable.

No matter what activity the Groupon is for, the number of customers who take advantage of the deal is a key component. Economy of scale is true for every business, and the more customers who take advantage of any given deal will directly affect the profit in involved with any given transaction
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I'm particularly interested in classes offered at both spaces as well and was curious how overlapping classes may compare. Please no bias opinions regarding the classes or space.

Ideally I'd like to commit to one of the two spaces as a full time member.
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Yeah, you'll be breaking the law, whether you receive money or not. You cannot do any work for the company. Think of it this way: even if you went out and painted fences for people, you'd be breaking the law. You can't do anything for anyone, aside from volunteering.

I do not know the process for the company to get an H1-B quota, but the likelihood is that it will cost more than you think. If you can't afford the immigration lawyer, you can't afford to play these games with the US government. It's dangerous for both the company and yourself.

You're pretty screwed here (this is the H1-B working by design). What I think I have seen in the past is the immigrant actually leaves the US for their home country, work for the company there, then once its off the ground, you come back.
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Ask HN: YCombinator for Electronics based Start-ups?
As an EE, I was wondering why there is not a wide world for electronics start-ups like there is for software/internet start-ups.

Suppose I want to develop a product called "ipod" and want to start a company named "apple". Where should one start ?

The path is easy for an internet startup (you develop product, find investors, try to make traction..).

There is not a ycombinator for electronics startups. (I am not talking about a health tracker gadget which you can track your heart beats via your iphone, I am talking about startups that really do hardcore electronics like chip designs...)

I also couldn't find many resources for electronicsware startups. Just follow eetimes and spectrum (ieee) websites.

I really want to discuss the reasons here.
The "maximal extent" limits in Balkan states happened only during the wars. Moreover, the population structure in some areas changed significantly after the same wars. I'd be vary of a "discussion paper" that doesn't consider these nuances when sampling. Then how much of the discussion paper uses scientific method properly and how much of it just matches the agenda? I don't know, the discussion paper is behind the paywall.
Given that Anonymous are widely (but not exclusively) after fame, I wouldn't be that quick to attribute this act to them even though there are large similarities.

In all honesty, all this is doing is challenging people who elect governments to regulate them. This now proven; government are not just bordering terrorism, they are engaging in terrorist acts through contracting fake security firms (which are then easy to point at when uncovered). THIS does nobody any good.
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In India to succeed as an entrepreneur you need either Caste or Cash.

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Demonstrates humility on Apple's part.
A couple are pretty far out there, but sometimes those are the most plausible as Apple announces "crazy" things now and then.

> iOS runtime within Mac OS to allow iPhone apps to run as Dashboard widgets and iPad apps as first-class desktop apps.

This one will never happen. Like Flash on touch devices iOS apps on a desktop or notebook makes little sense. No gyro, compass, gps, accelerometer.

Of course now that I said never Apple will announce a new line of super touch-enabled gyroscopic accelerometered displays. Shipping in September.

> Realtime, continuous syncing of iOS devices will mean never having to plug your iPhone or iPad in to your computer again, or even the need for a computer for syncing at all.

Better stay next to a wall charger.

Task level integration and continuous media play across devices would be really awesome. Fun list :)
Two more interesting PDFs:

DHS Proposal/Comprehensive Understanding of Malicious Overlay Networks: http://www.2shared.com/document/5tCGtYKK/Lee_DHS1102_TTA6.ht...

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Suppose then I run a lottery, drawing 5 decimal digits. We have a special deal though -- if all 5 digits match, we draw again, up to 3 more times, and award a unique prize to the ticket holder for each result. We always sell precisely 10000 tickets (you don't get to pick your ticket).

Last week, the results were 11111 11111 11111. This week, the results are 48611.

In this case, would you suggest that last week's results convey less information? It does convey overall more facts than this week's results.
I was looking for their revenues for april and may. Their revenues were declined for previous months.

Business Insider didnt report their revenue for april and may. Thus, did you have a chance to scape their past data for may and april ?
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This is because the link is to the mobile version of the site. It's supposed to be read on a handheld.

At the bottom there is a link to the "desktop" version of the article but if you click that you will quickly realize the reason the link goes to the mobile version: the desktop version is too noisy.
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i think hn doesn't need a forum, people cand sicuss here and this is the best place for discussion.
Also a domain+hosting can be bought at very good prices anywhere so why don't you do it yourself?
if the people will like it you might ask for donations but asking for money to open a forum seems very funny to me.

HN is already a place to talk, why we need another?
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Unfortunately we still aren't quite there yet, although just about everything else has been ported to run on javascript:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

And making basic/visual basic on top of javascript is a little challenging since it is case-insensitive and statically typed (later versions).

But I'd especially recommend Scratch from MIT for kids: http://scratch.mit.edu/ Many people are working on ports or similar tools in flash and html5, but none are quite there yet.

Also see the game Light Bot (1 or 2): http://www.silvergames.com/light-bot-2

And for older folks, some nice in browser development sites include http://www.playmycode.com/ (uses a ruby-like language) and http://pixieengine.com/ (uses coffeescript)

And for making websites see kodingen.com or playing with javascript, see jsfiddle or jsdo.it or processingjs.
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The following is a guess, I can't speak for sure the true reasoning if there is one.

I think it's not that incubators and investors aren't willing to invest in hardware development companies but its much easier to:

A] Understand the software business as most investors/incubators probably have strong knowledge on software development than they do hardware development.

B] Prototyping, iterating, and testing software/web/mobile base ideas these days are much more low risk, quick development time, and relatively easy to measure results (rather quicker to test).

C] It's a very expensive risk to back a first time entrepreneur who is unable to prototype out some initial version of their hardware device themselves. Even most kickstarter projects (at least the successful ones I've seen) have managed to go out of their way to model a working prototype on their own.

D] This is probably the most likely answer... majority of the companies applying are very software/web/mobile centric. It's not that YC or other incubators are biased just like how they wish more women would start companies, but the market are mostly people focusing on ideas in the software/web/mobile space.

With that said, I realize it takes a lot more than 1-2 guys to prototype out an iPod, generally speaking. Afterall, Apple probably had a decent size team of experts working on the iPod for 1-2 years before the first product was introduced.

To be fair, there are some hardware base companies that did raise funding without a product but the ones I know of are usually backed by proven entrepreneurs (not saying that yet-to-be-proven entrepreneurs can't). Ooma is an example that comes to mind.

There are hackerspaces that do hardware development but I guess there just isn't as many hardware guys as there are software guys. Not to mention the barrier of entry is probably a lot harder (not just in time and cost but also in picking up hardware knowledge vs learning to program). From talking to my friend who graduated as an EE major, most hardware projects are very specialize and require multiple people to work on to produce where as software can be done with 1 guy building the prototype in most cases.