skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a way to do this fairly is to maintain a spreadsheet where each week everyone marks off how much effort they've put in and effectivley gets newly issued shares for this effort (diluting all existing shares in the process). Probably the best measure of effort is time spent, though that is not perfect. Maybe you can have bonuses for great work, or agreeing someone's time is more valuable and issuing shares at a higher rate. You adjust the [effort]:[shares issued] ratio from time to time based valuation (which to start with doesn't need to be explicitly known, it's all relative). I never see this method discussed. Am I missing some major downside to this approach? Of course you wouldn't issue real shares that frequently - it's just done on aspreadsheet. Good for early idea stage where you probably don't even have a company set up yet.

edit: minor edit for correctness.
I answered your questions, but I think you should probably change your questions. You guys have very specific assumptions of what a "project" is (when does a project begin and end? What if I consider an API integration a project in itself?) without making that explicit, so the answers you get are going to diverge wildly because of that ambiguity.
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This is fascinating. How does the DRM work?
"Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen."

I don't think it's going to matter. Google is putting a lot of work into 'promoting' the browser frame to the whole screen.
Well, I'm not going to use iCloud, and I'm sure I'm not alone, so probably none of them.
There will always be a switching cost, even just remembering a new URL.

Surely companies do things to make the switching cost higher. Like as you said, locking ebooks to a particular device.

But creating a service or feature that is only on your platform just means you're doing something no one else is doing; making you more attractive to consumers (and creating a higher switching cost).
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Yes, somebody is going to make a lot of money. But Groupon? I don't think so. Merchants get burnt. Users get spammed. How many users stick with it for more than a couple of weeks?
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Do you have a source for this? The blogging community seems to disagree with you...
So it seems that Reading List does not support offline reading. For me that is the main reason to use Instapaper. I save a lot of stuff and then read it when I am for example on a flight without Wi-Fi.

There is your added value.
Source please.

I don't remember this, but it may have been in some fine print I missed.
This is exactly what I thought. An amazingly cheap way to launder pirated music. Not that it really changes the legality...
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Bah. You don't know it's a Ponzi scheme until it collapses. Of course it sounds plausible. They all do. Just a little too good to be true.
In theory this is restrictive and bad, but when every platform you want to use is Apple's it's a different story.

When Apple stops making what I consider to be the best computers, the best phones, the best tablets, and the best way to monetize my coding skills, then I'll probably be just as upset as all of the "openness" advocates.
Our securid's from RSA were replaced weeks ago in mass. I work for a well known large company, is it just the news is late?
I just couldn't get past having different operators for floating point and integer arithmetic. So O'Caml never passed go, for me. Imagine a mathematical system in O'Caml with polynomials, matrices and many other mathematical objects that you want to multiply. It'd be a zoo. At least Scala allows operator overloading!
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Didn't we know this when the breach originally occured? Or after there was a major break in?

Oh, it's "official" now. Good thing they were responsible about it.
It's a bigger deal they didn't replace the devices when they found out.

I was surprised to find out that a large number of tokens were still in use. I think some of the problem may be with a few large organizations that simply didn't have the logistics in place to replace their tokens quickly.

Two organizations that I'm familiar with had each replaced their thousands of tokens by early May.
Factors to consider would be how do you market your product and how markets are defined.

Consumer end - we are the leaders in tablets
Judicial end - we represent a very small percentage or personal computers which can come in tablet form
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Thanks @swombat for iterating this point. I am 30 founding my first startup. Reading some of the articles I do sometimes wonder, if I am late in starting(though I know clearly in my head that its just right time).

To me it is all the more important that I started now than later and I can't think of going back to a cozy (lazy?) job again. :)
> It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users.

No, it is a win for iOS users who deal with /any/ other iOS users. I would imagine that's most of them.
This is probably what the plugin is for. It wasn't clear to me whether this is a normal Chrome extension, or a "full" plugin on the order of Flash or Java. In either case, it's likely not pure W3C HTML/JS.
According to the byline, this article was posted well over a month ago. While it might still happen, it would be really hard to pin a time frame on it, considering that Google I/O has come and passed.

Still would be looking forward to this though.
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Hi,

In PG's essay on reasons startups fail (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html)
he mentions in #10 that "...[servicing] People interested in local events...is a perennial tarpit."

I'd like to understand people's thoughts on why. Is the space too crowded? Are the typical solutions simply bad or not specific enough?

Thanks for your thoughts!
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This sounds reasonable. I had previously thought that only John Gruber belonged to that group. Is there anybody else you would categorize with him? I'm interested to see how other people write about Apple products.
Time Machine has always done deltas (unless I have no idea what you're talking about?)
Yes the Lockheed Martin thing happened last month, it's just taken this long for RSA to publicly admit that it has a serious problem.
"Lucky"?? This is why I'm glad I'm not an iOS app developer.

So the app with the "volume button as camera" feature was rejected, then within a year Apple turned around and implemented the same feature themselves.

Even if they didn't directly steal the idea, it seems like a pretty slimy tactic to me.

EDIT: Re-read the original rejection of the Camera+ feature here: http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-volumesnap-rejected/
Travel to a 3rd world country - Africa, Remote rural parts of india.

With all your resources - what can you do for these people.

You seem to have enough money - you need something with deeper meaning.
My thoughts exactly. How will they make HTML5 DRM friendly? I thought it was designed to be an open vehicle...
The service is intended to turn ripped songs from already purchased CDs. It doesn't magically turn illegally downloaded music to legal ownership even if Apple's service can't/won't enforce the difference. It's still gray.

The bottom line: No one cares about music any more. It's worth less than $25/year.
I saw that too, since my pronoun 'it' would be inferred to refer back to the noun 'number theory.' Since when I wrote that note I was thinking 'it' referred back to the analysis of Kaprekar numbers, which I didn't think taught much (but see my note about the process being useful in other pursuits). That was why I went back and edited it to illustrate the 'it' I was referring to. Anyway, packets on the far side of the firewall and all that.
Happened last month. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/rsa-hacked-data-exposed-t...
Lockheed Martin Breach
http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking/lockheed-hack-should-put-...
(This happened a few weeks ago)
I remember hearing it earlier.
exactly, I'm paying a lot for working two-factor authentication. If the algorithm generating one factor is known by hackers, and I simply have 2 passwords which the user could have written down somewhere or picked the most obvious or gotten keylogged, then what am I paying for?
It seems I'm the product guy here since everyone emails me when they have a question about manufacturing, producing, or designing, here are my thoughts. If the software works putting it into production isn't that hard.

Few tips/ideas, you need to add bulk to the bot because it looks and is flimsy. Go against your instinct for "thin", people will be interacting with it you want to use an anthropomorphic design. But you do want it to be able to go eye level or close to it. Also at first target a specific area: medical, manufacturing, office, and design to those specs.

Pro Tip: Think about mass production from day one, it will really save on the headaches, go as far as finding the type of manufacturer you are going to use and select the parts based on those criteria. Make EVERYTHING modular to make repairs and upgrades really easy, most engineers don't design this way because it's hard, but it makes everyone's life easier in the the long run, ie think total life cycle.

If you have questions or would like me to elaborate I'd be glad to answer them here or via email.

As always my guide: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896 (should I update and expand on this?)

EDIT: Added guide
Which makes me realize that I haven't seen any Twitter clients allowing you to filter out tweets by app. The info is provided through the API, so it'd be pretty easy to do.

(NB: I haven't tried a whole lot of client so that might be out there, it's at least not very common)

Second thought on the subject: what identifier will tweets from iOS have? It sounds like iOS will have Twitter at the OS level, so it's likely that it will be the same client ID/name for all tweets regardless of if they're coming from Safari, the Photo app or anything else. In fact, the keynote made it look like you needed the official Twitter iOS app, so it's likely to be that app ID/name.
It's a natural progression. Applications that add useful features to a platform get assimilated in the platform. The only news is it's happening rather more quickly than in the past. Apple is looking quite nimble.
I'm 29 and my cofounder is in his 40's. We've been at this project for a few years and it's clear that the only thing that matters is whether we're willing to hussle.

I have no intention of slowing down my entrepreneurialism at any age.
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That is pretty ugly. Really as much as I like the current generation of FP languages I think we still have a ways to go before we have a serious contender for a mainstream language.
Netflix has already used HTML 5 for the movie browsing interface on the PS3 (with a custom webkit build IIRC). I highly doubt that they are using <video>, they wouldn't stream the video without some kind of DRM. Unless perhaps the plugin allows use of <video> with DRM content. My guess is that the plugin handles all of the video playback with some kind of <object>.
Hey all, just wanted to give you a heads up. There are three of us working on this, I'm on the west coast, sick as a dog, and highly medicated, and the other two are on the east coast and already asleep. We'll reply to you all, but realistically it'll be in the morning!

Thanks for helping out!
"iCloud" seems to be an obvious name to those that have been paying attention to the current state of technology, but if you think about it for a second, it's actually pretty genius. Taking the name "iCloud", as opposed to "iSync" or something else that more clearly and directly describes the service, is a masterstroke.

Why? Because up until now, "cloud" has been a vague term whose value is extremely difficult to explain to consumers (trying to explain that gmail or Skydrive or Facebook are all kinda-sorta "cloud" in a few different ways will just get you "oh, so it's just the internet!"). By tying it to a clearly-defined product or service that has real value for regular people, Apple now owns the term "cloud" as used in general discourse.

It's like how in the 2002-2003 timeframe, every non-Apple MP3 player was "a different-looking iPod", but this is in reverse. Every mention of "cloud" or "cloud computing" will evoke "oh yeah, you can get your phone pictures on your PC without hooking it up!". They've given a buzzword-bingo term a real definition that a lot of people can relate to.

Contrast with Microsoft's "...to the cloud!", a desperate attempt to get back into the consumer space that shows just how firmly they are trapped by enterprise thinking. It'll make your kids smile! It can edit photos! It will give you movies to watch when you're bored! Even the masses won't fall for something that vague - they need clearly defined products. "To the cloud" reminds me of the first couple years of "the .NET initiative": wind and stars that would do everything from control your house to drive your car and make the world happy again.

As someone interested in technology, I despise that Apple has further conflated an already massively overloaded term, but I have to give them recognition for their marketing skills. I can't wait to see how much more difficult it's going to get to explain "cloud computing" to a CIO who has spent the last week enamored that cloud computing means that he can get his music on his iPhone and his Mac.
>The service is intended to turn ripped songs from already purchased CDs.

Apple didn't pay $150,000,000 a pop to the major labels to allow you to play music you legally acquired.

>It doesn't magically turn illegally downloaded music to legal ownership

Step 1) Purchase an iTunes Match subscription
Step 2) Convert MP3s to iTunes matched AACs
Step 3) Delete MP3s

stare in amazement at this magic before you
It's logistics, and also RSA to their eternal discredit did not recommend or pay for replacement. Those aren't cheap (like $50 apiece). If you're a CTO with 1000 users and rudimentary security knowledge, are you going to spend $50,000 and a bunch of time tracking down every single user (who will think it's all a terrible bore) and replace their token, if the company you rely on to keep you secure doesn't say it's necessary? I give credit to the people who didn't screw around, and switched vendors.
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Statistically yes, but in actuality no. What I mean by that is that when you compile a group of people the overriding factors will point to youth because of the risk a young person is willing to take on. Also, if you don't have the entrepreneurial mindset early on you're probably never going to develop it.

If you read the tech press you're also going to encounter the fact that most of what's popularized are barely profitable consumer startups with venture funding.

If you start 'late' you're going to find niches that kids out of school will never know even exist, and you'll have the financial base to do it with out having to give up any equity.

Outliers are popularized in the press because they make a great story, reality doesn't make a great story so you won't see it printed.
The Data Liberation project is at least a token attempt to ward off accusations of Google lock-in:

http://www.dataliberation.org/
It makes no difference whether the response content type is in the URI as a path segment or as an "extension"; both are wrong from a pure ReST perspective.
You have to just dive in and change something and then build/run it.

Ie you have an expectation, that if you change A then A' will happen.

Make the change, build and test it. If A' does happen then make a bigger change B with the expectation that B' will happen.

Again build and test this. Soon you'll find that either B', C' or D' doesnt happen and then you'll have to debug it.

This is the quickest and fastest way to really learn the codebase IMHO.

Passively looking at files is not going to help. And its just a big waste of time.

Now doing this will be painful but its better to go through the pain now rather than when you have a customer breathing down your neck for a fix.
Interesting read. Falls into what I feel is a mindset mastery. Some individuals are just good at some things for whatever reason. As an example the best software testers I know have an almost instinctive ability to find obscure bugs.

No idea what can get you to land in this zone (training or otherwise) but if you do fall in one you tend to be very good at whatever it is your brain is wired for.
Another view would be to look up publicly available company revenues and see that their annual revenues are totally not affected at all. You can see an increase in year on year. No were are those figures dipping or near bankruptcy like what they claim.

I'd love to see these revenue
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That has always bothered me deeply.

We measure something by comparing its frontiers (where it begins and ends) to something else. If this something has none, this clearly cannot be done.

Of course, it's also clear that between 0 and 1 you have infinite real numbers.
But is an infinite inside an infinite enough to provide a size hierarchy?

Maybe the quantum physics guys will prove that the universe is granular in every possible level and that everything is just an enormous pile of huge natural numbers. Then infinity and paradoxes will just be a fun thought experiment, and reality will still be pragmatically ungraspable, but profoundly boring.
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Google can and does copy features of apps into the OS though.

Distribution has nothing to do with it.
They probably give you a 5% discount for NOT using your credit card.
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I use nano a lot, but I've been trying out PyCharm for a few weeks now, and so far I've been impressed. What's nice is that it really feels like it was built specifically for Python/Django as opposed to going with some other IDEs that shotgun their support. That being said I love customizing something simple like vim/nano into a great language/framework-specific IDE as well.
Did you send them a copy of this letter or did you give them a link to the page?
> It's taken this long for the RSA Lawyers to allow a public statement

Fixed that for you. Customers were notified and I believe many a secureid token was replaced, at least for all mission critical businesses.

That letter to the public would have been second to the priority of customer notifications, even sony was late in their press release -- carefully wording their response to forgo accepting blame. Since the attack was "thwarted" we can assume that RSA did in fact communicate with these businesses and shared the knowledge of the potential attack.

It's not a "serious problem" like if the fundamental cryptology is flawed or implemented with a level of security through obscurity. The only "serious problem" was storing seeds for some unknown reason. If your seed wasn't stored then you have nothing to worry about, and I can only assume if you were contacted by someone from RSA(personally) than you should probably assume your seed was stored.

One would hope that a business like Lockheed Martin then setup a honey pot to try and gather information on the attackers logging in with these compromised SecureIDs.
It sounds interesting, but how would a Thank You be different from or better than a re-tweet and similar actions?
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Pretty sick of people calling this RESTful... anyway, for those who do care about URL design more than their model CRUD, I've been using this with success: https://gist.github.com/970992

It removes flawed tradition and makes it a lot easier to see which routes matter vs. which ones exist just because rails added them. Note that the example routes also avoid new/edit routes since this app actually generates those views on the client side.

Beyond that, plural or not, that's pretty much going to add zero value. Some people claim that the URL is an interface. While it might be, that's usually the lack of a better UI and a poor excuse to call something usable. I'll happily hide my URL bar when I can and rarely care to even write a proper URL by hand. Not because I can't but because I'm not a machine.

Now I do care about nice URI design but that's for me to care about, not the user. More and more I see people linking to things through shortening services anyway... so when do you really read a URL before following it? Probably never. Things like this are just for developer sanity.

So if you're going to bother writing a library, make it easier to express URIs that won't need to change and are explicitly designed, rather than worry over developer vanity and hiding details behind poorly thought out CRUD that people like to pretend is REST.
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It's 2am. Do you know if your SSL certs are throwing warnings?
I am testing my site on BrowserShots (no affiliation) and my success rate is not high:

http://browsershots.org/https://secure.sproutrobot.com/

I don't have any warnings on most of the bleeding edge browsers, but some notable browsers (Firefox 4 on Windows XP, Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu, bleeding edge Konqueror) throw up nasty warnings. I mean, Firefox 4 on Windows is a pretty huge slice of the market.

How are other folks doing on this score? Have you actually tested your site widely? I've tried GoDaddy SSL and the results were even worse. I'm currently using a cert from NameCheap, but I'm considering shelling out the $400/year to get a Versign certificate just to make this headache go away.

I'm getting tired of trying certs and finding out they suck. I've heard GeoTrust is as good as Verisign (at $150/year) but I've heard people say that about GoDaddy too. It's hard to know who to trust. Pun intended.

In addition, I have no fricking clue how to debug what's actually causing these warnings, because a) I don't actually have access to test machines to see what's going on. And b) I don't know the first thing about how SSL chaining actually works. I could spend a week learning about SSL and HTTP requests, debugging and checking various browsers, but if I'm going to spend that time I might as well just buy a fricking VeriSign cert and spend that time coding.

There have been previous threads about this, but it seems like a lot of people's testing only went as far as "works for me!" I'd welcome experience from people who have actually dug deep into the situation with root certificates in various browsers.

And I haven't even started looking at mobile browsers yet.....
Clickable: http://browsershots.org/https://secure.sproutrobot.com/
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This means I can finally get rid of the part of my laptop I call a Netflix player...aka Windows 7.
Isn't iTunes Match more of a music streaming service? This is how Apple explains it works "Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library for you to listen to anytime, on any device."

It says 'listen to'. Am not sure if you actually get legit copies of your music.
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