skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reply.

I have a great dashboard for showing sales, revenue, time to upgrade, etc. I love analytics. Luckily as well, the lifetime value of the customer isn't $9.95 as while I have only had paid options available for 1 month, already people are coming back and purchasing again, which means my lifetime value of a customer keeps getting higher.

As for est potential market I can say that just by looking at Google searches over 20k+ per month search for the product / thing I am offering. Obviously I don't rank #1 for all of these search terms plus it doesnt calculate the other methods. Honestly I wouldn't know any further on how to estimate the potential buyers, only that I am in a growing space and other companies worth millions are already in there.

Delegation, 100% agree with there :)

An unfair competition advantage is always a hard one to answer. The advantages I have at this point in time (but can be copied) are freemium model, feature set and future feature set. I am focussed on one particular aspect where as other companies in the space are spreading out to other areas, diluting their focus. As time progresses it will be harder to catchup to code wise but not impossible.

I put customer service above all else and due to this receive so much praise and recommendations which is why I am getting repeat sales and increased users. Again repeatable but they are unlikely to take customers as loyalty is certainly being built.

I love talking to customers, you are right they give such an incredible amount of information and I have tailored and improved my product because of this. Someone actually contacted me due to bugs in the software. After she was so blown away by the customer service she is setting up a rolling purchase order to use our service for their 17 local tv shows. I didn't even know but it shows that you should treat each customer with the same amount of dedication. She wasn't even a paid customer at that point either. Obviously once that is setup my income increase significantly but larger corps take so long to get these things rolling. (I know, working in them for so many years)

Haven't heard of pitching hacks but will certainly check it out.

Thanks again.
Bump! I'm sure there are some israelis out there. I may have to try this again Sunday morning and not Friday afternoon. :\
It's unfortunate the folks who edited this couldn't differentiate the real aces from the people pining for the days of the waterfall model.
Actually, a lot of the PostScript clones use GhostScript internally. (I know Epson does or did, in their lasers.) So a major part of his idea has already been done.

Back when I was involved in the laser printer business (at the beginning, in 1980, where we (Imagen, a Stanford TeX project spin-off) built the first typesetting-quality low-end laser printers), the main bugaboo was avoiding the PostScript licensing cost. (I think Adobe charged $100's of dollars per printer, depending on quantities sold.) We built a clone ourselves, but some of the big hardware manufacturers just licensed GhostScript cheaply from L. Peter Deutch. (Of Berkeley/PARC/ParcPlace fame, one of the great hackers.)

Peter first wrote GhostScript on a lark, just to see how hard it could be (not hard for him ;-), then it became serious when he realized the demand for such a product. (He released slightly older versions as OSS and licensed the bleeding-edge version commercially.)
Dropping an unexpected dose of insulin would be much more dangerous than simply disabling the pump.

Disabling the pump would result in an increasing level of blood glucose over a fairly long period of time (likely a day or two). I would be very surprised if a 'victim' didn't notice the issue with their pump long before there were any detectable side effects.

Dumping an unexpected shot of insulin into the victim's system would crash their blood glucose over a fairly short period of time (an hour or two). One of the first side effects of hypoglycemia is confusion, which would reduce their chances of noticing something is wrong.

Long story short: I wouldn't worry about "DoS'sing" the pump, but I would worry about triggering extra insulin "dosings".

My experience with insulin pumps is limited to dealing with patients who are having some sort of blood glucose related emergency (as an EMT).
> "humans behave differently, and generally more civilly, in environments where they (subconsciously) believe they have a chance of meeting a partner."

I already have a partner. That changes the dynamics, too.

The "football team" and "singles bar" both have their own strengths and weaknesses. So does the dynamic you get when your whole team is married with kids -- some employees are going to really flourish in that environment, too.
Not necessarily. G+'s circles conflate "people I know" with "people I'm interested in." This isn't necessarily a bad thing - it may even be a good thing - but I don't think it makes the cited social distinctions invalid.
This is situational in the extreme, especially when you're interested in specific conditions in tight loops. For example, if you're debugging a race condition in a render loop, it's probably not going to be easy to reproduce when you also start trying to write out megabytes of data at the same time.
Really nice design. I like the simplicity.

I hope the Android app is coming soon - that's kind of a must-have feature for me. Currently using Astrid, but that feels a bit bloated.
There are some apps for browsing HN in the app store, but I haven't bought any of them to try. Right now I browse HN through http://ihackernews.com/ which is a nicer stylesheet for mobile browsing.
Ask HN: U.S. Patent Law- what can I do about it?
There has been a lot of talk recently about software patents, most of it negative. I believe that patent law (or at least software patents) as it currently exists doesn't work. Perhaps there should be a more strenuous process getting patents, shorter life of patents, or no patents at all... I don't really know. I don't want to just ignore them, although I'll continue to create regardless of them existing or not. I want to do something to help get them changed.

But really, what can I do about it? Thanks.
Scott also provides an in-depth video explanation of how insulin pumps work here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsxFbDIvQRw

I watched the video in full and it made me feel fortunate to be diabetes-free.
The argument is that you're in the minority. I think most people have relatively clear friend/work boundaries, but even then I encountered a few "Hmmm" moments when putting people in circles. I suspect that most people don't actually want to group the people in their social network - it can take a surprising amount of introspection. Time will tell if that's true.
Refactoring Redmine is also good for detailed case studies. http://www.refactoringredmine.com
So basically he was given a developer preview, found a serious bug, and failed to report it. Classic case of "someone else will do it"
Yeah, I guess we'll find out.

Mind you, if people don't care then they can just lump them into a single "Friends" circle and have done.
As someone with both technical knowledge and purchasing power, I've run into this frustration as well.

It's always pretty easy though to say "we like your product, but we want more information as to integration possibilities. Can you put us in touch with someone on your technical staff so we can ask these questions?"

Everyone company I've run into will at least give you an email contact, and all of the smaller ones (less than 20 persons employed) will just transfer you to the tech department directly.

I've done this with everything from hardware purchases to $7000/per cpu database software.
No rudeness intended, but "Possession is nine-tenths of the law". I don't think police officers stalking a cabby for a phone you left in a cab is worth it to the general public.
Nice. I also took a crack at explaining them - here's my version, in case it helps anyone.

http://sleeplessgeek.blogspot.com/2009/12/so-what-are-these-...
I have encountered precisely the same problem on a 2008 era MacBook Pro. While that problem is very well known (and much more general- it is triggered by any heavy graphics card usage), it manifests exactly like this. In my case the faulty GPU ended up having faulty NVRAM onboard.
Which is talked about in the article
tl;dr: cite anecdotes, generalize them to an entire generation of coders, wring hands.
> I find this rather ridiculous. Most people I know have multiple groups of friends, little cross-over between them, and are happy to share different things about themselves with different groups.

That's not that ridiculous. Anecdotical evidence no. 2, neither I nor anyone I know uses groups or lists on FB. And regarding the gulf experience, yesterday I just posted a soccer-related status on my FB wall and I received likes from 2 ladies, one of whom I haven't seen in 15 years and the other just recovering from cancer, either way, I wouldn't have put them in any "interested-in-soccer" list.
It could happen. Teenage sociopaths exist. But they're very, very rare. You're falling victim to the Columbine fallacy here. TV news makes a poor reference for risk management.

But yes: if this exploit is easy, eventually some diabetic is going to be murdered through it. Far more diabetics will kill themselves via poor diet choices, however.
We call this "Libertarian education in action".

We've replaced the regulated marketplaces you usually use with Folger's crystals, errr, a Libertarian paradise market where the only thing keeping Dmitri in Kazakhstan from stealing all your money is His Good Name And Reputation. Let's see if you notice.
Cut the Rope:Experiments
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Clojure already has numerous concurrency constructs. core.logic doesn't in anyway attempt to add anything there as Mozart/Oz does via dataflow variables.
CodeDrive: Visual Studio extension for Flash development
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I use lists elsewhere, but not on FB, because FB makes it hard to use them.

There's no way, for instance, to post to a list on their Android App, or their mobile site.
No, no, I understood that point of view from the beginning, I just doubt it for the particular example of printers.

I have a few reasons.

Companies would have no incentive on lowering price on laser technology when most people are encouraged to buy inkjet.

I believe there is a rather small cost difference between a $100 and a $2,500 printer. Yes, the $2.5k printer is bigger, but it's just more mechanical parts. I believe most of the cost is in development and the printing technology itself.

Some Printer/Toner combinations have a much lower TCO than others, and the lower TCO does not reflect in a higher then average price for the printer itself (on the contrary).

Companies are pushing forward a lot of models. My Lexmark X203N is in no relevant way better then Lexmark X202N. I believe companies would not waste resources on creating so many compatible printers if they would not make money out of them.

Companies are also pushing forward incompatible models. Toner for your old printer becomes prohibitively priced and you just buy a new printer because of lower TCO. If companies were having a loss from the printers themselves, they would't try to make you buy a new one so much.
I often listen to Sneaker Pimps, Four tet, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Röyksopp and Air... I like to mix it up as well (aka. shuffle)!
"we'll you really 'would' have to know 'a lot' about them if these devices had high entropy."

That is why I'm asking what kind of entropy the serial numbers have.....

"which - if a person was indeed killed by this method - an autopsy would show either a spike or lapse in delivery of insulin. such a lapse would immediately lead to an investigation as to why the unit did not respond ?"

I'm confused how that is related to the entropy of the serial numbers.
The proposal is that an Open Source Printer be designed and adopted by a manufacturer. Who will design the printer to be easily and cheaply refilled? So, they will basically destroy any profit they could make by building this sort of printer? And likely anyone who wants the driver will have to use the CLI or compile the driver themselves?

Sorry OSS doesn't really meet people half way on this. And for a company to remove the profit motive and make a printer that could infringe on patents for printing tech is blowing smoke.

OSS has never been very good at the last mile. So I don't see any manufacturer looking at the OSS plans and drivers and thinking that all the work is done. It's probably half done.

As the OP said, the manufactures of printers ALREADY designed their own printer. And they are making money from it. So why would they take some not entirely complete design and use that while it hollows out how they make money?
Could you point me to a reference which says that? The best I can do straight off is Wikipedia:

US Law: an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equivalent.

UK Law (where I am): infringement occurs ... by the making, disposing of, offering to dispose of, using, importing or keeping a patented product.

In both cases "making" counts as infringement, but IANAL, so those words may well have special meanings which I don't understand.
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849064

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849438

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849525

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849570

Currently none of the HN submissions have comments worth reading.
You can condense the rows (a bit) with a "use denser view" option in the settings. I have my docs pretty heavily broken out into folders, so it works for me.

My biggest usability complaint is how you land on a long list of all your documents, potentially going back months or years. Like Amazon's "product suggestions" for items I browsed months ago, I find this more annoying than relevant. If they only initially showed me documents I've opened in the last month, I think it would be an example of "less is more".
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849064

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849438

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849525

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850338

Currently none of the HN submissions have comments worth reading.
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849064

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849438

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849570

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850338

Currently none of the HN submissions have comments worth reading.
Pull requests work best since there are other contributors now. Thanks!
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849064

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849525

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849570

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850338

Currently none of the HN submissions have comments worth reading.
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849438

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849525

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849570

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850338

Currently none of the HN submissions have comments worth reading.
Smart Phones COULD have saved the world
Now they are used to stream more of the corporate medias propaganda driven metanarrative (ie pop-culture, movies, music, reality-tv).
Utilities for Automating Rootkit Analysis
Worse than that: possibly/probably sued. Most employment contracts require cooperation in legal matters.

Truth though is that that cooperation's pretty limited. Patents are largely drafted by attorneys, which is among the reasons that they're so piss poor at their stated use: transmitting knowledge on how to create the invention.
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This is reminiscent of the problem laid out in Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust."

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Ask HN: Do you want to understand how the patent process work?
This is a throwaway account.

Based on reading patent news over the last couple of years, it seems that many of you do not really understand patents.

Many of you think the US Patent Office allows everything it sees. Many of you do not understand how the process work.

What is a patent?

What is patent vs a patent application?

What does the patent cover? (Hint: reading the abstract and looking at pictures won't help. They only help in understanding the field). In my opinion, those who work in the field: 90% of their time is dedicated to understanding the the claim and maybe only 10% of their time looking at Spec. (abstract/drawings/disclosure)

What really is a "software patent"?

Why was this patent allowed? It looks so obvious? How does me doing steps 123 on the browser violate patent XYZ?

Why does Apple, MSFT, Google (or any other company) file for crazy patents? (Google Doodles)

Reading the tech blogosphere will leave you more confused and make you want to pull out a burning pitchfork?

So my question to you is HN: Do you want to understand how the basics of patents work?

If there is enough Interest I can write up some tutorials and post a basics of Patents for Engineers/Computer Scientist 101 tutorial.

Feel free to ask patent questions here.

disclaimer: This is not a legal service or legal advice. Consult a lawyer.

Blah Blah Blah Lawyer jargon
Based on this, it seems that patents in any field tend to retard innovation as opposed to promoting it. Perhaps it's not just the software patent system that needs to be re-evaluated (and possibly scrapped altogether). Can anyone name any cases where patents have, beyond a shadow of a doubt, actually encouraged progress? I'm foreseeing that the pharma industry will be brought up but I will pre-emptively point people to this article as a retort - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
True. But a large part of the demand is likely to come from the US. Demand from Europe is likely to be limited since the proportion of English speakers there is less.
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And even the Columbine sociopaths were targeting people they knew, rather than random strangers. Random murderers targeting random strangers are even rarer.
1> Many families hate you if you do this. My father in law to this day still gets crap for shortening their Polish name to a easy subversion of it. Many people in certain neighborhoods accuse you of acting white to change your name, etc. It's common in Asian households to have an American set of names and an Asian set of names. Legally, sometimes it's one, sometimes it is the other, other times, it's a mix.

2> It's incredibly parent based (i.e. the people who gave you the sometimes crippling name) while you're under 18. By that time, you've been on social networks for years as the "bad" name. You then have to convince everyone to not call you by the old name. As a person who has been plagued by a nickname to my first name that my parents like, that I do not nor have ever used, I can attest changing what people call you is really hard. About 10% of people still call me the nickname, which forwards the nickname to contexts they see me in.

3> I'd like to quote you the state of Washinton's feelings on the common law precedent for name changes:

>Common Law Name Change: Common law name change results by simply using the new name consistently and exclusively for all purposes. This is legal because a person has a common law right to use any name he or she chooses. No legal proceedings or attorneys fees are involved in this type of name change. The common law method has disadvantages because many governmental institutions may require documentation proving that a valid name change has been made. Since you have not gone to court and acquired a court order for your name change, you will need some other document to satisfy this requirement.

I find the complications of #2 above yet the rights implied by #3 mean if a person signs an affidavit that their name is X the social networking site should get the hell over itself and let them be named X on the site, whether they have completed the name change yet or not.
BlackBuntu Community Edition v0.3 Released ~ Insecure Stuff
It would be awesome if the web version of LPTHW had an interactive tool just like this.
If you're trying to escape a abusive ex-partner, you need to be on the social networks to make sure other people aren't posting pictures of you giving away your location.
Then also computers, television, radio...

Instruments are neutral. It's what you do with them that matters.
For those of you who can't get enough GOT CGI, the SFX company released yet another 3 minute before and after video:

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/05/more-game-of-thr...

Cool stuff.
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World markets sell off on global worries
Nokia Siemens Networks starts cutting 1,500 jobs
What you are really talking is about making a decision to raise your standards. The human mind does not process negatives very well so telling someone to stop doing stupid shit is a hit or miss message. Really the title of this post should have been, "How to be good at everything: Raise your standards." But that isn't as catchy or sticky as "Stop doing stupid shit."
Raising your standards means setting a new bar of what you are going to expect from yourself in a given task or skill. It comes with the presupposition that you can meet the standard thus the added confidence. Many people do "stupid shit" but don't know why. And frankly the 'why' doesn't matter. You have to believe that you can improve and setting standards is concrete way of telling your mind you won't accept certain behavior anymore.

Of course this sounds easy but it's not.

Making the decision is the hardest thing anyone can do. It comes with consequences, both good and bad. Consequences in potentially eliminating the fulfillment of needs you may have or possible coping mechanisms you have grown into. When you make a true decision you cut off possibilities.

Raising your standards necessitates making a 'real" decision and cutting off options. Sometimes doing stupid shit is the only way some people know how to wrap their head around the f*cked up things they have come to understand.
Am I the only one who thinks that even though new look is similar among all the updated google products (gmail, docs, cal) but it doesn't feel consistent?

http://www.picamatic.com/show/2011/08/05/07/33/7755256_1056x...

- actions toolbar looks very different across products (actions super button in Docs is terrible)

- docs doesn't have 'refresh' button -- if you add it, add it everywhere, please. Also it's not the same in cal and gmail

- docs and calendar has this line which separate actions toolbar with product name and body but gmail doesn't. Also Docs has differently aligned product name and google logo

- even search on top of the page is different (different buttons, label styles, text field sizes)

- documents/email list in docs and gmail looks and behaves in completely different way

- next/previous buttons are completely different (gmail, cal)

- and many more...

I do like new theme but, please, Google, make it more consistent.
What is Celery?

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on a single or more worker servers using multiprocessing, Eventlet,	or gevent. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready).
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