skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are self funded, we didn't hire a designer for our iOS app, rather for a web-app that just went into public beta this past week.

Thus far we've funded ourselves out of client projects and a small grant we received about a year and a half ago.
I think that his argument is flawed, but there's some merit to the idea that what a job means will, should and has shifted.
Option 10: Follow AOL down the drain.
Have at it, my assistive technology mISV:

http://www.onehandkeyboard.org

Contact me at support@thatdomainabove
"I agree completely. The "Like" phenomenon feels very much like something you would see on VH1's "Remember the 80's?"

Wow. Harsh, but spot-on.
That's never going to happen. Anything that anyone ever wants to use to trade on in a cost/time sensitive manner will already have event-action (notification/trade) functionality built in.
Hmm, I am curious how this link was accepted, when I have the exact same link in my submission from 16 hours ago. I thought the submission mechanism elimated duplicates.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2968548
Nice tool. The Enterprise version can be targeted to operations types, you know "if <new employee> then <run through checklist>" "if <mail errors> then <shoot exchange server in the head>" kinds of things :-)
what are people currently using for node dev. At quillu we are big fans of sublime, a terminal window and node inspector
"In a normal economy, the population is constantly expanding."

Exponential growth can never continue forever. We are probably at or near the practical limits to growth on this planet.

I think inflationary currency is an ugly hack to cope with the era of exponential growth.
If you can realistically put a VM image in Dropbox, then I want to live where you live. Where I am (London), that kind of bandwidth is scarce and costly.
Audiovox cellular phone accessory, for the most functional accessory
This is a really good point outside the UI argument. Even the big players don't offer true cohort analysis without all sorts of data manipulation/
Here's a even more beautiful variation I've seen : http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/

It takes a birth date and tells you when your personal light cone passes nearby stars.
How To Be the Smartest Person On the Planet
I've never seen anyone, including keynesians try to claim that newly created money goes directly to consumers. wow. read more.
PHP has been mirrored on github for awhile already if you want to follow it and stuff: https://github.com/php

I don't see what difference having a git.php.net repo vs a github one will make. It's the same vcs...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/business/economy/21inequal...
How are you defining effectiveness in this context ?
Likewise, Apple doesn't directly sue Google over Android, but does so indirectly through all the manufacturers right?
It is. It's upward wealth redistribution.
The worst thing is many investors who hold shares of one company also holds shares of the competitor, and hence they are spending money wildly to make their portfolio as a whole worth less.
This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading.

Still here? OK.

When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do.

I take time to give feedback, and look at the articles before voting on them, and I upvote people who I think are doing good things.

So I noticed that the parent comment to this got a couple of upvotes, and then got a downvote.

Why did it get a downvote? That's something I really don't get. I asked a genuine, pointed and specific question about the service. I asked for a specific improvement to the information being given. I provided a clear example of someone who doesn't get it, so the service providers can make a decision about answering my questions, improving the site so the question doesn't arise, or ignoring me as being in the tail and not worth worrying about. That would be a business decision that I would respect - I'm often the customer that gets ignored, because I'm not normal.

So why the downvote?

I don't care about the karma, except in so far as it's an indication of the cohesion of the "community". What's becoming clear to me is that there really is no longer a proper community here on HN.

It was a comfortable village - it's now an impersonal city.

Whether the quality is going up or down, or whether the general atmosphere is becoming more snarky or not, these are side effects.

The community is gone, and HN is something else.

And that's a shame.
Not just Motorola - Google gave HTC the patents they bought from Palm and OpenWave too. That is interesting to say the least - I hadn't heard of this kind of arrangement before.
Except that Perl changes often. There are regular major releases of perl itself, and countless actively maintained modules.
Pro-inflationists a simple question for you.

Inflation creates an incentive to invest. Fine. But why should the level of inflation and thus the risk profile for investors be determined by a single authority? Why not multiple competing currencies whose rates float against each other? Let the market figure out an optimal rate of inflation. The wild guesses and uncertainty of the Fed resetting the rate is surely inferior.
The document in question cites both Motorola and Verizon as an example of this strategy in action not as exclusive partners "ie. Motorola and Verizon" (Motorola Droid).

The later releases of the HTC made Nexus one, and Samsung made Nexus S clearly show that Google wasn't favoring one manufacturer in the long run.

*edit for clarification
All those 'really smart' people and this is their result? "Takeaway: Provide incentives--carrots rather than sticks"
I'm an open-source loser
With all due respect, I can't help but think that the next up will be

An adventures of a guy who moved a lawn across the street
from where Steve Jobs was thinking of starting Apple.

To those downvoting - do you not find it odd that a person who says on his website that founding Apple "was an adventure that occupied only a small part of his life" [0] still decides to title his autobiography "Adventures of an Apple Founder"? This is riding coattails in its pure form, so pardon me for not being terribly excited about the book.

[0] http://ronaldgwayne.com/bio
Do we know how much HTC bought these patents for?
But businesses are made up of people. Lawyers work in the legal department. Web standards people work in the Web standards department. I have little doubt that reading news like this makes the Web standards people sad, but they still feel like their work is valuable in the space they occupy and carry on with their jobs.

I suppose I assume that the lawyers justify their work somehow, because nobody wants to think that what they do is inherently bad. I think buying up patents specifically to sue people is bad, but I imagine if I worked in the legal field I would feel that it's only fair to fight back.
>I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github

It's as simple to commit projects to github as it is to sf, bitbucket, google code, etc. Wait... you need to set up ssh credentials on github... sorry, it's more difficult to commit a project to github than it is to most of the alternatives.

>Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects.

It's good that we like different things. I love the FACT that there can't be such place, it's technically not possible, fortunately!

>If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.

Linux is not on github, Linus Torvalds has one of his branches of the linux kernel on github, doesn't mean that he doesn't push his commits to other places too, which he certainly does. Also, linux is much more than the kernel, and its bits are hosted in literally thousands of different places. Finally, you can maintain your branch of the linux kernel wherever you wish, there's no mystical force forcing everybody to use Linus', you can use whatever kernel build you want from whatever sources you want. So saying "linux is on github" is a rather vague sentence.

Don't get me wrong, I like github, I would hate not having a reason to. It appears to me that most of the people don't relaly know why they like github. Because it's popular maybe?
Thanks for the feedback. I'll fire up Parallels and do some tweaking on the font type. I do all my work on a Mac so I typically just test with IE on Windows and test the other browsers on OS X.
you mean, plastic surgery right ?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0731_women_in_tech/i...
> "Unless their systems are heavily modularized"

I used to work for Amazon. This is exactly how things are, to a scale that's hard to comprehend.

Knowing how their stuff works internally, a prod deployment every 11.6 seconds is not hard to imagine at all.
Linux is not on github[1]. A temporary mirror of it is, since kernel.org is down.

[1] Unless you count mirrors, in which case both Linux and PHP are on github.
You can gather all you need to know about Wayne from this article: http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15214122

It always amazes me how life changing one decision can be. Imagine if he simply just "stuck around."
If that's the case, it's hard to say that htc lost anything considering the patents were given to them. This all seems very cynical.
Cool! I've seen something similar in San Fransisco that was rabbit/carrot themed, but I don't remember then name.. anybody?

I'm also trying to do something similar myself for small programming jobs: http://gun.io
Stake Your Digital Claim
Interesting post mortem: DOJ-Google Half-Billion Deal over Illegal Pharma Ads
Its actually much broader then that. You can use feeds to bring in info from almost anywhere. If they started to get some Yahoo Pipes functionality you could do some more logic based things.
"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble." Paul Krugman, 2002. (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...)
AMD Bulldozer and new Llano APUs released
I bet all those startups who used their tld as part of their name are all giddy they can't get extorted like this.
Thank christ, the download manager is one of the last remaining bad parts of Firefox.
TV ads work because, and only if they grab the attention of the viewer. I've bought tens of millions of FB impressions this year myself. The results have been fine, but I've moved on. It's really easy to ignore Facebook ads, and the point of Facebook isn't to help you get off of Facebook, so I don't know how good that is in the long run for any business to buy postage stamp sized display ads on.

Personally, I think that the Reddit model has some potential. Have you checked out/used their system? I think that it's imperfect, as I stated here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2968162
but there are some good aspects, and we've been more successful there than anywhere else.
But what about the people that want to use it as a currency, to buy things? If everyone views it as an investment, and not a vehicle for trade, it will fail as a currency / never take off as a currency.

A lot of this logic is circular - the value will continue to rise because people will keep investing because the value will keep rising, etc.
to be fair the reason is outlined in the post. "... move to a decentralized version control system."
Clojure and the Web
Well, there are actually 30 triggers.
You're setting the bar too high.

Legislators will simply say that all sites that feature nudity in a non medical setting will have to be on the xxx domain name. This isn't merely just porn so it can be passed off as 'neutral' and not legislating morality but rather legislating categorizations ("bringing order to the Wild West of the internet").

Now as for how they force sites onto the .xxx domain name, the choices are:

1. Legislators then simply blacklist all sites that feature nudity in other TLDs. This could be called the "Australian" approach or the "Great Firewall of Foo".

2. Fine companies within your country that are running sites outside of the XXX TLD. If only the US and EU do this, it'll drive 98% of the money-making porn industry into the XXX TLD. Then maybe for completionism you can implement #1 against 'foreign porn peddlers'.

False positives are not a concern for legislators. If there's a worry about blowback, they'll simply make the blacklist confidential, and the appeals process non-transparent.
Microsoft and Nokia are doing the same thing as Google with a company called Mosaid.

This lets Google and Microsoft sue other companies over patent issues without actually doing it themselves.

it seems to be the new style of patent warfare.
Exactly. You know what business will (almost) never go broke?

A mortician.

How much innovation's necessary there?
oh i like that idea a lot!

I have prey installed in stand-alone mode, but instead of having it check for a url, i just have cron running it every 30 minutes and emailing the photo and screenshot and other info to a gmail account i made. I figure if it gets stolen, I might not have time (or remember) to turn on the url before its too late.

I also have the firmware pw set (Macbook Pro) - not sure how easy this it to circumvent - if you can't circumvent it then you can't reformat that easily.
nothing to do with being "cool". Github have created a great piece of management software to view and manage your git repositories. It's easy to use and that is why its popular not used because its popular. Git itself is popular because its easier to use than SVN and is decentralized which is very useful.
The lifetime of a link, only 5 minutes? - NYTimes
Don't have much mercy when I read these kinds of stories. I went to a job interview back in 2000 for a 28,000 a year job. Knew 6 computer languages and significantly more than the interviewee and all this colleges employees. (in my opinion) this was a small college in Michigan. They never called me back. A few weeks later I started a small company. Today I make upwards of 250k a year. No college education. They (college people) can all go starving on the street like they would have left me and my two new born twins. No help from the "establishment" for me no matter how smart I was. Let em all lose their jib and starve.. Let em be in college debt. I smirk at the barrages who would have let me go homeless every time I read stories like this.

No quarter wad given to me. Now that theyre expected to oroduce. Now thier college means diddle it is my turn to watch from the sidelines.

I know that if I don't make money MYSELF nobody ----especially "college" people will help..

Posted from an iPad I never would have had if I let the establishment guide my life..
I dinked around with Play last week and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name?

"Play" just makes it sound so... unrobust. It needs a name that conveys that it's industrial-strength. How about Chupacabra or Lugwrench or ...
Not luxury goods, consumption goods. And not just spending but production.

Yes, a house bigger than you need, a new car (let alone a new luxury car) every 3 years, driving that car to work, alone, from the suburbs, bottled water shipped from Fiji, non-locally grown food, $70 sneakers (shipped across the globe btw), $5 coffee, almost all non-free entertainment, almost anything labeled as a consumer good.

Anything that's not healthcare, shelter, education, water/food is suspect.
finally.... about bloody time
Innovation is actually banned by law for mortuaries in many jurisdictions.

So you have to use chemical X from select manufacturers Y, and place dead body in box T with procedure Q.
per the first comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk8b9rSKOo :)
Let em go out of business. Back when I was jobless they never would have gave me a second look even though I could have ( and still can) streamline their business..

No mercy for stupidity, inefficiency and incompetence..
Hi, obviously infinite loops will become an issue we will have to deal with as the service grows. Especially if we start running tasks at a much faster clip and not just every 15 minutes.
I do not worry for yahoo because:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4jvDsNtEE
PHP should switch to Django instead.
Well, I mean, there's a reason all the cool kids are using git these days, and it's not just to "look cool".
I don’t think this has anything to do with the side of the Atlantic you are living on. People grow up in different surroundings. Leaving your car unlocked, with keys and valuable stuff, is obviously no problem at all if you are from a really small village where everyone knows everyone. If you grew up in a larger city where no one knows no one the thought alone of leaving a car unlocked would probably make you uneasy.

I’m from and grew up in a small German town (pop. 40,000) and I can pinpoint pretty exactly when I start feeling uneasy. I’m ok with leaving a car unlocked for a few minutes (not much more than five) but I would not consciously leave the keys (even if I only stop the car in front of my home to run in and get something) and I would always make sure that no valuable stuff is visible.

That’s the level of precautions I’m personally comfortable with but I know other people with different comfort levels.

(Of course there are always situations in life when you just do something stupid for no good reason at all except that it seemed like a good idea or comfortable at the time. The likelihood of being the victim of a crime even if you leave your keys is quite low, so sometimes you might just want to be lazy.)
True. But it does demonstrate how a large corporation can negate many of the benefits of open source, and that Google is one such company doing so.
And plain Git can do ACLs? I didn't know that.
No mercy. Let em go out of business. It is a corrupt monopoly. Try to start a competing taxi business. (or tow business) and you'll see you do NOT live in a free market. Again. No mercy. After decades they'll be getting theirs.. (yes I tried once upon a time)
Does this support nested if-then statements, or multiple criteria? With the UI the "wtf" page demonstrates, it seems like this could easily be designed to work as a graphical version of programming.
I'm signed up recently though I«ve been reading HN for quite a while. I can't tell how the community was before, but this is a fact:

When i signed up a few days ago, there was some "read this first" pages presented to me outlining the proper way to comment and so on. In it, was clearly stated that massive communities will become stupid even if they were once a place where topics were discussed in an intelligent way. A bit further it goes as far as presenting "hacker news approach on online comments" as an effort to provide a community above the average.
But it fails miserably telling what sets HN's comments system from slashdot, redit, dig, etc. which is not much, if anything at all.
So if you wondering why is HN going to hell in a handcart, it's for the same reason that all other online communities go that path too. This is inevitable unless the comments system change radically.

An example of a community that didn't went down the drain: stackoverflow.
It is undoubtedly true that high inflation is bad. Very bad.

What you want, ideally, is a currency whose value doesn't fluctuate much at all in the short term, and which has a long term trend towards slight inflation.
I tried using this, but it left me with the impression that it was unprofessionally done.

1. The board is not correct. The black square must be in the left corner. While this may seem like a small quibble, it changes the patters so that squares like e4, which should be white, are now black. This makes it difficult to play.

2. There are apparently no openings programed into the computer. Since openings are so complex, simply using an algorithm to find good opening moves does not work well. So, this program will almost always start out with bad first moves.
The votes are a stark contrast to those of the core Python developers when they were voting on which DVCS to migrate to[1]—although understandably they favoured Mercurial, they disfavoured git. (Bazaar got a good share of votes as well.) The victor's margin was much smaller.

This was all early-2009, though. I wonder if git's increasing popularity has swayed the core PHP developers?

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-...
True, but git.php.net would be under their control with regards to what kind of infrastructure they want to set up on it. If they hosted it on GitHub, they would have to rely on GitHub's infrastructure instead of being able to develop and maintain their own.
The text is aliased on my Windows Firefox and Chrome, but not my Linux Firefox. The font is Helvetica, which is apparently rendered quite poorly on Windows.
Are you suggesting consensus proves anything?
bazaar and mercurial are decentralized too, so that would only rule out SVN.
odd.ly, xxx.ly is still available.
This is nearly the entire business case for running your own gTLD, trademark owners are compelled to protect their marks. I worked on the .pro registry a few years ago, a motivation for the business to run it (because it wasn't big) was the hope that it would build the experience and infrastructure to support more gTLDs as ICANN opened up the creation process. But that didn't happen nearly as fast as possible and the company I worked for moved develoment offshore, so I sort of doubt I'm giving away anything they're still planning.

Running a small domain registry is an easy job. There are good RFCs for all the technology, your customers are a few dozen tech-savvy registrars, and you have low scaling demands. There are some availability concerns, but the knowledge for doing that right is now common. You hire a coder/support engineer to keep the servers humming and a business guy to create and maintain registrar relationships and otherwise just print money.

I thought about getting into the business in '07 but realized the entire thing depended on ICANN advancing the gTLD expansion and was a bit too risky. Four years later with minimal progress (.xxx isn't one of these, it's been kicking around over a decade) I'm glad I didn't start that business. Though ICANN has moved that along this summer...
Simple solution to all this. But like most GOOD solutions it isn't without pain. Create a state in the union with very little or no regulations to compete with china. Boom. Done. Like how Nevada has great gambling and built their economy around that and ton this day no state has anything like the las Vegas strip.

It won't happen. America will continue to sink against china et al counties with no regulation. I have no mercy.. Don't take my advice. Go out of business

There is NO solution without real pain/sacrifice..
Yep, it can.
> Github have created a great piece of management software to view and manage your git repositories

Therein lies the problem, and why it's not a good collaboration space for everyone (as has been implied elsewhere in this thread). I won't use it simply because I dislike dealing with git, for example. Yes, it's a great tool if you want to use git. The mentality I've seen become more prevalent over the last year to two years, however, is that you must be on Github to "do open source right"--setting aside the obvious silliness of that, it does still exist in a lot of places.

If they supported hg with the same infrastructure, I'd consider switching off of bitbucket, but given the Github folks' public behaviors in the past, it wouldn't be a guarantee. I've been treated very well by Atlassian and don't think particularly highly of the Github guys.
The article's premise of Yahoo's value being "behavioral data of its users" seems pretty silly. It's all about the ads (search and display).

Maybe it was a roundabout reference to ad targeting?