skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple makes money chiefly by selling devices to the public. Joe needs a phone, walks into an Apple store plays with an iPhone and buys one. Suprise works here because of the burst of publicity and the ease of purchase. This approach is based on limited supply and tries to maximize dollars per unit.

Microsoft's Windows platform makes money chiefly by selling OS licenses to hardware companies like Dell. Every month these companies write 8+ digit checks to Microsoft. The multi-year roadmaps involved make surprise a disadvantage. This approach seeks to maximize $100 licenses.

Sony's Playstation platform makes money chiefly by taking a cut from other developers. Sony convinces someone like EA to develop for their system and makes $5 every time one of us buys an EA game for $50. The development lead time involved means the announcement has to be at least a year in advance.

Amazon's Kindle platform also makes money chiefly by taxing the ecosystem (in this case e-books). However the lead time to produce an e-book is minimal and so surprise again works.

Nintendo puts another twist it -- they make money chiefly by selling blockbuster first party titles on their own platform.

Google makes money chiefly by selling ads. A company or ad agency writes Google a check with an expected level of visibility. This approach seeks to maximize units and industry growth (even competitors). Facebook I guess we can expeect the same approach, trying to get aunt millie with the 10 year old cel phone onto a smartphone.

Maybe I should say something about phone hardware vendors like HTC who sell phones to carriers complete with rebranding, etc.
Mark Bernstein: There are always problems
I was talking about point 1.
No problems running the 64-bit version in VirtualBox 4 on 64-bit Ubuntu Natty. Couldn't boot past splash screen in VMware Player.
CouchDB use case
Streaming Algorithms and Sketches
Differences between Geeks and Nerds
Google+Intel: strategic partnership to bring Android to x86 phones and tablets.
What Are Home Remedies for Bed Bugs?
I can completely understand that - I guess I should have said that I am unaware of anyone with Crohn's; just as I am unaware of other conditions people might have. You are right that it would be foolish to assume you know someone based on their exterior alone and it's probably better to be sensitive to that possibility at all times.
Is there a hosted web-based Sphinx(alternatives) which generates documentation?
Never knew writing documentation can be so much work too.
bummer - i just signed up for one - so i guess it will be a while...
I've always loved the Chinese naming for Coke. The article translates it as "delicious happiness," but it's actually more clever. The first two characters (ke kou) mean thirsty. The third character is the same as the first but means "can be" in the context. The fourth character (le) means happy. So all together, it literally means "[when you are] thirsty, [you] can be happy." As the other examples in the article show, it's quite easy to do the transliteration poorly, and a good one is far from inevitable. It's hard not to appreciate the amount of cleverness that went into "ke kou ke le".
Current users can invite new people by sharing a library with them.

My email's in my profile. Feel free to contact me and I'll invite a few folks when I get home tonight (in a few hours).

Edit: To help avoid losing your mail to the spambin, put aerofs in the subject line.
New Social Video Service for iPhone Launched
For Immediate Release

New Social Video Service for iPhone Launched

Tokyo, Japan – September 14th, 2011 – Miew Inc., a subsidiary of Samurai Incubate Inc., launched its new Social Video Service Application for iPhone, called “5Seconds”, aimed to provide new communication platform for iPhone users utilizing a 5-second video complete with audio and personalized end credit message similar to last scene of a movie.

Social Video Service “5Seconds” is a new type of free communication service that adds end credit, effects and messages on the 5-second movie taken on an iPhone. The length of movie is limited to five seconds; however, the concept of 5Seconds is to establish communication between users by short videos. The system allows users to easily “Take, Edit, Add Effects and Watch” movies on their iPhone.

“With 5Seconds, users can make cool videos that is like the last scene of the movie, share those movies on Facebook, Twitter, and 5Seconds Portal, make communication with emotions by adding end credit message, enjoy 5Seconds movies without hassles of registration or any other sign up, and manage movies easily on Album tab, sending 5Seconds contents and events on the application”, Shinnosuke Tone, CEO of Miew Inc. said.

5Seconds is a similar idea to that of numerous Silicon Valley related companies but instead of photo sharing with added expressions; it uses 5-second video plus the stylish effects with the ability to share on Twitter and Facebook. The time limit of 5 seconds is based on the assumption that most people are not interested in watching personal video for more than 10 seconds, similar to the concept of 140 characters for Twitter.

Users can share their 5-second videos to broadcast events such as trips, parties, sport activities, or simple birthday calls to facebook, personal video logs, various scenes where you can take 5 seconds video, and text messages by end credit function.

5seconds is currently available in English and is only available on iPhones; however, by year end, it will be able to support Android devices and aims to get 300 million users. 5seconds developers are now also thinking incorporating pre-written messages, quotes, and poems to preloaded videos that will match user’s emotion.

About Miew Inc.

Miew Inc is a subsidiary of Samurai Incubate Inc., established in March 2011 to develop social video service software for smartphones. “5Seconds” is the service which user can add effect to the video captured by smartphones and share to Facebook and Twitter.

To know more of 5Seconds features, please visit http://www.miew.co.jp or email info@miew.co.jp. You can also call +81-80-5041-8940 for additional queries.

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Press Contact Person: Yuya Akiyama
Company: Miew Inc.
Web: http://www.miew.co.jp
Email Address: info@miew.co.jp
Contact Number: +81-80-5041-8940
Brilliant! You should do an iOS version and sell it.
This looks really great. I've been wanting to write something like this for use in our small-ish team, but there is probably really no point if we have this.

I would love to see more e-mail integration: someone mentioned mailing in to it to create a card, which could be pretty cool, but probably just as importantly I'd like for it to have options to send us e-mail when cards change. Some people like getting notifications pushed to them via e-mail versus having to check the site.

Thanks for writing this!
A slightly more advance books which I love is:
Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra by Carl Meyer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898714540

You can find a free PDF version online.

I like it more then Strang because it's a lot more concise, covers some more advanced topics and unlike Strang everything is said very accurately. I think Strang's rather hand-wavy way of explaining things starts faltering when he talks about more advance topics.

I would read Strang and listen to his lectures to get a good feel for Linear Algebra (to build up the intuition), and if you feel like you want more then pick up Meyer's book
Kot in Action - new prealpha MOBA game
A contest to predict how experimental subjects will play simple economic games
I closed the page as soon as i saw the "Sliverlight required" screen. I am on Linux with Firefox 6.0.2. Microsoft really needs to get rid of silverlight to cover more audience (at least people like me)
> Microsoft does not launch unfinished Xboxes (hardware + software product).

Tell that to the millions of Xbox 360 owners whose consoles died with the red ring of death.
Sorry - I don't think a good job of phrasing my question, although the replies are welcoming for addressing the question of where should we best be advertising.

My actual question was in terms of running ads on our site - I'm trying to determine if all the ad networks are created equal (in terms of payout/CPM) and really what the expected CPM should be for us.
I downvoted you because you used the word "fanboy". It's my policy.
A pickle (or Gherkin) is just a cucumber.
I do something similar with my web-app code. I keep an iPad open next to me when I code. Anytime I hit Cmd+B in my text-editor, it rsyncs the site to the server and some JS code running on the iPad automatically refreshes the page. It works quite well for creating HTML layout and updating CSS nearly-on-the-fly. If I have 4-5 browsers open on my Mac, they all instantly update too. So all I have to do is Cmd+Tab through them to verify it all looks good.
As a software developer, I love this. You're doing exactly what this era of cheap technology has enabled us to do - aggregate information into a one easy to read, easy to understand interface. As others have mentioned, there's some fixes here & there, but you're definitely going down the right path.

As a Canadian, I'm bewildered that this has to even exist.
But you should have come across Steve Blank on HN: Founders, get out of the building!
They include the current version of 'Coca Cola' in Chinese:
the brand included a description of their product within its name, calling itself 可口可乐 (kekoukele) — “delicious happiness”.

They leave out the original version of Coca Cola translated into Chinese: “bite the wax tadpole.” (Sorry, couldn't find a phonetic version.)

http://www.coca-colaconversations.com/my_weblog/2008/03/bite...

Seems a shame they left it out. I read it years ago and still remembered it well enough to google an example (though I was thinking "bite the toad"). It made quite the impression on me. It's an excellent example of how wrong this can go.
This is bullshit. I have a full time job, a family and I've written a book in the past two years, and I still have time for side projects. Normally while commuting on the train or in the evenings, but still...

Pet projects are a good proxy for determining whether a developer can actually, you know, develop. Much better than asking trivial algorithm questions or getting someone to figure out a puzzle. They're also good fodder for interviews:

* "Why did you go with this architecture/data structure/library instead of Y?"

* "What's the next step in your roadmap?"

* "Why would I use this?" / "Why did you start it?" / "What's different about this and project Y?".

My fallback is to get them to provide a code sample "that they're proud of", which is not quite as good, but still indicative that they're still thinking about their craft. Hiring based purely on an in-person interview and a CV is incredibly risky - I've seen people who can talk a pretty good line, but write really obnoxious, poorly structured code.

Perhaps think of it this way: A critical part of any developer's job is figuring out what tech is coming in the next couple of years, or which is available now and not being used, pushing the envelope of what's possible. Hence why the OP says "When you tell me that your only projects outside of work are 5+ years old, that is a bad indication..."
How Consumers Interact With Brands On Facebook
Although I'd be willing to bet you need an x86 processor to run a full blown copy of Visual Studio 2012 or whatever release comes out with Windows 8.

It will be interesting to see how much of the first party software runs on ARM tablets. Will we get a full featured Office, or will it be PowerPoint/Word/Excel "lite" or viewers only? Will you need a stylus or will they actually redo the interface to be touch compatible?

There is an awful lot of software ecosystem that is completely incompatible with a touch UI. This is probably a bigger engineering task than the original change from 16-bit to 32-bit for Windows 95. I'm not so confident that Microsoft can pull it off in less than 18 months.
I'm not sure I would be allowed/qualified to say much about our financials. From what I can gather we are profitable, with ongoing contracts for clients such as Dell.

http://www.unlimitedrealities.com/blog/video-the-dell-stage-...

Those issues I mentioned are examples of things that we have actually run into.

edit: Our specialization in touchscreen development is really what drives the company, but hardware accelerated graphics are also a huge draw.
No, they were charging you for the browser. If they sold you a browser that could only view CBC content, CBC might have had beef. (Though remember that back then a lot of legal standards that have now been created didn't exist.) If they sold you a browser with homepage set to CBC by default and extensively marketed that product based on the CBC homepage, CBC might have had beef. If they iframed CBC on their own homepage, CBC might have had beef.

Despite some providers' (including CBC's) fanciful claims to the contrary, I don't think or recall any court decision giving control over incoming links to parties being linked to. (Compare to decisions, however controversial, regarding outgoing links, .torrent links being the classic case.)
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His intent was to provide a better experience to people listening to a public stream. People can already listen to it, he is making it easier and better.

I know the joke about the guy getting upset that Someone is Wrong on the Internet, but this thread makes me want create a new private Internet where people need to show cognitive ability before opening their mouth.
Downloadable Windows 8 Developer Preview .ISOs
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I have to agree. I can understand if this thread was on reddit, but its disappointing to see this in HN.

That aside, isn't this a good thing that Windows 8 now doesn't care (at least, for the new Metro apps) what runtime you're targeting - Silverlight, .Net (full CLR) or Native? - all apps irrespective of whether it was developed in C++, C# or VB with XAML or JS with Html - they're targeted to run in the Windows runtime. For Silverlight developers, they can continue to use XAML for developing their UI's, but yes, they would have learn about the new/different UI controls for the metro style, but that's not the same as learning a completely different language.

Windows Runtime documentation - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46494...

Edit - Added WinRT link
Exactly, it's simple economics: If Orbitz et al. get $5 per Airline ticket sold, they can only afford to pay Google up to $4.99 for the click.

Google can take the $5 from the Airlines and laugh all the way to the bank.
Just read that! ....:(
I trade algorithmically on the day timeframe. Sometimes 30 minutes. It's not high frequency (maybe 3-4 trades a week.)
I thought Pivotal Tracker, but more general.
I created a Production Listing site, Im in elementary school how am I doing?
Interview with and predictions from Seegrid CEO
Apple said they plan to merge iOS and OSX, but looks like MS beat them to it. Plugging my tablet to an external monitor, mouse and keyboard; that's the killer feature for me. I can have my cake and eat it too.
I must commend Microsoft for removing all barriers of entry to the Windows 8 Developer Preview - no signup, no msdn subscription required and best of all, no download manager activex control.
The decline and fall of the American middle class
Chamilia beads
It's so awesome that someone is doing this and remaining anonymous... And yet at the same time so sad.

Reminds me of a documentary on origami called Between the Folds (http://www.greenfusefilms.com/ -- I believe it's on netflix) where they showed people doing the most ridiculous things by just folding paper. So cool.
> This search engine giant — known as 必应 (biying) — also found it difficult to break into the Chinese market, partly due to its unfortunate choice of a name that sounds similar to the Chinese word for sickness: 病 (bing). So far, it's only managed to monopolize less than five percent of the market.

It's unfortunate when someone who knows nothing about a topic decides to start making assumptions. For example, bing has many different meanings depending on the tone used:

bīng/bing1: 兵,冰,掤,栟,檳

bǐng/bing3: 丙,屏,怲,昺,柄,炳,秉,稟,苪,邴,鉼,鞞,餅

bìng/bing4: 並,併,寎,并,摒,病

The one that means sickness is only the last one.
Try http://www.kayak.com/explore/ which gives the same max budget parameter but on a map from an origin city.
Its tough finding a good name. I've done it twice with my own entities. Even if you don't need to worry so much about consumer branding, its hard to find something you like that is not taken...choices get rejected for being too similar with existing registrations.
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I understand a name can be important, but the article lacks how to go about finding a good name. Even if you hear a phrase means something good, it may mean something else to another culture. How would a person go to finding out if a brand name sucks?

In my opinion, mygengo should have offered this as a service as well as ask for suggestions for their own Chinese name.

Also, don't forget the slogans, even if they are in English: http://www.i18nguy.com/translations.html
Ask HN: What should I do when a client doesn't want to pay?
I have a client who doesn't want to finish a web project. He asked me for a "get out" price and I gave him one, which was very reasonable, but he thinks it's too much and doesn't want to pay. I collected an initial payment, but only for 20% because they are a "startup."

I have control over the DNS, the site is on my server, and I am also the administrator for google apps and google voice for the company.

Should I shut everything off until he pays? Is that legal? Should I try and take him to court?

The whole project was only supposed to be $2500 and I've asked for $1700 total, even though I've done about 90% of the project. He's only paid $500 so far. I have about $1200 invested in graphic design. Is this worth fighting over?
> I have free healthcare? So why am I still paying every time I go to the doctor?

Some combination of (1) Lack of poverty, (2) you don't like the free care, (3) you don't know what's available.

Are you poor? If so, medicaid is available (or the state equivalent).

Are you a child? If so, there's a program whose name I forget.

And, there's also the local county hospital.

That said, you may prefer the care that you get by paying, but your choice doesn't imply that you couldn't get free healthcare.
Exactly. Additionally, this fluff piece article makes no mention of successful local Chinese brand names, particularly the unusual cases of the numeric domains (both the numerology related domains and the more relevant homophone number domains).
Ask HN: What's the dress code for YCNYC?
Does anyone know what the dress code for the YCNYC event is? Are we sporting suits, or should we pack our hoodies? Even if there's no dress code - what's everyone planning on wearing? What's the best-practice for events like these?

Cheers
What? You are suggesting that people develop on the tablet? That is not how it works for iOs, BB, Palm or Android,
I'm using this already. I'm managing 3 clients right now and I already can see the benefits. I can see everything - so will my brother (co-hacker) when he accepts the invite! I'm using this as a to-do list.

I'm still going to use this with caution. I do not want to rely heavily on something that I could not afford in the future.

Hopefully, the pricing/freemium will not make me back-out.
They can't do the work they love, so they at least want to be well paid for doing other work that's less interesting. It makes sense to me.
People finder
The use of people finder is becoming more and more popular especially in the online world. People want to find other people for a lot of reasons.
I probably wasn't clear with my original statement. I said the stock market used to be a "predictive market of future earnings". What I meant more precisely was that the stock market used to be a market where people would make prediction about future earnings about companies. If you thought a company was doing well, you would buy and hold it, a la Warren Buffett. Some people traded order flow and other things, but the vast majority traded it as if it was a proxy for future earnings growth.

Over the years, that has changed. Once the internet hit and day traders became more common, it became more and more about buying stocks that will go up and selling stocks that will go down. I think people forget that even during the 90s, commissions for buying and selling stock were in the hundreds of dollars, not $8.95 like today. It was expensive for retail investors to buy and sell stock.

The time period for holding stocks has decreased sharply since then, where a few years ago rebate traders would buy and sell stock to just get the rebate from the exchanges, and now to where HFT eat the lunch of those same manual rebate traders.

The vast majority of trading done on the markets today is not done based on the quality of the company or the quality of the earnings, but based on how the stock will trade. Sure, there's still institutional trading, and I'm sure plenty of quant models make use of things like earnings growth, etc. And yes, things like news and fundamentals do cause prices to go up and down. But the vast majority of daily trading, 75% of volume, is done by trading entities that don't care about fundamentals, and only care about miniscule movements in the stock price. This is why I use volume as evidence, because it demonstrates that most trading done isn't done because of the predictive nature of the stock market for future earnings, but because of the extremely short term predictive nature of the stock price itself.

That's why I said that it's less about predicting future earnings grow and more about making nickels every 10 ms. C trading 500MM shares a day is like people rolling dice every millisecond in the alley way and exchanging money upon every roll. The other example that I was searching for but couldn't recall was when GM went bankrupt and the stock was still trading over $1. This was purely trading activity even though the "future earnings" of the stock was 0.

It's become a casino where probability theory dominate and less about "I drink Coke so I should buy KO".

BTW, I'm not saying this is good or bad. I just believe this is how the markets are. The same thing happened when daytraders entered the markets during the dotcom boom. I do believe gaming the system, trying to "break" the markets with quote stuffing, etc, is wrong, but fundamentally I believe that the nature of the markets have changed, and anyone who wants to get involved in it should understand the nature of the change. Anyone who thinks that they should keep their money in mutual funds and let the mutual fund companies sip 2-5% every year for doing worse than the markets, and then also exposing yourself to market crashes every 7-10 years, I believe, are fools.
The equivalent open source product: SparkleShare. Except it doesn't do Windows yet (but supposedly will soon)
I'm not saying that it's impossible to be denied coverage; I'm saying that continuous coverage can make that a non-problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_an...

> based on prevalence in the population, it's crazy that they're auto-decline conditions.

Are they "auto-decline" or "they can't charge expected costs"?

> I'm not going to get into the severity of the "chronic conditions" we're talking about because they're none of your business

No one asked you to, so why the attitude?
Managerial skills
there are four managerial skills in this article. it will help us to understand about managerial and how make it better.
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