skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Amazon is a platform, Google is not. Make Google a platform."
Whelp I guess this needs updating now, https://github.com/basho/webmachine/raw/master/docs/http-hea...
> Are we ever going to have a social network run by people with sufficient diplomatic skill to host a simple birthday party?

No, because engineers run social networks, and many engineers are ironically socially lacking.

But that's besides the point. I thought Brin's response was HUMAN! Consider that he could have gone the PR route with "we value all our employees' opinions and are looking into the matter". I vastly prefer honesty over PR; and I think many engineers do too.
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Who knows, maybe Yegge is wrong? Not saying he is, but what makes everybody so sure they know the best future strategy for Google?
I really feel sorry for him and his family.One more victim of the stupid, time-consuming US immigration laws.I completed this immigration ordeal and witnessed many of my friends in immigration limbo.It is an extremely difficult, frustrating and time-consuming experience, not to mention it sucks whatever you earn.

There seems to be some confusion related to his legal status.He entered US legally and applied asylum for him and his family.During this period, they are in legal status. After they apply for asylum, they have no control or information over that process.If the immigration process was fast enough, none of this would have happened.When the immigration rejected their application after a long time, they filed an appeal which was rejected again.Now they have run out of attempts via the asylum option and are being kicked out. I hope they can try some other category.

<rant>
The immigration process, with so many different categories and quotas, is a huge bureaucratic mess. The are still using papers and just recently started using online documents for some processing. It is the second highest profitable government agency minting money out of immigrants. The process can be streamlined and made faster even with the current policies. But who cares about legal immigration anyway? Let those "aliens" stand in line and wait forever. I personally know many friends and families living with constant fear and uncertainty for almost a decade or more.

The policies and rules are just too confusing and inconsistent.Two identical immigrant families can go through completely different process, duration and rules depending on whether a knowledgeable or ignorant immigration agent processing their files.
</rant>
> According to this[1] data Honeycomb is <2% of used Android versions.

Because it's a closed-source Android variant that only works on specific devices.
I can't wait until the supported browsers are ubiquitous enough to use these exclusively. The animations on the demo page look great!
5 Reasons Why Oink Will Pose A Decent Threat To Foursquare
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Idea No. 4 is implemented by Cloud9 very well; http://c9.io
Porti di Roma
"Don't get caught up by the lights and sirens." - this is great.

That being said, if you know about the lights and sirens and still choose that path, maybe that's the path for you after all. i.e. - you can't build a business without doing the boring stuff as well as the fun stuff.
Warner Bros. Greenlights ‘Akira’ Remake
Google's Horowitz should Google the word 'healthy'
I've spoken with several couples in Tokyo that were told by the US Embassy here that they should get married before trying to move to the US, since marrying afterwards would be a nightmare.
I'd also point out that basically all tool development is done in the open in AOSP. As you pointed out, it's usually just a matter of finding the people necessary to do code reviews.
Plenty of blame for both sides here, I've heard a whole bunch of immigrant bashing at, well... every Republican event in the last 5 years. Way more than Obama typically does.

My read on it was Obama stepped up enforcement for political cover when he gets accused of things like that by the Republicans, which is still plenty of stupid and weak on his part. Especially since they'll never agree to actually do comprehensive immigration reform if it would be perceived as a victory for Obama.
Ask HN: Form LLC in Virginia
I've started taking on enough side work and want to launch a couple side projects, so it's come time to form an LLC.

What's the best way to do so? Any guides or advice one could offer? Just don't want to miss any essential steps and have it kick me in the ass later.
I find the problem with most of the open source UI's out there is the lack of good search capabilities. It is just so easy to open up gmail and search for a document. Everything else that uses imap seems slow and old.
Sincere / insincere.
Flabric: easy Flask app deployment to EC2
Inspired by Fabulous, I wanted to make deployment of Flask apps to EC2 a somewhat trivial task. Would love some feedback or suggestions for improvement

https://github.com/mattupstate/flabric
Decorator for OAuth server authentication in Python/Django
> My only concern is that 511 could be seen as legitimizing the practice of putting silly click-through terms-of-service roadblocks on free wi-fi (making it impossible for devices to connect without a human operating a web browser), but since people are doing it anyway we might as well support it properly.

Filter on User-Agent to only show terms to browser. If non-human agent spoofs browser signature, it’s their own fault.
One quibble. Perhaps I don't quite get the philosophy behind these, but wouldn't it be more useful to have a uniform structure to the responses. E.g., how useful is it to the average user to get a human-readable response for 428 when it's likely to be consumed by an app (i.e., JS) which would have to parse the suggested <p> tag?
Creating an iOS-like Home Screen with CoffeeScript
"Pirates do vote with their wallets -- they keep their wallets closed and don't support any players in the market."

But yet, they still take the content. It's a half-hearted and disingenuous form of boycott. If the goal were really to send Hollywood a message, and to take an absolute moral high ground in doing so, then wouldn't a more effective message be sent in not consuming the product whatsoever? Not buying it and not pirating it?

For what it's worth, I don't disagree whatsoever with your anger toward the industry, or with your critiques of their business practices. The only functional difference in our positions is that I don't try to pretend that downloading a product I haven't paid for is somehow justified by a post-facto moral facade I bolt onto my actions.

Now, all of that aside, let's get to the heart of the matter here: people enjoy quality content. Hollywood produces a lot of quality content (despite Michael Bay's best attempts to undermine that fact). What people enjoy about Hollywood is the production side of the business. What they don't enjoy is the distribution side. Historically, those two have been intertwined because production -- in and of itself -- is not profitable. It is the cost center of the industry. Spending $200MM to produce a tentpole movie, or even $2MM to produce a little indie movie, is an investment that can only generate a return when packaged, distributed, and monetized somehow.

Therein lies the challenge. We all want Hollywood to make product, but we don't want Hollywood to sell us that product. Eventually, Hollywood might pull out of the distribution side of the business altogether, and find a way to monetize its production by charging its distributors (Apple, Netflix, Amazon, etc.) higher fees of some stripe. But eventually, those fees will get passed onto the consumer, one way or the other.
Fwiw, many is a very relative term there. Android phones are definitely mainstream. I'd say of all the people I know that have an android phone, less than 10% even know what "open source" means.
Power wise, I believe it's A9 > A7.
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus is now up for Pre-order at amazon
Could you expand on that last sentence, as an American I find it very interesting?
Think Platforms.
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Yeah, it's true :) My point is, easier distribution is good for the creators and the customers. Lots of musicians make a living by putting all their music online for free. Podcasters obviously do fine in the face of massive "piracy" of their free shows. It's not that hard to make money when people are sharing your stuff, even on a commercial scale. Every Blu-ray movie is available as a torrent. But millions of people still buy them.
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I think this is a credible statement given that fact that participants didn't sign up for a reality TV show -- they signed up for a start-up incubator!
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No one is denying the bootstrap.

They were all bootstrapped by individuals working in their spare time. I get that. I accept that. I have no issues with that.

What I'm arguing is that the above current projects are more a product of corporate development and drive than anything else.

And the commit logs are on my side.
In India, a phone that changes SIM cards with a single shake
i use activemerchant in my rails app (http://corduroysite.com) that charges cards through braintree.

card information is stored in braintree's secure vault and monthly subscription charges are processed on my server using each customer's vault token. braintree got easier recurring billing since i implemented this, but it all works so i'm not about to change it.
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Ask HN: How long it took for your SaaS startup to reach 1000 paying customers?
I was thinking about my soon to be launched SaaS app, Things like, we'll get 24 hours support and full time server admin and security people after we reach 1000 paying customers. But, I don't know how long it takes to reach 1000 paying customers. So I thought I'd ask you wonderful people, who already do SaaS, How long it took you reach 1000 paying customers?
This seems rational, but it’s too much complexity for too little gain. If no one have solved this problem in the last 10 years, it won’t happen now.
These neuroscientists are very confused if they think they can say anything useful about free will, or evil, or the like. Unless they are going to provide empirical evidence against determinism itself, there's nothing those brain scans are going to tell them about these issue.

Will Wilkinson argues the point here:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40538
Why You should Use the Cloud to Transfer your Phone Contacts (infographic)
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> As important as the launch of a new core design is, ARM’s heterogenous multiprocessing plans are perhaps the biggest news to come out of Wednesday’s event.

I find it interesting mostly in its validation of NVidia's Kal-El strategy (the article also quotes the PS3, but I don't think it applies: PS3's heterogenous CPU also uses very disparate architectures and behaviors, it's not a similar core with a lower load envelope)
Memphis also has had some trouble funding start-ups, but we've at least got some start-up support organizations trying to fix that.

http://www.launchmemphis.com/
http://www.emergememphis.org/
I might be interested. Shoot me an email (check my profile) and a quick description and we'll see if it's something that I'd be interested and willing to tackle. If not, I might be able to refer you to others.
I've started a consulting shop here in VA, and initially did it through one of the cheaper online one-stop-legal-shops (I think I used LegalZoom) -- and initially formed as an LLC. We later, after getting our feet under us and actually consulting a lawyer (I can recommend a good law firm with strong tech background in NoVA, if that's where you are) we ended up re-organizing as an S-corp (not an LLC) for several reasons.

Long story short: I'd spend a couple hundred bucks to get a lawyer's input on your own situation and make sure you're getting set up right out of the gates.
Chrome is in between. Most of the browser is developed in public, but large V8 features tend to be developed in secret (Crankshaft, in particular).
Probably because it takes too long to load the images.
The FLOW3 Framework: Introducing clean AOP, DI, DDD, etc. to PHP
In other word, as usual, there are special privileges for the rich; go figure.
I have personal experience using a number of solutions for startups. I find the Recurly.JS solution to be one of the absolute easiest to get up and running without any actual programming. It's great for MVPs. http://js.recurly.com

* Chargify

* Recurly

* CheddarGetter

* Authorize.NET (and subsequently CyberSource)

In addition to what I've mentioned from personal experience, there's a couple of previous posts on this subject worth checking out:

* Poll: How do you bill recurring payments? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201363

* Ask HN: Recurring Billing Solutions - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438929

* Recurring Billing For Web Apps - http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/reoccurring-billing-for-web-apps...
Advice to advisers: Stop being so nice.
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Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]
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http://userfly.com/ also does this
Pirates do vote with their wallets -- they keep their wallets closed and don't support any players in the market.

I think you are wrong about this. Various studies have shown that pirates are generally the industry's best customers. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110727/16233815292/anothe... and the industry knows this https://torrentfreak.com/former-google-cio-limewire-pirates-...
We like comments that promote thoughtful discussion about the article or the subjects they are about. The grandparent comment is not a good comment when judged by this standard. It is not really related to the subject at hand and if it actually did start discussion it would be a hindrance and distraction.

If it had not been the bottom comment already I would have probably downvoted it for these reasons.
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Because the name is "Android Open Source Project".

It's totally fine to develop closed source software! The problem is that if you market something that's actually closed as "open", you're being disingenuous.

Apple did the same thing with Darwin, but to their credit they started backing off on the "open source" marketing once it became clear that they were heading in that direction.
Hey, you, good job on that.  Keep it up.
The iPhone 4S Costs $0.49 More to Build than the iPhone 4
I'm not quite sure. Chromium (the open-source end of Chrome) is very much a cathedral in the sense of product direction, but is developed in the open. I can't come up with something that has the opposite pairing though (it'd be kind of strange).

I'm all in favor of some pithy term for "source released under an open license but not developed in full view of the public."
Took me more than a year and a letter from my congressmen to get a fiancée visa for my wife.

- Even when we finally got an interview the visa was rejected at first because I was living there, with her, instead of back in the USA, alone. They said I had not maintained 'domicile' in the USA and therefore did not intend to return home.

- When we finally received the visa it listed my father as the sponsor instead of me. We had to get a new one.

- Somewhere on the USCIS website it actually stated that applicants were 'guilty until proven innocent'

- In the waiting room, waiting for the final, correct visa there were a group of Americans waiting to adopt. They were given a nice instruction session on what to do, how to fill out the forms, how to deal with the Chinese adoption policies. I, however, felt I had been actively refused help at every turn in a deliberately opaque bureaucracy.
The average hedge fund averages something closer to 11% (Wikipedia_. It is easy to pick the winners after the fact. And, when you have too much money it is harder to get greater returns on it. It's a lot easier to find 10 million dollar opportunities than 1 billion dollar opportunities.
according to @teyc's comment, nutsmail sells templates for it.
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because Google felt they had to release something to stop manufacturers shoehorning 2.2 into tablets and making thelm look bad.
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This isn't a fair criticism in my opinion. Anybody who has a camera in their face all day can be made to look stupid. That even goes for the most practiced politicians.

Even the best first time start-up CEO's require hundreds of run-throughs to get their story polished. TechStars exists in large part to give entrepreneurs this opportunity to practice.
In this case, it's because I don't want to assume that every dataset that will be used with this code stays in RAM, and it's simpler to handle things on the FS level by adding a new png to the stack, than to keep track of the images in RAM. This way the code can be "simpler"
kinda neat...but...you need to read:
http://contrastrebellion.com/

and redesign your site...easily the biggest violation of my eyes ever.
I'm just going to put this here
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will

EDIT: Ok, I'll just say that it's more useful when facing a difficult question like this that isn't even guaranteed to have a correct answer to first ask what causes the question. That is asking, "Why do we think we have free will", before going back to the question of whether or not it exists.
http://notmuchmail.org/ is a good alternative to Sup, but neither of these are webmail.
Using www.bookshrink.com to pick out the important sentences, it would have to be Platforms.

Top 4 Sentences:

1 (1.000000): So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com.

2 (0.909058): One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.

3 (0.893197): That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't "get" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority.

4 (0.873655): A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Your confusing historical returns with expected returns. There are types of investments only available to people or institutions with a lot of capital, but plenty of companies invest in them and you can buy a piece of them on the public stock market. Unfortunately, most of these investments carry a high risk of returning nothing. It's like noticing your friend went to Vegas and made 5,000$ in a few hours, the problem is he only did that by risking losses and your just happen to see the upside.

PS: Or as my grandfather who made plenty of money in the stock market said, "Don't invest in banks they can look like their doing well and then die at any time."
$50K is peanuts for a business that is growing. It's the cost of employing an engineer for 4 months.

Honestly if a business isn't planning on investing $50K, why would the US want it?

Start your internet business outside the US, than apply for E-2 telling you want to move your business to Silicon Valley.

Also hire an immigration lawyer. You are hiring engineers to hack code, you hire lawyers to hack the law.

I'm a European and I intent to do exactly this.
Samsung takes smartphone crown in Q3 as shipments top Apple, Nokia
We feel you! We've gotten that feedback, so we're totally changing the sign-up process and opening it up so you get access immediately. Give us a couple of weeks; code takes time, but we're on it.

For now, we sent you an invite to the current alpha. Check your email. We're making the whole product much better soon, so stay tuned.
Mmmmm... we use Paypal, anybody got any comments?
Am I the only one that interpreted as a light-hearted sarcastic remark? In the same interview he admitted to being very sarcastic when supporting key features of g+
I'd like to hear the audio to check out his inflection and the full context.

I was surprised by Vic ending with "that's why we didn't fire him." The thought of firing Yegge over a rant would signal extreme shortsightedness to me...
I know this is an unpopular opinion but, having worked for the government and as an attorney I think it is always sad when families are deported but it is not outrageous. The laws are the laws and they apply equally to (almost) everybody. When people over stay their visas they have broken the law, there is no getting around that and no amount of hard work, tax paying or community involvement can change that. People are arrested and jailed everyday under inequitable laws (crack/cocaine sentencing discrepancy comes to mind) but the way to fix it isn't to get caught up under that law and complain about it.

It's unfortunate that this man will have to relocate but I feel more sympathy for his son than him.
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The Atlantic offers a couple of opportunities.

"First, if you're an entrepreneur with a company in the South, we'd like to invite you to record your "Creation Story" as an audio clip"

"Second, if you represent a region, say the Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation, and you want to make a pitch for your area, whether or not it's on our route, you can write us 300 words"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/in-sea...
Braintree or Stripe
I would prefer to read that as privileges for those who create jobs. It's not enough to be rich.
> Lots of musicians make a living by putting all their music online for free

No they don't. They make a living doing something else. Putting the music online for free is advertising.
You are making a much bolder claim than the article, a very specious claim to boot (that for some reason sustainable businesses can't do good work), and you are not providing any supporting evidence for this controversial claim. You may not have meant it as a troll, but the effect is very similar

The article is just saying that running an X business means you spend a lot more of your time on the "running a business" part than the X part, for any value of X. It doesn't mean you can't do a good job at X — just that you get to enjoy X more as a consumer than a producer.