skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always believed there are three kinds of entrepreneurs. 1) Those that want to build an empire from scratch. 2) Those that want to build to sell and retire rich. 3) Those that want to generate an income stream that will allow them to live the lifestyle of their choice (maybe working 3 days a week).

All are valid and I consider all of them startups.
I'm not sure when you last visited, but PeepCode has been $12 per video for quite some time now.
The Robin Hood Tax
Arrington is an arrogant bullying gasbag, so I don't care if he gets beat up in an interview. The rest of this piece is a lot more interesting: "This is mirror-tocracy not meritocracy." Absolutely true, and it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who pays attention.
He did not start the Pixar. He bought it and then sold it.
Garage Door Repairs | Garage Doors
They may not actually be collecting data right now, but the ToS explicitly grants them the ability to do so at some point in the future.
Infographic: Everything You Need To Know About Facebook Security
Motorola Droid Razr price in UK, Canada, India
Last words of Steve Jobs
I think this may be the one you mean: http://paulgraham.com/prcmc.html
Groupon IPO a Must as Cash Needs Climb
There is a great list here:

http://blog.hiremebecauseimsmart.com/post/2860511335/design-...

Note, scroll way down to see the content, the formatting is screwy. Note 2, I'm not a quant but the math I do overlaps tremendously.

edit: previous HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130508
That's good to hear. I still had to download an 80MB iTunes update recently, but hopefully the update tech they're using will spread across the company.
I am still experimenting with price but my starting price point $16 was where most sales were made. However, I do have a large audience and you tend to sell the most copies up front.. :)
This reminds me of part-timing graduate school!

It's a hellish experience, full of not being able to do other things with my life including maintaining my health and expanding my life outside of the computer screen!
Being disruptive does not mean that you do everything on day one. This is how you start.
TTLs for Dropbox
We have a real-time API and we're not afraid to use it. Are you?
China Shandong (CSNH): Looking for Strength Next Week
I would be careful with this comparison. Many BluRay disks of older movies are just upscaled from the DVD (I'm guessing here - not actually sure how it's mastered) and aren't significantly different than what you would get with an upscaling DVD player.

You would have to get a "recent" movie mastered specifically for BluRay to see the difference. I've done this several times myself (specifically "The Princess Bride" - which appears to be an upscale, and "How to Train your Dragon" which is significantly clearer).
Probably depends on if the idea is your one true dream, or just something you found interesting enough to invest the time/take the risk. That would have a huge impact on if the money is worth giving up being in control of the company/product's destiny.
Thanks, I did not realize this SE existed!
I only read the slides, but at one point the author mentions that they've built an hybrid app using (Haskell + C#).

Next, the author mentions about several limitations that C# has and that Haskell has a much better approach.

So, why use C#? Why not only use Haskell?
Assuming you are doing this to create a business and not for... fun. Work smarter instead of longer. Sign up for the Micropreneur Academy they have a lot of great articles for working smarter http://www.micropreneur.com

It boils down to stop trying to do everything yourself. Put a dollar value per hour on your time and aim for $75 - $100. Then you realize doing something yourself is NOT free but extremely expensive. Then you can look into outsourcing (programming, virtual assistant, copy writing, etc) with a more open mind. Once you are doing that you are making much more effective use of your time and you will not need as much time to get more done than you are now.

Following this (especially points 6-8) worked really well for me http://sivers.org/how2hire.

It took me a really long time to get this and actually do something about it. It's very liberating and exciting to see completed work come back.
As a result of the sale, he also became a major shareholder in Disney and joined the board. That might have had a bigger impact for him than just the monetary value from the sale.
The developer's guide to mobile frameworks
I thought the last crash basically trashed Quants and the idea you can model financial system :)

If you are looking into getting into high frequency trading take note that the world's exchanges are changing to crack down on some of the practices.
Bill Gates -- I helped Steve Jobs create the Mac
Do I have to be cold-hearted cynic guy again? Fine.

He redesigned things around his hospital room because he had a pad and pencil, and he was bored. There's no reason to believe that the X-ray machine he drew was better than the X-ray machines designed by X-ray machine designers with a better idea of the details and tradeoffs involved with designing X-ray machines. And that's no insult to Steve, because I'm sure he knew that too -- he was just drawing for the sake of drawing.
Not as much as you would think. Most people don't quite like the US but vastly prefer us to, say, China.
The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Quantitative-Professionals-Mc...

Great book. It's what I recommend to my new developers when we hire them without previous financial services experience.
In other smaller experiments earlier this year, they had no generator attached to the cell:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article31...
Como Adelgazar en Una Semana entre 5 y 7 Kilos
He mentions that later on during the Q&A session
Sometimes a metaphor can use a familiar context to make an issue clearer.

For example, "muddy the waters" is a great way of expressing briefly a more complex idea. You don't have to explain that water is clear, that mud is opaque. and that when you mix the two, you get something that's hard to see through.
Nice, last I heard of these guys they'd only built models of four of their devices - and I think that was mostly a tractor that you could attach things to.
From the Economics stand point, overall it's good that there are small start-ups whose sole purpose to succeed in some specialized area and later be bought off by a larger company that can use in some strategic maneuver. This is analogous to X-prize factor.

In fact, Apple has benefited tremendously by buying off companies to enhance its products (e.g. touch screen). Had everyone out there decided to build long sustaining companies, there would had been large economic inefficiencies.
Any of Paul Wilmott's books. Either his single Introduction to Quantitative Finance, or his three volume set. His focus is on knowing where models work and where they break down, and how to avoid using them naively. http://wilmott.com/
What he's criticizing is doing a startup specifically so that it could be flipped later. If you are in it to build a real company, you actually go through the hard work that Jobs is talking about.

Did you start viaweb to sell it to someone else later, or did you start it to build an actual sustainable business?
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I've noticed some people can't let go of this, so dedicated are they to the idea that Jobs was a charismatic but otherwise worthless manager type. That he was all flash and no substance. A bullshitter.

That's too bad.
The standards bodies are the browser manufacturers now.
Caltech is the odd one out in the other direction:

Caltech undergrad enrollment: 967
Poll: What would you do if you discovered a powerful but dangerous technology?
My wife and I were discussing this while waiting in the immigration line at CDG Paris. What would you do if you discovered an immensely powerful technology that had the potential to benefit humanity, but at the same time destroy it. I suggested, for example, an energy technology that could provide enough clean and plentiful energy to power the world forever, but could also be used as a weapon far more destructive than a million atomic bombs. What would you do if you alone discovered it?
Turn it over to your government, with the risk that they would weaponize it
Turn it over to a rival government, in exchange for power and fortune
Opensource it so that everyone could benefit from it
Keep it secret and create a company that could profit from the monopoly
Keep the discovery a secret, because the world is not ready for it
Weaponize it yourself and use it as leverage to gain power
In 1996, the CERN did reproduce Focardi's first experiment:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CerronZebainvestigat.pdf

They discovered results consistent with Focardi et al.: excess heat around the nickel bar and hydrogen absorption. However they also placed an additional temperature sensor on the container of the cell which was unable to measure any significant excess heat. They theorize that the nickel bar is prone to local variations of its thermal characteristics, correlated to the phenomenon of hydrogen absorption. They concede that hydrogen absorption remains unexplained.

Then Focardi took this feedback into account and wrote the 1998 paper which I linked above.

But the stigma attached to cold fusion did entice researchers to have a 2nd look at this later paper. Some of the scientists interviewed on October 28, 2011 for the test admit that they had never read about hydrogen-nickel fusion until 2011. You can bet that from now on, many are starting to look into it...
Layer 8: Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012
More Than Facebook: The Time Is Right For Social Business - Forbes
Google Maps to charge for usage
dude thats awesome man....I have been thinking of making a cool virtual reality app where you changed the projection of the view with the accelerometer and gyroscope...could potentially use your library aking it...thanks a lot!
It's not nitpicking to me... it(autobio vs bio) does make a huge difference even in this age.
He said make money, not be profitable. If you don't have a business model, you're not a company.
Probably yes. I can't find the source, but I think I remember him saying something along the lines of "if the firmware cannot be updated, it can be considered akin to hardware and doesn't need to be free".
If Alice in Wonderland could proclaim Happy Unbirthdays, could we then perhaps proclaim a Unhappy 7 Billion Day?
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners.

http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur...

I'm finding this a more interesting and detailed read than _Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals_. For instance, the book traces through everything that happens when placing, executing, and settling typical trades.

On the other hand, I've taken the Canadian Securities Course, so perhaps Capital Markets is a better introduction for total beginners.
Thanks. It's me (name, email in my profile) and I'm still working out some kinks on the site... because i use Disqus for the comments they are being served non-ssl which is causing the error... I have to fix that.
Question : How do I go about drawing my own point clouds.?
I've pointed it in the first three paragraphs. No worries for being snippy. In fact, you aren't :)
I've always found people get it very well when I explain it like this:

Me: "You know when you search on Google for stuff?"
Them: "Yeah"
Me: "And there's a list of things to click on? You usually look at the top ones first, right?"
Them: "Yeah"
Me: "I put your website on the top so people looking for what you sell will see your website first"
Them: "Wow, that sounds great"
She's never explicitly named; the only thing that gives her away is a single phrase: "chiseled spam"

I love literary Easter eggs like that.
Would it be less or more worthy of criticism if pg had specifically planned to sell viaweb and start ycombinator?
Git client Tower now with file history, blame & Lion full screen support
Why did the API never get publicly, and officially released?
Exactly. Bad behavior should be punished. If companies could just release any junk they wanted and paper it over with a hit game, the online rights world would be a worse place even than it is now.
Why the Cards won the series
What's wrong with looking to make a quick buck without having to work hard for it in the first place?
Basically everything to make it look as much like our site as possible.

For example, we have a textured background, so to begin with it would be nice if the iframe background was transparent by default. We have taken care of this, but we had to write a script to set it to transparent after it is generated by your script because your script gives it a white background by default.

We have styles applied to all input fields, we don’t use pure black text but instead a slightly off-black that has better contrast with our background color, we even use a web font from google. So as you can imagine, the frame looks pretty foreign on our page.

We would be more than willing to serve the sheet from our servers. Maybe we could provide you with a url and you could just add it to a link tag in the head of the page you serve.

We’re about to wrap up our wepay integration now, we’d be happy to be in a test group for something like this. I’m dave [at] soupnextdoor.com if you want a guinea pig.

[edit: clarification where needed]
The talk you link to in that essay leads to a 404. Is it this talk on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY)?

If so, maybe you want to update the link.
Create a Blog with Attitude by Using Google Web Fonts
HTML5 Zombies invade Yellowpages.com for Halloween
Despite the quality look of the site, it appears to need a little work---at least so far as the sign-up mechanism goes. The twitter approach is broken. I don't have a get hub account so I didn't test that. I also (personal preference here) would prefer a sign up without a dependency on any other service---CPAN certainly doesn't care, why should PrePAN care? Although I suppose it might have been a matter of expediency, quicker to develop or something.
Outsmarted: CAPTCHA Security Not Much of a Gotcha
The most trusted media outlet who wrote about E-Cat was Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/30/believing-i...

It is worth noting that the Italian Patent Office first rejected Rossi's patent on claims it was dubious, but they finally recently granted it in April 6, 2011: http://www.uibm.gov.it/uibm/dati/Avanzata.aspx?load=info_lis...

As I said, Rossi and Focardi are very bad at making themselves look credible. Hopefully, over the next year or so, the situation will clear up.
How much does it cost? Their page doesn't say.
A distinction I've always thought pretty pointless. There is, after all, no difference in meaning between "my love is like a red red rose" and "my love is a red red rose" (assuming that you're love isn't actually a red red rose in which case you need to get out more).

This, however, isn't really a simile, it's more of an analogy. Similes are used for rhetorical or poetic purposes, whereas analogies are used for explaining things.
What I meant was Microsoft's bloated and unwieldy C compiler, I don't recall if it had achieved the moniker 'visual' by DOS 4 or if that waited until Win95 release. It came in a green box on at least 4 floppies and was a PITA to use. Turbo Pascal, compared to that, made me wonder why Microsoft didn't adopt it as their 'main' implementation tool.
Yeah, I don't see how to use <data> semantically at all. Even if it's within a microformat itemscope (which isn't required), there doesn't seem to be a standard way for the user agent to get a schema for the itemtype which would tell it that, e.g., <data class="dtstart"> contains a date. For an HTML standard, they're wasting too much time on features that can only be useful in a client/server hell of document-specific js everywhere.
Choosing a Mesothelioma Doctor
>> They aren't charities designed to enhance our lives, they're businesses.

Yes, but how many of their users are actually aware of that? How are these business advertise to attract users? Does that reflect it's business model? Could it be misleading?
I have found that this is the case not only for technical matters, but for anything that is out of the audience's comfort zone.

Putting things in terms of something that he can relate to in his every day personal life will immediately make things clearer.
I freelance/consult in a pretty niche field. Keep in mind that I may not be the target market for this idea, but my engagements are typically 3-6 months long. If everyone I worked with in the last 12 months gave their feedback, I might have 5 reviews.

I think the 37signals thing works really well because they have volume customers at lower prices, while the freelancers I know have few customers at super high prices.

But there are also several kinds of freelancers. I don't know if you're trying to target me or the companies that do 3 logo comps per day at $1000/project.
Bill Gates Dismisses Criticism in Steve Jobs Biography
Maybe it doesn't apply so much for visual design, but I often find that a negative reaction to a new concept or piece of software is better than a "meh" reaction. One example: I made a browser game a few years back, one of the early players posted a huge rant about how frustrating the game was, I fixed the design issues they raised, they grew to love the game.

So I tend to think that a negative reaction is often a sign you have something good, but flawed. You don't want people saying "yeah, that's kinda cool", you want them saying "OMG THIS THING SUCKS I'M TRYING TO GET IT TO DO X BUT I CANT BECAUSE IT DOESNT HAVE FEATURE Y" - at least in the second case you know you have something they want, and you know how to fix it.
Ask HN: Android to iOS Development Tutorials?
Hi,

A little bit of background: I am an Android Developer who has written several applications for the Android platform. So, I know Android fairly well. I am currently learning iOS development from scratch. I have no prior knowledge of how iOS works or Objective-C or Cocoa.

A while ago, I stumbled upon this excellent write up: http://clayallsopp.posterous.com/building-an-android-app-from-scratch-or-this. It's a tutorial on how to create an Android application from the perspective of an iOS Developer. I read it back then, not really understanding anything the author said about iOS because I had no experience in iOS.

However, I am currently learning how to develop an iPhone app and now that I understand the jargon, I went back and re-read the tutorial. It's good, but I was wondering if anybody knew of a tutorial that was the reverse of this: i.e. building an iOS Application from the perspective of an Android developer. I've Googled, but have been unsuccessful in my attempts. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

~Nemisis7654
A clickable link of the tutorial I linked to: http://clayallsopp.posterous.com/building-an-android-app-fro...
> But there’s a significant difference. Valve’s policy is self-restricted to anything on your PC directly relating to its own products. EA’s is so broad that it gives the publisher permission to scan your entire hard drive, and report back absolutely anything you may have installed, and indeed when you may use it, and then pass that information on the third parties.

So currently Valve uses that clause mainly to scan for cheats and hacks; EA goes way beyond.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/24/eas-origin-eula-p...
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There was also a great debate between PG and DHH (of Rails fame) on what defines a "startup," as well as some philosophical tangents on what made one successful. It was a really good discussion.

This quote reminded me of that thread, but I'll be darned if I can find it now.
I did this while working for a startup in the late 90's. I built the site in 6 mos of hacking away from 8p to 2a every day. My days usually went: arrive at work at 10am, leave at 7p. Eat from 7:30-8. I worked, my wife read or watched tv. She went to bed around 11, I came in around 2a.

After 6 months she was pretty pissed about the schedule. But after 7 years of bootstrapping, we sold our "side project" for over $10 million and she's pretty happy about it now.
Disclaimer: I'm not a quant and don't know where to source data on this topic.

But from what I'e read, the size of the derivatives market was approximately 5-6X global GDP in the mid 00's. Now, it's over 20X global GDP. If that market ever crashed, we'd be looking back at the crash of '08 as 'good times'.
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I think the spectrum of possible actions is far broader than the list you provide. Without more information about the hypothetical invention, I do not see how anyone can come to a rational conclusion about what their personal behavior might be.
The whole startup, get funding, sell the company idea is a new one to me - and yet i've been self-employed for close to 12 years. I had one job after High School, and that was working with my dad.

So my opinion on this is likely not so valid - but I think that those that enter into it for the 'quick buck' are few and far between, and also those that succeed at it are even fewer. It's not the 'ideal' way to go about starting a business, and I don't think it's the norm either.

It's a sweeping generalization - which is easiest to make and from reading his Bio, Steve's normal communication style as well.
That is the one. Looked right at the name in the list of essays and skipped it. Thanks Paul. Good to reread.
Steve Jobs said to Woz that he personally couldn't remember this happening, but that if it happened, then he apologized.

Kids do a lot of stupid things. I've done my share of stupid things as well in my early 20s. To vilify him for something he did 30+ years previous and for something he apologized for is ridiculous.
Isn't veyron a quant (or someone who works in finance)? I'm hoping to see a response from him/her.
I remember a quote from Startup School which went something along the lines of,

"Don't pick an idea for the sole reason that it will allow you to do a start up. Find a problem that you're truly passionate about solving, and things will take care of themselves"
I think that's stretching the definition of lifestyle business a bit much. Surely not every person who starts a business for the long haul is building a lifestyle business?

A lifestyle business is a business you start in order to live a certain lifestyle. The dictionary definition talks about generating an income that is sufficient to sustain a lifestyle, but no more. Steve certainly didn't start Apple because he wanted to maintain a specific lifestyle.
Oh please. Compared to over a billion PCs worldwide? If you are going to build a bot-net, would you really target the Mac? Gimme a break dude.

Considering the vast difference between Windows and OS X APIs; it's quite clear why mal-programmers don't waste their time with OS X. You would have to spend MORE than half your time attacking the Mac for less than 10% of your total attack surface.

The only other argument that has been made in the face of this fact is from Gruber who said: If Macs have 10% of the market, why don't they have 10% of the viruses? That's like saying because I am Nth the size of the sun, I should have Nth the power of the sun. Reality does not work that way. Everything does not have to be proportional and in this case it's crystal clear why it is not proportional.

Would you please kindly concede this point now?
Bureaucracy is the price we pay for standardization. You imply that there is an easier way that could have standardized these technologies "long ago", I'd like to hear it.
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