skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that the tone here when it's Apple suing over flimsy multitouch, pinch-to-zoom and design patents that look like a rectangle(and demanding that they stop production, not even ask for a licensing fee) is they're protecting their innovation, but when it's Microsoft it's all about a evil monopolist.

Reminds me of the argument that Apple's winning because they derive the most profit out of the phone business inspite of Android's marketshare, but Apache's winning in the web server business inspite of Microsoft making the most money out of it.
I get what your saying, I just disagree.

And I think alot of people take my point of view as evidenced by the votes my initial post received.

No worries, thanks for the point of view:)
Ah Stuxnet, how I love thee...let me count the ways.

1. Brilliant execution of a highly unorthodox and extremely potent weapon delivery system.
2. Fantastic way to say to the rest of the world that the U.S. _can and will_ wreck your industrial processes for WMD without you being able to do shit about it.
3. The name is awesome.
I've also tried whitepapers or ebooks with limited success. On the phone, people often assume they are marketing pamphelets and hold no value.

I have had success with inviting people to educational lunches with catchy titles. Name dropping competitors you are speaking with is something you can try to pitch attendance. The effectiveness of that varies by market. I think educational marketing works...you just need to find the right vehicle. I highly recommend Chet Holmes's 'Ultimate Sales Machine.'

Depending on your price point and geography I think simply setting up a meeting is a great first step. Most businesses are secretly relationship businesses. Taking an interest in a set of ideal customers and really building a relationship pays dividends in my experience.

edit: Thanks for the kind words. I am happy to chat about it. I hope more people take something away from it. Forgive me for losing focus and not putting the thank you in the original comment.
I am not surprised or in awe that he is putting in 16 hours a day. Every passionate founder would likely be doing it. I am sure most of us have heard Steve Job's on how building a company is usually a 18x7 work-week.

What I am in awe and admiration is that he is managing two companies and in this case two completely different ones by nature! A rule generally accepted in the startup land is that you don't work on multiple ideas, in order to stay focussed on building one thing well. While twitter is not a startup (any longer) and Square is probably a very big/late-phase startup (if we can qualify it as that), they both definitely need the caring and nurturing of a founder (IMO). Given that, it is remarkable he is able to do the context switch needed to run both the companies. I would love to know how effective his leadership is, in both these companies, given that he isn't there longer than a typical day in either of them.

I am so tempted to try doing more than one thing, but then since I am a coder, I guess its not easy to digress daily as he can.
Although the goals are clearly different, Dean Kamen (inventor of Segway) has been working on optimizing Stirling engines for years with seemingly great results:

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news4.24.08d...
This passage alone was worth the read:

I decided I would offer to write them up on my customer-focused blog in return for a tour of their facility and a short interview. It gave me blog content, a personal chance to add customers, and a way to learn a lot about my prospects. It gave them some traffic, a relevant link, and a blog mention they could point to for social proof.

He contacted people only after doing research and asked if they wanted to be featured on his blog. He gave value first and built connections. This isn't a story about cold calling so much as a story about how relationships, and by extension business, work.
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My favorite professor, Michael Meurer was my patent law professor. Great guy who came as close to being balanced and realistic on the current state of the patent world.

Can't wait to read and comment
CNN Money reports that it was confirmed suicide.
Prestamos para empresas como mal credito
Hardware, software and financial services.
How does Scala contribute to this problem? It does not have checked exceptions.
That's already on the list, but thanks anyway.
Good for him.

Regardless of whether or not it's sustainable, I simply do not want that type of lifestyle. If I'm not as "successful" because of that, so be it.
This is not something to be idolized. Maybe it works for Jack, or maybe it's really exaggerated but there are going to be people reading this that are going to want to try it. I feel bad for those people. Your first instinct is to think that you can't succeed without killing yourself. Then you figure out that if you're killing yourself youve forgotten why you started to begin with.
This is...interesting/funny/sad all at the same time.

Both of these designs could be argued as derivatives of FB itself. It makes me sad that neither of these are truly innovative designs.

When you have something new to offer the world, don't offer SSDS (same sh*t different site). Give them something unique and compelling instead of the same-old! Otherwise, you are nothing more than an also-running.

Lead, don't follow.
It's down for me :(
Thank you, very informative!
Note that this means he gives much less to each company than any startup founder I know.
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You recall correctly. The key takeaway from that book (from my perspective) is that you can make enough money to sustain yourself doing as minimal work as possible that lets you do what you want with your time. If you want to travel and sip wine with your time, go for it. Or, you can start an exciting new business in your free time without sacrificing all your cash flow and taking huge risks.
Not 'on the fly' but very close. Add them, then click the recompile button and it will rewrite the configs and restart the deamon in a matter of seconds.
Posting on places like HN isn't a bad idea either. I'm actually a CS student at CMU so I'm on the lookout for summer internships. Just reply if you'd like to get in touch
Astronomy: Throwing money into space
Meridian Gets $1 Million Funding for Interior Map-Based App Platform
Article 1 Section 2 states:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Article 1 Section 9 states:

No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Piercing the Tech Networking Bubble with Open Mentoring
Um... isn't that exactly what "disproportionate" means?
I've never used Diaspora before, so I might be talking out my ass, but the first screenshots of Diaspora (http://blogtest.sourcedecay.net/images/screenshots/stream.pn...) show a certain Facebook-ness they don't have now. And since it has clearly been redesigned over time, Diaspora coming out first hardly means Google is stealing here. Someone who has used the service from the inception could probably be in a better position to comment.

Also webcache, cause it seems to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?source=ig&h...
Why RIM still hasn’t found the cause of its world-wide outage
"I have no doubt it'll get a great percentage of the Goliaths' sales"

Been learning again and again, you are going to need to map out your marketing plan and probably bring on a co-founder with a strong business background. Having the greatest product in the world will not save you from a poor approach to acquiring clientele.

Get some community validation that your product is as great as you claim, and change your plan from payback to your ex-employer and towards how you can enter their market as a strong competitor and carve out your own place. You're destined to fail if all you're going after is revenge.
I should stop using my web browser and email client, and any other downloaded software that didn't come on my OS install disc?
Naturaleza en Almeria
If you watch the video, I think it's clear that he loved the idea, although he never really said if he'd fund it.
<IANAL>

The argument that Microsoft's patents should be voided due to prior art does not make their assertion of those patents illegitimate (illegitimacy of the entire patent process is also irrelevant). The voiding of patents due to prior art or obviousness is a central purpose of the patent courts, and Barnes and Nobel's claims are no less plausible on cursory examination than Microsoft's.

</IANAL>

HTC and Samsung settled with Microsoft because they are financially sound enough to pick their battles and are focused on selling phones rather than ideological battles regarding the merits of Android and Google's approach versus that of Microsoft. I strongly suspect that manufacturers value Android to the degree it contributes to their bottom line and that partnering with Microsoft to license patents is seen as the most beneficial strategy...for both parties.

It's just busines - HTC and Samsung cannot "get Android on the phone" while Microsoft has operators standing by.
I worked for a newspaper in Texas, and the editors told us not to cover suicides.
I had an odd thought reading this article. I wonder if what might be considered malware could actually be a legitimate agreement between the user and the programmer?

Something like "Instead of a subscription, I'm going to SMS these 3 numbers once a month and it's going to cost you five bucks"

This actually might bypass all the headaches folks are having with merchant accounts and payment plans and work out as something both the user and developer might like a lot better. If crooks can make millions charging for bogus SMS messages, why can't legitimate programmers use the same payment mechanism for stuff the users like?

Don't know. Just throwing it out there. What caught my eye was the assumption that any program using SMS to rack up charges was malware. Is that always a true statement?
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This app is using the data from MDN. It's similar to http://w3viewer.com/ which makes it easier to browse W3C specs.
14 Nov 2011 Micro-Box AIO V2.0.5.2 : ALCATEL CODE CALCULATOR VERY HOT UPDATE
Yes, needs better separator elements to distinguish between the hits. A condensed default view would help with this though.
WebGL dynamic terrain rendering demo
Let me try(not the GP here).

From 2002 to 2007, the only smartphones in the game were Blackberry and Windows Mobile(and Palm?). The hardware was slow and not mature and the software was slow, clunky and needed a stylus. Battery life was pretty bad, and task management sucked and ate up the battery in no time. Microsoft didn't seem to care too much about Windows Mobile and reportedly just had 5 or so people on the SDK team.

The phones like the iPaq, Axim and many HTC devices saw decent success in the marketplace. The iPhone came and changed the game by leveraging advances in hardware with very good software.

Thus the sneering and snark at a Windows Mobile phone in the GP post. Windows Phone is a completely different beast and seems to have learned from WM though.
There's also significant variation (apparently biological) in how much sleep per night people need. If you're one of the people who can get by fine with 5 hrs/night of sleep, you have almost 20% more awake time over someone who needs 8 hrs/night to maintain the same alertness.

(You can also try to modify it via caffeine or other drugs. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but apparently many of the people historically known for their superhuman workhours were heavy amphetamine users--- Winston Churchill, Ayn Rand, Paul Erdős.)
Trust me I am right there with you; Haskell does a lot of really beautiful things. Python lifted its list comprehension syntax from Haskell, as a matter of fact. It is only that I consider it a core responsibility of programmers to take into consideration the poor sap who has to maintain their code once the original author gets hit by a truck or eaten by a shark.
That's exactly what I was thinking while reading this. The person who wrote this article just sees things at the surface, and lacks any insight/depth into the long term consequences. Jack Dorsey may be a freak, but for most people, working this long leads to mental breakdowns, and health problems. It makes for great journalism, but that's about all.
I think the real problem here is that JavaScript/Node.js is constrained by language choice to a hybrid continuation-passing/call-return style. As straightforward as exceptions are in call-return, they are even simpler in CPS -- the exception handler is just a second continuation. It's literally just a standard-form onError parameter.

The problem is that you can't write your whole program in continuation-passing style in JavaScript, because its call and exception mechanisms aren't designed for CPS. There is no tail-call optimization, and you can't configure exception handlers manually. That's a valid choice under the right circumstances, but it breaks CPS.
There is a serious problem in this proposal: they want to disallow all keys not on a whitelist, and that whitelist does not include letters. Which would mean no WASD movement. While the intent is good (prevent phishing), I think a better solution is still needed.
*BSD kernels, GCC, tar, gzip, ...
this is a comment attributed to HG Khorana ( not sure how true it is ).
While addressing a gathering in India, he said "Indians need to work hard,but they hardly work !!".

BTW,iam an Indian ,so no flame please...
I think it's going to be a tradeoff. For the price it might be worth the hiccups. It's hard to be sure, though. I love Android, I'm a complete fanboy, but as a pragmatist I acknowledge its flaws. This article is pretty spot on.
Piracy bill could be used to attack open source projects
Agreed. We all have to remember we're not Jack Dorsey. A year ago I might have actually tried to emulate this. Experience tells me unless it's coming naturally it's a kamikaze mission. I totally respect mr. Dorsey, I just hope to god the naive don't get a hold of this article and start copying the 16 hour work day part.
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NFC: Not for commerce
Hey there, creator of instacss here. Thanks for all the feedback! I posted this as a Show HN last week, but it's nice to see that someone has re-discovered it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222253.

Since then I've added a few features, one of which being the ability to have permalinks so that you could use it as a google chrome search. This is why I push to the url bar as you type. I'm really open to feedback on how to do this without screwing with people's back buttons, since I agree that's pretty bad.
Meridian: Interior map based app platform
Agreed. I see a lot of articles that scare me lately. They make it sound like business owners should do these things. These stories are the exception, not the rule.
Don't forget that the FAT patents are necessary for interoperability with Windows. I think B&N should have mentioned that instead of claiming they are not infringing. Mention in particular how Windows, the dominant desktop OS, support only patented filesystems (FAT, exFAT, NTFS).
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Why Biotech Startups are Not the Same as Tech Startups
A good part of the "hate" in America's love/hate affair with technology dates back to the horrors of World War II and the subsequent threat of imminent nuclear destruction.

Things just haven't been the same since the collapse of the USSR. Anyone born after ~1980 or so is not going to be able to relate with the mindset preceding this.
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking of Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO
Let's Make It Work First ~ Don't Overkill [a.Bionic]
I think there's a communication gap here. Let me try to explain with some made up numbers.

Lets say Microsoft pays the MPEG-LA $50 million/year and gets back $2 million/yr for their patents. So net payment to MPEG-LA is $48 mil/yr.

But MPEG-LA has a LOT of other licensees like Apple that licenses it for Quicktime, iMovie, all OS X and iOS devices, Google for YouTube, Adobe for Flash etc. etc. Lets say they all pay them $452 mil/yr. So total revenue of the MPEG-LA is $500mil/yr but Microsoft's share is not disproportionately large in that number.

I don't know about MS's share in MPEG-LA's revenues, all I stated was that they paid them more than what they got back in licenses.
Javascript's closest equivalent is XXXX_de&&bug( xxxx)

where XXXX is the "tracepoint" and XXXX_de is a global variable set to "true" when trace is required.

When trace is not required, thanks to the && "progressive and" operator, bug() is not called (such avoiding bug()'s parameters evaluation).

de&&bug( faster) :)
That'll learn 'em for using windows.

Of course, it also means that they'll now move to installing linux and won't be so vulnerable next time. It's delayed them, not stopped them.
It's not inconceivable that the in-flight entertainment system would use a bunch of specialised hardware with "homemade" drivers, all capable of panicing the kernel.
What's wrong with asking the user to press F11? After all, the browser should be under the control of the user, instead of the other way around.
Startups are like babies
Just curious, have you ever owned an e-ink reader, or is this just from observation? I'm not a fan of the flicker, either, but the truth is, I don't notice it while actually using the device.
But that control structure isn't specific to handling errors, unlike try/catch. I think that's what they meant.
I like that idea - can anyone commment further?
Up here in the Yukon it's regularly -30C and below for long stretches and we all have our wood stoves burning 24x7 for 4+ months.... It would not be hard to have one end touching the wood stove (200-400C) and the other end outside (-30C - -40C). Will this work?
Continuously Improving As a Developer/
Google: A Real-Time Translator on Your Phone
Just for the record and to provide additional references, the technique of reusing a pointer for integer representation is rather old, for example fixnums refer to the same technique in Lisp implementation, IIRC, in Smalltalk this refers to SmallIntegers.
I posted this in the other thread about his hours:

Being a manager and accutely aware of legal ramifications of hours worked (boring I know), does anyone have any insight into whether there is something in the US akin to the European Worktime Directive? Over here (UK, but the E.U as a whole) the average working week is 40 hours by law, and the worker must opt in to be eligble to work upto a maximum of 70 hours per week. As well as this 70 hour maximum, 11 hours must be taken between end of work one day and start of work the next, and an entire 24 hour period of non-work must be taken once every 7 days, or alternativley a period of 48 hours of non-work must be taken in a 14 day period.

Any comments?
Just because you think a certain error will never happen for the lifetime of a program doesn't mean that not explicitly handling it is equally robust.
I've been working on a digital signage project and I'm using Chrome's fullscreen kiosk mode for the actual presentation.
This is a disingenuous comparison. All you are doing is comparing the springboards. The underlying iOS is now vastly different than 1.0--multitasking, search, copy and paste, wireless sync, background processes, notification center, I can go on and on. If they got the springboard right, why change it? For the sake of change?
I guess in a perfect world. Obviously that is not going to happen though.

Anti-virus software is like having airport security that only screens those that fit a certain profile. Someone not meeting that profile is going to walk onto a plane with the intent to do harm, at which point you are no further ahead than you were when you had no security checks at all.
Forgot to mention that this works best in Firefox and Chrome. Safari with WebGL enabled should work but didn't in my experience...
Why Google built Incognito Mode
Earnings are strictly past performance. They are a fixed quantity that has no meaning other than "for X time period, the company had Y profit".

Price is based on a combination of assets (not all of which have fixed values), future outlook (which can change at any moment and is based on subjective judgements and irrational consumer spending decisions), scarcity of the stock, and even second-to-second manipulations by automatic trading platforms.

You are dividing an absolute quantity based on past performance by a complicated, ever-changing number based in no small part on future predictions and other subjective and human factors, and trying to extract some sort of meaning.

Without a framework in which to evaluate the result that incorporates many, many other factors that are far more interesting, all you've got is a number that assumes the current judgement of the market has some relationship to past performance.
King’s Cross Rail Station in London
King’s Cross Rail Station is located in the centre of London and is one of the most important stations in the capital of the United Kingdom. Built in 1852, this historic train station makes the connection with many big cities, such as Leeds, York, Cambridge, Aberdeen Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Actually, a lot of us (or at least, me) are opposed to Apple's lawsuits as well. The fanboy crowd (of any group) tends to make a lot more noise than the majority.
How many social media managers does it take to run a Twitter profile?
Back To The Roots - From Used Coffee Grounds to Oyster Mushrooms
Link to their site: http://www.backtotheroots.com/
Can you give us more details please - did you build it? buy it?
There is something wrong - in many countries you are mandated by law to make your site accessible :)

Of course this doesn't apply here, but I wanted to be dramatic. Should be piece of cake to just show the full content if javascript is off, since it is already loading all of it.
I though to myself, is Kaczynski really the poster-child of the view-point that technology can harm civilization? Surely there are thinkers in this area that did not blow up people.

In researching, I found that the Kaczynski was quoted by Kurzweil in The Age of Spiritual Machines, and then re-quoted by Bill Joy in this article - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html - interesting..

Are there more authoritative bodies of work in the realm of this point of view? It seems like a very important view for civilization to reconcile - without being flavored by the legacy of a serial killer.
Ask HN: Cofounder doubt - can it ever work out?
Does anyone know of someone who doubted that they had the right cofounder, stuck with the person they doubted anyway, and ended with a successful company?
Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square, 0 hours at life, daily.

In other words Jack is free to do whatever he likes, but it is not a good example for most of us. I'll cite a very short poetry by a Sicilian poet called Salvatore Quasimodo:

"Everyone stands alone on the heart of the earth / transfixed by a ray of sunshine / and it is suddenly night"
One minor bug: I notice the anchor (and results!) changing as I type and backspace, but if I backspace all the way to an empty it is stuck on the single-letter anchor. Would be nice if it cleared out entirely and took me back to the empty front page.
You may not realize it, but 6sigma just did the equivalent of walking into a programming discussion and shouting "goto is evil!". It displays a disturbing and dangerous disconnect from reality. As a rule, I don't try to sugar-coat my responses to the willfully ignorant, but in the context, I don't see anything uncivil about my reply.
they think it's Sim City
... says the guy posting his comment via social media. (Yes, HN qualifies.)