skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our business isn't professional encoding vs. [unprofessional encoding?]. It's cloud vs. non-cloud. We do what the "professional" non-cloud tools do, but in the cloud, and we have many customers who are investing more than $6,000.

(We're also entirely API-based for programmatic high-volume encoding, so if you're thinking of things like video editing and manual post-production, that's not really what we do.)
"RMS is not proposing an increase in productivity, he's proposing a massive disincentive to engaging in one of the most productive, highest growth industries in the world's history."

You say tomato, I say tomato...

Seriously: if you were explaining to a space alien what the distinction was, how would you do it? The only one I can see is all the subtle connotations of the adjectives and superlatives you chose to throw in.

I mean, the automobile was a "massive disincentive" to the horse breeding industry too. The gun put a ton of blacksmiths out of work. And secretaries and typists were an awfully big part of the world economy in the recent past too... All those people (figuratively -- really the fraction of the workforce they represented) are now doing other stuff like building web apps. And the world is a better place.

"Productivity" is a quantifiable metric. Either you pay programmers to duplicate effort or you don't. In the latter case, productivity is higher by definition, and no amount of adjectives is going to change that fact.
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Oh for a variety of reasons- cost of living being one. Chicago is expensive- San Francisco is REALLY expensive. haha. Although East bay is affordable
Dear Mr Taco,

Thank you for your recent resume. Unfortunately, we have no openings for any experienced slashdot.org's at this time.

We shall keep your resume on file and will contact you should an opening arise.

Yours sincerely,

JP Doctor
There was a big thread on the OAuth mailing list about this a couple of months ago. The official response seems to be "don't use native applications that you think might phish you", which isn't very satisfying.

I'm not sure what the alternative is, though, and OAuth is still a big improvement for the web app client use case.
Also unavailable in the UK. So, presumably, this is US-only. <ironic> Definitely one way to stop online piracy. Hopefully, it'll be set free on youtube within 24-hrs. Funny old world we live in at the moment.
The solution is to pair Zencoder up with something like Amazon S3. We run on Heroku, so we must allow our customers to bypass our server when uploading videos. (Heroku has a 10 MB upload limit.) In Rails I use the s3_swf_upload gem to allow folks to upload directly to our S3 buckets. When uploading is done between the browser and S3, a JavaScript callback method hits our server and tells it where the upload is so that the app can keep track of the file and tell Zencoder to do it's thing on the file. If you decide to do this, let me know if you need any help.
You can do that anywhere- do you need capital? Then yes, SF has more (and easier) sources to find for capital. But really if I were you I'd build the thing first- you can always move later if you have to.

The biggest thing about building a startup is GET STARTED :)
One problem with 1and1 is that when your domains are about to be autorenewed, you don't get an email notification till the day of. I prefer registrars that give a few weeks heads up on that so I can cancel the autorenew if I want to let the domain expire (even GoDaddy gives advance notice).
That's a bit bleak. In corporations, you work for someone; in places like start-ups, you stand a good chance of working with someone. You don't need to be the founder to get into that position, but it's obviously an option.
And I really do love it there- If you don't have any commitments holding you back- move there and check it out. You'll love it (although it isn't as warm as SoCal)
This is gold. Remove the references line, and you're hired instantly.
In a recent thread I argued that renewable is not a sufficient criterion (and perhaps not necessary, either). Risk to the donor is much more important. Money in medicine is coercive, but if you are coercing someone into doing something nearly never harmful (blood or sperm donation), it's not a problem. If you're coercing them into doing something with high risk, even if the tissue is renewable, then I believe we have a problem (liver donation).

Modern marrow collection techniques generally put the donor at low risk, and marrow is renewable, so it appears to be a clear win.
This is like asking "what's the advantage of driving an Audi S5 over a model T, don't they both get you from point A to B?"

Git is a far more advanced tool compared to SVN. It will enable you to do things that SVN is not capable of, and it will save you from trouble that would have resulted in a multi-day firedrill in SVN.

For example, with Git you can maintain local history on your desktop quite easily. Since there won't ever be conflicts, committing is effortless. But now you have the ability to rollback to a previous state quite easily, far beyond the ctrl-z capabilities of your favorite IDE.

Also, in general with Git merging your changes into the central repo ought to be easier than it was previously. If there are conflicts they'll be easier to sort out, for example.
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On the topic of confusion, I think your demo would be clearer if you renamed "News stories bottom average score" to "Front page stories bottom average score". News is just a little too close to Newest, so I had to reread the definitions of both a couple of times. Cool project otherwise!
That's a linked to the scribd HTML version of the PDF.
“Once you allow plug-ins that potentially lie then you’ve ruined the entire Siri experience.”

Apple already has a solution in place for this problem: the app review process. When Apple figures out how apps should integrate with Siri, I think they’ll have guidelines/rules for how apps should use the Siri APIs and they’ll be able to enforce those rules with the review process.
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Let's say you have a hard drive with DOS and Stacker and you need to copy files from it.

Or you have a disk image and need to copy files from that, and for some reason you can't mount it (Windows or virtualized linux without loopback block devices)

qemu does wonders to disk images.
Since everyones already covered the Jetty side of it, I personally like Freemarker as a templating language.

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/

It's pretty simple and straigtforward, its what I use instead of JSP.

Also, if you're doing web stuff, I HIGHLY recommend sitemesh.

http://www.sitemesh.org/

It's a really clean way of implementing layouts and everytime I use other languages like Python, I always try and find equivalents but am always disappointed.
At the same time though, having your resumé sit at the top of Hacker News for a few hours simply because you decided to write a new one has got to be good, regardless of what's even on it. Think of each upvote as a personal recommendation.
Great. I am in the space, so I may email you some day for more insights. Thanks again for the answers.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
I always get these very arbitrary responses, and I don't understand why. If SF is really a better environment for startups, then the difference in cost of living should be a small trade off. I don't mean to come off harsh, I'm just trying to wrap my mind around this occurrence.
Thanks! I have always wanted to be known as an "Educator". My family is full of teachers!

- Dan
It's too late now, unfortunately.

http://amitguptaneedsyou.com/
Gotta be a fake. Not nearly enough misspellings. ;)
When you sell a gift card you don't want on Cardpool you get up to 92% of the value. The difference is their margin on resale. That's probably the bulk of revenues.

Also they almost definitely make an affiliate commission on the sale of any new gift cards (maybe around 2% based on payouts from other gift card aff programs on commission junction)
Hardly. Encoding is much more than setup.exe/dmg/rpm. $5-$6k for bits, but much more in service management and operation.

If our application was positioned to take advantage of Zencoder, I would use their service in a second.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume - stripped down
Resumes that can pull off an 'Objective' line always make me smile. Those that can't make me cringe.
I just assumed that Swiss Google primarily recruited EEA citizens. Do you know otherwise?
My understanding is that the core Django team were unaware of this effort until just now.
Risk matters, but the only impact is has on anything is on price. If something has a 0.1% chance of killing me, I'll expect far, far less money for it than something with a 5% chance of killing me. I might still do it, but the payoff has to be proportional to the risk I'm taking. I ride in cars knowing that I'm taking a risk, but I do it because I want the value that riding in a car gives me.
This reminds me of the story that the media ran hard on for "...hackers launched a cyber attack against a water facility in central Illinois."

More and more tech sites now are turning into these media engines that just want pageviews, their spinning a small story with very little facts into a Fox type news story, it's very sad to see, and will continue to happen, so they can be bought by the AOLs of the world.

The Russian hack never happened
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/59984-the-russian-h...
4. ???

I was referring to the GP's, "Could make it a stronger company without needing to change the business model or grow the company."
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If you seriously want one, you can have mine, I have to dig the username and password up, it's been almost a decade since I last logged in, I am sure I have it in an old email somewhere.
Ah, I see what you mean - thanks!

The full (buildable) source code - including the CsvParam and DateParam classes - are here: https://github.com/smanek/students
now go get your shinebox!
It's to weed out employers that have to ask for references!
The key phrase being "In the long run". We won't get to that idealized reality if we make the wrong decisions in our current reality.
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May I make the suggestion of installing Reddit Enhancement Suite. Unsubscribe from all the default sub/r's (wtf, offbeat,askreddit, etc), and block all posts from imgur and quickmeme, and things look a lot better.
Saying, "If SF is a better environment for startups the cost of living should be a small trade off" doesn't work.

Everything depends on your personal situation. If you are launching a startup, LAUNCH IT. You don't need to be in SF.

If you want to live where the center of the startup universe is, if you want to not be able to swing a dead cat around your head without hitting another entrepreneur, if you like it 60-65 degrees almost every day of the year, SF is the place for you.

You don't NEED to be in SF to launch a startup unless your service/product is narrowly defined as SF residents using it. Plenty of startups move to the Bay Area when they need funding- but...you can always visit and check it out yourself.

I'd say, launch your startup now. That is key- forward momentum.
I think this is a long-term vote of confidence in the NYC tech ecosystem, but I also think they’re counting in the short term on the at least partial unraveling of the startup craze freeing up lots and lots of talent that is currently tied up in lackluster startups here.
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I agree. I'm blogging now (side project, about ~1k/month via an ebook) and Antonio's book would have saved me a lot of time. I'm planning on using it to boost up that number :).
That would be the stance it pushed if it actually had anything revelatory to say about that idea, or if it wasn't trotted out mindlessly every time someone started work on a new tool. As it is, it's just hidebound smugness.
On the Kindles, the ads aren’t intrusive, and if you get an ad model and change your mind later, you can just pay the difference and get the ads removed. So it’s not much of a risk to just get the ads.

This is the first time I have heard this... you would think they would market that ability more.
> Cheating would surely be rampant.

Not at all, as it is anybody can modify the game binaries in the same way they would modify the source code (albeit with more difficulty).

Cheating is prevented by having a central server validate all client actions for consistency, or in games without a simulation server (Starcraft II) having clients compare a game state hash and disconnect if they differ.

Client side cheating (Wallhacks, Aimbots) are not preventable without a locked down client, open source or not.
Rob doesn't need to parade around a resume to get in a startup. The boy is prequalified.
What did the 2 fingers say to the mouse? CLICK!

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You could try selling it on ebay :-)
i left my reply above this comment- sorry :)
clojure has more jobs because it can work with existing java projects out of the box, with no need to refactor at all (to make it work, you would probably want to organize things in a more clojure-friendly way). Haskell has remarkable interop with C when you consider how fundamentally different they are, but you can't just plug it into an old C project.

Java is everywhere, if a company is switching from java to a functional language, it's cheaper to make an organic transition using clojure, reimplementing when it seems appropriate, than it is to use Haskell, where no code could be left unchanged.

There are of course practical benefits of haskell to employers. It's faster, it tends to be easier to make major extensions to a haskell project without refactoring than in other languages, it's easier to reason about the code so new employees will be confident sooner, Haskell protects against subtle bugs that might not be noticed during debugging, etc.

Also, just because Haskell has been around longer than clojure, it was considered an exclusively academic language until only a few years before clojure came out.
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Some off the cuff feedback: I wouldn't spend time on features, spend it on cleaning up the design.

* Use twitter bootstrap or some other framework to make the site look more professional.

* Why are the prices in weird denominations? $1.60 per month? Just make it $25/year.

* Don't show the social sharing button (G+) until you have a few hundred shares already

* Why is the video so small? Have screenshots on the homepage.

Basically, I'd suggest copying the style of a landing page of a well-known SAAS product. Nice bright colors, big fonts, screenshots, etc. I'm sure your product is feature complete, just work on design (or hire someone to make the above changes).
"Must" doesn't have to imply legal force.
ON IT.
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1. "we both know that taking somebody's work, for nothing, against their wishes, is not cool."

I'm really not sure I agree with that.

"Civilisation is built on mutual respect of rights."

Which rights are you talking about in this case exactly? The only one I can detect from your position is the right to be compensated for your work, which doesn't sound like a natural right at all.

2. Well, my position is that a lot of artists are suffering now, under the thumbs of the dinosaurs (to mix metaphors) you're trying to defend. In the future, those artists (as well as those industry players) who cannot or will not adapt will suffer.

"In your brave new world, The Beatles would have continued touring pub venues and only the lucky few who got to see them would realise how much they stood out from the 10,000 other bands doing the same thing."

But in my brave new world, I actually get to take part in deciding who stands out and who doesn't, instead of waiting for big labels to tell me, and I can rapidly communicate my decision to many other people very quickly. I take a more direct, decentralized stake in my cultural heritage. I find this pleasing.

"religious and aristocratic patronage as a primary 'business model' royally sucked"

I wasn't saying it was great. I was saying that artists adapt to the circumstances. They will continue to do so.

"why the copyright model and the arts have thrived over the last few hundred years"

I neither grant this premise, nor understand the causal connection you present.

"Its why we get to watch 100MM budget movies."

I've found that by my own measure, in the last couple of decades, the quality of a movie has had a generally inversely proportional relationship with the size of its budget. My theory explaining this is that with a larger investment, you need a broader base audience and relatively "safe" content, which translates to bland, soulless, lowest common denominator fare. I'll be happy to see this die.

"It's a bloody good system and it's a crying shame to throw it away just because of piracy."

I really don't think it's a good system at all. Its primary purpose was to promote continued innovation and creation. I've yet to see convincing evidence that it has done so, or that innovation and creation would suffer in its absence.

BTW: Thanks for indulging the argument without resorting to the ugliness that so many of these threadsd tend to devolve into. Even if neither of us convince the other, I find this exchange meaningful and clarifying of my own thoughts. I hope you feel the same.
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My argument is that annotations don't compose well, interact in complex ways that are hard to reason about and debug, and that this is worse than non annotation based methods used in other languages.

Your response seems to be that one needs to understand the complex interactions of annotations before using them, therefore annotations are fine.

That's a non sequitur.
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I'm working on some interesting things with zndx.org -- email with my username if your're curious.
One big advantage is if you fall on your face you can get a job at Google or Twitter or some other smaller startup. I've found in other places if all goes wrong you're stuck trying to get a job as an IT administrator.

I really liked the weather in the Bay Area but most people I know from LA do not. I enjoyed going to Marin and Santa Cruz, and biking and skateboarding in San Francisco.

That said, I left. It's hard to explain exactly why I left. Although I loved SF, I always had a feeling of impending doom. The social dynamics were also weird to me.
If 7B is the actual number, I agree that it's an absurd sum.
In the abstract, I agree. One could create a utility function expressing the necessary compensation (for them) in exchange for taking on a certain amount of risk. In the concrete, I'm not so comfortable with this on a population scale. People in general are not good at understanding risk, and they are not good at understanding medicine.

Procedure X has a 10% chance of killing you, a 1% chance of leading to necrotizing fasciitis that will not kill you but will require an amputation, a 3% chance of disfiguring scarring, a 4% chance of in-procedure myocardial infarction that will leave you alive but in heart failure ... etc. If we even had an exhaustive list of the actual risks of the actual procedures in the hands of the actual surgeon doing the procedure (we don't), it would still be impractical to get any particular person to understand the whole array of risks that they face, not just mortal risk.

We would need a much better way of measuring 'understanding' than I believe we have right now for me to get onboard with compensation for extremely high risk procedures for donation. And that's assuming a coldly rational populace.
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Thanks pg, Ill take your word for it.
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If a business is unwilling to release information to you per a standard request, look into filing a lawsuit and submitting a subpoena.

Even discussing that option with them may get them to disclose. Lawyering up sucks for businesses as much as it does for you.

IANAL / IDEPLOTI, you may want to chat with one or several or even just find folks who've disputed stuff themselves.

Additionally: register complaints with any and all consumer protections services: BBB, chamber of commerce, your state's attorney general's office, etc. And post to HN (OK, check that punchlist item).
> We're also entirely API-based for programmatic high-volume encoding

So why wouldn't folks use the API on (say) Rhozet's tool and maintain control of the flow?

> We do what the "professional" non-cloud tools do, but in the cloud,

Yes, I assume that you have a "professional" engine since you have a team of only 20 people.

> and we have many customers who are investing more than $6,000.

Kudos. Now when they find out that they can take the transcoding API in house for about that much money, what financial incentive will they have to stay with Zencoder?
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It makes me sad as a player, because it's done instead of developing something new.

I think this is a problem of attitude. If you are so desperate for something new, why not create it yourself? The indie has every right to do what they feel like with their content, time, energy & money. They're not your monkey to dance & sing whenever you please. If you disagree with how they're spending their time, then spend your time making something you'd rather see.
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Agreed. Slashdot's moderation system is still not replicated well, and it was a rather good implementation.
The experiments are cool for two reasons:

First, they helps us learn about and control decoherence, which is the primary obstacle to building a quantum computer. Decoherence is the reason everything doesn't behave quantum mechanically all the time, and its strength generally grows exponentially with the size of the system being studied. Building a useful quantum computer will require suppressing decoherence for order 100 qubits.

Second, these experiments test quantum mechanics in new physical regimes where it might break (to be superseded by new physics). Just like one will find a discrepancy with Newtonian mechanics if one starts doing experiments near the speed of light, the suspicion is that quantum mechanics might breakdown when applied to large objects. People who are unsatisfied with the interpretation of quantum mechanics are especially interested in this possibility.
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Fair enough, just providing some context.
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Good point about working for other companies. Just curious, where did you relocate to, and are you still involved with startups?
I'm not sure it is. To the best of my knowledge, Amit hasn't found a donor yet - they've just found several possible matches.

If so, then the next challenge will be getting one of those matches to donate. Per article on HN yesterday, "more than 50 percent of South Asians in the registry refuse to go through with the donation process if selected" (Source: http://www.good.is/post/amit-gupta-and-the-south-asian-bone-... )

If payment improves that ratio, then I would think this could still potentially help Amit.
You only need one good one.
I worked in NYC for a couple years and now I just travel around and make iPhone apps for fun.