skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't get is what this means:

"Previously, you’d have to queue up each one individually. Now, you can send up to 30 photos at a time in full quality, again over 3G or WiFi."

What is "previously" and what does "at once" mean?

The bandwidth available over the period of the transfer gives you a fixed amount of data that can be transfered, regardless of what and how you transfer it. If it's 30 pictures one after the other or all "at once", you'll still need the same time to get all your pictures uploaded.

So what is the big thing here? Do they use some magic trick to optimize the bandwidth available?

The lack of details on that and sentences like "couple that powerful photo transfer ability with the fact that you can send any type of file to anyone and you’ll better understand why Kicksend has caught our attention" (don't we have dozens of ways to send any kind of file to anyone?) gave me the feeling that this was just pushing the product on basis other than its real merits…
A proof-of-networking system, wherein individuals get reputation points for spending more time connected to the system (with some sort of underlying system ping) might work. As an individual node spends more time connected, it gains reputation, and that reputation can be given to other individuals used to "purchase" a domain. Of course this his horribly weighted toward owners of botnets, so I'm not sure it's really worth anything.
I know because before I was an investor, I was a founder. We'd never have wanted to work out of an investor's space. It would have been distracting and demoralizing.
> "1 month email course on X"

What's the advantage of being spammed for a month vs. having the entire month's course on an HTML page that I can peruse at my leisure and at my own pace? Or am I misunderstanding what an e-mail course is?
This Guy Wants To Make Startup Investing More Like Moneyball
I'm running it on a 3 monitor setup and so far so good, I wish they had included the notification area on each monitor, so among other things I can quicky glance at the time and date no matter what I have going on, also the monitor edge triggers are pretty much shot on a multi-monitor setup.

screen
http://i.minus.com/ibhcFWTFIYaO6d.PNG

Beyond all that the biggest issue with Windows 8 for me at the moment is that they didn't include the Windows 7 Solitaire games.
1. Travel data is available so there's an incentive to work with it vs other problem domains.

2. Bajillions of dollars are spent on flight.

3. Affiliate (I think there's a better term but I'm blanking) sales are an instant revenue model.

4. Most interfaces to the data suck in one or more ways.

It's tailor made for data- or interface-strong team to make a financially successful startup.
Facebook announces real-time Page Insights
Impact of fugue icons on open source
seriously non of those emps could be fit into 102 positions here: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/directory.html#...
So that should still work right? As long as there is a tablet that has a good keyboard stand, As a tablet, you mostly stay in the metro world and once docked you can use the keyboard/mouse. None of the metro apps I saw were not hard or non-intuiitive to use with mouse/keyboard.

For a legacy laptop, most of the work is done in the desktop anyways no matter how much Microsoft is touting the cool metro UI, I doubt the users of older laptops are going to spend much time in metro land. So that experience does not change much anyways.

So its like you do have two devices in one. Use the one which you prefer.
Analytics Startup Mixpanel Is Tracking 4 Billion Actions Each Month
I don't know what github is doing about their models, but I have fairly easy solution of my own: I always symlink models in my projects.

We have 2 large Rails projects and an API server using Goliath[1], one of the Rails projects and the goliath server use models with symlinks.

[1] Goliath: http://postrank-labs.github.com/goliath/
Commodore 64 game "Survivor" remade with HTML5/CSS/JS
Copyright Kings Are Judge, Jury and Executioner on YouTube
Would baking your own SSL stuff into the app instead of just running with the system URL stuff cause more paperwork regarding Apple and the crypto export control stuff?
Paper Airplane Geeks Rejoice - New Distance World Record
You realize that every single point you make in the first paragraph is 100% subjective. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses. It just feels like you personally don't get some of these "outdated technologies" or weren't brought up in environments where their strengths shined.

There are no magic bullets. Regardless of how bad you might think something is, someone else out there can give you a wide range of reasons why it should be used.

That said, Node is fun, but its no savior.
Taking the offense against those folks is necessary, else you're only fighting not to lose.
There's even a level editor - really impressive!
http://www.schillmania.com/survivor/editor.html
Sure, but if you get 40% discount on, say, 10K, that's still over 1K.
Ask HN: Co-founding startup - Profit Share or equity?
Hi HN. I've been asked by an acquaintance to join him in founding a business. He's a sales/marketing type guy and i'm all tech (dev).

The business will involve initially building a web-presence and a member portal behind it. The member portal will require a fair amount of effort in order to get the kind of experience and level of information he's going for. Once a member base is established, members will be offered promotions and services which they can take up. The step after that would be to integrate this service with mobile and other hardware devices.

The long-term strategy for the business is to start it up with minimal funding, build it to something meaningful and sell it off after 3-5 years. It is not intended to be a long-term project. In the arrangement details, he's recommended founding the company under a profit share scheme whereby I would have a 20% profit share and a 10% sale share.

I'm really only just getting into the startup scene and understanding what this means, but am concerned that both 20% profit share a 10% sale share seem rather low given the amount of effort I'm aware that the development and running of this site (and future technology development) requires.

Is there a generally accepted convention of profit share vs equity in starting a business? Also, are the figures above for the profit and sale share reasonable and in line with other startups?

Appreciate any/all advice.

Cheers,
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One of the developers moved on to the EFF, so it makes sense to make their code GPL.
It's one of the best articles I've read in many months... I can't believe it hasn't been posted here yet!
Yeah, that's exactly what it's perfect for; like cookies, but without the 4K limit and the HTTP overhead.
Monetize the car destination pathing.

With the site, the user creates their trip via car; businesses signed up for the service offer discounts for their services along the way; car driver wins, and is encouraged to stop at said businesses along the way; business wins, as they can easily market to potential customers and know exactly when they might be passing by, and can offer discounts to lure customers; site makes money from the subscribed businesses in one manner or another (there would be various ways to go about that).

Does this service exist? I've never seen it if it does.
His timeline was really confusing. HN probably stripped out the newlines he used.

3.1 = buy
95 = skip
98 = buy
ME = skip
XP = buy
Vista = skip
7 = buy

He skipped ME.

The "every other version" rule left him on 3.1 while the rest of the world was on 95, though. Seems like a pretty broken rule...
Well, it is six years old now. To be honest I imagine most of us already read it a long time ago :)

(You're right though, it's still one of my favourite writeups about java)
If SXSW attendees are the target demographic, then yeah.
Yes, you are misunderstanding what an email course is. An email course is a daily or weekly reminder to you to keep using the product so that you'll be primed for the sales process. Given that your viewing of images will be tracked, it will also qualify your level of interest to the sales person that will be following up in person.
I've scaled systems from 500 to 1.5 million simultaneous users, and this is the ONLY concise, salient explanation of performance troubleshooting that I have ever seen. Bravo.
It is always funny reading the hysterics of public perception when you are on the inside, isn't it? You are spot on though. These types of layoffs are the norm in gaming. I can't think of a single game shop that doesn't do semi frequent operational cuts (aka "trimming the fat") for the last 10-15 years. I don't know why this is always a shock to the community.
Would love to get your take on what sorts of online advertising has worked and not worked for you in building your company.
I'm not sure if it's intentional, but there was a Simpsons parallel in "Much Apu About Nothing":

[Later, a full-force Bear Patrol is on watch. Homer watches proudly.]

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F20.html
You'll likely need to go the purchase order route. My software is priced around $2.5K and it seems to be the transition zone between credit card & purchase order (at least from my experience).

One interesting thing you'll notice is Amex is much preferred at higher credit card levels (e.g. $3K vs. $1K). If you plan on pricing your product above $1K and want to use credit cards, make sure you support AMEX.
Normally, in cases like this, the law prohibits businesses from offering gambling services. In that case, no Americans would have broken any law.

However, a quick google search strongly implies that sports betting is in fact legal in Maryland.
http://www.legalgambling.net/is-sports-betting-legal-in/mary...

Something is amiss.

Edit: While the Rosenstein quote erroneously states that "Sports betting is illegal in Maryland", it seems more likely that this was actually a breach of the 1961 Federal Wire Act, which banned sports betting over the wire. If Bodog allowed bets to cross state lines, then they're involved in interstate commerce, so the Wire Act applies.
Is "performant" a valid word? What's the alternative?
Have they finally made it so that you can set per-screen wallpaper? I remember thinking that that was a really basic feature that was missing in win 7.
It is possible now, but does not seem to be widely adopted. Jose Valim posted an example of a very lightweight app just today - https://gist.github.com/1942658.
Ok, there's really only a couple of stories I know of Eckhart hall but I should mention them before this gets too stale.

Most or every weekday, the faculty and other interested parties meet for tea at about 4PM in the tea room across from the library.

I was taking abstract algebra at the time and the professor was a fairly recent Phd. And, most or all UC undergraduates learn some familiarity with the categorical imperatives of Immanuel Kant. Somehow, the subject came up whether or not the idea of category theory (or at least the name) is in some way derivative of the categorical imperative.

The inventor of category theory was Saunders Mac Lane who was on the faculty. At tea one day our teacher asked Mr Mac Lane if there was any relationship between category theory and the categorical imperative.

Oddly enough the answer was yes, in an oblique way. This story would be quite a bit better if I remembered some idea of what the relationship was but unfortunately I don't. In any case it seemed pretty cool at the time.
How RestaurantRep used Factual to Build a Restaurant Reputation App in 48 Hours
I upvoted you because this sort of thing shouldn't be anywhere near News.YC.

"owing to Obamacare"? Really? You mean employers weren't paying employee health care before Obama?

You have to LOL at the reasoning in this article, and the poorly reasoned/thought out tirade against "liberals".

Wait, you mean, Singapore created all these incentives ... because of Obama, right?

The funniest thing about the "Obamacare" thing in this post is that the author is actually arguing for universal health care (guess what Singapore has? :). You're essentially offloading your corporate health care costs onto the government. Hehe.
XML may seem harder than JSON, until you actually try to work with the data. When you need to create an automated system that checks that data has a certain format, XML has support for schemas and there are many software tools for creating schemas, which is something that cannot be said of JSON. Likewise, searching for data is much easier when you have a standard like XPath. Something akin to XPath would be much harder to make for JSON, since it lacks native support for element attributes. When the data needs to be transformed into a variety of formats, XSLT comes to the rescue. When you want to give the user data in a readable way, JSON requires server-side processing whereas XML and CSS (and sometimes XSLT) support is built into the web browser. In my opinion, JSON gets too much attention for what little it offers. It could become a serious alternative to XML in the distant future, but not until it has the kind of technological environment that XML enjoys.
OK we're all nerds here, so really, how on earth should I use a Japanese toilet?
OK so for anyone that's travelled to Japan you know what I'm talking about.

They're devices that are a textbook example of excessive featuritis.

But I want to use something other than the flush knob before leaving Japan. What is a feature that has the following characteristics:

Common to most Japanese toilets.

Hard to get wrong - won't create a mess or damage the toilet.

Simple to comprehend - more likely to involve romaji or kana or simple kanji or pictures.
I cloned the Clojure-Py repo, installed it, but it didn't run (OS X 10.7.2, Python 2.7.1). I am no Python guy so I can't easily debug the problem at the moment.

I'm pretty excited about this though. I am a veteran Java developer but am tired of being tied to the JVM. Not everyone needs the interop as not everyone is developing in Java/JVM language/platform. I am also geeked about the future of ClojureScript, but not too sure I care much for it in the browser. There is just way too much of a disconnect with everything that is already out there. But, running Clojure on Node seems like a great solution.

I'd like to see more of Clojure written in Clojure someday (sooner than later). Those darned Java exceptions are impossible to decipher in the Clojure context, since there is no context being printed! If you've done even the tiniest of Clojure development, you will know what I am talking about. What we really need first is to see is Clojure's persistent data structures implemented in Clojure, rather than Java (or C#). It would be nice to have this code portable across runtimes (CLR, JVM, Python and perhaps a JavaScript interpreter).

I've been to both Clojure Conj (east coast) and am very excited about Clojure. So, the more ways you can execute Clojure the better (perhaps that will help getting Clojure written in Clojure).
That's only true if you define "rich" as "I have a lot more than you." If you define rich to mean "I have way more than I will ever need" then there is ultimately no reason that everyone can't be rich. It just takes a while to get there.

The problem I described is multi-faceted, and I might not have made a good job at it, or some people might not have understood me (judging from the knee-jerk downvotes).

One issue is societal wealth. As a society, everybody can be "rich" in the sense you describe, but I already addressed that in the part where I write about the "Star Trek/socialism scheme, where social wealth is shared". I am fine with that kind of a society. I just don't see that this is what we are currently approaching with automation, etc, but rather huge poor masses and an middle class in decline.

So, my other argument was about what is actually happening, i.e. the continuation of the current model + automation. And what I said, is that if you believe --as many do--, that corporations, enterpreneurs, buying and selling stuff, in essence a market economy is crucial, then you need poorer people with jobs, ie. you need consumers. You cannot have a market economy AND everyone being rich in the "I have more than you" sense, and you cannot have a market economy AND the great masses out of work due to automation.

So, my argument is, automation is ultimately non compatible with a market economy. You get either sharing for everybody (i.e no market economy), or a collapse in buying power / sales (i.e a poor market economy).

(A final point, re everyone being rich in the "I have enough" sense: beyond the basics, "needs" are themselves a social construct. To a caveman, or a 17th century peasant, a man working at McDonalds with a house, tv, food, internet, bathroom, modern medicine, etc, seems as "more that he will ever need". To his contemporaries, not so much).
I don't think it'll be low-cost at all. Not the sticker price, anyhow -- they'll be selling it in terms of computations per watt-meter^2.
1) true
2)also true, but flight commissions are at ~.1% according to my credible sources. And they are vanishing quick. My personal opinion is that it is a failed business model and as travel companies shift away from making money off of transportation commissions we will see more alternative forms of transportation.
3) Only when a company gets to scale are they able to make ANY money off of flights, and even then the number of queries they have to pay for from their data providers, server costs etc., bite deeply into whatever fee they make. and the fee is super small to begin with.
4) agreed completely, I elaborate on that.
Disagree with your conclusion. Hipmunk several years out is still not profitable, with a great interface. A lot of flight travel startups are not profitable, so I don't see how you say this is the formula for a "financially successful" startup.
It is a huge UI problem. For example, it's tempting to start adding flashy chrome to a structure editor just because you can. Pretty Lisp's rounded rectangles are obviously not going to scale to real programs; they generate a lot of noise. Visually, an ideal structure editor looks a lot like the text-format code we have today for its readability.

There's a lot of usability failure in Lisp's history but I know that a great structure editor is possible.
The review itself was pretty lame. Nothing planned or thought out. It looks it was made in the urge of getting the first report out
Don't make pretentious statements like, "Get ready to leave your bank" before telling me how you solve any of my problems. It's almost insulting.
requires iOS 4.3 :(
It doesn't look like you can, although it does allow you to span one image across all the monitors.
If you ask me for email, by definition sending you the email you asked for is not spam.

The advantages to the software purchaser:

1) You're a busy guy. If we critically hit you with a wall of text right now, you'll bookmark it and never get back to it. If you're honest with yourself, you know this, because you've got a backlog of things to read four miles long already. What's your RSS reader look like? Instapaper? I rest my case. So maybe giving you the highlights in a digestable format is a value add for you.

2) This is not a decision that is going to be made an instant -- there is an entire decisionmaking cycle, including research and shopping the solution you pick to your colleagues and experimenting and you get the general drift, which is likely going to take you real-life weeks. Your expertise on the problem area is currently "Not all that much" since you're only beginning the data gathering process. We can meet you where you are with the lesson for today, and when you're vastly more informed in two weeks (because learning this topic is, after all, your job) we'll send you more advanced information. Sure, we could drop everything we know on you right now, but you're not ready for it and reading it linearly will not make you ready for it.

3) Given that we're both businessmen here, we can both appreciate that we choose from mutually acceptable options, not all possible options. The software company has a lot of stuff available on the web pages for free, but if you want exactly the benefit this course is promising to you, then as a quid pro quo we would like your email address and permission to contact you. You, being a honest businessman just like us, are perfectly free to decline this offer, but if your counteroffer is "Give me all the goodies and I'll get back to you", our answer is "Not interested, thanks."

The advantages to the software company:

See above. No, really, the advantage is not "Score! We get to spam the heck out of Pavel!" We have copious data to prove that the statistical aggregate purchaser is overwhelmingly more likely to consume six emails in a month than he is to actually read a 20,000 word web page. We have surveyed buyers of enterprise software -- we know that many of them do not know what they want right now. We have had our sales reps talk to people, and we know that many of them expect to get handheld through this entire process. The email course gives the market exactly what it wants: information in a digestable, actionable format which will accomplish the goal of educating them and lead to measurable increases of qualified leads asking us to buy our software (or otherwise take the next step in the dance).
> Practically everyone who’s paying for software is doing so through an app store

I wrote about 'The Other App Store' (organic search) on similar lines - http://blog.roveb.com/post/12003627967/the-other-app-store
Actually there have been would-be bombers and terrorists stopped since 9/11. And they have been charged.

The problem is that the TSA is not responsible for any of them. Either they were discovered and apprehended before carrying out the act by intelligence agencies (that predate the TSA and DHS, and have been doing this for a long, long time), or they were stopped by passengers and bystanders, in which case the TSA has demonstrably already failed.

Either way the DHS is just an embarrassment.
Will have to give this a go when I get home. From what I see so far it looks really nice. Well done!
Companies have gotten acquired for very low or no revenue. In that case, you'd make nothing off the sale.

If you'll be a co-founder, ask for equity (50%). Or if he's looking at you as an employee, ask for a market-rate salary and the profit/sale share for the risk you're taking.
The truth is, most customers or end users for Big Software aren't capable of handling the process of researching, trying, deciding, convincing higher ups, negotiating, designing, implementing (or finding an integrator), and supporting it themselves.

If they think they are, there is an astronomically high chance something will be wrong. And you know who takes the blame for that? The company with the logo on the software that doesn't work right. That and the guy who did it wrong. The argument scales as the software and customer does, but it's still a truth. Unless your software is dead simple, if you give people enough rope they will cause problems. That prevents the company from more opportunities, makes the customer's life difficult, etc.

The solution to this is to be hands on as much as possible before things are implemented. Properly done, it's mutually beneficial spent time. It would be logical to compare the complexity of the product solution (see steps above) to the amount of pre-sales steps required.

Disclosure: Pre-sales engineer for big software/hardware