skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking really long-term, I don't see a big difference between loading a web app and having a native app quickly and seamlessly installed and loaded just by clicking on a link.
Eventually, improvements in bandwidth and computing power might enable just that.
At the end of the day, developers will go with what is more feasible, but the whole distinction between web app and native might disappear from a UX point of view (just like the current web apps are kind of a hybrid between "old" websites and "old" desktop apps).
NaCl apps are only usable right now via the Chrome Web Store, unless you've manually enabled them to be allowed elsewhere.
Youtube, grooveshark and others kind of fill that gap. They still promote popular content though, but that's unavoidable unless you take money out of the equation.

http://channel101.com/ offers a nice selection of "unpopular" shows. You should check Danny Jelinek's "Everything" (https://vimeo.com/channels/231109) if you're into video-art.
"If he were moving to a village in Thailand"

Having spent a few months in a village in Northern Thailand, I was quite happy on the speed our internet connection was usually providing us. Generally used for checking email, skype, news and that passive income sources were still working.

Going rural in more remote places, where the area is cut off by rain or snow for some months of the year is far more challenging and interesting, at least for me. It shouldn't be, its the lives of the folks who live there everyday, we're just rather more lucky, most of the time.

When I lost house connected internet for a week, having to use libraries and cafes in Canada was far more challenging, in terms of scheduling time to go and use, than it was using the internet in a rural Thai village.

Good luck paying bills and checking your bank account (ATMs are an alternative) & investments when you can't use the internet & they now issue e-bill/e-statement, unless you pay extra for paper.
This is incredibly exciting, if not also a bit scary. Thanks for the info.
This is sadly true. They don't work on Pocket either. I really like the clean style of their dynamic views, but apparently they should not be used yet. Some of the dynamic views also have problems displaying on mobile browsers. I should change back to a normal template as soon as I find a good one.
They do not have deals with everyone except Microsoft to be the default search engine. Last I checked, Opera does not default to Google.
So basically AL is claiming they did a mass voting snipe?

Seems a bit disingenuous but then again Ebay bidding seems to have been this way for a while and now the strategy is moving to other areas if this is the case.
>Google seems to be working on this. If you've ever seen someone without a Google account try to use Android for the first time you can see how much effort they are putting into stopping people from using their products.

You press the "skip" button and then don't try to launch Gmail or Google Play or anything else that understandably needs a Google account.

What is so... appalling about that. There is no effort to "stop people" from using an Android phone without Google. Further it's a pretty silly attack on Google given their competitors and the fact that you bought... a Google Android phone...

(edit: speaking about the Nexus line of phones which I would tend to argue best reflects Google's "effort".)
I wonder if the true bubble is just the number of shady businesses run by shady executives on shady accounting principles.
The post is solid, but one of the things I like most in here are the signs of looking at where revenue came from (the comment about only 1% of revenue coming from the entry-level plan).

I'd love to hear more from Richard about how they tested the impacts of moving from the $5 to the free plan.

And yes, it's definitely a solid strategy to delay revenue for users. I'm sure someone will argue this is Web 1.0-bubbly thinking. But, provided you're doing it in the way that Richard suggests, it's not totally insane. Twitter might not have found a great business yet, but at least they've gotten past one of the big hurdles -- getting people to come to the party.
It wasn't an endorsement, it was an explanation for why they didn't take legal action against Harmony, or Classpath, or Android.

You didn't answer my questions.
import random
def vcd2usd(vcdollars):
if random.randint(0, 9) == 9:
return random.randint(0, 30) * vcdollars
return 0
Of course the Wright brothers wouldn't be able to do what they do today because the tehcnology has changed some much it would be incredibly foolish to put human beings on the original wright flyer. Why would you even want that? That's like saying "I want to build a tent and a fire pit and hunt and skin animals but my condo association won't let me do that in the yard!"

I'm really getting sick of the manufactured bogeyman of government regulation. These scenarios are at best fantasy and the advantages of proper regulation are obvious to see.
Rumor has it that Google got a look at their books during the negotiation and cancelled the deal. They publicly gave the story of groupon denying Google to allow them to save face and attract more investors
Ask PG: What percent of YC S2012 class are teams without an idea 
I was curious as to how many teams (or percent of class size) in YC S2012 are ones that applied without an idea.
Pesky revenue, always trying to get in the way of creating a business!

Might as well take it a step further and consider waiting on building a product. Why define your business with a real product when you can, like Zombo.com, do anything?
Google Wave is finally dead
Your article has a HN counter next to the Facebook "Like," and Tweet buttons--where did you grab that from?
Ah. Er..good catch.
Webbys? Why do you care about winning it? This is a joke of an award that doesn't mean anything at all.
The takeaway for me is that work, and good workers are inherently self motivating. There isn't much more you can do to motivate a good worker working on something they want to do.

However, there is much you can do to demotivate someone.

So it's like this : there is limited upside to motivating someone because they're working at or near 'total motivation'. However, they can fall from there to 'zero motivation'. Any given management decision to that person has a greater chance of demotivating them than motivating them.

I have been through something similar recently myself. I have been working for a startup which is nearing launch - on a part-time basis. I was motivated to get it over the line and quite happy to pitch in extra to do so. However, a key manager in the project decided to switch everything around in the interest of 'getting it done faster'. This demotivated me to the point where I actually stopped working on it.
Google cached the page on Apr 27 as well with the same content... so it appears Apartment List didn't put up a fake date.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:euCfseP...
The real problem is that individually-purchased health insurance is more expensive (or unavailable). While public health care is one solution, it's far from the only solution.

An alternate solution would be to end the favorable treatment of employer-provided health insurance. Once everyone is purchasing their own insurance we will have a reasonably functional market, as we do with auto, homeowner's, and life insurance.
If that is true, how did they have any votes up until the last few hours?
As is often the case with these awards, the only winner is the site running the contest. Other players in the game have incentive to send traffic to the site running the contest, who gets more traffic. Meanwhile, the sites being voted on spend lots of time trying to win, and in turn asking their users to spend their time voting.
Or if he used the Internet to schedule a one-way trip there, how easily could he get home without using the Internet?
While there's some quality fodder there, I couldn't get beyond this line:

"I’ll bet that the time-to-signup isn’t an important anxiety factor."

This isn't the only reason that sign-ups have been pared down; the current trend of thought on the matter is that it also reduces barriers to conversion.

Engaging your audience without making them jump through numerous hoops is a great practice, even if that means the occasional company adopts the practice a little too quickly before the rest of their process is fleshed out. I'd certainly prefer that to the alternative, where I've invested a great deal of time with a long form, just to have the same end result, 'and then what?'
The great thing about FSM is they had promo about irrational correlation that showed that the number of pirates(naval) was inversely proportional to global temperatures, just before the outbreak of hijackings off Somalia.

Edit:

Church leaders responded in 2008

Henderson interpreted the growing pirate activities at the Gulf of Aden as additional support, pointing out that Somalia has "the highest number of pirates and the lowest carbon emissions of any country."
I get the sense he'll ratchet up what "complicated" means until he wins the argument. :)
You think that top results in Google and other commercial search engines are always ranked based on "popularity"?

It would be harsh to call this naive, but it shows a serious lack of SEM and SEO knowledge. Ever heard of "paid placement"?

Many years ago when Digital's AltaVista was our main search engine, it was becoming loaded down with paid placement.

The results were polluted.

Google eventually became the "clean" solution.

But now it's Google that is loaded down with all sorts of commercial crud, much of pointing to Google acquisitions.

And paid placement, among numerous other strategies, new and old, still exists.

The simplicity of millionshort is brilliant.

Filter out the crap.
I'm not sure what you said you be any less true. You seem to have no understanding of how a modern economy works, or how the banking system works, or what a salary represents, or what wealth is, or what the determinates of unemployment are, or what it means for a job to be "created", or, hell, even what a "job" is. There are so many flaws here, it's hard to even figure out where to start.

You will be unable to find a single economist, economics textbook, or economic model which agrees with your premise.
Honestly - no-one pays any attention to awards.

(http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards...)

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/23/guardianwee...)
And JavaScript! We're putting this to great use with the latest SproutCore/Blossom project I'm working on.
The OS market is fragmenting.

This is precisely why the web will win. The time is already here where people have to decide whether to build a desktop app, a smartphone app, a tablet app, or a website that can support all three form factors? We're already there folks. The logistics of supporting 3 different paradigms are breaking down. At the same time a small team cannot build out an iPhone and Android ecosystem simultaneously, and definitely without leaving the Web entirely behind. Whereas if the focus on the web experience they can support every possible paradigm simultaneously.
Scribes and Programmers [2007]
Usually PDFs get reposted to Scribd or a similar service - it's somewhat unusual that it wasn't in this case.
Well looking at Mechanical Turk [1] it seems that Twitter manipulation comes in at about 5 cents a 'hit' so if a Webby was worth $25,000 to you, you could buy half a million votes. I was wondering if you could go 'back in time' but couldn't find that, to see if there was anything like this in it.

That being said, there are lots and lots of bots on Twitter [2]and given how easy it is to program one, and the fact that folks might pay for it, wouldn't you like to have a 'twitter army' in your pocket that for the right price could give you a shout out? Heck people do it with zombie PCs all the time.

[1] https://www.mturk.com/mturk/viewsearchbar?searchWords=twitte...!

[2] http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/mostactiveusers/
> Now imagine showing someone from 1990 what things are like in 2012 with the internet we have today. While they would think it's "neat" and even "amazing", the magic effect would not be there.

I wonder what the biggest "future shock" for (let's say) a 1995 web user visiting the 2012 web? Video and bandwidth seem like the biggest differences, but as you point out, neither are "magic" from a 1995 context.
To offer somewhat different advice, you could simply try and value his earlier efforts, not based on how much he's lost on his earlier company, but on how much the knowledge is worth to you.

For example, if you two started out as 50-50 partners and wanted to buy this knowledge from someone else, how much would you pay for it? Divide that cost by two, and that's how much you should "pay" your cofounder, whether in equity or cash.

The common wisdom is 50-50 no matter what, and it's a good rule of thumb; you don't want to feel like you have more or less at stake than he does and vice versa. If you're going to compensate him for his previous work, issue debt from your new company or pay upfront; I'd avoid changing the 50-50 split as much as possible.

And, of course, as other posters have mentioned, it could be that your current negotiating position indicates something negative about your cofounder, which is possible, but I don't think that's necessarily true.
While that's true, is there any scope for attack through images?

It's a generally interesting point though, that feeds into questions of what the general purpose of SSL is. This still has benefits for the end user — the café owner/hotel company/etc. can't modify their connection — and so surely is better than nothing, but is it enough?
yes I can confirm.
The sad thing is that most cars have "black boxes" but are usually never used in cases for whatever legal reason. Hopefully that will reverse some over time.
There should be lots of AL users who can produce the exact email plea asking them to

1.) Read and comprehend complex / sketchy instructions
2.) Take the trouble to vote
3.) Not instinctively click the confirmation link
4.) Actually forward a personalized, coded email back to AL?!?

That also means AL is not disputing that a huge number of confirmation requests ultimately came from their own machines.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -- certainly the burden of proof is on them!

(Edit: so far the only AL user to step forward created a new account 3 minutes ago)
Another Ridiculous Number From The Patent Wars
I'll be honest, I only ever used Wave for about 30 minutes, but the potential for a new vendor agnostic collaboration platform was pretty exciting. I can't see it picking up pace now that it's an Apache project. Sad. I think we're stuck with email for the foreseeable future for vendor-agnostic long form communication.
On second thought, forget what I said about dividing the value by two. Brain fart.
Startups: Gold Diggers vs. Real Entrepreneurs
Do you have any recommended resources for programmers looking to pick up Lua?
New: Port Authority of NY and NJ Puts 1000s of FOIA Requests Online
To simplify the calculations, I will only consider last year. How many astronauts were active last year? The number is not near 500 from the list. Some of them are dead. Some of them are behind a desk or doing public relation presentation. Some of them are retired or dead from natural events.

Let's suppose that the active period of an astronaut is 10 years. The number of astronaut selected in the last 10 years is approximately 70 (counting by hand from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_year_of_s... ). Approximately only one half of them fly each year (~30 in 2009, ~25 in 2010 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights,_200... )

So, there are approximately 30 / 50 dead per year, from a population of 70 active astronauts, that is ~1%, or using a population of 30 flying astronauts we get a 2%.
How to view the source of chrome/safari extensions
If you look at the html you will find a url to hnbutton.appspot.com, and if you hit it without any parameters you will get forwarded to:

https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button
How could this not be true?
Secure Go - Securing and exploiting a Go binary
I love that he ends his tirade on the impending irrelevance of current internet companies with [Long YHOO.] I think the major flaw in Mr. Jackson’s line of thought is that Web 1.0, Web 2.0, mobile tech companies and whatever comes next are mutually exclusive of one another. When we talk about the stalwart companies of the Web 1.0’s, Web 2.0’s, etc. we’re talking about very different companies which fulfill different types of needs. We see that they’re not mutually exclusive but rather that they begin to form an intricate symbiotic web in which each player has an important role. Each new ‘phase’ and the companies which fill them are only niches which were previously empty (of which there may be an unknown number.)

I would argue that risks come from companies which through ingenuity can deliver a better option to an existing one (search, social, etc.) And while mobile seems to be growing force, I see it as a complement rather than a competitor to the web; certainly not one that will render the ‘Web dead.’
Heh yeah, I would be pretty impressed if it was legit. The main problem would be getting a large number of people to remember and agree to jump through those hoops instead of just confirming it when they got it. Pretty interesting.
At the risk of sounding naive, I still think that this kind of nonsense should be called out and not just some "norm" for online voting. The concept of consumer democracy has a lot of potential, and we need to keep objecting to bots and bought votes to make it reliable. Acceptance of unethical behavior just makes it more entrenched.
www.founderdating.com
I think it's abundantly clear from the article that revenue was $65,000.

> "My profit margin was not monstrous but the hard work and the lessons learned were invaluable"
But obviously many people didn't want to put in the time to figure any of that out.
Obviously many people didn't want to put in the time to figure any of that out.
Show HN: Poziption - A new directoy listing service
Hi guys,

I'd like to get some feedback about our new bootstrapped startup: Poziption.com

We are a new directory listing service founded on the belief that all businesses should have an equal presence.

We are hoping to change the way that people find local businesses.

Please leave some feedback and suggestions.
This is the stupidest drivel I have ever read. If you brought this up outside of the inane SV bubble, you would be laughed out of the room.

They even state "for many apps, like Instagram [...]" as a good example when revenue is not needed. I'm flabbergasted.
The point is that it's all running in Linux, not OS X.
The Problem-Worthiness Calculus: what are the good types of problems to solve?
>In fact, if I were to teach programming, I would teach it using Lua. Implementing your own object system is increadibly instructive. Learning about coroutines and lambdas is, too. And Lua is still small enough to just read its source when in doubt. It's bytecode consists of just a few dozen instructions.

If these things appeal to you check out lisp (clojure is my personal recommendation)
I think Enron is actually a good example of what I mean. I maintain that any generally competent professional can have any legitimate accounting practice explained to them. "I don't get it, tell me where these numbers are coming from," will pretty much suffice. Enron's audit committee simply failed to ask the questions (due to laziness or conflicts). Enron's special purpose entities were sitting in the SEC filings waiting to be found by anyone. As soon as the WSJ reporters asked about them Enron started to implode. The SPEs did not make sense and they fell apart without much more than "wtf?"

Needing financial engineers on your audit committee is a giant red flag that your financials don't make sense.

http://www.amazon.com/Days-Reporters-Uncovered-Destroyed-Cor...
(Probably not worth the read. Enron short nags WSJ reporters about WTF SPEs in Enron filings. WSJ finally asks Enron and gets gobbledygook instead of explanation. Boom.)
Internet opinion polls are a complete waste of time. Imagine if you had spent the time wasted on this on developing a new feature or marketing copy. Things like the Webby awards are a way designed to separate you from the dollars in your marketing budget by pandering to your ego. The general public absolutely does not care, any more than you care about the Daytime TV Emmy awards (yes, such things exist).
Breaking Bad Expectations
Upvote for the MPW Shell reference.
Freshplum's email "captcha"
Ask HN: Does Open-Source matter?
Does the tech industry take care of it own? More specifically, does more open-source projects mean a karmic increase in successes and good outcomes, whether it be financial or personal?

I have been wondering this for a while. Of all the stories and articles I've read on HN and other such sites, I've noticed that a lot of people thanking all their open-source work for the jobs they've been offered. Now, despite this, my mind is stuck on whether open-source really matters. I know for the users and I suppose for some coders, open-source projects are very significant. They allow free, and usually solid new features for the users and more code for hackers to read through and learn from. But does open-source actually benefit its creators?

I mean that open-source is usually free, so most are working for free to get out some new, interesting feature that could have made them millions but won't.

So does giving away your time to the industry through open-source mean that you will be rewarded in some later success?
Same here. I was really skeptical of the claim that Facebook advertising isn't worth the money. I think it's far more likely that it is worth the money if you sell the right sort of thing, and this guy just moved in circles where people didn't sell things that advertised well on Facebook.

However, the "Ponzi" thing stuck out at me much harder.
Is this really a problem? Schools have long solved this problem with imaging software like deepfreeze or steadystate. Not to mention, they might not be too fond of emacs or or write a term paper on gedit. You can piss on Word all you like, but it gets used for a reason.

Its weird to see the rpi shoehorned into some poor-mans deepfreeze solution. Its really a hobbyists platform like the beagleboard. Its going to go into some cool embedded projects and power some cool toys. Its not another desktop PC. We're well served in that are.
As someone who values simplicity, minimalism, portability, and good performance, Lua is a constant source of inspiration to me. I frequently look at its design for ideas.
Thankyou! I can see this being something I regularly use.

It may be a simple idea, but its something nobody else has done before, and I think the creators deserve a lot of credit for coming up with and implementing it. I hope they manage to get something from it. I can see that if the site becomes popular it will just get copied by other search sites.
The point has to do with how the web browser renders a page on the phone. It is rendered virtually and then only the part that needs to be on the screen is sent to the graphics pipeline. The rest is thrown away until you scroll and them the new view is rendered. If you go to a long web page you can see this. Scroll really quickly and you will see squares. As a result, fixed footers were and are a mess. The engine isn't smart enough to know some thing isn't a fixed element because all it is getting is pixels. As a result you would get bouncy fixed elements. Jqmobile tried to fix this by making the footer fade on touch and the reappear on scroll. The effect pissed my customers off. And me. They have 'fixed' it in 1.1 but I'm having trouble getting things to render correctly. I haven't poured a ton of time into it, but the fix wasn't plug and play. This is a nice solution and one I want to check out. I wonder if it plays nicely with Phonegap.