skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just open-sourced my iOS password manager with dropbox syncing
Speaking as a former startup founder, I can tell you that good business people are just as scarce as good hackers. It's just harder to evaluate business people (at least, it is for me).

Also: it's important that all co-founders can present themselves as humble and self-aware. Using terms like "business monkeys" and saying "you played around with excel spreadsheets" made me wince.
How I Became A 21-Year-Old Business Executive
> I'm never buying an Adobe product again.

So, you pirate it instead. Adobe will still win out, since you'll still keep using Photoshop and are still bound to their toolkit. You'll put it on your resume, you'll be employed by a company that buys it and has to buy it legitimately. You're not punishing Adobe unless you create a genuine replacement for the toolbox of Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign and Photoshop and are putting those on your resume, unless you're versatile with those more open-source tools, whenever they should exist.
Gave up trying to sell it, so here's the source code - hopefully some budding iOS developer out there finds it instructive.

Peace :)
> It's really a huge mess. That and the government's encryption app is closed source and not peer reviewed.

What is insane and scary is that anyone is forced to use the governments encryption app.
I have no idea I'm afraid but I just want to say - your site is fantastic. I hope you get to keep your domain as I can see a number of uses for your site.
Like I have said it is just a "language layer" around Cocoa API, there are no extra, built-on-top classes/things. Instead of writing Obj-c you write Ruby, but the behavior is the same.
Dutch court orders ISP's to block The Pirate Bay
You seem to be arguing against consumers insisting Adobe ship defect free software as the cost would be prohibitive, which is true. But that isn't what's being discussed here.

What is being discussed: when a defect is discovered in the product by the end consumer, is it a fair (or proper, or wise) business practice to charge the customer for the software patch?
A Dutch source: http://ie-forum.nl/index.php?//De+providers+moeten+toegang+t...
Facebook counts on App Center to solve mobile crisis
Microsoft famously did this on a much higher level with their Exchange product. Not affecting individual users, but entire companies.

Exchange Server 5.0 was released without any relay control. Every Exchange 5.0 box would happily send all the porn spam anyone wanted to spend, with Microsoft customers paying for it with their bandwidth bill.

The 'fix' was to purchase Exchange 5.5.
That's a good one... maybe you don't remember what the "left-wing leader" did in the '70s, or '90s, or what happened up until 2003.
Or maybe you are reading 6,7,8's account of history, very well written in Newspeak.
Cool thanks! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

(Though you may have to access it by the IP address soon .... :-(
Let there be intelligent light: The case for LEDs
CloudOn  brings you Microsoft Office(R) on the iPad
Facebook ads haven't kept up with mobile usage
Supporting IE isn't too much work. Trying to bend and twist WWW browsers to render something other than formatted-text-and-images-with-limited-interaction is too much work. You're bound to run into problems when treating document-display programs as ``platform''s.
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Sure, it may be a fair relationship with pirates, but should paying customers have to suffer as a result?
the reason i bought a mac was to be able to test my work on all OS's. I thought that was a normal sensible thing todo (i.e. i can bootcamp and vm my way to full support)
The whois shows this:

Eric Windisch (nospam@bwbohh.net)
+1.2152691915

You can try giving him a ring directly
I think this issue with mobile users (harder to monetize) ties into the big problem for Facebook over the next 5-10 years.

To turn into a profitable company, valued at (say) a hundred billion dollars, they need to start making more money.

Now, there are two main ways they can do this.

1.) Increase number of users.

2.) Increase average revenue per user

They can attempt to increase their number of users by focussing on countries with low penetration. The problem with this, is that these users are harder to make money off (on average poorer, advertisers less interested in their eyeballs). In fact the article claims that these users are loss-making for Facebook at this time. There is (I guess) little scope for absolute user growth in the US, UK and European markets, in fact, its been suggested that user numbers are tailing off here.

Revenue per user: Given the constraints on users mentioned in the last paragraph it becomes really hard to increase your revenue per user. Especially if they're shifting to mobile which is harder to monetize. Any new users are probably going to harm this metric even more (as they'll tend to be poorer than existing users)

So, if Facebook want to say double their revenues how are they going to go about it?
> If it's turing complete basically

Not really. CSS is Turing complete, technically. So is XSLT, which doesn't even need user interaction for the computations. What Apple is banning is something a lot vaguer than "Turing complete", and worst of all they don't even clearly define what it is. They've made it clear that a JS JIT is completely out, and a JS interpreter is probably out (though there have been other interpreters sometimes allowed and sometimes banned, seemingly at random). So actually writing something browser-like is likely to run afoul of Apple randomly deciding that it's not OK even if it's crippled in various ways like Opera Mini.
As I said in the original post, you wouldn't charge at a single ticket rate, you'd price it based on what worked. My assumption would be that most people would watch with maybe one other person and that the price would reflect that.

As I also said they lose the ability to up sell you highly profitable popcorn, you lose travel costs, the lose some overheads (but gain others) - there are a whole bunch of things to figure in. The release day cost of a movie rental wouldn't be a single cinema ticket price and it certainly wouldn't be a current rental cost. Off the top of my head I think you'd be looking somewhere around two to three times average cinema ticket prices, possibly varying by time (weekend evenings might cost more).

The last sentence is a good thing for them though not a bad one. If you watch 3 movies a week instead of one and pay on average $5 instead of $10, they've still got $15 instead of $10. Their costs will likely only be marginally higher with three movies vs. one (most of it being the infrastructure) which means that their overall profit is likely up.

You don't optimise a business for revenue, you optimise it for profit.
I hope mine is not the best answer, but if you can't manage to prevent the expiry you at least need to be prepared for an attempt to 're-register' your domain.

When your domain does expire it will end up on a 'just expired' list and there are a bunch of bots auto-registering every expired domain that looks remotely interesting.

If it gets that far, at least make sure you're prepared to try and snatch it before the other bots get it.
WebKit Offers Early Preview of 'Web Intents'
They can run Android on them, which is open (I'm typing this comment on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 w/ keyboard running a CM9 nightly build).

Or they can run real Linux distros ... Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Linaro are all excellent working distros for a variety of ARM devices. I have a Trim Server running Fedora 17 which is just one open source graphics driver away from being a nice general purpose low end desktop replacement.
>> anything prior to the release of their favourite framework, didn't really exist, and if they do acknowledge its existence, it's only to observe how worthless it is. It's almost religious in nature.

For me at least, its not about religion but economics. Writing standards compliant code that works in all modern browsers costs a certain amount. Writing standard compliant code that is also backwards compatible with older technologies and legacy browsers may cost significantly more. The cost is one issue, of course the larger program is the value. Legacy browsers like IE6&7 compose slightly over 3% of the market share last month. Without even getting into the demographics of those people, it often isn't worth it to tweak for those specific cases.

That being said, I always leave it up to the customer. This is the issue in the browsers, here is your traffic effected, this is what it would cost to fix.

I can see the agitation with IE6&7, but the newer releases have gotten much better. For the most part, something I develop mainly in FireFox works fine in the newer IE releases.
Document automation or document assembly
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Yeah, everybody in the chain thinks they are the critical link.

The difference is, without a product the investors don't come easy. A hacker can make something, get it in front of users, maybe even get a sale all by themselves. So they have a natural inclination to see the other half as 'hire some marketing once I have something to show'.
Binary data pattern matching for JS derived from Erlang's syntax
For the same reason I have to use Windows at work. Because the corporate world, for the most part, is still Windows. Windows is easy to support, easy to get support for, and very enterprise-oriented. Linux is behind on the "easy to support" front (in Windows, you can tell a user 'click this, then click that. Don't underestimate the need for a clear and consistent GUI), and Mac is still behind on the enterprise-oriented front. Microsoft is the only one going after the enterprise desktop market, even as they're pushing further into the consumer market.

This creates a catch-22, where corporations use Windows, so corporate software is written for Windows, and in turn, anyone who uses corporate software has to use Windows. If I send someone a .doc created in LibreOffice and they open it in Word, who knows what will change in the conversion. If part of your company goes open source, the entire company has to as well, for the sake of consistent performance.
I think it depends on how far along you are in your product development lifecycle. If you're at the MVP stage or you're making big changes to your product regularly, then don't support IE, it'll slow iteration time in a similar (although not to the same extent) way that launching with an iPhone and Android app would. If you've got product market fit, paying users and have the bandwidth to support it then you probably should.
No I don't think it is alright to charge for a patch.

It was not my intention to side track the discussion. I just don't like the simplification of comparing with cars - but the OP made it clear that I misunderstood his post.
Yeah, but technical credits are easly demonstrated. Sales and Marketing are squishier.

I've been through half a dozen startups. They each go through several Sales teams before they're done - try some guys, sorry not working, get some more. What does that tell you?
GSM is a pretty horrid standard, and it has plenty of security issues of its own to the point that the title of a talk on GSM security at CCC was "SRSLY?":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4EDAF5OlM
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What is the yield keyword used for in C#?
I can second that. Forget about IE - there are differences even for Safari/MacOS and Safari/Windows, so if you are testing only on MacOS then you aren't doing it well.
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> If we fail fast you have lost almost nothing whereas I have lost months of intense work.

Isn't this part of the problem though - from "their" point of view coding is easy and can just be churned out. From "our" point of view business management, marketing etc is easy and anyone can do it. Its simply not true in both cases. As such, I completely agree with your statement, I don't understand either. If the co-partner wasn't going to be as completely committed, and perhaps more importantly, you trust them to be that committed, then there shouldn't be any partnership - they should be employing you.
The biggest problem I see in these comments and in this post is that the assumption that the skills described exist in a vacuum.

Product guys can only ever be product guys. Engineers can only be engineers. Business men can only be business men.

If you work at a startup, you better be prepared to be all three and more. If you aren't smart enough to be all three, then you can't be my cofounder.
Yeah, sure, the people who worked in the highest positions back in the day employed some shitty tactics way back when

Like not allowing other browser on some devices, requiring locked down BIOS, patent lawsuits against competitors. Oh, wait, that all happened this year.
Even after its expired, i'm sure its held for another 3 months before anyone else can buy it.
>>>After all, I have make an investment and actual work while you played around with excel spreadsheets and send out a few press releases?

I don't even know where to begin... Such a gross misunderstanding of what a competent business development person can bring to the table. I know a couple of guys that I would gladly sign up with for equity, knowing they can take a product and bring in millions of revenue.
Good point. I didn't try calling yet. I'll give that a try.
Google sells search appliances, so they are most certainly in the search business:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/

However, obviously it's not their main source of revenue, but they are in that business.
Supporting IE can be too much work. The Microsoft Knowledge base acknowledges issues and then tells you that the solution is to change your IE options or upgrade your browser. As if that will help with my users.

Sure the latest versions of IE are not as painful to support but if you check worldwide statistics you'll notice that old versions of IE are still sticking around.
Yeah, very true. What I guess I object to the most is the implication and stereotype that all people with a knack for business will take the first opportunity to slack off work and go golfing. From my experience, that's (usually) simply not the case.
The take-aways to pay attention to here are the upbeat and less snarky parts. Like that a good business guy is worth his weight in gold.

I've been networking like a lady-of-loose-morals trying to find one, and it's just as hard as finding a good engineer. (Fortunately as to the latter case, I already are one.) As a result I've been doing the business development, customer seduction - sorry, acquisition - and networking required to get this done myself.

It's really hard.

Yes, there's a lot of idiots with business degrees and the first socio-loco-mobo-deals app idea that popped into their heads. There's also a few business minded geniuses hiding out there too. Don't dismiss them out of hand because of the oversupply of the others.
This is very true

This is what people calling Instagram a $1B Django App don't get (and of course, it's Django + IOS)

If you add nothing but technical skills, your pink slip is a matter of time. Unless of course, your technical skills are really up there (like: scalability, cryptography, special algorithms, etc)
Correct. Another benefit: easier to implement cache between the view and the DB down the road.
I would be surprised if Facebook is not working on their own mobile OS. All those amazing designers they acquihired can't be working on plain-looking webview apps.
Both points-of-view are a little one-sided (although martin explains why), but yours is too aggressive.

Vision and execution together give the value, not one or the other. That's why YCombinator and PG focus so much on the team: you need complementary skills.

While I can't fully agree to "ideas worth nothing, execution is 100%", the fact is people come up with your idea independently. The value of it will be show by the ones who execute it.

This "you are easily replaceable" thinking is probably the worst way to think of getting into a startup or any kind of business partnership.

To not make this any longer: startups are like a marriage. Is your wife (/husband) easily replaceable?
Another interesting word is 'log' which we use daily in a digital sense but it has a very physical nautical origin:

log: "from log (n.1) which is so called because a wooden float at the end of a line was cast out to measure a ship's speed. General sense by 1913."

Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=log&allowed_in_...
I thought the author was smart enough (still do, actually) until I read this gem:

"I am considering making separate business cards for people who want me to be their technical co-founder. They will only have a QR code on them – to this article."

I don't know if I'd still be interested in a technical cofounder who used a QR code to tell me why I was mistaken.
Easily? The average salary for a google engineer is a little over $100k. I guess we need to define what is "good".
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It took me many years to work out that that the Mail icon I saw everywhere with the little red flag was a U.S mailbox. Where I live mail comes through a slot in the door.
Only took a quick look at it, but I can't see any NOP sleds - and you'd probably need more room to reliably spray the heap anyway. My guess is that it isn't weaponized at all - it'd just cause memory corruption (but I don't have PS).
I think people on HN complain way too much about Github's design. Sure you can nitpick this stuff, but Github has always had above-average design. Your comment about design-by-programmer is not really warranted in the context of the monstrosities that the term originally applied to. If you want to hold Github to a higher standard because they have such a great product then fine, but there's no need to be so disparaging.

Github's design is not and has never been terrible. And furthermore, hiring a "real designer" will not solve the problem because the core issue is that Github is a complex product; throwing a designer in there who doesn't understand the nuances of how git is used in the wild is not going to help. There are many different audiences and many different conflicting problems to be solved. The reason there's so much meta information stacked at the top is because the meta information is more commonly used then the file contents in most cases. I agree it's not the most intuitive, but on the other hand there's not an obviously primary role for this page and things are reasonably well organized and delineated based on purpose. I've used almost every single link there and there's not much that doesn't deserve to be front and center.

As for the icon redesign, they are trying to establish a visual language so that the masses of information they are publishing are more readily digestible. This is not something that happens overnight, instead you have to use the icons for a while before they sink and start to pay dividends. I'm not saying Github is successful, but I think people on HN and indeed the Internet in general are way to quick to criticize redesigns based on first impressions.
I noticed on whois that the registrar is listed as eNom, INC.

I found this one their help page:
http://supportcenter.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24...

Unfortunately I'm not listed on the contacts for the domain so I'm not sure if it will work. I went ahead and submitted a ticket anyway.
well, at least they didn't have to provide a password. embedding a password in the client code would have been insecure! ;)
From the 23000 hits so far only about 300 came from faceboook ... not really that much.

I'm pretty sure that the amount of req/sec caused the problems. After a configuration change between 150 and 200 apache2 workers were constantly occupied and neither network ,cpu or ram were even closely used to their capacity. (Before the change we had a hard limit of 50 workers.)
I'm a freelancer and I've been using this approach since ever. I wish more developers did too because it's really frustrating when they don't and you need to maintain their code.
Copies.

Save is going away.
Save As is going the way of "duplicate"/"fork".
There's a showcase page on their website - http://www.appcelerator.com/thinkmobile/showcase

ZipCars pretty notable...
Sortfolio without the 37signals brand is not the same asset.
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Reality seems a bit more nuanced in my experience. Most of the time the idea person is more than just the idea person. The coder person is more than just the coder person.

For example I've seen many places where the company culture has come as much, if not more, from the technical than the idea side. I've seen investors remove the "idea guy" from a company because the organisation has has grown up around product development team - and he's become isolated from that.

Good developer folk need to understand the product vision - otherwise they can't build the product vision. Good idea folk need to understand the development side - otherwise they can't get a grip on the team dynamics as product development goes forward.

Great partnerships are well... partnerships. If either side thinks the other is a useless tool who isn't pulling their weight it's not going to go well :-)
Here's the problem with your comment:

It's not one sided. As you point out, "Point of View is worth 80IQ points". The more productive point of view is external to both the product people and the engineer.

IMHO, I think it's wrong to think one guy "the product guy" (or the engineer) forms the vision, culture, management. A well run, modern start-up is an all-in collaboration with equal participation from all involved. Everyone contributes to these things in one form or another (each in their own sphere of influence).

Top down management is going the way of the dinosaur. Sure, someone has to be CEO, but I think things work best when they view their role guiding the organization and providing a productive environment for their fellow employees. The CEO should be "working" for the other employees as much as they are "working" for him/her.

If your view is "You, engineer, work for me, product guy", I can understand exactly why it may be hard for you to find a technical co-founder.
I edited in an /s at the end :)