skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply emailed my U.S. senators and representative, and let them know I would be considering their stance on patent reform a major issue when deciding whether to vote for them. You can find your legislators' contact information via the following link:

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

You could also contact the sponsors of the recent (and weak) America Invents Act - Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), but if you're not one of their constituents, they likely won't be too concerned with what you have to say.

If anyone else has other suggestions / tips on how to most effectively reach legislators to support patent reform, please share!
Agreed. 44% funding rate? Compared to other methods of fundraising, I'd take those odds any day.
This is my response:
http://martinwittmann.at/please-dont-shut-up
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I'm counting only the highest available capacity drives in 3.5" format. If you mix various physical sizes it changes the overall tendency quite a bit. Until around 1999 (availability of 50GB 3.5" drives) the biggest available drives were 5.25" (up to 43 GB).
5.25" drives were also much more common than 3.5" drives during all of the 80s. That's why I'm counting starting in 1990, which flattens the curves.
That isn't the point.

No one here is saying that users shouldn't have better password policies. They should.

What is being said is that having a devil-may-care attitude toward safe guarding your users account data is not ok.

If you use your bank password for anything other than your bank, you're clearly not taking security seriously.

If you think you shouldn't have to properly secure user account information, you're clearly not taking security seriously.

Both parties can be wrong, but that doesn't excuse either side.
The author is trying to distinguish himself. This should really be titled "10 _more_ books every entrepreneur should read" since it's missing the basics like The Innovators Dilemma and The Four Steps To Epiphany, among others.
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A few points that hopefully help, some have already been mentioned -- so take the reiteration as reinforcement to their importance.

1) Exercise. I can't stress how much it helps to get a nice workout in 5 times/week and how much more energy you have throughout.

2) Get a sitting/standing desk. After I'm in the office all day, I don't want to sit. I got one myself one of these: geekdesk.com and find a more constant energy level after I get home, and I only use the sitting positions maybe 10% of the time.

3) Turn off wifi or install a "site blocker" for time-wasters. I know this sounds silly, but after a long day of work, twitter, FB, and HN all sound OOHHH so pleasant to check, refresh, rinse, repeat. After an hour has passed, an hour has been wasted.

4) Stop sending yourself articles. I did the same, but it ends up just piling up. Put everything you do and read into manageable tasks that take <1 hour and you'll be good.

5) Google seinfeld's productivity method. Another one of those "silly but it works" things.
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A lot of those descriptions reminded me an an awful lot of doomsday descriptions I've read of Google and Facebook over the years, though. Granted the circumstances were different - they're much newer companies and they needed experienced executives to grow - but it shows that sometimes these things make sense.

The growing M&A team Lashinsky describes is a good case in point. Cook handled that when they had a fraction of the $110 Billion they have today. They started adding specialists when Google swooped in and acquired AdMob, and have done well since (Siri, Anobit, Chomp). Considering how much more competitive the talent market has become, this strikes me as perfectly logical.
"It’s like Twitter for one…"
I think that limitation of scope is very intentional on their part. Tracking the actual progress of these projects could be a very intensive and diverse undertaking. I don't think Kickstarter calls a project successful, I think they call a fundraising successful.
Thanks to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018393
Jonathan Ive still works there. Don't start freaking out just yet.
Ahhhh thank you.
I think the distinction is still useful to draw a line between those you legitimately interact with and those who are your social networking 'friends' solely because there's social pressure to accept them.

e.g. former coworkers, old high school friends, friends of friends, etc.
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We did something similar while building the CMS for the Yahoo! home page. Now the way auth works (and should work), is if you try to access a restricted page and you're not logged in or don't have the necessary privileges, you're redirected to a login page. This is all done automatically by apache and your back end app has no control or knowledge about this.

On the front end, auto-save is done using an XHR call from JavaScript. If we detect a 302 response from the server, and the Location: header was set to a known login pattern, we'd inform the user of this, and allow them to log in in a new window/tab.

On login, the new window/tab redirects the user back to a page in our app. The page in our app does two things.
1. It calls window.opener.someCallback()
2. It calls window.close()

The callback function then makes a call to the server to fetch a new csrf token (you do use csrf tokens, don't you?) and then re-attempts the save.

This reduced user frustration significantly.

I do not know if this app is still in use.
Senator admits: SOPA “really did pose some risk to the Internet”
This article isn't directed at you then, it's directed at people considering starting Kickstarter projects of their own. I believe the author's thesis is that the current Kickstarter policy of hiding failed fundraising efforts is detrimental to the capacity of future Kickstarters to run successful fundraisers.
Thanks for the in-detail response! on a side note, your gaga-1 experiment is awesome.
Apple’s ‘iTV’ might not be a TV at all
Yep, pretty sure they're being facetious.
"You can't read your way to experience."

This reminds of a decision making book which are based on empirical observation and theory. Good if you want to know how to make decisions in ambiguity, uncertainty and other complex situations.

Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making - Gary Klein

http://www.amazon.com/Streetlights-Shadows-Searching-Adaptiv...
I love how the system admins look like they're just stuffed in what would have otherwise been a closet.
Thanks, I think I finally understand how to build a 'Class' but I am still not sure when, or why I would ever use them. Haven't come across a situation where I would need it yet.
Advice like this (which itself is good) makes me wonder how much higher education is missing. If a 4.0 is possible with 1.0 hours of work, then surely the expectations of the students are far too low. Its great that its possible for a focused student to achieve a 4.0 with so little work, but doesn't that just mean that all the students should be achieving so much more?

Perhaps there should be a compulsory 101 course that just teaches studying skills (some places may do this already). It seems like that would boost the overall gain from the education experience.
The lack of "support" for turn signals is probably a way to ensure that a human is always present and aware during operation.

It's a really clever, simple solution. They've turned the absence of a feature into a feature.

I don't know why the Google engineer would lie about it, though.
I didn't draw the same conclusions that others seem to be drawing from this article. Having been in the tech industry for over 20 years now, I can tell you that a company's CEO having a firm grasp on the business side is nothing but win.

This doesn't mean that Apple will become Microsoft, or that all the technical innovation will end, it simply means that they are taking the steps they need to take to ensure that the techies will be ABLE to keep innovating.

But, don't let me get in the way of a good hand wringing session :)
This won't be the last critical review that Google gets. History has shown that people are incredibly quick to dismiss and attack things they don't understand.

A good (recent!) tech example would be the iPhone: back in 2008; it's kind of funny now, but my first impression of it was "huh, where's the stylus?" and I wasn't alone. The amount of "No stylus, so it's hard to use" FUD being spread around was incredible.

Now my two year-old son tries to swipe on my computer dumbscreen to go to the next photo. The "People of the land.... morons" opinion curve is probably going to follow the same trajectory; they will dismiss and criticize until they can't remember how crappy driving a car really was.
Very nice. This may be weird, but I totally enjoyed reading this.

However, I'm actually surprised they didn't mention their Bandcamp presence[1], where I bought something a few month ago and was very pleased with the experience. But then again, I don't know from when the "Hello Downloader" document is.

[1]: http://alphabasic.bandcamp.com/
You can't seem to envision anything but a world of cars, mass consumption and long supply chains we currently rely on.

Thinking has to change, lifestyles have to change. People must become more resilient and do business locally. This isn't optional. It's the imminent economic and ecological reality.
Starbates uses smartphones to build restaurant loyalty
Neil Armstrong breaks his silence to give accountants moon exclusive
He also picked Sculley. I hope he learnt from his mistake. Anyway I guess it will be very difficult to find someone with a vision for new products as good as he had.
At this point, I think calling this sort of thing "marketism" is more appropriate. This "do anything for the share price" mentality really isn't capitalism, it's slavery to the stock markets. These people are thinking of the next quarter, but should be thinking about the next decade.

I cannot help but think the stock market is destroying these companies before their time. I really don't see a way for HP to recover at this point. They may have all the pieces, but the outside pressure is just unbelievable.
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As long as they release great products and make existing products better, I'm happy.

If not, I have to look for other things and I don't really see something which could hold a candle to Apple.
Aren't Instagram photos geotagged by default? That would make Instagram essentially the "like" button for user tracking in meatspace.

FB wouldn't see everywhere a user goes, but they'd know when/where the user was, when they thought something was worth a picture.

And with the face-tagging stuff, they can get additional time-space data on photo subjects as well.
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That would be a better way to describe a funded project, but that isn't what Kickstarter does. They call a project successful when it is funded:

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/successful
"That’s why it’s crucial to be legally protected with some kind of corporate structure. For most small businesses, this means creating a limited liability company."

Not all incorporations are made equal. For LLCs, I feel it depends on the state of incorporation as well as the number of members. I could be wrong, but an LLC that is either incorporated in states like CA or only has one member, can have its corporate veil easily pierced.
But that depends on who you think Kickstarter is ultimately serving. I'm pretty sure Kickstarter cares more about the funders than the products that get displayed. This seems patently true, though obviously they need some people to post projects. But the number of people looking for money is always going to be non-trivial.

Second, if that is the thesis, it's silly. We learn more from success than from failure http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/successes-0729.html; http://hbr.org/2010/01/success-gets-into-your-head-and-chang.... And you can see all the successful projects you want.
Ask HN:  First I found a client, then I build a Product, now..
To make a short story even shorter; I was traveling and basically not working. A tiny bit of lingering consulting but mostly just spending money slowly and having a nice time.

It came up in a conversation with someone I met that I was a programmer, and that they were looking to get something built. Predictably the upper end of their budget is about a fifth of the bottom end of my estimate. They were going the elance route. I gave him some pointers on getting what he wanted and nt getting burnt and went on my way.

It occured to me later that this guy is in a similar position to lots (maybe.. ~1-2k identical small businesses in the world) and maybe there was something to this. I have never built a 'product' up to this point.

So, I asked him if he would be interested in instead of owning the software, if he would be fine with being a customer of a SaaS implementation. We had really good rapport and I offered to just build it and as soon as it was doing what he needed he would pay me. a few months of part-time work (and learning haskell) later, the 'minimum product' is built; and he pays me the agreed upon 1k and is actively using it, its solving his problem, and eveyone is happy.

Its a webapp; and for the 1k he gets it "forever". We have no contract or anything.

So, now what? After traveling so long cash is pretty low, like.. I need a gig or I can't pay July's rent low. I am pretty sure I just closed a deal today that will get me through the summer (my monthly nut is ~= 20 billable hours).

Where do I put my energy, how much more of this should I build out? This thing has zero chance of ever becoming an instagram or something. I think it could potentially grow into a high-dollar (10-20k a license) situation with a lot more features but in the same space; but for now, if I could get 20-50 paying customers at 100/bucks a month it would really change my life.

100/month sounds sort of a like a lot for what it is. But it is providing that much value for them easily; so I think that's fine. It's not polished is the main thing; and I am not a designer. I am using bootstrap which gets me pretty far.

It feels to me like the right thing to do is just try and get customers. It's a slow process because its 100% brick and mortar situation; and there isn't really too much interconnectivity between the customers.

I am sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place; I need a designer; but I can't pay for a good one. And I am scared that I won't be able to get the money to pay for a good one (at least from this project) until I have a designer.

For the record, I contacted one potential customer; they agreed to check out the software but never used the account I set up for them. However I am 95% sure the person I spoke to was not a decision maker. Also I am not a sales man; but I do know the business reasonably well.

I apologize for the rambling nature of this post.. it's admittedly something of a process of mental masturbation, but I am hoping nonetheless for some tidbit of wisdom.
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The thing that really annoys me about checked exceptions is that map/reduce/fold like functions throw anything by definition. Basically as soon as you allow any general type function as a parameter, you need to mark yourself as throwing everything.

That is really limiting in some scenarios.
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Honestly, I don't think the 'donate' model is a viable one. Sure you can make some money off of it, but that cannot be the norm. I think. Maybe (hopefully) I'm wrong.

Now don't get me wrong, I think that selling music in the internet age is a fundamentally broken model, so much more than the donate one. At a time where distributing media is as simple as one click, trying to make money off of distribution is just wrong. Take into account how widespread internet access is today, and do the most basic ecnomical analysis, take "Porter five force" for instance and you'll quickly realize how non-viable this model is. Labels who act as middle men between the artist and their audience might have been needed 20 years ago, but today, what are their added values?

Now, if I do not believe that selling music is profitable, that doesn't mean that musicians cannot make money. Here's a simple business model for you: Make money off concerts and use your records as promotion units. Give your music away for free, hope for success, give a concert, make money.

Labels want to scare you into thinking that their distribution model is the only guarantee that music/art will survive. Let's not forget that musicians existed and made money long, very long before technology allowed businessmen in suits to make money off of them.
I think he means that specifically WSJ didn't publish anything about it.
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If you see a painting of a dog in a rock, you will surely think it was painted by somebody. If I said that the molecules where evolved during billions and billions of years and formed the painting you would say for sure that I am crazy. Now, the dog is much more complex than the dog painting and if I say that the dog evolved during billions and billions of years, you should say that I am totally nuts to think this, because for sure somebody MADE the dog!!! Yes, God CREATED the dog!
Mark Andreessen, paraphrased: "Salespeople can be very good at optimizing a company over a 2-4 year period. The [Andreessen-Horowitz] fake hedge fund trade is: when a sales guy replaces a product guy as CEO, go long 2 years, then short."

Source: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22660214207/peter-thiels...
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As long as network use is metered, absolutely.
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It's not misleading at all. The goal of kickstarter is to fund projects, not make them successful. That's why they explicitly say "successfully funded" and not "successfully successful."
* Open floor plan works very well (i.e. everybody in one large room) and is much better than divided rooms.
* Have 4 rooms (with doors) available for talking on the phone, playing games, meeting, brainstorming.
* Get a dishwashing machine for the kitchen to facilitate cleaning.
* Set up a few pairing stations that people can plug their laptop into in order to move around a bit.
* I find that headphones are the great 'do not disturb' sign - even if you're not listening to music.
Yeah this doesn't seem to be at all surprising or a problem.

Congrats on a keen eye though. Keep it up!
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Yes, earplugs are amazing! I've used them once.

Especially when you're in "hostile space" (read: customer) they're great and no one will bother you.

In-ear headphones work almost as good if you mute the sound.
Thanks. I one day plan to create my own company and free self learning time is going to be encouraged.

It is slightly cliché but this was recently posted on our internal "social network"... CFO asks "what if we spend our money training our staff and they leave?", CTO replies "what if we don't and they stay?".

So many jobs, especially technical, require constant education, an employer who wants the best employees know and encourage that.
If they seeeded the torrents, though (which would seem to be the only way they could actually get this file into a torrent?), wouldn't it be legal, since you're downloading it from the copyright holder, who has given implicit permission by making it publicly available on a torrent?
I once tried to buy a digital album from a local band, without using iTunes (just don't like it).

After searching around (which, to Benn's point, probably took longer than illegally downloading) I found it listed on Amazon. After I downloaded their ridiculous download software (just give me a zip?), I got right up to paying, when I was told that they were not licensed to sell to countries outside the US. Great. I can't buy my country's own product on Amazon. Nice one music industry.

At that point I gave up.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A pretty good overview of "properly paranoid". Reading the comments, he does have backups, which is a good idea.

As Timo Juhani Lindfors points out in the comments,

> The "xhost +local:mike.firefox" will let your mike.firefox user inject keystrokes to your X. This allows it to trivially escape the jail. I have personally been investigating solutions to this problem. The ones that I have found are: [qubes and xpra/vnc].

Finally, giving Firefox the ability to read audio is not ideal - it's probably enough to get a fairly decent keylogger going, for instance. (Persons and keyboards have characteristic sounds for keys/phrases.)
By 2016 not a single tablet or notebook will have a hard drive.
In addition to concerts, merchandise is fairly successful for some artists. As the linked essay alludes to, a lot of music fans buy albums these days not for the music on them (which they may already have digitally), but for either collector-type reasons, or artwork-type reasons. So just selling them various kinds of artwork and collectibles can be a viable business model.

I think the distribution of rewards will be a bit different than the traditional one, though, which may be good or bad. Casual listeners aren't great for monetizing via merchandize. You either need a good base of real fans, people who want to wear your band's shirt, have an album-cover print on their wall, own the special limited-edition whatever; or else you need to appeal to a genre/niche with a strong collectors' market (or both).
Or maybe people will just start expecting/demanding that, rather than Kickstarter projects pointing their "successful funding" drop-target at their own pockets, they'll target an agreed-upon escrow service, which will only release the funds on project delivery (and otherwise return the funds for Kickstarter to--if they have enough information to go through with it--"rewind" the pool back into its individual source accounts.)

Of course, this isn't unprecedented at all. At first, eBay was just a place where you put in a credit card and maybe got something delivered to you, or maybe it didn't. Then people started expecting sellers to accept this new thing called "PayPal."
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Absolutely. Google must realize that its supremacy in search/ads will eventually come to an end, so they're making a really smart, long-term investment here.

Self-driving cars would be awesomely useful, and Google has exactly the right resources (top AI engineers) to make this happen.

One day, we'll all likely have cars with AI powered by Google.