skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago a friend of mine worked at a local BestBuy-style retailer as a consultant. I asked him why they continued to use green screen POS terminals on the sales floor when much better technology existed. Apparently they had tried 3 separate attempts to implement new systems at costs of millions of dollars. These initiatives failed and even if they reached a pilot implementation stage, the company would roll back to the old trusted system with all its flaws. These systems often have extraordinarily complex and arcane integrations with multiple supplier and manufacturer systems to manage inventory and supply flows, calculate commission/spiffs and payroll, and integrate with ecommerce systems. IE, like any decently sized software project, the devil is in the integration, and the sales cycle is almost comically long.

Eliminating the licensing costs of a new untested inventory system is not a very compelling incentive for any medium-to-large sized retailer to consider trying out an untested startup's product. For various reasons the IT deparments of big retailers are very conservative.

As for smaller retailers and mom-and-pop-shops that have less integration concerns. It might be easier to have them find your system and be willing to invest hours of labour to have staff recode their existing inventories into your system and integrate this into with their existing POS systems (oops, there's that problem again) or I guess pay you for your fully-integrated POS system.... signing these up presents its own set of challenges. I think you're overestimating the licensing costs of existing POS systems for smaller retailers, and underestimating the costs of replacing any system that has already established itself.

A better approach might be to get a feeds of data from the inventory systems that already exist, which larger retailers are already sharing with their suppliers. Then you're still faced with similar integration problems, just from the other side. Others in this thread have covered the reasons why it would be very difficult to convince retailers to give up this valuable information.
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"Business owners and investors use systems, rather than their time, to generate income." --Robert Kiyosaki
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If you are moving faster than the speed of light, our understanding of physics is wrong and we can't make any sensible predictions.
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I find this a good approach for marketing interesting new (indie) games for Android. However to be honest, the indie thing is not so much of an differentiator in mobile space than it is in PC gaming? Big studio games are still rather rare on mobile platforms.

But, why oh why the site does not work on the platform the games are intended for? The flash introduction videos do not run properly, the default browser lags because of the Javascript and my Transformer Prime2 (with ICS 4.0.3) rebooted itself because of the page.

I will probably purchase the bundle despite these grievances, though.. :)
Yes - June the 30th has a leap second ( http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat ).
I understand wanting to get into YC, but if your figures were wrong, you should have known that long before the interview. If your figured weren't wrong, and you changed them for the interview, that's also a pretty big problem. We got in with half the partners disliking our idea. I don't know how they can make it more clear than the "no idea" application - they care about the team so much more than the idea.

The biggest thing for me is this: if you were willing to put your PhD on hold with YC, you should be willing to put your PhD on hold without YC. The fact that it changes your answer is probably one of the biggest reasons you weren't selected. pg has stated before, YC doesn't want to make companies succeed. They want to make companies which _will_ succeed more successful. Successful teams know they're going to be successful with or without YC.

If you were turned away for low numbers, they would have said so in the rejection email. I find it unlikely that they did, or you would have posted it, I'm sure. The fact that so many people are giving you advice as to actual problems, and that you're ignoring them, is a pretty big issue.
I understood that quote that if you find someone working on a project, they are happy.
I had similar Idea with online shopping. You can shop for any product online or in app. when you buy it, software will redirect the order to nearest inventory holder to ship it. so many people can start business by just having the inventory. or you can opt for walk in. ( I am still interested in this idea, if anyone else ?)
Kevin Systrom interned at a couple of high profile startup pre-Burbn too. Pinterest had a product called Tote before Pinterest so theres a not insignificant time of preconditioning there too.
So true.

The other significant thing here is just how fractured the retail POS market is. There are literally dozens of single-point POS systems, and Milo integrates with 5 of the larger ones. Many of them are regional players who built their market up through hands-on customer service. They just aren't going to get unseated that easily.
unfortunately, this can't be replicated for a mom and dads corner store, since the overhead is gonna be so much bigger than their revenue would allow.

...unless SaaS providers of this kind of service exists, and the fixed overhead costs bourne by a lot of small shops together.
There are no billion dollar ideas. There's billion dollar executions.

Err, that sounds wrong... you get the idea!
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XML is often used when migrating datasets, large and small. Interchange between disparate systems is the very thing its good for.
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Perhaps package managers are just fun to write? :-)
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Interesting.

First off, I'm happy to declare them as water-misusing criminals, since I hate ads. The reality is that selective cleaning of a sidewalk is just as bad as spraying me with a deadly neurotoxin that reprograms my brain to be sexually attracted to their web two point oh product.

But with that in mind, I can conceive of a universe where they cleaned a sidewalk (selectively) with some of their own water (perhaps purchased in bottle form at Sam's Club). And, although I hate ads, that's mildly cool. Without any facts to the contrary, hating them for blogging about it seems more like "Internet Outrage" than actual concern. FWIW.
At least there was some convergence with the theme of music and enjoyment. The Microsoft ad is pretty abstract. Reminds me of the Mr. Plow ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTY5EKN6bzM
I suspect he's not talking of the time to actually scan the code, but the total time, given one code, of picking up the phone, finding the app, activating the scanner, checking the URL that it brings up, and then hitting "Go".

As I say, I do all that in about 20 seconds. Once the app is open, individual scans are very quick.
Most people? Who are you referring? Any professional in her situation, male or female, would have spoken up if they had a problem. Period.

Those people may well have stereotyped her, but when she fails to speak up about it and sits there silently giving no indication that something is wrong, what would you expect. This isn't kindergarten. These people don't get paid to read minds. What it sounds like, is at least part of the time these people genuinely thought they were helping her, and she gave no indication yo the contrary.

She is not a professional, pure and simple. If you aren't a professional, then what are you doing at E3? What are you doing in any situation where assertiveness is expected in order to get your job done?
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A bit off topic - how are you finding SnowPlow?

I love the idea but I worry that it is no where near ready for the mainstream (more because of a lack of skill amongst web analysts then anything to do with the product)
My recent favorites wrong assumptions:

1. The year is 2012. In Thailand, the year is 2555. In Malaysia, the year is 1433.

2. But surely that is not used on computers and the web?
http://www.railway.co.th/home/Default.asp?lenguage=Eng (look on the right side: "booking can be until : 18/8/2555"
It can also, theoretically be a minute with 59 seconds, though I don't believe this has ever happened.
Oh god, there we go again. You can forget user-visible filesystem. Normal people don't care about "files". They care about their music, photos, videos and documents.
Filesystems are vestige from the past, not the future.
I took over from Snr dev who made 2 simple and bad time mistakes.

1) implementing their own DateAdd functionality in c# and forgetting about leap years.

2) thinking the app server and db server's time would never get out of sync.

Fml he was so bad I wanted to kill him almost every day and got paid quite a bit more than me
Another way of looking at it is that if we are deemed to require Puppet/Chef/whatever/etc preinstalled when we buy an Ubuntu laptop from Dell, then maybe these things should be present in a standard Ubuntu install anyway.
I think showing the convenience of parsing into tagged structs makes this a cut above the usual SAX parsing examples.
> Even if you don't accept that the general market will buy this, you have to admit that a full-featured desktop Windows x86 OS running smoothly on a 10" tablet with an integrated full laptop-style keyboard that also will keep you entertained watching 16:9 movies on the flight back is a pretty appealing concept.

Hold on, where is this fabled device?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344
It can, not easily but most of the management needed by said corner store can be automated using SaaS. This approach combined with the app AND the point-of-sales data you can provide to smaller stores by doing so offer benefits for everyone. And the overhead won't be that big for the SaaS start-up as soon as economies of scale kick in IMO.
Interesting.

Anyone know what a Micro HD video connector is? Does that mean Micro HDMI?

Ironic that they go with MiniDP on the Pro when everyone cries for the lack of HDMI on the iPad. On the Pro, 900g is quite hefty, and 13mm is quite tall. Even 676g is tough to swallow given people called the iPad 1 heavy (712g) and rejoiced when the iPad 2 lost 112g.

Also, knowing that the battery is foobar Wh tells me shit unless I know the system wattage. Seriously can't they say about 10h of playing mp4, which actually means something?

I may look a bit bashing, but I'm honestly thrilled to know more about this.
Here's what worked for me (for CoderStack[1]):

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2) Advertising on Linkedin

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Not my point at all. I like the Haskell exception system for some types of error handling, and I think in some cases it works better than Either, ErrorT, or similar mechanisms. I'd still like to have those exceptions reflected in the type. That doesn't mean I'd like an Either or an ErrorT; those don't work like thrown exceptions.
I have one of these, and they certainly seem powerful, but holy crap, the configuration isn't for the faint of heart.

I'm not a network engineer, I just want a static IP to be assigned to the router and simple switching on the other ports, but damn if I couldn't figure that out in 15 minutes.

In the end I had other things to do so I put it aside, but be warned that you need to be willing to invest the time to make these work. (or already have a networking background)
what windows app exactly will people trade for few hours of battery life?

seriously, other than PC games, I don't know a single windows app I want to run on a tablet form factor.
Oops, mistook SAX for iterator, I really prefer XmlReader to SAX style.
What I really like about all these opensource firmware, is that you can really easily hack the hardware.

For example, if you read the datasheets of the internal components of the DLink DIR300, you can notice that by setting a few registers here and there you can achieve 802.1Q VLAN Tagging on the device's 4 port switch.

Very fun times.
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Thanks. Yes it seems quite an annoyance ! Some users I've come across are particularly bad for interacting with them. Bah.
I don't mean to shill, but after trying all kinds of Netgear, Linksys and ADSL Modem/router combi's, I really love my Apple Airport Extreme. I haven't had to reset it once in two years, and it's every bit as fast and reliable as a wired connection. They are sold as tag-on purchases but really are a hidden gem.
There's a simple rule of thumb: Would she have gotten the same treatment if she were a guy? If not, then calling shenanigans is the right response.
Ignoring all the judgement we're passing on this product, a good engineering effort deserves praise. Looking at this segment of the presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozTK-MqEXQ#t=41m32s), with my extremely limited understanding of manufacturing and physics, I am truly surprised how they managed to fit so much functionality into 3mm.
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The minimum price on the app store is .99 - Facetime comes pre installed on newer versions of osx.

This is most likely an accounting reason why they need to charge for this feature for older users.
This post basically summarises the challenge with any idea. I have a great idea BUT.... It will take time, effort, money, the market place, the code, the people etc

And claims of billion dollars are typically baseless. Anyone would commit 10 years to a project if it would be worth a billion at the end.

So appreciate the authors musing on the next big thing, the problems described are the day dreams of any entrepreneur.
Welcome to my world my friend.

A few things I've learned in the short few months hackerjobs.co.uk has been live:

* Blog often

* Twitter is your new best friend

* Don't be afraid to email/call people your target market if you see them advertising on other sites

* Free job listings for a limited time is a brilliant way of attracting advertisers

* Have stats at hand at all times. Daily uniques, time on site, etc.

* Use case studies. Got a decent company advertising on your site? Tell the competition.

* Are you allowing recruiters to use your site? If so, email individual recruiters to let them know. Recruiters go crazy for new job sites that may give them an edge in the market.

* Finally, and this is a big one, when posting questions like this on HN, include a link. Hacker News is a massive source of traffic.

As others have mentioned, the biggest challenge is differentiating yourself from other job boards.
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The thing is that there is plenty of work that isn't due on a tight deadline right now, but takes time to do. In these cases, why should my boss care if I decide to work noon to 8pm instead of 9 to 5? My boss doesn't care. I am my boss.

The measure of a good knowledge worker though is not being on time, rather it is productivity month over month.
But not e.g. protobuf. So don't write a distributed routing framework that assumes hashCode() is stable - if you do, it will work fine for Strings and HashMaps and all the standard java objects, and then fail when someone tries to use it with protobuf objects.
Carrion as in carcass of a dead animal?
Hm, good point. Negativity redacted.
Unix time is not the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.
Nice. How does one go about getting our site http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk added to your list?
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> TomatoUSB doesn't appear to be maintained anymore :(

I recently switched to Toastman (http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/toastman-releas...) which: is based on TomatoUSB; has better QoS rules; and is updated more frequently. I currently use it on a RT-N16 and a WRT54G.
I think the best part about all the people making the comment about "Microsoft trying to copy Apple's Retina" is that Microsoft's "ClearType" has been around for so, so many years longer (I remember seeing it in Windows XP, but it may have even come in before that).
beautiful.

i once participated in a similar competition only that it was in x86 Assembly, my friends and I brought it down to 70 bytes and the winner from Finland did it in 48!

http://myweb.cableone.net/benlunt/hugi/compoold.htm#compo1
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In Ethiopia it's about 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
Microsoft has been using the name ClearType for years, but for something completely different: subpixel hinted font rendering. This "ClearType display" has nothing to do with that, besides the name.
There's a standard for that. ISO 8601. Use that. Don't make up your own.
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According to yet more reports the HTC One X actually holds this title. In part, due to a level in industrial design that samsung has yet to achieve.

Disclosure : I own a One X. I waited for the SIII announcement but the minute I saw the SIII i ordered my One X.
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Wondering about the downvotes?

You've either...
you are just blinded...
you don't really...

Don't do that.
Years start on Sept. 11th in Ethiopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
Well, except that didn't stop Apple from offering iBooks, Find my iPhone, iTunes U, Apple Store, Remote, Find My Friends, iTunes Movie Trailers, AirPort Utility, and Cards apps for free…
I have a few issues with QR codes.

1. They are still cumbersome to use. If I could open up my camera app (which I can launch with a press of a button) and point it at the QR code then maybe. But currently I've got to unlock my phone, open google googles, put google goggles in 'live' mode, then point it at the code, and wait for it to focus.

Now, there might be camera apps that scan for QR codes while you're snapping pics. But if it's not baked into my stock phone I don't see anybody else doing it.

2. I really only ever see the things on the Tube. But there's no cell reception on the tube. What use is a URL I can't load?

3. If I showed my mother (Somebody I'd consider a 'typical' user. Has an iphone and a few apps on it. Uses the web for facebook, work and emails) a picture of a QR code she'd probably tell me that the art lessons I took in high school didn't pay off. If my mum doesn't know what a QR code is what's to say other people will?

4. A QR code alone isn't a call to action. Tell me what I'm going to gain by scanning it and I'll probably be more receptive to it.
A few slightly better aliases with graphs on the left:

lg50 = "!git log --graph --abbrev-commit --date=relative --pretty=format:'%x00%h%x00%s%x00%cd%x00%an%x00%d' | gawk -F '\\0' '{ printf \"%s\\033[31m%s\\033[0m %-50s \\033[32m%14s\\033[0m \\033[30;1m%s\\033[0m\\033[33m%s\\n\", $1, $2, gensub(/(.{49}).{2,}/, \"\\\\1…\",\"g\",$3), $4, $5, $6 }' | less -R"

lg80 = "!git log --graph --abbrev-commit --date=relative --pretty=format:'%x00%h%x00%s%x00%cd%x00%an%x00%d' | gawk -F '\\0' '{ printf \"%s\\033[31m%s\\033[0m %-80s \\033[32m%14s\\033[0m \\033[30;1m%s\\033[0m\\033[33m%s\\n\", $1, $2, gensub(/(.{79}).{2,}/, \"\\\\1…\",\"g\",$3), $4, $5, $6 }' | less -R"

Note: i've been using them for some time, i don't even remember who was the original source...

On an unrelated note, does someone remember how to add code sections? :)
>the iPad 2 with a design that practically "had to have" a special cover

Friend of mine has an iPad 2 and never bought a cover for it.
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uhh people don't drop $200 for just a better phone when a replacement regular phone is $0-$50.

Do you really think android was far superior product to Palm Pre? Or maybe the advertising had a bit to do with it...
The tax year in UK still start/end on March 25th IIRC
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thinking as an average consumer I can only look at this as a marginally uglier (looks like it's lower quality) and thicker tablet. if isn't significantly cheaper than the ipad why should i buy it?
I'm done with routers. Totally fed up of them running out of RAM, taking too long to open new connections, not being able to open more connections if someone is using 200 to torrent, fed up of them forgetting static IP assignments, port forwards, upnp never working...

I got fed up of all that and decided to do something about it. Routers have 8, 16mb of RAM? My worst computer that's lying around has 256mb. Slap another ethernet card in, install iptables, it's one day's work tops and your router will never crash and never forget anything again. My personal best is 7,000 torrents all going at once with the internet still being fairly usable.
Good resistive screens are as responsive as capacitive, and they don't need a conductive stylus so you can easily flip between accurate and inaccurate modes. Seriously, if you get a chance to play with a Nokia N900, you'll see what I mean.
It is easier to carry two flat objects around when they have the same dimensions and can be "stacked up" against each other, but this cover cannot have anything close to the same dimensions as an iPad because they have drastically different aspect ratios (what looks like 16:9 versus the 4:3 of the iPad).
UTC timestamps since the epoch

Since we add leapseconds, and UTC includes those leap seconds, it's hard to know "time since the epoch". For example, unix/posix time is not the number of seconds since the epoch.
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I like biking every week with my friends,so we often change our opinions on the bike

we like.
Actually,mountain bike is my favourite for the comfort and quality.
You can buy one for a trial,i am sure you will have a different experience.
In the British Empire/UK.
Indeed. I don't see why they need to charge even 99¢ for it. They made that in the margins of the original products that are capable of running the app.