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I was going to respond by playing devil's advocate and defending Ric and Uniloc. But a quick glance at their site proves you absolutely right. Here are some gems:

Uniloc's surprising honesty:

>And it fits our straightforward development model. Look at many ideas. Pick an outstanding one. Patent it. Commercialize it. Reap the rewards.

Uniloc's vast knowledge of technology:

>After all, Bell Labs did develop some fairly transformative technology like radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser and the UNIX programming language.
It seems to me that any country that would be worried enough about the legality of this clause, is unlikely to be a "bad actor" in any conflict.
Selected anecdotes are no replacement for empirical data.
The lasting cultural influence of Jobs seems to me to be that he made ruthless Machiavellian sociopathy acceptable to a large segment of the population. What does it really matter how shiny and "faux-zen" the design of the perishable toys he sold was? He was to business ethics what Kiefer Sutherland in the show "24" was to law enforcement.
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"==!" === "x == !y" which you find in most languages.
Using safari? Just hit Reader in the location bar and all that crap goes away.
This is so ridiculous. Does Airtel even know how these companies have ushered in the Internet era and made people buy Broadband in the first place. Without these companies and websites, why would I need to buy broadband from these telcos?
What apps do you guys make? Are they games? I think the general consensus is that it is hard to make any decent money on the app store unless you are selling a game
Not true. Software should work without any oil or maintenance (modulo bugs). Consumables are a lousy argument. My computer uses electricity, the money I pay for it doesn't go to the software developers any more than the gas money goes to the lawnmower manufacturer.
Well it's a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. At least where I grew up.
And I did a search before to post!
I see that you're planning to sell posters and maps, interesting... Have you managed to speak to anyone, which suggested people would like to buy these?
I think its more a question of needing to look at the keyboard and identify the keys you want to press. It breaks the developer's flow.
Congrats to the team. Asanas future is bright.
Right, SaaS (from folks like Adobe) is actually downward pressure on software prices. If they switch to a pure SaaS model (which some companies have sporadically attempted to do) they simply bleed customers AND lose revenue from the ones they keep.
Version numbers are pretty useless these days. I would certainly put a lot more stock in a 1.0 from the Go team than, say, my company. We use version numbers more for marketing than anything else.

Personally, I'm not as worried about reliability as I am roadblocks. Say, for instance, we spend a month moving our framework over to Go. Then we find a problem that is yet unsolved. Either we solve it ourselves at an unknown cost or we have to just ... wait.. until another group solves it while we make payroll in other ways.

I'm lacking any real evidence here, maybe Go doesn't have a library for our Message Queue (not true, just an example). Now we aren't just porting, we're writing a pooling message queue interface that is beyond our pay grade in the language.
That's not exactly a kill switch. If you're hosting the web site then of course you can deactivate it if they don't pay.

I think he was talking about delivering a finished software product to be run on their hardware, but that has a backdoor that allows you to access and deactivate it remotely.
It has nothing to do with attracting women, unless you are suggesting that women can't program, and so the only way to attract them is to have fake hackathons like this? Don't project your sexism on me, I simply commented on the dilution of hacker terminology by marketing weasels.
JetBrains does something similar. They give you access to all updates, including any major versions, for a year. (They put out a new major version approximately every 8 months, so depending on when you buy, you might end up with two major version upgrades for free.) Then you pay to maintain your subscription year after year, which you can think of as upgrade pricing.
on a somewhat related note; any chance of getting points on comments back? My personal opinion is that it degrades the site tremendously not to be able to skim through a thread and see which comments others have deemed interesting/noteworthy/insightful by upvoting them.
> IndexedDB has reached Candidate Recommendation status and has been unprefixed too. This is amazing.

Folks, this is far more important than CSS. Firefox has the most complete implementation of IndexedDB. More than anything else, it is what will enable us to write completely client-side applications.
Why didn't you do this after the first month of non-payment? It just seems like three months is too much leeway to me.
Always happy to hear that and would love to learn more about how we can make it better and simpler.
Mike Monteiro already did it better: http://vimeo.com/22053820

edit: He also covers a lot more ground in terms of negotiating, having a contract, etc. Well worth the 38:40 to watch.

edit2: There's also a book - Design is a Job - which goes into even more detail. I have it, it's pretty good.
I didn't say there was a minimum time to be considered programming. I said "spend 8 hours doing something random" isn't a hackathon. "OpenBSD developers spending a week hacking on OpenBSD" is a hackathon.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281848 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282255
There are lots of ways to ensure you are paid on time, being wholly unreasonable is not one of them. The key is to ensure that the invoice doesn't go overdue. Outline the consequences of late payment (work stoppage, no code delivery, no handover) at the beginning of the relationship, and work on terms that both sides are happy with. Tie payments to solid deliverables and send reminders. Bring hardcopy invoices to signoff meetings; if they don't pay it there and then, reschedule the signoff.

As an aside, I don't think your abusive penalty would be enforceable (in the UK anyway).

I would never agree to your terms.
This is pretty much the same idea of Leiningen's plugin system that Clojure developers are used to.
It's a great functionality, but it is a move towards a more generic project automation tool functionality, something that unites Bundler, Rails generator scripts and Rake tasks when it comes to Rails projects, for instance.
Betakit: open source beta management (invites, referrals)
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> I commonly do ten-fold cross-validation on the test set...

Um, darn, edit period ran out, test set should obviously be train set in the above quote. Otherwise my PI would probably smack me in the face for overfitting the test set.
I'm honoured that this post has made it to the front page a second time! Here are the comments from the first time around: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880800
This is awesome, being able to charge everything from a single power plug is a total dream. But it'd mean losing MagSafe and I can't see Apple going down that route.
Well thats why i said iphone...
1. I agree with what you say. There exists a low-order strategy that has the same payoff against the low-order strategy your opponent uses, and you can use that if you know your opponent's strategy. However, in many games there aren't low-order strategies that would work well against any low-order strategy so you need to know the opponent's strategy to choose a proper low-order strategy. Alternatively you could use a higher order strategy that learns the opponent's strategy and adapts to it.

2. Well, I was thinking that a strategy would be a mapping from game history to a probability distribution over possible moves. Should this be considered in some other way?

Sure, you can just play according to the Nash equilibrium and you can't be exploited, but probably a more interesting case is when both players try to outsmart the other player and not just aim for a draw.
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The basic problem is a power imbalance, and its result is that they tell you how they pay. So any proposed solution built on the idea of you telling them how to pay seems very much in danger of failing for exactly the same reason that there is a problem in the first place.

(Perhaps the main avenue to a solution is in freelancers acting collectively somehow -- thereby becoming more powerful. If clients risk being unable to find service-providers because those clients have been blacklisted, they would more strongly feel the value in paying-up.)
Too much focus on Computer Science in my opinion. Udacity already covers CS in detail. The only interesting bit is the introductory chemics course, a focus on physics, chemics, biology and engineering could have set edx apart from udacity.
$25/month is kind of an ambitious price point for small teams or individuals. That's like implying that your service would be more valuable than Basecamp or Github.
Not sure I understand the issue. If you're regularly using the API then you're monitoring it. You don't need to make extra requests to also monitor it. You should build your application to alert you if requests to the API start failing, maybe even build in a graceful retry system and a message to your customers that you're experiencing issues outside of your control and your services will be back shortly.

Add a queue (you already have one right?) so that any messages sent through your api will still get out and you've provided as good of customer service as you're going to get when relying on a 3rd-party API.

I imagine Twitter also wouldn't want all of the sites using it's API to have a message saying "Twitter API is Down", that would be unfortunate for them. I think that also explains the wording of that term.
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It wouldn't.
For a start, it sounds like this term is might(?) be listed in the invoice? But, even if it wasn't, it would most likely fall afoul of "consequences of a breach" and "unreasonable terms" of Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

All the same, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that he can't include it.
I am confused, why is saas here, the same course is offered at coursera
Ask HN: Review my startup, intro.getletsapp.com
Hey guys, I have a new startup idea:

http://intro.getletsapp.com/

In short, it works like that: You get introduced to relevant new business contacts based on your profile, interests and location through our matching algorithm. The algorithm is based on what you are (startup founder, marketing expert, investor, etc) and what kind of persons you want to connect with in your area (like investors, iPhone developers, hot girls ;-) etc.)

What do you think? Is this a viable product?
Out of curiosity, is there a reason you bought RubyMine and PyCharm in addition to IntelliJ? The paid edition of IntelliJ includes access to the Ruby and Python plugins.
I think you can still do a one-time purchase app with support for the next X versions and still get the revenue model of a SaaS. Stop thinking about the app as the final product and start thinking about it as a platform.

Sell email client for X, then build additional plugins for client that solve a problem for a subset of users and offer that as an upsell. You avoid bloating the original app for those that want a sleek solution but offer enough plugin functionality to let users tailor to their purposes.

And each of those plugins can have a paid upgrade cycle as well, a long with the ability to bundle plugins with app for "Enterprise" or "Power User" price points.
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I bill hourly, and now only do prepaid work. Shameless promotion, but invoice issues are the reason I wrote Planscope ( https://twitter.com/brennandunn/statuses/226414132566585344). The more I can drill into client's heads that time == money, the less likely I am to get into invoice troubles.

I haven't had ANY issues since I made it clear that I'm selling my time and not a certain product, and that clients can see their current budget usage at any time. My current 6 month contract pays me in advance for 80 hours, and when he's about 20 hours from needing to fill up the tank again, I invoice him.

Over the last few years, I've spent WAY too much time chasing after money. I'm tired of it.
This is a great question Kevin.

I think it comes down to a couple of things.

1. File Requirements
2. Workflow

If you're looking to simply capture any binary data, Chute is not the ideal option. While we will offer access to even more sources than we have today, we're not focusing on the capture of documents, presentations or other non-media docs.

If you definitely need media, then we think we're a great solution since our tools only work with those types of files. That means that not only do we spend a lot of time working through how they arrive and get processed, but also in how delivered back to your users.

This leads me to my point about workflow. We've seen and learned that every app wants to use media files in different ways. That creates a number of unique challenges as a platform: authentication, rights management, terms of use, custom metadata, custom profile data, 3rd party processing ,etc.

For many, and we'd venture most, media apps - simply putting the file online won't be enough. It will have to go through a number of steps and more often than not, there's a need to capture additional data as part of the intake. Put another way, a media file's life only begins when it gets "online".

We're focused on those use cases first and foremost and think we'll be the ideal fit for anyone who needs the same thing.
If you have a contract, you're already well ahead of the game. Most contracts will include all of this sort of stuff for you, and all you have to do with non-payers is wave a threatening legal letter at them.

If there's no contract, the best that you can do is a cash leash (when they go over $x overdue, work stops) and set it low enough that you can cut them loose without losing your house.

My take on dealing with "Squirrel" clients here: http://teh.oarsum.com/posts/you_are_all_squirrels.html
It would be nice to have some indication. When reading down the page it would be nice to know what the interesting comments that happen to be on low-rated threads are.
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Is Twitter Obsoleting Businesses Based Around Proprietary APIs?
Expect a new class of cheap USB gadgets in the future. USB powered microwave oven. There's a lot of toasty cheese melting power in 20 volts and 5 amps. There's going to be some patents filed...
Just use an adapter, apple customers seems to love those.
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I assume you're doing "work for hire", which implies that your copyright is assigned to the client in consideration for your wages. In your agreement, you could explicitly specifiy, absent payment in full, the copyright remains with you. (This is may be the case anyway.) That is, they don't own it without paying for it.
Congrats on the funding, Gregarious!

Chute definitely seems like an interesting company, and I'm glad it's not just-another-photo-sharing site. Looking forward to seeing what else comes from your camp!
I like seeing comment points but I'm not sure that it's a good thing to display them. Threads are already sorted by comment score so that the best comments are close to the top - I'm not sure what additional benefit comes from seeing the actual snapshot numbers aside from sheer curiosity.
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Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay there. Accountants are generally hardwired to avoid penalties, so if they see there are penalties they'll pay before the penalty period (provided they have the money).

However I have found that if your late fee is high, they will simply pay the invoice and "forget" the late fee. And then you're left squabbling over the late fee, which is quite annoying.

Also note that I disagree with OP's interest scheme - in my case its a flat 1-2%. For a freelancer you don't want to tip the scales into lawyer-worthy disputes...
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Well, I guess O2 can't expect to be growing their broadband any time soon...
I think there are two reasons why the comparison of Norway's reaction to America's reaction is not completely valid. The first is the population difference (mentioned a lot already). The second is the timeframe. Norway had the benefit of a decade of reflection on the American response to 9/11. It has been fairly obvious that the international community believes the US overreacted.
If I understand Pingdom correctly, they just want to monitor the Twitter API for all their customers that use the API. Pingdom doesn't send tweets for their customers, they just want to notice them when Twitter is lagging.
It's not about SaaS vs one-time payments or anything like that. It's about how much value you provide.

Mail.app is free, Outlook is free. How much better is Sparrow? Is the improvement worth $60 a year? Cause if it's not worth even $5 a month to your users (2 cups of coffee) - then it's probably not worth doing.

No matter how much people say they love your product, if they aren't willing to pay $5 per month, $60 per year or $200 one-off - they are kidding themselves. Think everyone loves Facebook? How many of those folks love Facebook enough to pay $5 per month to use it?

People aren't stupid. They will pay for stuff that translates into the bottom line - just like businesses. They may pay for Photoshop - if that's their work tool. They'll pay for a Mac - cause it helps them be more productive and earn more money.

My personal benchmark is dating sites. When most guys in the world are prepared to pay north of $20 per month to access a dating site, and if you are charging less you have to ask yourself - if people don't value my product more than a dating site, should I be working on something else? It's kinda sad but true.
comments are still displayed based on their score: if a comment is at the top and ~1 hour old you can assume it's well rated.
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The paper did not lower the bar for entry, it lowered the bar for women winning. The correct test would be to compare the winners of the competition with the lower bar to the winners of the competition without the lower bar.

Which is the unspoken assumption in your post and Cletus' original post: if you include more women, those women are going to be dolts who couldn't make it in on their own steam.

The unspoken assumption is that lowering the bar has any effect at all. If the bar is normally at 10, but you lower it to 7 for women, then any extra women this policy lets in must be in the range [7,10). Since all numbers in the interval [7,10) are below the previous minimum, they therefore lower the average.
I really hate it when the post titles are changed but in this case it's justified -- this is edX not MITx.

I like that, as with the recent Caltech machine learning course, these courses look like they will really push people.
Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find an RSS feed of movie showtimes?
The challenge! Find an RSS feed of the movie showtimes for this cinema in a wee town in Scotland: http://www.google.co.uk/movies?hl=en&near=Glenrothes&dq=kino+cinema&tid=22d5b8148cfb49b0&sa=X&ei=T6UOULThO8rB0QWa4IHgAw&ved=0CFMQxQMoAA
Wow. 180k. Where can I apply?
I think Adobe will make a killing on the new subscription pricing. I think the customers with volume licenses will most likely still buy them because a) it will still be cheaper to buy outright when you know you will need a license for hundreds of seats and also b) because IT departments will continue to hate dealing with Adobe's activation process, which a volume license makes much simpler.

Meanwhile all the small shops who could not afford to buy licenses just to equip the 3 freelancers for a month will suddenly be able to justify the small cost of a month's subscription. I almost expect them to roll it into each job's billings, whereas previously they would either use a hooky copy or suffer the pain of juggling licenses and old software.

There are a lot of small shops using hooky Adobe software.
The point is not moot that .Net was designed to support multiple languages, regardless of wether multiple languages run on the JVM.

The JVM was designed to support only one language, Java, it is generic enough to run any language, but not efficiently or easily per se. The bytecode language is not standardized, and there is no standard assembler language for it. New features to the JVM are only added when they are required for Java.

In contrast the instruction language and bytecode of .net are standardized and it has a standard assembler language, with an actual assembler and disassembler. Design of the CLR is actually driven by multiple languages like F# and the Iron projects.

I'll bet you that the creators of JRuby and Clojure would love to have the features the CLR offers.

I say it does rival ruby, you say it doesn't, good discussion.
Can you back up that claim? It sounds like an argument based on group selection theory. Animals may have a desire to help out those that are genetically related to them. But to say they want to save any and all members of their own kind violates the thesis of Darwin's Selfish Gene.
Does it really matter where the links are listed - in the article or at the end?

Opera has a side panel, one of which is the Links panel. That pulls links out of the page and lists them alongside. But this alone isn't that much use. The browser however could do something more interesting with them.

I think a lot of pages seem dreadfully wasteful by placing in the same old accessory content on their pages. Buttonitis etc. I don't think this necessarily should live 'inside' the 'page' at all. The content should remain dumb. The inbound links, and chat around the content augments it. And this could be summised somehow by browser tools / other services.

I understand the author's want for embedding HN comments on a page. There's a simple and elegant solution to the problem. Simply open up another browser window/tab and point it to the relevant HN comment page. To do so, the author could include a simple link in the page, leave it to the browser to infer, or just let the user discover it for themselves (pointers do help though.)

Why the obsession of stuffing our pages with content?

It also feels a little snooty doing something like this (embedding HN comments on your page that is.)
May I ask too to modify the bestcomments page? It should weight less on upvotes and more on time, currently I check everyday and it doesn't change that much.
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I would really like to see comments I have upvoted... There are bunch of wise comments somewhere, that I have read, upvoted, and forgot.
Hell yeah. That's really crazy!