skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The goal is to have someone to run the operation which a salary + bonus based on business performance. I don't think it is odd to insist on complete control on a proven established business growing 30% month by month.

Ok, so the business is already established and you want an employee rather than a cofounder? Fair enough, but in that case you've got to ask what you're offering over a bigger company (Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc.), because you're almost certainly a higher risk to work for - and the larger that perceived risk, the larger those advantages will have to be. You presumably can't compete on salary; you can offer the chance of a big payout with equity, and you can offer the ability to build their own system with a lot more control over it than they'd have at a big company, both of which will appeal to a certain extent to certain people. Just put yourself in their shoes, and ask why someone with the level of ability you need, and only the most superficial knowledge of your abilities, would come and work for you.

>If I can built a MVP and proven it, do I still need technical co-founder?

Pretty much by definition no. If you're running a viable business without them then you don't need them. I'm inclined to assume your business just isn't that technical? If you're building a product for programmers then I'd be surprised, but if it's just a business idea that happens to be implemented as a website then it's fine.

>I can't imagine people like Paul Allen or Bill Gates were doing all the coding when Microsoft is grossing $1.3 million with 13 employees in 1978.

Allen and Gates were about as technical as it was possible to get back then, no?

A two-founder company is inherently a lot more trustworthy/easier to hire for than a sole founder (unless the two are married or similar), because it proves at least one other person was convinced by the idea; two founders who retain control, followed by employees who get successively smaller chunks of the equity is the "normal" way to build up a company, in so far as such a thing exists.
HP Launches The Beta Release Of Open WebOS
Thank you for having your home link on your "blog." domain link to your home page, and not the front of your blog. It amazes me how many startups supposedly know how to build a great product, yet all seem to get this wrong.
IOS Native Apps, write in any lang, style with CSS
We're down to less than two hours on our Kickstarter campaign for Pixate. As we continued to explore what was possible, we ended up, inadvertently, showing how the development language really didn't matter, and how CSS could bring a common styling paradigm regardless of how you choose to write your native apps...

If you are a Ruby developer, there's RubyMotion + Pixate:

http://tinyurl.com/d7xmsjx

If you are a C# developer, there's Xamarin + Pixate:

http://tinyurl.com/9pdztz9

If you are a JavsScript developer, there's Appcelerator + Pixate:

http://tinyurl.com/9vuyc6x

If you are a Objective-C / Xcode developer, Pixate is already for
you, and Designers, Pixate is the icing on your cake of success!

http://kck.st/Phq0lr

Obviously, we're excited about bringing this to developers and designers, and look forward to seeing what other inadvertent discoveries we make along the way.
this isn't super low. $1-2 will be super low.
Quick question: Why do you think that RubyMotion doesn't support Interface Builder? It does, wonderfully, including storyboards. In my last project I used them, along a number of 3rd party libraries like the new Facebook iOS SDK and Urban Airship, all with no problem.

Hell, and even if you decided to go back to pure Obj-C, you could just run a `motion static` command on your project and then import it back into XCode as a library and go from there.

Seriously trolling, dude.
Thanks for pointing that out. I totally misread the bottom line. Once I had it in my head that those were seconds, no amount of looking at that little "ms" behind the numbers was going to show me anything different.
Have you ever been on a jury for criminal case? It's not like Law and Order where the evidence is that clear cut.

Having been on a federal jury for a gun running charge, I can't even begin to describe how difficult that moment is when the future of someone's life is in your hands. I think the maximum penalty was only 7 years, but even that is enough for you to question every shread of evidence both sides presented.
At what price is everyone else going to be tempted into buying some shares?
In similar vein here is a case of the programmer who couldn't
login to his system when he entered password standing up.
http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html
>Does it seem crazy to anyone else to have non-experts making enormous rulings like this?

No, it seems democratic. The law is about the will of the people --which is what the "jury of your peers" tries to capture--, not about what some experts say.

Experts can serve the court with their "expert advice" (which lots of times in such cases is just BS, depending on which side pays their bills).

It's dead easy as a lawyer to find experts with Phd's and all, to testify both pro and against patents, or both pro and against each company in this dispute).
It looks like there is a bug where it doesn't fetch the correct page:

http://wikiloopr.com/anime
Links

Ruby: http://tinyurl.com/d7xmsjx
C#: http://tinyurl.com/9pdztz9
JS: http://tinyurl.com/9vuyc6x
KS Proj: http://kck.st/Phq0lr
Indian Politician having a live Google hangout
What is the michaelochurch controversy that keeps getting referred to?
Only 9 of 22 virus scanners block Java exploit
Intel servers run at PUE just above 1.0 thanks to oil immersion
This doesn't really back up his argument, but Nielsen's done all sorts of research on how much people read:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html

In summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.

So length is definitely an issue. Not sure on organization, but I really can't see the simpler FAQ style /not/ helping with scanning the page.
It's somewhat ironic, but I frequently see this attitude espoused by programmers or other people who are more on the "clever" side than the "kind" side, and it sounds a bit like a "grass is greener on the other side" type of thing. As someone who's good at being kind, let me say that it's not always what it's cracked up to be. Kindness can not only win you friends and allies, but it can also turn you into a giant doormat. What's most important is knowing when to be kind and when to be clever. Sometimes being unlikable and unkind but smart is the right solution.
Unfortunately for Facebook, this is fighting a few trends. users numbers have gone down in the US and Britain [1] and mobile usage is going up [2], and Facebook is having a much harder time monetizing mobile over the web.

I agree with your general premise however, that Facebook's primary growth won't be on the user base, but needs to be on the revenue per subscriber numbers. This is going to really test one of the Valley's most recent premises, that building a massive user base will also create a massive business (Twitter, Instagram I'm looking at you...)

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8573340/Faceb...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/09/facebook-t...
if he managed to push her into quitting it was probably worth being a little mean about it.

Only if being mean to someone is a much more effective way of making them quit. It is just as likely to stress them out and make them smoke more. Being mean to be nice as a strategy only makes logical sense if there is no way to achieve the same thing without being mean, otherwise you are just being mean and justifying it with some potential future outcome.
Mozilla retiring "Firefox Home" Sync app for iOS
You are right, I guess I was embellishing a little. Though it is quite a drop.
They were downgraded, that probably is partially leading to the drop:
http://news.investors.com/technology/083112-624214-facebook-...
The patent was on the nested menu style of media organization. So that familiar artist/album/genre drill-down UI that the original iPods had and made them so famously usable.

I don't know of any direct prior art, since apparently a slightly different form factor yields patent protection. If I recall, the Creative product was the first to do this on a mobile device, however it was a familiar media access technique for a number of players on computers, including Winamp.
There are a whole heap of issues it is ridiculous that they have not worked out. Mislabeled songs, incomplete songs, poorly organized library, low quality tracks, viruses, partial albums.... etc...

And from what I understand also they haven't sorted out the whole licensing issue behind the music they serve.
I'm a big fan of Supermicro systems. They are probably one of the best bang-for-the-buck out there, although one has to purchase them with the understanding of the potential 'risk' of not having a giant support department behind them like Dell/HP. That's not a knock against Supermicro, just a note for the PHB type view.
Thanks for your offer, sure we´d like to hear from you. It is already a iPhone app, although limited by time constraints one build in PhoneGap rather than native. We probably will move the app into a native app, or extend PhoneGap via plugins for more advanced sound functionalities like filters.

Our emails by the way are thomas / martin @ the app domain...
I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles).

Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc.

The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with about 1.22 million won games (successful start/end article connection).

Got a really cool application for all the game data? I'd love to hear: alex@thewikigame.com
This reminds me of the results of a small study at University of Virginia on attraction. [1]

47 females were shown pictures of men at other schools (fabricated) and told each man was either not interested in them, quite interested, or their interest was unknown. To give a quick summary, "...women were more attracted to men when there was only a 50% chance that the men liked them the best than when there was a 100% chance that the men liked them the best."

I think humans are for the most part optimistic gamblers. We'd rather take a chance on something that has the potential to be something great than go for something that is a proven good. While many are logical enough to realize that such an impulse has its failings, we quickly go down the path of confirmation bias because we can't help but dwell on the unknown -- spending far too many brain cycles making up analysis trees and running through them. The known is too easy to file away.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201012/u...
Oh, I think I found one that doesn't loop:

Port Arthur
http://wikiloopr.com/Port%20Arthur

Either that, I found a bug.
Unless the articles are edited before you come back!
Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter
They could have gone with the CC approach:

For humans: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

For lawyers: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

Granted, Microsoft's lawyers probably wouldn't approve (because people might argue that they're agreeing to the simplified terms that have wriggle room and not the iron-clad legalese).
KinEtre: Animate the world with a Kinect and your body
Using Bing to search and browse friends' Facebook photos
It's different in that almost all audio to midi plugins only consist of onset and tempo detection. Whereas Beatmatic also features classification of the sounds, so it lays them onto tracks for you.

And yes, Beatmatic can detect any two (and in principle, 3+) "distinct" sounds. We use unsupervised learning techniques (clustering), so your vocal sounds don't need to sound like those used to optimize the software.

As for whether it's AI, the term is a bit subjective. I think it's not unfair to use it as there's a fair amount of statistical techniques and tricks to make it work, and the result is an app doing things you normally wouldn't expect a computer to do.
If that's the case, I hope that Haml [and Sass] get properly ported to Go!

I'm aware of gohaml; but last I checked it hasn't been updated to work with Go1 and friends. Namely it's using `gomake` and the packages aren't organized for use with `go build`; those issues alone have stopped me from considering it.

I went for a version of mustache.go instead, and then bolted Lambda support onto it.
Awesome stuff! No need to be so apologetic about some stuff not working optimal!
Thanks for the feedback! Yep, graphing usually comes much later, so I'm trying to find an explanation that works without it.

For the piston rods, I'd say something like "They help capture the power of an explosion. And an engine is a really, really cool device to make this power useful. Want to see how it works?" :)
Why is this "hacking"? Using this word in lieu of more suitable words like innovating, variating, changing, or adapting (for starters) devalues the word's meaning and makes light of English's amazingly diverse buffet of vocabulary and rather expansive etymological roots.
Hi Guys, Did you do this in the Startup Weekend event at Campus Party Berlin? I was doing it too! Well done for your app it looked awesome!
We actually have (at last public announcement) 955 million monthly active users.
It’s Not Just Phones - Laptops before/after the MacBook Air
All mobile browsers had a zoom function - I am actually too lazy to check, but I can't imagine they wouldn't have had zoom, because then they would have been unusable.

Lot's of companies worked on tablets and even published them.

I think the mistake you and others are making is saying "for ten years nobody managed to publish a successful tablet, so Apple must have solved a very hard problem". What you forget is that in those ten years there was a lot of technological progress that made modern tablets possible: better screens, faster, more energy efficient CPUs and GPUs and so on. Apple simply was a bit better in their timing for coming to market. You may applaud them for their good sense of waiting, or you may applaud others for being more daring and coming out with tablets before the tech was ready.

Also, a big part of the success was simply marketing. Which certainly has some merit, but it shouldn't affect the patent issues.
Wow... I've been working for a month on an app that does exactly this. Great job, guys! I'd love to know about your algorithm.
I agree with your conclusion, but I'm not sure it applies here. Being mean is not the same thing as being persuasive, and very often they are at odds. There are usually better ways to get someone to come around to your way of thinking than making them feel bad about themselves. Making someone feel bad can actually decrease your credibility in their eyes, because it makes them want for you to be wrong.

Think about great salespeople you've known. How many use insults to motivate their prospects, and how many use flattery?
Telling the truth is the best long-term strategy in Silicon Valley
Scientists warn of brain hacking via brain-computer interface (BCI) gadgets
Several years ago, 37 signals wrote a post showing that moving away from virtualization improved response times.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1819-basecamp-now-with-more-v...
yesterday, the loop was always the same. since this made it to the top of hacker news, the loop has been changing. look at the revision history of some of those pages and you'll see that people on wikipedia are messing with the loop.
It just depends on what you want to do. For example, if I wanted to develop a 3D shooter game do you think I would do it in Objective-C, C++, etc? No -- I'd use Unity or Stage3D and then compile to the target.

For 90% of the fairly-standard apps that we'll ever develop, the overhead and headaches and needless code-bloat that Objective-C brings to the project is only a reminder of the elegance of Ruby and the beauty of simplicity. (It's also a reminder that you'll no longer need to budget for XCode crashes every hour.)
Sometimes, I go onto wikipedia just to find out one fact... and end up with 6 or 7 tabs open on the topic, ranging from genetics to Judaism.
Just for some context. I started a couple months after this former Googler and our work backgrounds prior to Google are pretty similar.

In that time, I started out on an underappreciated starter project, did a hackathon for Hangout, filed some patents for that work, did 20% work for an yet to be announced project, and now building out a completely new yet to be announced product.

Google is a place that really allows you to find something that interests you and encourages you to do that. Internally, people are always looking for people to put in 20% work on their projects; so if you come across something that interests you, nobody is there to stop you.

Personally, if I was only to work on one project for my entire tenure, I'd be bored out of my mind and be looking elsewhere for opportunities. At Google, I can feed by project-ADD within.

One thing you learn at Google is that it really humbles you. You really are working with really intelligent people and you need to have some faith in your fellow coworker. Everyone has something to contribute and you can learn even more than you can teach/preach. Much of the issues with this former Googler is that he may have had some good/interesting ideas but he failed at garnering support. It doesn't help when he publicly on a global mailing list dismissed coworkers that have a significant amount of experience and real world accomplishments in the field that he was advocating.
50GB Dropbox account available for Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera buyers
Perfect example of something that's been available for ages but people somehow think they need a shiny web app (SaaS with a monthly subscription, of course) to do.
I said it when it first IPO'd that this would be bad. Investors were looking at this company as they did many other things they invested in. What they couldn't understand is that IT IS NOT like the others. It is a social network. People tend to move on and get tired of them. I don't care what the numbers say, they could be misleading. I stopped going on facebook. And when I do go on, my 1000 friends or so don't have much posting going on. It has become pretty much a more popular version of photobucket or flickr. And when I go on, I don't get that "feeling" that I used to when I used to go on back in the days. A lot of my friends have deactivated and most others aren't on much. Unsuprisingly I might add.
One week after the Samsung ruling. Good timing, perhaps?
A journalist’s quick guide to Reddit, the next thing you have to learn
It's AI because it pulls semantic meaning out of a raw, fuzzy, human-sourced audio feed. It figures out what rhythm you wanted, and which notes correspond to which instruments. But it also knows that you want a regular, repeating pattern that rounds to the nearest 8th note. And I think I saw him push a button to add a high-hat automatically, which is cool.
It would have completely sucked to have been on the jury for this one. You don't get paid while you're not at work; you have to listen to expert bozos who have been paid millions for their testimony and who say some strange things under cross-examination; the lawyers all got paid handsomely too and you're basically only there because the patent system isn't working properly (why doesn't USPTO decide about prior art? aren't they required to do this when initially examining the patent?).

Then, once you've made a decision to the best of your ability, all of the tech press poops on you for weeks. Weaksauce!

Hopefully, the USPTO will re-examine the patents in question and resolve the prior art discussions in a better way than a jury could/has.
I seem to have broken it here: http://wikiloopr.com/List%20of%20minor%20planets:%2075001%E2...

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_75001%E2...

That is, however, a weird Wikipedia page. It seems like the first link is a target to another location on the page, which (I'd assume) would put it in an infinite loop.
Bit Torrent Specification v1.0
Facebook tanks almost 5% as target downgraded to $15
There might be two different perspectives on this:

* automated error handling, mostly invisible to the user. In this case the condition system may give an attractive architecture, but it is not widely explored and it is not clear how it would integrate into a language like Java. There could be a benefit, but it is not explored by software architects. Apple's Dylan probably had something to it, but it was not widely used.

* error handling in interactive systems. That's where the Lisp community used/uses it mostly. The largest effort to use the condition system were in the OS of the MIT Lisp machine descendants - especially the one from Symbolics. It was used both in the development environment - which is tightly integrated in the OS. Most of the development tools were using it. But things like the networking code or the file system were also using it. The user interface is generally slightly more complex than current graphical user interfaces and it was expected that the user used this kind of power. When you get a dialog of restarts presented, the user needs more thinking about how to proceed than with a simple cancel/abort dialog box. There were also applications written using it and for that slightly simpler interfaces were used. For example the restarts were presented in dialogs and not in a debugger context.

It takes a bit of re-orientation to imagine a user interface, where the user has the option to repair/retry a failed operation, instead of the usual abort/redo. These benefits are easier to get in an integrated system (-> Lisp, Smalltalk) - a model where several non-integrated tools interact in a condition system is more difficult to imagine.

Today, most of the better Common Lisp systems are using the condition system in their environment. There the power can be used, but at the same time it is also easy to ignore and just use a default mode of using the abort restart - without getting the benefits of thinking a bit more and investing the time to use a more complex restart.
Reach users 1:1 with the Notifications API - Facebook Developers
Fair enough. I (the author of the post) actually changed the title some time after posting. I wasn't happy with the word choice myself, but I couldn't find the right words.
Sorry for treading on your toes then! :) Feel free to email us at dev@beatmaticapp.com, and we can have a chat about implementation. There's a lot of rough edges and it would be great to talk with someone who's dealing with the same issues!
Thanks! I am actually learning the background theory at present so will bookmark the link.
This can be potentially really huge for Facebook and mobile apps that use Facebook APIs.
Believe me, I'm familiar with the idea that there are two kinds of ideas, big ones that change the world, and little ones that merely make money. But this distinction isn't borne out empirically. In fact the space of ideas is a very highly connected graph. You can get almost anywhere in a few hops. And that means it's almost impossible to tell at first where an idea could lead. Big things start as little things. And conversely starting with a "big idea" is often a mistake, because when people have such ideas they tend to be pretty blurry.

Empirically (unless you're a government) the way to do something big is to start with something small but definite, then keep pushing its scope.

If your goal is to get to big + definite, it's easier to start with definite and add big than to start with big and add definite.
Good luck with that. This foreman is probably in the 90th percentile for intelligence and education. Remember, the rest of the jury picked this guy to represent them.