skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is getting increasingly difficult to just invest in companies you believe in."

You're interpreting that sentence literally. His point is that investing in a company used to largely be based on how successful you though that company would be. The market has changed in a way that an overwhelming number of external factors can have a negative (or positive) impact on that company's share price, making the evaluation of
risk far more difficult. At the same time, the barriers to getting into the market have been lowered making it far-easier for anyone to participate. That sentence has nothing to do with how your initial trade was executed.
The iOS 6 disaster: Apple bit off way more than it could chew
DIY Sunrise Alarm Clock
That used to be my big caveat with ODBL too. Though the final version of the license differentiates between "Derivative Database" and "Collective Database". Effectively it seems that if your application uses OSM data as one layer, and non-OSM data as separate layers, it would make up a "Collective Database", and you'd only have to release changes to the OSM data itself.

That's potentially a huge improvement.

The problem there is there's a huge grey area as to what will be considered a Derivative Database vs. OSM data in a Collective Databases with other, proprietary databases.

E.g. if the data in the properitary database contains road data that augments the OSM data, will the result of combining it with OSM data in a collection create a Collective Database or a Derivative Database? How well must the separate layers stand on their own before combining them with OSM data is "derivative".

They're trying to walk a very fine line, and I suspect quite a few lawyers will make a decent amount of money interpreting that license for clients that wants to use OSM data but are worried about where the line goes.
in many cases they can't offer it because the transit authorities do not wish to provide that data to Google.
Sure, nice workaround. But the swiss design is actually used on any watches. And because many people use their phones also as watches we can therefore declare that Apple is a competitor of Mondaine. And stealing is stealing, no matter what is the purpose, as far as I know. But what do I know right ? I'm not even an Apple fan.
I used to feel the same way. My memories from back in the day were all articles about crazy programming languages, and cool new things people were doing. But that's when I was just starting out. In retrospect, I don't think that Hacker News has changed much, those articles are still there, but now I just get suckered into these kinds of articles for some reason. I think most people here will find much the same, when you join, you find the cool stuff. As you stick around, you start to get pulled into the linkbait/news type articles. As I'm sure people think it had already gone downhill by the time I joined 1.5yrs ago...
That's probably way more involvement than KS is willing to deal with. Also, no matter how many disclaimers they put, the curated score would put some of the liability on KickStarter's side, which I'm sure they definitely would not want.
Great Work.

suggestion: I would frame it differently - the coolness of what you are doing has nothing to do with the GUI part, but rather, the fact that it is a BaaS (backend as a service) open source. It's a simplified meteor, or an open source parse.

BTW - it is funny how things circle back - we are coming back to a client-server era. Much like the VB6 days :)
It is already on every SBB LCD on almost all trains/trams/buses. http://goo.gl/k4phm
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Yes, I know Java is behind every other language but speaking as someone who is stuck with Java in the workplace I heartily welcome these changes.
As others have said, it seems like KS is preferring projects which, already having functional prototypes, just need the capital to produce a commercially viable product in quantity. But, I think some projects need funding to even be able produce a prototype. To be able to show the mock-up is essential to describe the product potential backers.

I would like to see a separate (new) category for product&design projects at this stage. The projects would explicitly be looking for funding to create the prototype, with no promise to deliver a finished product. If a project is backed and delivers a working prototype, but now needs funding for the next step, they could return to Kickstarter for another round. Backers who want to fund product ideas could do so (likely with smaller pledges), and no one is tricked into a large backing thinking they will get a working product in the mail in three months.

Traditional startups get venture capital in rounds; why not crowd-sourced capital in rounds?
Very cool.

Just a quick caution from someone who has been building similar tools (not as fancy though), is that runtime instrumentation can often severely slow down the main app to the extent that people often don't want to run such tooling.
Ask HN: Advice finding clients in the US/Europe (Argentinian SFDC Sr Developer)
Hi HN, I'm a 28 years old argentinian SFDC developer looking for remote work. I came here looking for advice as to how to tackle this.

Quick background about myself : Graduated University at the age of 25 (BS in Computer Science) at one of the top technical universities in my country (ITBA), worked as an employee for a couple of years during the late stages of my studies and finally in 2009, took the plunge, founded my own company and hired a couple of employees.

Fortunately, its been a great ride. I've been working steadly for 4 years on my own, developing for domestic software development companies building SFDC applications for their US/international clients (since I didn't have any abroad contacts on my own). During that time, I worked (through middle-man companies) for Salesforce.com, ModelMetrics, Mars, OpenEnglish, PropellerDevelopment and several non-profit organizations.

My current contract is ending by late October, and since my client is letting go of all contractors and hiring its own inhouse team, I'm looking for work.

I have over 3 years of SFDC experience alone and over 6 years in development/project management. Asides from SFDC, I am also skilled in Objective-C, Python, Django, jQuery, HTML5, Java, Agile Methodologies (Scrum mainly), and others. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I speak fluent English and I'm very organized in my work.

What am I looking for in a client ? Software development company, if possible, providing SFDC development for several clients, looking for remote developers/contractors. I enjoy building new products and starting projects from scratch.

Could you give me some advice on how to go about getting my own abroad clients ? I've always been able to land local clients, but never had an US/Europe one. Worked with them all the time, but from a developer/project leader posision. Never had to sell or manage invoices/payments outside the country.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I disagree. Putting aside saved passwords which I admit is a big aside. The browser's usual attack vector is login or session cookies. It will grant users access to the account but it doesn't usually leak any information in itself. However this leaks the, email, username, password, and a myriad of other data. This is compounded by the risk of leaking data in the event of a javascript injection. Usually this would allow the js to steal login cookies or do actions on the site (hopefully anything 'secure' requires an additional password input), but now they can whisk the usernames and passwords off site and elevates the breach to be almost as bad as a database leak.
Is the U.S. Startup Economy Failing?
yeah, me too :)
It's just that Apple polishes those flaws so they aren't as glaring.

Actually, I'd say one of the things is that Apple often release radically new things, so yes there are bugs, but it's so new and different, with much other advantages, that people overlook the bugs, or comparing it with existing offerings is an apples & oranges comparison.

In this case, maps like Apple are releasing are not new. We've had Google Maps et al. for years, so people have come to know what a maps app can do. Apple's offering is not radically different from Google Maps, there's nothing new here. It's completely fair to compare Apple's Maps with OSM or Google Maps, and in that comparison Apple is far behind/
We're giving Glenn Beck airtime why?
Lost In The Apple Mapgate Discussions
"Others"? It was the GP who said what you quote. :)
Can Microsoft really convince people to subscribe to software?
>"I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor"

Long-term investor or not, you want liquidity to ensure you are getting in and getting out at the price you want. That's the big difference between investing in a liquid stock versus, say, your house.

The reason you can get in and out as a long-term investor is because of the liquidity provided by traders.
These people were incorporation agents - they had shopfronts and tend not to run (much)

But it is possible they are running honeypots; but rather unlikely
You also forgot "and put a lot of effort and many years of research and human-curated content".

Of course they can do it, but can they do in a short time? Probably not.
It's not hard. It just requires a immense amount of time and effort from professionals which Apple seem to loathe paying.
Yeah, amazing work. I had to actually use MAMP for my web development work was a temporarily workaround instead of Vagrant and it was painful.
Google Voice was in limbo for over an year, was neither approved nor rejected. And if you the three browsers are equivalent to having a choice of three browsers on the desktop, think again. All of them are forced to use the builtin webkit.
Is there actually a legal basis for this? As in, if Stripe was, in good faith, processing payments for a company which is selling (allegedly) infringing products, they're obligated to stop processing payments immediately? It seems like there'd be a clause in the TOS to indemnify them.
> Perhaps the most egregious error is that Apple’s team relied on quality control by algorithm and not a process partially vetted by informed human analysis. You cannot read about the errors in Apple Maps without realizing that these maps were being visually examined and used for the first time by Apple’s customers and not by Apple’s QC teams

Reminds me of the days when Microsoft used to release software that customers would call "beta-quality" and wonder if they were being used as unpaid QA.
Oxford would be an interesting place to trial this sort of approach – it is one of the most expensive places to rent in the UK with an average rent of £891 a month and has about 6,000 people on the council’s housing waiting list and 165 more in temporary accommodation. The average house price in the city is £343,461.

Come to Vancouver and you'll really see what happens when a housing bubble exists. We are currently suffering from a house price to income ratio of about 11:1 (second only to Hong Kong, on a global scale). Consider that the US housing market blew up at about 5.3:1. Thankfully, the housing market in Vancouver is starting to crash as well, but we're only at the beginning of the cycle.

As for the small homes movement, I doubt that this truly gets people into the property market. I venture to guess that this pigeon-holes (no pun intended) people into forever living in a tiny home with no room to grow.
I am saying VB6 days, because in essence deployd (or meteor, or parse) are the same as an old-school DBMS database with stored procedures, and HTML+JS is in essence the same as a Win VB6 app.
My work computer (Mac) is named

> (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

With the table replaced by my name upside down. Windows machines don't even bother to show it.
Me as well, but this too strikes me as a part of the Valley bubble.
Individuals are also affected by decisions made by professional traders (e.g. mutual or retirement funds). Maybe crashing the market is not the objective, but it could be an unintended consequence, and the only real motivation is short-term profit, not "maintaining order" in fear of some hypothetical future regulation.
Does it matter if they are in unrelated fields ? And if Mondaine is selling hand watches with that design, and they, paid for the license, why shouldn't Apple pay too ?
If my intellectual property is used in an "unrelated field" does it cease to be my intellectual property ?
The more we hate the Apple's map, the more we need to worry if our life is depending too much on a particular company like Google or Facebook.

It is just the beginning, kudos to OSM, I really hope OSM can be as successful as Wikipedia in the future.
My business locations didn't show on Google until I entered them myself.

That was years ago though, so things may have changed.

The darker side of crowdsourcing: My tenant didn't show up on Google maps until someone entered them, apparently just so they could then attach a really angry negative review stemming from a bad experience with a different company that was infringing my tenants trademark in order to steal customers. Good luck getting that kind of mess out of Google.
Show HN: Ypander - Read/write/upvote hackernews comments from within the feed
> [if you follow] Google’s attempts at developing a quality mapping service, you will notice that they initially tried to automate the entire process and failed miserably, as Apple has.

And they can improve, as Google did. But customers are very forgiving of mistakes and iteration when your product is the first and best (so far); plus, Apple's key branding is quality.

> Apple lacks the ability to mine vast amounts of local search data, as Google was able to do when it started its mapping project

This is an interesting competitive advantage Google has that is really really hard to beat. Similar to what Facebook has. But... perhaps Apple also has data? e.g. from Siri queries? They can certainly gather it now, now that their mapping app is being used.
By the way, Gimp can open psd files. I'm not sure it works perfect though.
You must not be from reddit.
Except that his backgound image shows no name for the largest city on the map (Berlin) ;-).
A painful first-hand lesson:

If you do a demo for your potential customers, and they say, "That's a great product. I can see how that would be really useful," you can safely assume that you're doomed.

Keep looking until your customers are desperately trying to write checks for dodgy prototypes.
I like how most people remember the bit about the reality distortion field but don't remember the part about Jobs stealing people's ideas and presenting them as his own.
Indeed. I don't know much about the designer subculture, but there are a bunch of "iconic" industrial designs that they (should) know about. Another famous one is the IBM wall clock: http://vimeo.com/40953003 (one of the Windows clock gadgets is obviously inspired by it).

(Disclaimer: I am not an Apple fan.)
As for the design itself, there is the blatant copying of the seconds hand, but otherwise it seems whoever did it took some care to differentiate the apple clock from the original. E.g. how the lengths of the hour and minute hands relate to the radius of the clock and the size of the hour and minute tick marks. Then of course there are obvious implications of being viewed on a tiny 4" screen. Whether that is enough to build a legal defense on, I have no idea.
And nominatim is open source ( https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim ), so if there's some silly embarassing thing that it gets wrong (like the address of your headquarters), then you can fix it yourself.
Nice reframing there. The Mondaine clockface isn't just used in wall clocks.
Use your words instead of a cool Photoshop to describe what you intend on making.
I wonder if we're starting to see the "absence of Steve" effect?

As in, "Well, it wasn't okay before, but we've fixed a lot of stuff, and ...", and the filters that would have prevented it from shipping are losing their effectiveness.

It's easy to be blind about the quality of your project, or get ship-fever and think that you /have/ to get it out the door by (insert date here) or the End of the World will occur.

Then again, it might have gone out anyway. Who knows?
Nice.

I see this as a nice stepping stone in between coding and creating and creating unit test.

I have been a fan of Bret Victors work, but the video here has gotten me really excited.
> Why, then, are so many founders so reluctant to invest even 500 or 1,000 hours upfront to be sure that, when they’re done, the business they’re building will face genuine, substantial demand or enthusiasm.

Because starting a startup isn't really a rational decision. Or perhaps, more conservatively, maximizing the value of a business isn't the overriding reason why people start businesses.

Why do coders spend 2 days automating a task that won't consume 2 days of manual time over the next year? Because they like to code, and they don't like data entry. This is rational, I suppose, as long as we don't believe them when they say the goal is to save time.
This looks fantastic. The "Gibson" view is also an awesome little bonus for those of us who still love the movie Hackers.
Great comments from 52 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312097
If KS is serious in what they are doing, they shouldn't try patches like putting arbitrary rules, but take action to solve the problem directly. Project funding is their core business after all. Apple does it with their App Store, and without their curation, probably the store would have turned into a bigger garbage pile than it is now, to the point of being unusable.
Ask HN: App developers - work on projects offering equity without pay?
I'm always asked to develop apps for equity - no pay. Has anyone taken this route before? Did you find it was worthwhile? What was your experience?
If nothing else, I consider it a "common courtesy" to do minimal research into people (comment history, Google search) with whom I am communicating: it lets me get a feel for their level of language fluency, a sense of context for interpreting their values, and a better respect that the other person is actually a "person".

I personally believe that not doing this (either caused by not finding it important, or by an endemic challenge to the action by the communication medium), and not anonymity (as many people in the "use real names" debate claim) is what causes commenting community chaotic collapse (of the form of YouTube, 4chan, and random blogs).
Mark Cuban bemoans the good old days like any technical trader before they were beaten out by computers. He doesn't advocate trading on fundamentals. The battle cry against high frequency tradings seems to come primarily from individuals who were previously successful in specialist trading.

Here he talks about how he bought a stock, watched it climb then shorted it and celebrated its bankruptcy: http://blogmaverick.com/2008/09/08/talking-stocks-and-money/

But yes, speak to us from the moral high ground. Cuban simply rode what essentially amounted to a pump-n-dump. He wasn't doing the promotion, but he sure as hell wasn't in it for the long term growth of the underlying company.

Here's a fantastic quote from Mr. Cuban: "What about fundamentals? Fundamentals is a word invented by sellers to find buyers.

Price-earnings ratios, price-sales, the present value of future cash flows, pick one. Fundamentals are merely metrics created to help stockbrokers sell stocks, and to give buyers reassurance when buying stocks. Even how profits are calculated is manipulated to give confidence to buyers."
It's great that Development Seed is getting the funding. They are amazingly innovative developers, the creators of TileMill and MapBox. They'll do great work improving the OSM toolset.

TileMill is a marvel; if you ever wanted to try your hand at making map tiles give it a shot. You can have a basic custom map up and going in 20 minutes. It's particularly cool how they are delivering a Mac and Windows app based on Node.js, of all things. It's terrific.
>"Seriously I don't know why people even try trading in their free time."

Because I can easily get returns in excess of the negative real rates my bank pays me?
That doesn't really feel relevant to what I said. People in the comments here have given a few situations in which participating in this could be disadvantageous. I am sure there are more.
I agree, badly flawed new products are hardly something unusual in the Apple world. What makes Maps such a big deal is that it's not a 1.0 to the users, but rather a 6.0 that's a huge regression from 5.0. Yes, underneath it's basically a new product, but users don't care about that, they just care that the last version was a whole lot better.
Totally agree. It's better to just not let yourself get into a situation where you need help like this.
I guess what else could they say.
Your example is a pretty artificial one when considering hypocrisy in the real world. Sure, it could theoretically happen, but it's not a particularly common situation when talking about hypocrisy.
First let me say that I agree with most of Cuban's thoughts in general.

But by "invest" he is not talking about the friction out there (paraphrase as "having to spend $400 and talk to a human") to purchase a stock but rather the price of the stock in relation to the value being manipulated by, as one example, high frequency trading and macro economic conditions.

Let's say someone decides to invest in Bingo Card Creator because they think there will be a market in China and that Patrick and BCC are the ones to be able to take advantage of that opportunity. So they invest in BCC because as a small operation, and after doing due diligence, they believe the "new chinese sales manager" that you hired can crack that market. Regardless of what else is going on in the world or in China.

But the truth is even though the stock market is less like that analogy today, I don't believe it was ever like that. (Look at 1929 as one example). Of course in the past I do believe people did make more long term investments. There were places to put "widow and orphans" money. Not sure that is the case today anymore (is it?) And that could also be just because of friction in distribution of investment information - there were less places to read things about companies and that actually helped create more long term investments (my thoughts strictly).

The game now is that people attempt to predict by all means possible what will happen in the future by triangulating any info available to determine how a company will do. And then those companies become bellwether's of the market and people make decisions in advance of those decisions. While this always happened to some extent (I'm sure before people could fly airplanes over shopping centers or before there were even shopping centers there were people who attempted to find out how a particular company was doing by evaluating any information they could. I just think the amount of people doing that was in the minority and now the majority of people are making decisions for non-fundamental reasons.)
Ya man, just like Jobs and Brin and Page did!

If you're good, then customer feedback is just design by committee.
Was he actually a member of Mensa?
AFAIK yes