skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO.

David Glick and I are currently the top two on Gittip, and neither of us have high-end salaries right now:

http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip

http://glicksoftware.com/blog/goodbye-groundwire

#3 is Eric Holscher, and he's specifically using his gittips to host ReadTheDocs.org:

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs...

#5, Alex Gaynor, has a high-end salary (I'm assuming). So far it sounds like he's planning to use his gittips to attend an extra conference or two this year:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438937

#7, Mike Bayer, has also said that his gittips are covering his infrastructure costs, for SQLAlchemy:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10a32v/gittip_is_the...

> Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation.

Not sure where you're coming from on this. It sounds like you're talking about the focus and drive of someone receiving money on Gittip. The idea is that people worth giving money to on Gittip are people with a history of productive self-motivation, people that don't depend on coercive economic relationships to stay focused.

Honestly, for me, there's nothing more humbling and motiving to get me out of bed in the morning than knowing that 100+ people believe in me enough to freely give me $1+ this week. That keeps me way more focused than a corporate salary ever did.

> Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything.

The numbers speak for themselves: Eric is at 125% of his goal, after about 48 hours of floating the idea of Gittip support with his userbase.
Numbers can be manipulated as easily as opinions. Note the recurring statistic in which Apple's (continuously dropping) market share is compared to that of 15 handset manufacturers who run Android as though that is a reasonable comparison.
Well yeah, but then it would go the way of Chrome OS ("Chromebooks" and "Chromeboxes"), whether that's a good or a bad thing.
Yes, I have often said that you should never, ever throw (significant amounts of) code away and start from scratch. I have worked on two bodies of legacy code before and more or less used most of the techniques discussed in the comments, but this is unprecented - for me - in both size and badness. Client and I have agreed that I will work for a month and then see where we stand... I'm hoping that after a month I will have a better feel for whats going on and can outline either a staged or complete rewrite.

Lots of great advice in here, has lifted my spirits a bit. Especially getting complete client buy in (which I have internalised but I guess haven't expressed, either to myself or the client).
Memories of Elite
Federal judge says no constitutional right to secret ballot in Boulder case
The canonization of Steve Jobs as some sort of saint auteur is just freaking ridiculous.

Apple has made missteps in the past, while Steve Jobs was alive. That Jobs was not around for this particular misstep isn't particularly interesting or relevant. The disappearance of Google Maps is a consequence of the breakdown of relations between Google and Apple, and that is not about Steve Jobs.

Making it about him is just stupid. Google has power over Apple in this case, and Apple is bearing the heat for it, Steve Jobs or no.
Your product looks awesome. Side note - Your SSL certificate is expired.
I have absolutely no idea, I don't know a thing about making screensavers, but I'm willing to learn if I can set this up as one.
Google Play Books is not books.google.com, which has all the public domain books they got from public libraries.

The specific functionality they took away is devastating to regular users like me. When searching, results would show if a book was already in your library. You could also add it to a shelf from the search result itself. Now the search results lack that info and you must click on each result to see if it's one you already saw. This is sheer hell for discovering books that weren't there between searches.

[edit for URL fix]
Exactly my damn point. Reading is important too. snark
Heh... the new name makes me think of the word "cloaca".
The ruby prompt Irb has _ as the value for the result of last expression as in Perl, it's pretty handy. Didn't know this that it could be used in destructuring like in Erlang.
Looks good but it shares its name with a popular pseudo-tool; may I suggest WTTT (when this then that)?
I am sure that every poor person in India has the spare money to buy dynamite, the expertise to use it, access to it and the legal permissions. /sarcasm

Why do some people try to denigrate something which is wonderful with smart alecky comments.
I think Apple's position for iOS 6 is that they want third party developers to build the transit apps for wherever there's a need rather than trying to build in-house centrally managed support for the entire world. The new maps app will actually find an appropriate transit app for the requested destination installed or in the app store to hand you off to. For example here's one for NYC:

http://thetransitapp.com

What this means is that for the next month or two coverage is going to be poor but getting towards mid next year they'll probably have better transit capability than Google. For example what I'd like to see is support for routing in my area using the real-time arrival data (our buses are frequently late), correct fare calculations, and balance info for my transit card. Google is unlikely to do any of this stuff but now someone who cares can go solve it. I think Apple pretty much botched the launch but in the not very long term it'll work out fine.

Myself? I'm holding off upgrading until a point release :)
Could you provide some outages you're referring to for S3 reliability? I've been using it for the last 4 years and not had a problem.

My experience is also backed up by Nasuni's Cloud Storage Benchmark from December that report that AWS has 1.4 outages a month (compared to Azure's 11.1 a month) and concluded that AWS was faster than Azure (AWS & Azure being the top performers)
POST AJAX requests are now broken in iOS 6
> [T]he last time i looked nearly all of the activity on gittip was django related.

Quick rundown of the top ten, username - known for:

whit537 - gittip

davisagli - plone (python)

readthedocs - readthedocs (python-centric)

jnoller - psf (python)

alex - pypy (python)

mitsuhiko - flask, etc. (python)

zzzeek - sqlalchemy (python)

steveklabnik - ruby

kennethreitz - requests, etc. (python)

antirez - redis

You could argue it's python-heavy, but not django-heavy. And besides, who cares? You gotta start somewhere. If you're plugged into different communities, then go spread the word.

> And if you're going to define "open company" I think I'd shoot a little higher than open source project + authorized_keys

Please do. :^)
To first order, stock buybacks are equivalent to dividends. To second order, the IRS makes it complicated, as do regulators.
Make you wonder how people functioned without smartphones only a few years ago.

BTW can't iphone users just bookmark maps.google.com as a "webapp" in the meanwhile?
The average US worker apparently takes about 20 days of holiday per year, out of an offered 25, and apparently it is more or less the same for Indians.

http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/for-days-of-holiday-and...

http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-indians-...

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/work.life.balance/chart...
I'm EU citizen but I live out of EU. Will it be turned off for me? What I have to do? To change my country to a EU state?
What is a hospital with no doctors good for?

I have to admit though, that my first thought on the story was:
"Why build the road? Just move to the city!"

In this case, I admire the endurance of this man and pity the destiny of his wife. But in general, the process of bringing more and more infrastructure to ever more remote place is what destroys the natural environment of this planet. I strongly believe in the efficiency of density and scale and that humanity should limit them self to cities. Leave the rest of the planet to other species!
While the maps might not be up to Google's in quality, especially in regard to public transportation, turn by turn navigation is a huge upgrade that wasn't available in Google Maps for iPhone users.

The title/article comes off as mostly click-bait journalism.
But limitless growth is never possible. Eventually you bump up against the limits of your market.

If a business is aggressively trying to grow in a $100 million market instead of a $100 billion market, they are "limiting themselves". But they're still functionally a startup.

Keep taking it down a notch. At what market size do they stop being a startup? It's fuzzy.

As your target market goes from "everyone" to "doctors" to "radiologists" to "radiologists at research hospitals", you may be intelligently trading off market size for lower competition, lower marketing costs, and better product/market fit.

What if you had a brilliant idea for a piece of software that would help discover oil deposits? I contend that you have all the ingredients of a technology startup, but it will be impossible to measure your business in the simplistic way the essay describes. There may be only a dozen customers in the world who are positioned to pay you what you're worth, and your growth is likely to be an impulse function: until the moment you get bought by an oil major, there's no growth to measure.

His ultimate distinction is fundamentally fuzzy. Eventually, every business stops growing explosively. It's only a question of at which size it happens. And that size is necessarily a continuum.
Depending on the product and the nature of the feedback, you can often go directly to a team lead on Google+ and get some kind of reply.
I don't think "the chance" is what it lacked. Firefly was relentlessly light and couldn't have sustained the darkness necessary for real moral ambiguity to work.
"iOS Maps is already far better than google maps. Further, Google maps hasn't really progressed in the last decade, while iOS Maps clearly is progressing pretty quickly."

It has been a long while since I've used an iPhone on a daily basis (iPhone 3G for nearly two years), so perhaps what you're saying is correct for the iOS version of Google Maps, but the Android version has progressed tremendously and it continues to do so. Google Maps/Nav is 90% of the reason I'd never even consider using a non-Android phone platform right now.

"I'm tired of the "Apple's product sucks because I don't know anything about technology or design but am a fan of [competitor]" junk."

This goes both ways. Yes, there are Android fanbois who are overly critical and overly defensive, but there are at least an equal number of Apple fanbois. If you only notice one side of this and noticing that makes you super defensive enough to post about it, odds are you yourself are a bit too much of a fanboi.
Yes. On a smartphone currently, so google Scott Aaronson's blog post on sympathy vs empathy and sociopaths.
From the article: "Google Maps webapp (incidentally, bookmark that and Nokia Maps mobile as soon as you possibly can)".
I also live in Manhattan. The new Maps app integrates pretty well with Embark NYC (free), and possibly other transit apps that repackage the MTA's info.

Embark's website: http://letsembark.com/

App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app//id450991137?mt=8
The part of the iPhone 5 presentation that made me think was when they emphasised how big headphone manufacturer they are. I remember similar boasting from Nokia (the biggest camera manufacturer at the time) around 2008. We know what happened next...
Strategy vs. Tactics: Clearly understand the difference
Don't apologise - the irony of what I did there isn't lost on me.
Misleading title. It'll be off by default, but users will be able to turn it on if they want.
It may be sacrilege round here to disagree with pg but I dislike the appropriation of the word startup for this niche of companies. I think of all new businesses as startups for the first couple of years. I think a better name for speculative high growth companies would be 'venture companies' which could have venture founders to go with the VCs that may fund them.

That way the term would make sense for older companies if they hit a high growth phase.
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He lived in an office building illegally, so yes, he's a criminal.
I like to think that if he does well he'll put some of what he earns back into programs like this one, and maybe a little thank you to AOL.
I still can't work out if your post/comments are satire
The Slashdot article is pretty much just FUD please see my response

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/09/22/lots-of-hype-over-shop...
My thoughts exactly. Those who soley rely on technology alone really should try using their own brain once in a while.
Can you name one transit app for New York City that's 1) free and 2) nearly as good or better than Google Maps?
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I don't like this sarcasm. If it wasn't, building a hospital has a lot more to do than to just build a building!
donate to both, though give Debian more because they don't have a Mark Shuttleworth :)
The article talks about the focus issue as well, with the "What do they want from me?" question. I think that's partly missing the point of Gittip, as is your first point. All of these people have been contributing to open source long before Gittip came along, and would continue contributing even without it. Now they potentially get something a little extra for that, no obligations, no nothing. As I perceive it, it's not outright meant to be a platform that makes you quit your job and go open source full time (though Chad's goal is exactly that). It's just showing open source contributors that their work is noticed and appreciated. Full time salaries might happen for a certain percentage if/when the service grows, but I don't see that being a necessary element of the service.

I see other issues with it, but they're all part of a new developing platform. Biggest one is the payments/receiving payments issue for anyone outside of the US, but I think Chad is aware of this as much as anyone.

Another one is psychology of the thing. Seems like a lot of people receiving money from it experience this awkward response, as if it's somehow wrong to get money for their open source contributions. I don't know if they undervalue their work so much, but I hope they realise these rewards are to be proud of, and that they in no way signify any obligations, but just appreciation of their work.

Last, an issue that's becoming more evident as the service grows, is a need for a more structured list of people on the platform and their received donations. I'd love if there was a possibility of browsing through a subset of developers, for example Ruby or Android developers, maybe by letting users fill out an additional field in the sign-up process. The effect of this could be positive from multiple perspectives. The person donating can focus on donating in the field they're interested in, and as a bonus, it would be a great discovery platform for open source projects inside that specific field. As far as people have commented, it's mostly the Python community now, but maybe grouping specific communities would also have the effect of it being more interesting to other communities aside from Python (edited from Django), and some people would just visit gittip.com/Ruby every day.

In general, I love the idea and I hope it continues to grow. Good luck Chad!
Lots of Hype Over Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 12.10
I don't have a smart phone. How I can request a activation code?
Ask HN: Is this house party website a good idea?
Nothing to do on a Saturday night? Go to the house party website and find a house party near you. RSVP and pay the $10 or so cover and show up to the address. Have fun, meet new people and tap the keg.

Want to host a house party, meet new people and make some money? List your house party on the site and everyone will see it. You can choose who you want attending and who you don't want attending. You can list house rules for people to follow. Charge a cover and get paid for your house party. The website only takes a percentage of what you make.

This is my startup idea. What's good and bad about it, and why?
I'll give it a shot but from a user's perspective, I took for granted the ease with which I could find directions from one app using various modes(walk/drive/public transport).

Changing a basic habit for no good reason is hard--if anyone, Apple should know.
This is just a sad development.

Canonical sure needs money. Before this, the deal was that Ubuntu is free in both ways and Canoncial tries to earn money with support-contracts for corporations. That wasn't succesful enough (which maybe isn't too surprising with established forces like Redhat already in the market), so Ubuntu One marked a new approach, to monetize the wide distribution of Ubuntu by offering paid services (but also a free offer). The try to participate on the in-app-purchases goes in the same direction.

So far, there was a balance. Unity in itself can be seen as a tipping point, where Canoncial tried to steer Ubuntu in one direction without even trying to align that with the community. That alone made Unity a hard sell for established ubuntu-users, its bad state in the beginning didn't help.

And now ads. Ads are seldom in the best interest of the user. Sometimes they are, when they offer exactly the product the customer searched for (i once got a cheaper dsl-connection because i arrived via a google-ad when i searched for dsl connections, for that i was thankful). In the Unity dash, the user is trying to start a program or to open a file of his, so it is almost guaranteed that the ad will never be what the user searches for.

So all this default does is enabling a probably very small revenue-stream to canonical, while cluttering the dash and irritating users by givem them the feeling that this ubuntu-desktop is doing strange things not in their control (even though they can disable it, a new user won't know how and even if he did, the system did something unexpected, which will bother him).

I hope there are better ways to monetize (maybe donations, paid features like the already existing ones, integrating google music, an ubuntu-tablet, facebook-integration paid for by facebook, certified hardware - but sure not simple ads -.-).
> Apple can't do technically hard problems that require a multi-person effort.

Making UNIX accessible to the masses wasn't a technically hard problem that required a multi-person effort?

How about Webkit?
I admire his persistence and good will. But more importantly this shows how India sucks at having a procedure for its people to request basic needs!
Seconded. I really like the forgiving and smart inputs of Google maps. Some of the apps take me much longer to input where I need to go while google maps knows exactly what I mean in vast majority of cases.
That's a good approach. Remember, it isn't your problem. It is your client's problem. You are there to help solve his problem. If he doesn't care enough you certainly shouldn't.

In a month you'll know a lot more about what you might be walking into. It is critical that you client also learn what he has to contend with. In other words: Communicate profusely throughout the process.
I don't see the problem here? I order a fair bit from Amazon, easily being able to search for it in my dash and give to canonical while doing it seems like a win/win for me?
I would much rather type

sudo flay the-marketroid-who-came-up-with-that -v -v -painful -transcript -violate-human-rights

right now.
What you're saying is true and yet at some level the current iPod/iPhone/iPad basically are all the same thing just with or without a cellular radio and/or with a different sized screen. Other than making AppleTV more than a "hobby", it is difficult to see what other "big" permutations of this theme are available for Apple to exploit (this would have been true with or without Jobs).

Meanwhile we have tablet/laptop hybrids, which Microsoft has been taking the lead on (facing a similar reaction to the early iPod, which history may or may not prove to be similarly ill-directed) and then virtually-deviceless-devices, which Google has been pushing into with their Glass project.

You can't count Apple out because of its infamous development secrecy (who knows what they might do next?), but visibly a lot of the cool potential Next Big Things in the gadget/device space seem to be forming at non-Apple companies.
Thinking in terms of data transformations
Is this in any way different than having Google as default search engine, taking a share of music sold via the music library or taking a share of what software is sold via the in-os-app-store?

Nothing shitty, I bet many (not you guys who read HN, but non-power users) will like this feature. I don't think I'll disable it.

And that: it's possible to disable, that is nice.
Since they key is almost definitely not stored in the db and is very likely stored fairly securely, why does it follow that "if [passwords] are accidentally exposed, it's likely the key is also exposed"?

I understand that passwords are better hashed I just don't nderstand why encrypted is no better than plain text (according to some).
Hmm. I guess I was smart to start using Mint around when 12.04 came out.
Tao of Mac??? A blog that focuses on Apple products, and has a prior article about the Maps problem, yet you still act surprised?
Ask HN: Fastest concurrent HTTP server library for Python?
For my project, I am running a high-performance web service with really long response times (~30 seconds) and high concurrency (able to do multiple requests at once without significant slowdown in response time). I am using the built-in BaseHTTPService with ThreadingMixIn right now for the web service, but it is choking with a load of even 3-4 requests per second. Apparently, the high response time is a difficult requirement, since it rules out libraries like Tornado who do a serial FIFO "one at a time" processing of requests despite being asynchronous. I looked at several libraries, and I am leaning towards syncless right now. There are many of these libraries though, and really, it comes down to the "tyranny of choice." The important thing is actually owning the server code in Python rather than having say nginx call my code for each job since I am interfacing with a device driver that needs to have an open context the entire time the server is running. This is another requirement that is pretty unique to my project. What do you suggest I use?
I have a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet that's still running (and the battery still holds a charge) after almost 15 years and I have an iPad I use extensively for reading. Until last month, I used Ubuntu on everything and now that I have a MacBook, I'm not sure why there has been such a fuss over OSX. I'm probably moving back to Ubuntu. I also have an Android phone that I wouldn't trade for an iPhone.

I don't love or hate Apple (or Microsoft for that matter) but I think if Apple is indeed on the down-slope it has nothing to do with the maps application. My beef with both Apple and Microsoft (locking the hardware so I can't use it for other purposes is pretty shady) is that devices I used to be able to peer into layer-by-layer (if I so choose) are now completely opaque. You've essentially reduced an advanced user to the same state of novice-hood as the general population. No thanks!

EDIT - But it just works! I hear that from so many people and it just isn't true. The suite of tools I generally use have the same issues on all three platforms so the only distinguishing characteristic is whether I can actually fix it.
And Erlang got that from Prolog, which certainly could have taken it in turn from something even earlier.
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