skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forming corporation is just very first step. Corporation needed because you need to open bank account for it to do money transfers for whatever reasons you have. And here where you will get stuck. In USA you need physical presence and ID on you to open bank account for your corporation. For offshore banking it even worse - most banks will ask for a reference. And even if they will not ask for reference, they still do whole KYC thing on you.
"a theory as to why video and video streaming seem particularly prone to patent trolls"

There's lots of streaming video on the web. For trolls, plenty of targets. Millions of potential defendants. If they issue 100,000 threats to sue, there will be at least a few that decide they'd rather pay than fight. Which then enables the troll to repeat the process.
That's really unlikely. Those clocks are famous, especially among the types of people who would be in charge of designing a clock at Apple.
> We will have a beautiful DSL so you don’t have to quote arguments as string...

If i'm using Perl's Shell.pm (as mentioned elsewhere here by btilly) and wanted to avoid quoting arguments then I could do:

use 5.016;
use warnings;
use Shell ();

use PerlX::QuoteOperator ls => {
-emulate => 'qq',
-with => sub ($) { Shell::ls($_[0]) },
};

use PerlX::QuoteOperator uname => {
-emulate => 'qq',
-with => sub ($) { Shell::uname($_[0]) },
};

use PerlX::QuoteOperator ip => {
-emulate => 'qq',
-with => sub ($) { Shell::ip($_[0]) },
};

# and then...

ls();
uname(-a);
ip(-4 addr);

But this seems to be an overkill because I could just use Perl's backticks (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators)...

`ls`;
`uname -a`;
`ip -4 addr`;

And it works with variables...

my $x = "/usr/local/";
my $files = `ls -l $x`;

and piping...

my $perl_files = `ls | grep .pl`;

Shell.pm also works with variables & piping but I think that backticks are probably Perl's best DSL for dealing (easily) with shell stuff :)
More info:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/iphone/1681103-certain-sms-be...
I hear that the WC doors on Swiss trains have a slide-to-unlock feature as well.
I know people will be thinking I'm making a joke, cageface might even call me a douche, but I totally read the name as Groper the first few times.
The GPS hardware is fine. If I turn off Google's software Location Services, everything works fine. SO... Because you can't read I'm automatically wrong, is that how it works?
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
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Disrupting "disruption"
Google has Not submitted an iOS 6 Maps app and Apple is sitting on it
Still, a really good website, I've been using it for a year(ish).
Because it's likely to be profitable. Countless companies are doing something with streaming video and there are enough light and medium-weights in this space that are likely to choose to pay off the trolls instead of going to court.
I hardly believe people are saying "screw google, I'm using bing", I think the numbers have more to do about defaults, your grandpa/aunt opens IE and bing is the default search engine.
Bunnie gets the EFF Pioneer Award
My Motorola droid is able to run Android 4.1 - not a super snappy experience, but it does run. It released in october of 2009. Every feature in 4.1 works on it. I don't have the "fun" apple is pulling with a guessing game on what features work on what phones:
http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/

Also, while the 3GS (June 09) is getting ios6, the original ipad (April 2010) is not. Apple will abandon their equipment just as fast if it suits them.
Irritating as it maybe, users are doing you a favor by even filing a bug, something we devs often forget. Bug reports are a gift allowing you to improve your project, and keep on deving, vs, say, waiting tables.

A friend once worked in a company, where "snark" was considered a valid reason to mark a bug "wontfix". The company didn't last long. It did sound like fun while it lasted though.
Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear
I'm curious what actually useful parts you've made from it. I'm not sure I have ever had a problem where the solution was a part that I could print on a 3D printer; but maybe I'm not being imaginative enough, so I'm curious what other people have done with it.
Ahh, the rounded font. I actually didn't notice until you mentioned it. Typography is one thing I don't think I'll ever get my head around.
The class in question was designed in 2005...
Deployd: Create RESTful JSON APIs using a GUI interface
Love Cuban, but his target is program trading, not Wall Street. And trading serves its purpose as it makes the market more efficient. Arbitrage opportunities will always narrow or close over time.

His argument is like saying that someone that buys and sells used cars has a big advantage over me the consumer, therefore buying a car is rigged. I know that implicitly, it's the friction of low transacting.
Why would Google do that?
The way it's written feels weird because English is not their first language.
Dude, the gifsockets example "uses one connection at a time" because I'm too lazy to implement a server using Netty or Aleph in Clojure. The only important part from the gifsockets concept is writing gif frames on demand. The rest is up to you
Duh? Couldn't exactly get worse now could it?
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As an Android user, I had no idea that iOS didn't support customizable Intents or Widgets?! That's just crazy to me, since I use widgets for a lot of stuff, and there are several cases where I don't set a default because I want to use different apps to handle different intents depending on the situation (i.e. opening PDFs). I guess most iOS users don't know or care about that sort of thing, they "just want it to work", but man, I would be totally out of my element downgrading to an iPhone.
#2 is not about what they want it's a question of what's broken.

Spend some time around people at large company's and you can find a host of things that just don't work. EX: Time tracking software tends to track time but rarely integrates into any other useful system. You could literally make a billion dollar company focused on fixing that.
> Limit liability.

IANAL but I don't think a company needs to be "untraceable" to limit liability of its owners.
Actually, that's exactly right, according to Bud Tribble, the person who coined it, inside Apple:

"Bud, that's crazy!", I told him. "We've hardly even
started yet. There's no way we can get it done by then."

"I know," he responded, in a low voice, almost a whisper.

"You know? If you know the schedule is off-base, why don't
you correct it?"

"Well, it's Steve. Steve insists that we're shipping in early
1982, and won't accept answers to the contrary. The best way to
describe the situation is a term from Star Trek. Steve has a
reality distortion field."

"A what?"

"A reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is
malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything.
It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to
have realistic schedules. And there's a couple of other
things you should know about working with Steve."

"What else?"

"Well, just because he tells you that something is awful or
great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow.
You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really
funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually
tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually
likes it, exactly one week later, he'll come back to you and
propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it."

I thought Bud was surely exaggerating, until I observed Steve
in action over the next few weeks. The reality distortion field
was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an
indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the
purpose at hand. If one line of argument failed to persuade, he
would deftly switch to another. Sometimes, he would throw you
off balance by suddenly adopting your position as his own,
without acknowledging that he ever thought differently.

Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective
even if you were acutely aware of it, although the effects would
fade after Steve departed. We would often discuss potential
techniques for grounding it (see Are You Gonna Do It?), but
after a while most of us gave up, accepting it as a force of
nature.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distortion_Fi...
I assume they're currently paying license fees, and spending lots of money on keeping their systems up to date.

Switching to open data would hopefully reduce both factors.
Hey now, only an average of 20% of all front-page stories in the past 24 hours have been bashing on the new maps app. That's tame by HN groupmind standards.
This isn't a direct comment on the post (which is quite good) but I had a tangential thought while reading.

I get the lean startup "talk to customers first" thing, and it seems perfect for so many startups. However, I can't help feeling there are some cases where you are selling execution not innovation and therefore "show don't tell" is more important. In these cases customers already have an existing solution which they probably don't consider a pain point and you literally have to show how their lives could be better to convert.

Some off-the-cuff examples include Facebook, Google Search and Google Chrome (unlike Google Maps which could have been a lean startup), Xero, the iPod and iPhone, nearly all media/entertainment.

I still think "release early" and MVPs are essential to avoid investing more effort than you have to in order to test a hypothesis. Likewise, I still think that getting in touch with your target market early is important as well (you're going to have to reach them at some point, so better start early to make sure they actually exist). But I question whether conversion potential can be evaluated for a pain point your customers don't realise exists until they see the alternative.
OpenStreetMap just underwent a rather tortuous conversion from using Creative Commons to the ODBL (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/)

I don't fully understand the ramifications, but it's possible that this was done so that companies like Google could build products on top of OSM data rather than re-invent the wheel, possibly in a parallel to GPL and LGPL or the split between Linux and thing like Tivo or Android built on top.

From their relicencing FAQ:

" If you distribute OSM data with other map data, you have to make the other data available; But if you create an "integrated experience" (e.g. mashup or cartography), the share-alike licence only applies to the map data. "

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License_Rel...
The morality of an individual or organization is determined by:

1. What they do
2. What they say

And in that order. For politicians and celebrities with a large audience, it's possible that what they say matters more than what they do for the global good. However, the actions an individual takes can wipe out a legacy of saying the right thing.
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Kickstarter doesn't do healthcare, MedStartr seizes opportunity
That's useful to know. Is that daily data? Have you found it to be reliable? When I started testing moving-average based strategies, my blog post about it ended up being largely about data issues, from both Google and Yahoo finance: http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/movinga...
An extreme example was an opening value off by a factor of 100 on one day.
The only problem I see here in the middle of the US is the sparse and wrong POI data. The tools to report fixes are on the Maps app already. If they have an automated system for processing these it could be fixed very quickly.

People should remember that Google has that POI data because the crowd entered and maintained it. The same dynamic will work for Apple.

Mass transit isn't an issue here, but I hope they get it to work before I go to Manhattan again.
The way Google is building out its maps data is way more sophisticated. Good look inside here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
http://investor.google.com/corporate/faq.html#toc-mission

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
I remember reading a while ago about how Apple's reliance on Google for mapping was a massive problem for the company. Something about how in the future all ad revenue will derive from location-based recommendations. If that's true, then there was no other acceptable solution for Apple than to at some point simply bite the bullet and roll out an in-house mapping service. Continuing dependence on Google here simply posed too much risk to ad revenue and indeed the basic integrity of their ecosystem.

All things considered, given how complex maps must be to implement, it seems like Apple did a pretty good job for day one.

Furthermore, this furore reminds me of the storm over Siri. Tech pundits work themselves into a frenzy proclaiming that Apple is losing its edge. Average consumers however pay no heed and the company rolls on to the next product launch largely unharmed. The critics miss the bigger picture: a company with so much momentum that it can easily afford to crowdsource the refinement of challenging big-data projects such as Siri and Maps. While the critics stand around prophesising doom, Apple iterates, improves, and by the time the next big hit comes out the last "disaster" is ancient history. Ignore their strength at your peril I say.
There was in the early '80s, too. I remember seeing the product line in the catalogue but not the store shelves. The sets were for making jewellery out of and the like.
Someone buying and selling used cars doesn't have the ability to crash the entire car market negatively affecting everyone that currently owns a car in the same way that high-frequency trading can with the stock market. I don't think your analogy works.
Google won't dump their own maps for anyone else as long as they remain a competitive advantage. They're (thanks to recent events) clearly perceived as having some of the best maps in the business, as long as that remains so it's in their best interest to keep doing them in-house.
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That's what 1.8.2 is about, and we'll do minor releases as needed.

The reason 1.9/2.0 is happening only about 6 months after 1.8 is that there is a lot of demand for an oldIE-free version for mobile and modern web apps, as opposed to public web sites. It's important for us to line up the APIs in the 1.9/2.0 versions but we had to give people enough notice about deprecated features.

You can expect the pace to slow down after 1.9/2.0 comes out.
There are more, statistically sounder methods that could be used to search the space of possible strategies, a la bootstrapping. These could be used to make more meaningful statements about the strategy, if the assumption is that previous statistics predict future statistics, which of course might also be false (black swans, etc.)

Given the vast amount of parameters that constitute a strategy, naive optimizing of the outcome of the strategy in the past is bound to produce overfitting in the majority of cases...
Guaranteed: this product will go nowhere due to a lack of sales and interest.
Ask HN: How are you getting in front of decision makers?
For your startup or product, I am curious how you get in front of decision makers the most regularly. We all have to sell to someone so how are you getting in front of people to start that cycle? Personal referrals? Sales calls? Conferences? Meetups? Obviously this really apply's when it comes to enterprise and small business selling, which is my primary target, but also how are you getting the word to consumers about what you can offer them?

I would think this is where an incubator, Angle or VC could really help open some doors. What if you are bootstrapped, how are you doing it or what are some of your ideas?

Interested to hear from anyone, just looking for more ideas to help make stuff happen.
That's a strange article, almost certainly commissioned by Google as a PR opportunity to coincide with iOS6 maps, which I think misses most of the actual interesting stuff that Google brings to mapping (for example he talks about drawing a perfect circle for roundabouts as if this was some amazing feat on a computer? Compared with actually driving the whole world with a bunch of data capture devices strapped to the roof?) But most of the tools they talk about are available to OSM contributers and it's very odd for them to be highlighting Google's data-behind-the-map when that's exactly what you don't get from them, but do get from OSM:

http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/google-maps-and-openst...
Agreed. It's sort of like cleaning as you go, but that implies you're cleaning all the time, but you really aren't. A tidy place helps you think better, act better and live better.
2. is easy to disagree with. Yes, if you ask people "what do you want" then you might not get anywhere. But, if you ask, "what are you prepared to throw money at to solve a painful problem", then you are onto something.

It is easy to frame the question in a bad way. It is also easy to ask the wrong people. What you want is people with money that will pay for something that will make their life easier and are able to see value in it.
I routinely switch between 4 different map and map-based services (Google Maps for Streetview, Bing Maps for Ordnance Survey maps, OpenStreetMap for paths and Geograph for pictures overlayed on OS grid cells) - I'd love to have some way of combining these.
3. We have to change the conversation for that. Look at what the original post was about, he went out side and saw fat people, not people who couldn't run a mile or do 100 pushups just fat people. This creates the impetus to not be fat. Thin and unhealthy is OK from this viewpoint, but fat-ish and healthy isn't.

4. A spoon full of sugar may help the medicine go down, but two spoon fulls of sugar and no medicine tastes better. That is to say gamification and music are fun in their own right, mixing in exercise doesn't make exercise fun it just masks the distaste.
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What is so spectacular here? His ability to get down the field or his positioning and ability to not get caught up at the line?? Surely the fact that a 275 lb. lineman with velocity pancaked a 185 lb defensive back is not notable. :)
True, new to me though. Thought I would share it with the HN community.
Wow, this is a great idea!
One can always use http://routes.tomtom.com/ as a source for comparison. It would also be good if certain journalists and bloggers did this before shooting their mouths off about data quality, but that wouldn't make a compelling headline.
The slow-motion music CD implosion continues
Another record label company is gone. The European regulators know more than the "golden ears" "mud for brains" record executives about emerging distribution channels.
The trick is that you simply wouldn't use this on code where irreversible side effects take place. I think there's enough methods you write where this would help to make it still useful and worthwhile. Tackling the side effect issue is far, far too big of scope.
However, all of us here that are familiar with the landscape and with Microsoft's history thought this was a bad idea from the beginning.

And I'm not? Talk about judging someone without knowing anything about them, wow! When did I say that the Microsoft idea was a good idea? It wasn't.

"And Nokia is not a startup, but a big company that should have the resources to branch out a little and test the water with an Android phone."

I never said or implied Nokia was a startup either? Nokia is a big company with big problems without the resources to branch out a little and test the water with anything, and this will probably be their downfall. That was the whole point behind my previous post!

That's how smart companies are doing it - they are A/B testing competing solutions. Take a look at Google - that's still working on Chrome OS, in spite of Android being a success.

I'm not even sure if your talking to me now?

And I get that Nokia wanted to focus on fewer products, to preserve resources, however they've gone to the extremes, throwing away years of hard work and even consumer goodwill, adopting an operating system that they don't and will never control

I completely agree?

at least with Android, if anything had gone wrong with the Google partnership, they could have forked it, just like Amazon did.

Yeah, but they had Meego back then, and the Android platform was unproven, so tell me why they should have chosen Android over Meego again?

Actually, I have a better idea, don't bother, I'm not interested in talking about "what if's" only "what now's".
I don't disagree, but the cause of an unshipped product matters. If people believe Kickstarter campaigners are naive, that's one thing; they'll proceed with a bit more caution. If people believe that Kickstarter campaigners are intentionally trying to screw them over and run off with their money, that's another thing entirely. The former erodes trust in individual Kickstarter camaigners; the latter erodes fundamental trust in the site itself.

True, Kickstarter should be trying to address the issue, regardless of its cause. But let's be careful before leaping to the conclusion that people have been acting in bad faith.
"Something about how in the future all ad revenue will derive from location-based recommendations"

And why exactly should Apple care about this? Isn't the vast majority of their profit coming from higher then normal margins on hardware? Their bread and butter is suppose to be making compelling tech products that have high build quality and are easy to use for any type of user. Why would Apple care where ad dollars are going as long as they kept doing what they are suppose to be doing to justify their high margin devices? Apple isn't in the ad business.

Of course, with their map move they've just compromised the quality of one of the core services of a mobile device, that should be a bigger deal then any of this nonsense about location based recommendations being the future of ad revenue.
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Sure, you could say that. But what I really mean is that the average HNer shifted his focus. And that's plain sad.
Not to my knowledge; there may be a resource through the USPTO.
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The frontend subsidy rate isn't the same, at least according to AT&T's stated online prices. The price difference for any on-contract vs off-contract iPhone is $450. I couldn't find another new phone (Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, ...) with a on-contract vs off-contract price difference of over $400. Most were $350 or less.
Apple maps are in an even worse position. They are not runner-ups, underdogs, out-of-towners but a forced "upgrade" over a product that worked.
Facebook is not dying. I feel it's going from being a fad to a utility. I've noticed that people I know are posting fewer status updates with every passing year, but they still heavily use Facebook for chat, event invitations, photos and groups. For a lot of people, Facebook seems to be becoming less of a pastime and more of a tool for communicating with friends and family.

I dislike Facebook as much as the next hacker, but I don't think Facebook is going anywhere anytime soon. It'll just become less interesting as a communication medium. After all, nobody is excited about the telephone any more.