skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I liked the app (I have a 10 years old daughter, a little too old for this).

But I don't understand why do you need the funding? Can't you sell the app for $0.99 directly? What is the difference with Paint Sapiend: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paint-sapien/id430608121?mt=... ?

Why the name is AchristmasColour? Why in the video you are painting a dog instead of Santa?

Perhaps you can sell a app for kids with a basic set of ¿10? images (and maybe 1 additional image each month). And sell some additional packs of holydays images.
For example, patio11 sells a BingoCardCreator software and he creates an especial site for each holiday with custom wordlist for that special holidays and he makes ~$3000 monthly. Perhaps a variation of this business model could work for this app.
how close to ocamlopt do you think you can get? (ie do you have any handle on what the returns would be for further work on this? what are the main limiting factors?)
Full disclosure: I frequent private "blackhat" forums and although I do not participate in these activities, I blog about them anonymously. Furthermore, I know a few people (online) who do stuff similar to this with CPA content lockers, so I'll try and give you an educated guess. In general the average conversion rate in the TV show/live content is around 0.5-3% depending on the quality of traffic.

Now, as you can see from Google Trends[1] some of these get very popular and trend once pretty much every year. In the second comparison, I've compared the search terms with a term I know is definitely popular to get relative popularity of the terms [2]. Comparing these two terms I can get an idea of the amount of traffic these website would get in the time period. I would estimate that the "big spammers" would easily get around 250k-500k uniques from multiple sources (spamming, mass advertising, social media, botnets etc).

Assuming they get paid $2 every signup, and have a conversion rate of 1.5% with 300k uniques, it would bank them around $9k, of course I'm only talking about the big guys here who have done this for a long time.

In general, I would say that the following is correct:

Upper quartile average: $1-3k per day for a few days

Lower quartile average: $50-60 per day for a few days

Quick edit: It should also be noted that for these live games over 95% of the traffic will be from the USA hence the large profits.

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[1]http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Iowa%20vs%20Michigan%...

[2]http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Iowa%20vs%20Michigan%...
This is a great attitude to make yourself feel better, but it's not terribly productive if you can't produce some science yourself, or if you are, you know, any way inclined towards respecting humans' individual choices. Economists and sociologists, who are much better at science than educators, try to avoid making the mistake of knocking peoples' choices unless they're obviously irrational, because forcing peoples behavior to be a certain way in the name of "science" is an easy way to be disastrously wrong.
JVM startup overhead, not clojure runtime overhead. That's still there.
The name of the company that makes these is "Rapiscan"? I'm assuming that first "a" isn't a long vowel.
DMA memory out using FireWire (if available)? That would be my approach!
(Full disclosure: I bought Apple stock and calls in the last 2 days, for a short term trade. Yes, I was &*!@-ing my pants yesterday when it hit ~$505.)

The difference with Apple and other momentum stocks is that Apple isn't like Netflix, where hype deeply overshadowed the problem they have with increasing content costs, or Groupon, which simply has a terrible business model.

Apple makes an incredible amount of real money and real demand. In this 4th quarter, Apple will make more money than Cisco will throughout its entire year.

My concern isn't that people will all of a sudden stop buying Apple hardware... that simply won't happen. They will continue to make billions upon billions of dollars.

My concern is that there are a number of strategic missteps almost as soon as Steve Jobs died. I think the iPad mini will cannibalize iPad sales completely and I think a lot of strategic decisions appears to be fraught with confusion and desperation, like Apple Maps, releasing iPad 4 6 months after iPad 3, etc. I get the argument as to why they made the iPad Mini (my wife wants to get one because it will fit in her purse easier), but I still think very few will buy iPads, and they will need to double iPad Mini sales to make up for lost iPad sales, but I guess we'll see in January.

The major difference with Apple and a company like Microsoft or Cisco is that they don't have much recurring revenue streams. Most of their revenues come from consumers purchasing their goods quarter after quarter. In order to keep growing revenues, they really have to maintain their amazing pace of innovation.

If they make a really bad strategic misstep, and people slow down in terms of buying the products, it will show up immediately, and they won't have a strong enterprise pipeline to buffer them. In 2011, Apple sales were about $60B. In fiscal 2012, they were over $100B. So, could their revenues drop to $60B in a year? It's not probable, but it's possible.

That being said, their PE ratio is ridiculously low, something like 10x next year's earnings, and they have $120B in cash. They can do something ridiculous like buy Facebook or even Cisco for cash, and still have more money than most other companies out there, so there is a lot of room for dramatic and aggressive action by Apple.
I'm not sure what your legal background is, but

1. Estoppel is only going to get you a very limited set of rights. It's highly unlikely a judge is going to find you have the same rights as the open source license, unless you were actually relying on all of those rights. You certainly would not be able to sublicense those rights further, except to those you had already. This is not the same as Novus's ability to "stop licensing the software to new parties", it means you would not be able to give others the rights you had gotten through estoppel.

In effect, estoppel mainly going to protect you from damages, not give you the right to use it as open source.

2. It certainly depends, but the apparent authority question is a lot closer than you make it out to be. There are plenty of cases in the US where "the nature of the transaction" should have caused one to question whether the employee had authority, etc.
Not just that, but in New York state, where Novus Partners is, the law is nowhere near like you make it out to be.
AFAIK, under New York State law, the apparent authority doctrine will hold a principal responsible for its agent’s actions as long as the principal clothed the agent with apparent authority. Novus Partners would have had to have done something explicit to make you believe this person had authority to open source.

See Hallock v. State, 64 N.Y.2d 224, 231 (1984).

“Essential to the creation of apparent authority are words
or conduct of the principal, communicated to a third party,
that give rise to the appearance and belief
that the agent possesses authority to enter into a
transaction,”

An agent can never “by his own acts imbue himself with
apparent authority,” Id.

“[T]he existence of ‘apparent authority’ depends upon a
factual showing that the third party relied upon the
misrepresentation of the agent because of
some misleading conduct on the part of the principal — not
the agent,” Id.

“Moreover, a third party with whom the agent deals may rely
on an appearance of authority only to the extent that such
reliance is reasonable,” Id.

The only communication I see from Novus Partners here is something saying "sorry, he had no authority". If there is something else, great, you may be right. If there isn't, i wouldn't say it's "highly questionable" whether they could do what they did.

Source: I'm a registered patent attorney and corporate IP lawyer who has been doing open source lawyering for many many years now.
Instantly get any webpage's content out as JSON
If you "copy" the bits that happen to open up access to my bank account, I'm not likely to use the word "copy", I'm going to say "stolen" and involve the police.

Similarly, if you "copy" the bits that I'm trying to monetize (they're a book, or a movie, or a computer program), I will also prefer the word "steal" and likewise involve the police.

Just because a low-level mechanism ("hey, we /copy/ bits, we don't destroy them! You still have them!") enables behavior on your part does not make that behavior ethical or lawful, nor does it imply that the notion that someone can control ownership of mere bits is bankrupt or delusional.
Texas Instruments Cuts 1,700 Jobs and Winds Down Tablet Chips
Some amazing generative art, done with Processing, here: http://complexification.net/gallery/

You can grab the source for these and play around with them, tweaking values to see how things work.

One of my favorites is Sand Traveler. The underlying algorithm is relatively simple, but the results are stunning.

These are presented as Java applets, but Processing 2.0 now lets you export code to JavaScript (processing.js).

It also exports to Android apk files, so you can build Android apps with Processing.
I'm not going to link to these ebooks because it doesn't deserve more attention, but it was front page HN only a day or so ago.

I will say this though: certain opinion leaders on HN are taking advantage of the readers and the prevalent herd mentality that prevails here.
Show HN: Bootstrap for the design challenged
Hi,
Created a template editor + templates for twitter bootstrap. What do you think?
http://www.bootui.com
You are right in that it requires familiarity with the underlying toolset to create the site and involves some amount of effort.

Check out the wordpress templates.

http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/23/best-wordpress-the...

Good luck.
Thanks, you and icebraining just taught me something. I don't know why I thought the entire URL was exposed.

As for the MAC database, it doesn't really matter. It would be easier to correlate the MAC address with security camera footage, for example. (I worked on a project for a local network security firm doing exactly that--don't worry, I wasn't doing the security end of things.)
Adding a TLD requires a single DNS entry. Adding a CSS property requires a full specification of how it behaves and interacts with the rest of the CSS model. The former is simple, the latter is hard.
But everyone is saying that you have to be following _both_ people in order to see a "@reply" in timeline?
Google prepping iPhone maps apps, report says
Reduce the deficit? In what world are you living? Even completely dismantling the TSA (which is just unrealistic) would merely save 8 billion Dollar per year, that's about 0,2 percent of the annual budget of the US.
> The watch included a toggle switch, wires and a circuit board

What digital watch doesn't contain those things?

> "Apparently he was wearing it and took it off to go through the screening process,"

So he did the correct thing?

> McGann had "all the components" to make an "improvised explosive device," except for the material that would have actually exploded, Nelson said.

So the dude had a standard watch then? Or a laptop? Or an iPod? Or a battery powered alarm clock? Or a camera flash? etc.

Who exactly in this day and age hasn't boarded an aircraft without "all of the components to make an improvised explosive device?"

Unless you're some kind of Luddite the answer is almost nobody...

> McGann also had no checked bag -- another warning flag

At $50+ a bag I would put my stuff in the overhead bins too.

> McGann also was wearing a military-style shirt [..] The shirts are available for purchase, but are not especially common, Nelson said.

This is too stupid to even remark upon.

Honestly I think everyone involved in this should be shown the door immediately. This is clearly abusive.
"Pylons is loosely coupled. Not Django."

Django isn't loosely coupled by default, but it can be used in a relatively loosely coupled way. E.g. you can easily use your own SQL and templating engine. Yes you can't just hot swap in a new web framework without rewriting the core app code, but that's the case with every framework.
Well it's nice to see anonymous now supports a terrorist group :Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel, the UK and the European Union. In the wake of the 2008-2009 Gaza Conflict, in which more than 1,400 people were killed, the United Nations' Goldstone Report found that rocket attacks by Hamas constituted war crimes, and may have amounted to crimes against humanity.
Human Rights Watch has accused Hamas authorities in Gaza of war crimes, of violating international humanitarian law, and of meting out cruel and inhuman treatment to detainees.
It's like you --- and Paul --- think the purpose of the economy is to imbue value into little green pieces of paper. You'd be an idiot to trade places with your time-traveling peer from 1913. It's not that Paul's claim is "off"; it's that it's nonsensical.
Where did you get that from? CouchDB is what I've seen most used and suggested by far.
Why You Can't Refactor Test Code
I mean to point out that it is their first argument for what is wrong with the copyright system in a numbered list of wrongs.
Tonido: A Dropbox alternative for SMBs
learn visualization but not the underlying statistical common sense that allows you to produce meaningful data. yah right... R will do everything for you... no need to worry about the real work...
Oh you guys are doing great work. I had a similar idea for a long time now, so its good to see it executed. :) Quick question: Does the API allow you to do interesting things with the newsfeed elements like tags and saving/searching?
Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry
Take note:

"We unfortunately cannot guarantee the integrity of any packages available for installation between 19th September 2012 and 11th November 2012, or of any ports compiled from trees obtained via any means other than through svn.freebsd.org or one of its mirrors. Although we have no evidence to suggest any tampering took place and believe such interference is unlikely, we have to recommend you consider reinstalling any machine from scratch, using trusted sources."
> Find ways to share documents with multiple people, get feedback and respond to it. Things like Google Docs/Drive have barriers of entry that if you can remove would make this app excellent for sharing with peers who aren't local.

This idea was an actual project I started building at one time, but from all the people I know it didn't seem to solve their problems. Unaware of the potential user base I left it stagnant for a long time. Maybe knowing that indeed there are others with the same idea, I should hop back on that and do a MVP to test it out.

About this tool as a helper, it is adequate in fact to the term IDE. For all you say in your comment about concentrating on the subject first, is the same mentally I shift to when coding by using vim, instead of an IDE (which I use mostly at work only).
Android Image Tricks
Transportation Tucson to Phoenix
Transportation Tucson to Phoenix: Roadrunner specializes for all Tucson metro, Tucson airport transportation, also Marana, Mesa, Phoenix Airports, plus Southern Arizona Sightseeing.
Well the use of C++ instead of OCaml allowed us a certain number of things :

- Most notably reading OCaml's header files, and hence using the correct, macro declared data types in LLVM code generation. This could have been done with an hybrid of C and OCaml, but was much simpler in OCaml.
- Also using OCaml runtime to read the bytecode. This could have been done in OCaml, but would have been more tedious.

Also you have to consider this project isn't treating an AST per se (the thing at which ML languages excels, by the use of sum types) but a bytecode array, which is flat in structure. We put back some structure in it, but it is predictable and not as complex as an AST.
What startup overhead?

I meant AOT to native code.
Seriously?!? That jioop sound is another Hollywood lie? Man, I've about had it with those people. They really don't care about reality at all!
So obvious, trade-off space for time, yet I wouldn't have thought of it... I mean, I've thought about this problem, written a persistent JVM solution, and didn't think of it. Memory is cheaper than my intuition realises.

I wonder how many other "obvious" solutions I'm missing like this?

EDIT for the code I tried, user time is almost 3 times faster, but real time is only around 10% better... I don't understand linux well enough to know why - anyone care to explain please? EDIT Yes, drip had already run. (I picked typical times from about 10 runs each).

$ time java...
real	0m1.466s
user	0m1.216s
sys	0m0.180s

$ time drip...
real	0m1.378s
user	0m0.412s
sys	0m0.260s

BTW: For server-like workloads, an advantage of a persistent JVM is that it gets dramatically faster over repeated runs of the same code, as it improves its hotspot-style adaptive optimisations.

I really like his quickstart "standalone" installation.

WARNING "drip kill" crashed my system. The kill functions are kill_jvms and kill_jvm (https://github.com/flatland/drip/blob/develop/bin/drip). I'm using an older ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
For perspective, $8 Billion is 43% of NASA's current funding.
You know what? Most browsers are developed pretty much entirely in line with the agile manifesto; most have either quick releases or a permanently stable master branch (to use git parlance!).

The issue isn't in shipping browsers which support unprefixed properties, the issue is:

- Dropping prefixed forms (which is basically not happening in WebKit, as Apple is scared of breaking non-web content, and they have no way to tell who is using WebKit within an application for bundled content and who is using it for the web) which means web developers have no encouragement to move to the prefixed forms.

- The convoluted specification of CSS which means people frequently find bizarre, bad interactions with other parts of the specification which people want to work out before shipping.

- The inability to drop anything once shipped: once something is shipped in a web browser, sites often start relying upon it (even if it isn't interoperable, behind UA-sniffing), which makes it hard to drop (users don't like sites breaking, and most applications need users to have a viable business model), and hence makes a lot of pressure to get it right first time, giving very little space to iterate.

- W3C policies which care about the patent policy and having a stable specification everyone can implement perfectly than about continual iteration.
Of course it's different. There are two, almost entirely, different projects. That includes the documentation.
If you are in my house, using my toilet, lift up the seat. If you refuse to do so I won't allow you in my bathroom again.

The toilet is the closest metaphor I could come up with for Facebook.
Supercell: The cash-rich, little-known Finnish startup worth of $600M
> I still do not understand how it makes them money,

It makes money from a pure economies of scale situation. When your marginal cost per "ad" is essentially zero, you can ship out a sufficiently large number of such ads that even the smallest percentage of recognition by the targets results in thousands or millions of return inquires/clicks/etc. I.e., if it cost $10 for 1 billion views, and only 0.0001% respond, that is 1000 responses. Effectively only costing one cent per response. If you make ten cents per response, you have made $100 on your $10 investment.

Couple that with the fact that a computer did the "work" and it is an easy money machine.
Creating a fresh browser implementation is pretty much already insurmountable! The last time anyone major implemented a browser from scratch (at least in a major sense) was Mozilla in the late 90s: everyone since has just built on previous work, as even though people may hate design decisions (that made sense a decade ago!) the cost of starting again is too high.
Hasn't anyone ported zygote over to desktop Linux/Windows? You just keep the preconfigured jvm process running and fork it indefinitely for each new process. You'd still suffer some overhead depending on each application but that's just expected anyway. The jvm startup overhead isn't.
I'm not a master networker, but I don't think you get to be one by asking why you would want a certain connection. You never know what the future holds.
September Morn
I am in finance for 18 years, of them 7 as CFO, I passed my CPA exams 11 years ago. I really don't get this finance part and it makes by head spin :-O

>> because we had collected a lot of revenue that we couldn’t recognize because it was for a future event. That means it was a liability, not an asset. Ouch.

No. This is called Deferred Revenue or Prepayment. You can not recognize it in P&L, but you are required to recognize it in Balance Sheet as an asset (I think this would be Debit Cash / Credit Prepayment | Deferred Revenue).

>> It was down to the fact that I couldn't accrue future staff costs towards the event.

You can not accrue future staff costs - that is not appropriate. See Cash Based Accounting vs Accuals Based Accounting.

However, if you failed to accrue the legitimate expenses - that would results in overpaying profit tax and restatement of financial statements. Not sure about consequences for the CPA, who signed off your books.

Chaps, finance is not that difficult! Configuring network, hardening web servers, compiling nginx with proper modules/flags is way more difficult.

May be I shall trade finance lessons for devops lessons? :-)
About the transaction costs issue... how do class action lawsuits rate in terms of transaction costs?

I'm with you that the libertarian approach is somewhat worse on the effectiveness scale than what we're capable of doing in our current system. But I'm not going to go so far as you and say it's nonsense.

A current issue in my area (Minneapolis metro area) is 3M's PFCs contaminating ground water in Lake Elmo, Oakdale and Woodbury. 3M released these chemicals into the area starting in the 1940s, when their health and environmental effects were not known. Regulation would therefore not have helped in this particular case.

The court system is working, though: the State of Minnesota is suing 3M for damages, and 3M is engaged in clean up. Note that this lawsuit is not alleging an infringement of regulations (at least, not to my knowledge), but instead is focused on 3M having negatively affected property regardless of intent.

This is one example of the court approach working (I've got my fingers crossed that 3M's gonna lose).

My point is, framing it as a property rights issue and handling it in the courts is a helpful thing and not nonsense.
web.py was viewed as a big joke, because it was quite crude.

Django has merged the magic-removal branch a long time ago, pre 1.0 and since the newforms branch (also merged aeons ago) it can generate forms and validation. The template language is limited by choice which might or not be a good thing. Personally I think the idea is good, just the execution is inferior to Jinja2. If you don't like it, you can replace it, that's what loosely coupled means. aaronsw things loosely coupled means it is a library. It is not, it has stayed a framework and that hasn't changed since 2005.
that's useless. all you are proving is that it can have false positives, which everyone already knows and rightly doesn't care about.

you would need to prove that it has numerous false negatives, without being arrested.
Wow. That falls directly to NVIDIA and Qualcomm and... are there any other major players anymore, actually?