skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My T420 easily gives me double (sometimes even triple) than your three hours mate. It's very well built so it doesn't break as easily as crappy plastic netbook. Not only is it's hardware "proven" whatever that means, but works extremely well with Linux which is my OS of choice. Oh and almost everything I want to change is easily user replaceable. Probably with the exception of the gpu. And Lenovo provides manuals to do both the easy thinks like changing memory, to medium things like replacing a keyboard (which is a piece of cake), to more complex things like replacing the LCD screen. Oh and 14 inches is not a hulking mass, and it also replaced my desktop. I don't understand Apple fanboys (and I own an iPhone and an iPad)...
More meaningful advice is to hide the magnitude of your success if the barriers to entry are low. You will get lots of competition once others know they can fast-follow and make money. Instead, keep it a secret and race to lock up the market.

Take Groupon. After iterating, they found explosive revenue growth. Everyone knew how rapid the growth was - every deal lists its revenue on the site & they announced massive fundraises. Add that to low barriers to start a competitor, and we had HUNDREDS of Groupon clones in 2010.

Take Uber. Many people think that they're doing well - high ASP, thousands of vigilant customers (thousands took to Twitter to protest Washington DC legislation that would ban Uber). Since each city is a new market to be built from scratch, new entrants have an opportunity to compete, thus Uber has many competitors: Lyft, Hailo, Flywheel, Sidecar, Cabulous, TaxiMagic.

If you're making money, you will get competition. No matter what. So keep that success a secret while you build competitive barriers to own the market.
It's certainly not what Jobs was thinking with Apple's infamous secrecy. Perhaps his idea wasn't original? /ducks
Okay, I'm in! This might be pretty cool!

Just two questions:

A. Can I download a video, voiced over by someone else? Since I suppose this is only on-the go thing. Since Youtube won't allow keeping dubbed audio on its space?

B. Similarly, how can I share something I dubbed over using this?
Those with xscreensaver installed can use something along the lines of:

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/deco -mondrian

Temper your expectations by the `man deco` intro that suggests it draws "tacky 70s basement wall panelling".
> but only now are we seeing devices where there is no easy way to actually write code for them, on them

Ah, very good point.

Well, today's devices still lack the hacking essentials: pointer/mouse/variant, keyboard, large screen ; maybe a decade of advance will give us usable virtual keyboards/pointers/what-have-you, projection displays on all handhelds and THEN no manufacturer will able to hold back the onslaught of development environments that penetrate the walled gardens.
Hey HN, getting pretty sick of having all my titles edited when they hit front page. What's with that?
If you start an LLC/LLP/Corp, you will be paying some amount of money in fees and taxes each year to keep it in existence. Where I am in Rhode Island, USA, this is $500 for minimum corporate tax (applies to LLC/LLP as well), and a $75 filing fee for an annual report.

You will also may want to hire an accountant to prepare your corporate / LLC tax return / schedules, especially in your first year.

In short, if you are going the LLC/Corp route, expect to add $1000 per year in overhead, plus at least a dozen hours in time.

I personally would wait (you are already a sole proprietor by default) and then if you start making some decent money look into it again. It is possible to transition an app from a individual to a company account, but there is some footwork involved.

Keep in mind, you will not be reaping any tax benefits of incorporating until you are making actual money. Your decision to incorporate / form an LLC at this point should be driven only by the amount of risk you are personally taking on in potential liability. I would suspect for most free applications, you won't have much to worry about. But if you're sitting on a pile of money and are writing an app that some how might inspire someone to sue you, you might want to think about it.
This article seems poorly researched and poorly reasoned. Most observers are crediting the end of the lockout not to "the players realizing the owners were willing to scuttle the season", but instead to the players having voted to authorize the NHLPA to disclaim their representation of the players, effectively removing the players from the union, thereby opening the owners up to anti-trust lawsuits.

Only once the NHLPA took that step did the league seem to start negotiating in earnest, having previously pursued a strategy they hoped would break the union as it did during the previous lockout.

It's essentially the same tactic that ended the NBA lockout.
they may reach 50 million way earlier than 2015. nice! Good for us, at least, the global prices would come down a notch :)
Boeing 787 to undergo FAA review. Is electrical power at fault?
The article is pretty light on details. What exactly defines this as a single "structure"? How do we determine where one cluster ends and another begins?
Hey, good questions.

A.) You can't download the video, because videos are owned by YouTube and their creators. We just overlay the audio and play the original videos. You can embed the resulting videos though.

B.) Every video has a one-pager with a permalink, like on YouTube.
Not true, see e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451629 or http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2011/defendant-c...

"Along with the power to coin money, Congress has the concurrent power to restrain the circulation of money which is not issued under its own authority in order to protect and preserve the constitutional currency for the benefit of all citizens of the nation."
A friendly reminder - while the display is flexible, all the support electronics are not. See the giant ribbon cables coming off the bottom?
AM or PM?

It doesn't matter.
You absolutely can clone Coca Cola, if you can figure out the recipe. Unless you violate an NDA doing so, there'd be nothing illegal about it.
> The issue goes beyond simple voting because in the grand scheme of things copyright isn't as important as other representative factors.

Exactly. Due to the imperfect nature of our democracy, copyright has never been voted on by the general public. The general public has effectively voted for foreign policy, the economy, numerous social issues including the right to vote, reproductive rights, marriage rights, etc.

However the public has never effectively voted for more minor issues like copyright. The only people who are effectively voicing their opinions are politicians themselves and the corporations who pay them. It has never been a large enough issue for the general population dictate on, one way or the other.
What about companies that have more resources than the lone-app developer/company?

Organizational inertia. It takes longer to steer a large ship.
WebGL running on a Nexus 7 under the Chrome Beta. Pretty good performance
Who said the TV series would have to take the place of the final 3 movies? The star wars universe is vast in both history and size, they could set a TV show at any of a hundred interesting times without tying directly into the movies at all.
I should also mention from experience with a niche app which has a few thousand users, I ended up making $1.50 in revenue over the course of a year.

I released an update this December, and am now charging $1.99 and doing thousands of percent better, and I haven't put any effort into promoting the app yet.
Gangnam Style is available on Youtube for free. You don't know what you are talking about. You just don't, having missed all this internet stuff.

According to Last.Fm statistics it does not seem that any musical band is listened to more than The Beatles. And virtually everything by The Beatles in the circulation is "pirated". And this stuff should be damn near public domain if you ask me.
PHP would do well getting proper weak references in play, regardless of vision. No easy task at this point, sadly :(

More specifically: Put in proper weak refs -> get lexical scoping -> get first class functions.
There have been so many go-nowhere products from every CES that it's hard to take most of it seriously. In my opinion, the snarkiness that the author decries is warranted and necessary to criticize companies with no strong vision, who release crazy product after crazy product just to throw darts and see what sticks.

Smart laundry? Smart forks? Come on. That still frame of the woman non-chalantly lugging the 27-inch "tablet" between rooms is not only amusing but also embarrassing for the industry.

Not to mention the keynotes which get weirder each year.
How is that so different from "I want to keep the rights to a cartoon I drew for ever and ever and ever.."?
can't we just dub on the fly, while the audio is being uploaded to youtube or another site? and later share the plugin powered page, that brings together the two link, helping in sharing funny dub overs ?
Google goes to show, time and again that no amount of resources (including a ton of money) or cross promotion or advertising alone can make a new product a huge success. Sometimes you just have to be lucky.

This is at least the third time Google has tried something like this; most recently they attempted to enter the daily deals market with Google Offers, after groupon turned down a buyout offer.
I have had a lot of stuff without paying for it (directly). Education, medical care, air even.
What now?
> Gold is inherently useful as a tangible object with exploitable physical properties. Gold, for example, has good conductivity and is used to plate electrical connections. Gold is also useful for its rust-resistance.

Do you really mean to say gold's rust-resistant properties are to blame for it's exceedingly high price on the market?

Fact: In 2013, Bitcoin is the world's easiest way to send a standardized indicator of wealth from one person to another. Forget anonymity, forget open source, forget deflation, forget amateurs building Ruby on Rails websites poorly!

Bitcoin's #1 benefit is the ousting of intermediaries. Because Bitcoin transactions can occur directly between two people without any third party involvement, the platform upon which people trade Bitcoin for goods and services becomes irrelevant. With Bitcoin, the platform only matters to the extent it aids in the market discovery process.

I for one see inherent value in a currency I have control over 24/7, that I can literally park in my brain never to touch the public Internet, carry with me everywhere I go, send to anyone, anywhere at any time, instantly and without an intermediary. If you see no value in that, honestly, what is there to say. Good luck with your financial goals in 2013.
Apple is an interesting example because Jobs famously stole ideas from so many others. Having gotten away with it, that's probably why he made new product development so secretive.
The only real insight I picked out of this was that children today are living in a walled garden. Before, we had to know about drivers, installers, executables, the filesystem, etc. Today, a lot of that is hidden. A benefit of that is that the system is a lot more stable and people are allowed to maintain the abstraction provided by the os. A question that Im curious about in the future is whether the success of the abstraction will prevent kids from peeking behind the curtain for simple lack of need. Lastly, will that in some way affect the technological capabilities of the kids?
Briss often does a great job of cutting away the margins in PDFs making many of them quite readable on a regular kindle (and I can only imagine that it is quite a bit better on a kindle paperwhite or other devices with a similar resolution).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
At-will employment wouldn't make sense in professional sports. Imagine a team that got eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. A player could give two weeks notice and then join a team that was still competing.
Per pixeltrix's comment it appears that you're safe.

"If you mean that your Ruby on Rails version is 1.2.6 then, no the vulnerability does not affect you as the feature was introduced in Ruby on Rails 2.0"

source: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/8/Rails-3-2-11-3-1-10-3...
true, but they already announced that the upcoming movies would be set after the story line of the movies. While they are doing that, on the second hand funding a live-action somewhere else in the star wars timeline might be to hush hush!
Samsung cancels winrt in us
I don't understand. That says that the Chinese government owns an indirect stake. I took that to mean they own some of the company. How do you read that?
Here's a study that follows the coins from one theft:

http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ie/2011/07/bitcoin-is-n...
I will book mark it for now, but I hoped there was a comment section I can come back to ? Kinda can't go over it right now or next few days, due to plans.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882821

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832967
Are you on a netbook or otherwise slow computer?

I'll see what I can do to add some breaks to the page rendering loop. I get the impression that the Firefox version needs a bit of work.
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How much did a successful 'show hn' thread contribute to your startup's growth?
Mozilla adds all recent versions of Java to its Firefox add-on blocklist
I don't read tjoff's statement as saying that Lenovo makes the thinkpad which is a low quality laptops.
I read it as saying that some of Lenovo laptops (as opposed to laptop models) are good while some are bad.
It was probably Santander: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Santander-s-onlin..., though there have been other instances of bad bank web practices.
I came to mention this.

Can anyone elaborate on possible benefits of flexibility of such a device? I can't really think of any. I'd guess it would be very problematic to control such a touchscreen without something solid behind the device.
I am planning to get a printout for my daughter.
I abhor 3d movies. The old style (with red and blue lenses) would cause me to alternate between flat red or blue images. The new sort just look like dark 2d--if I concentrate very hard I can occasionally notice certain "3d" effects but I'm certainly not getting the same experience as everyone else.
Of course it matters. The ask to make the calculation when its 11:50. I need to know if I'm free to be able to go and calculate it at exactly 11:50. I would not want to do the calculation at 11:49 or 11:51, because then I could be missing another calculation appointment.

Using when implies that I do the calculation at the exact point in space-time, and not calculate the angle of the clock pointers at the moment the clock marks 11:50.

:)
Interesting, I come out to 55 degrees this way:

30 degrees between hours. 10 is at 300 degrees, 11 is 330 degrees. 50 minutes into the hour is 5/6 of 30 or 25.
330+25 == 355.
The flip side of that is you would decimate small market teams who don't have the funds to compete with much larger markets. That means "buying" power for salaries would be centralized to a handful of teams, while the rest of the league would be less and less competitive until they would have to fold.
I read this as saying: buy an Apple netbook. The mythical beast which Steve refused to let live.
Unless they made significant changes to BART after 2007, L.A.'s Metro is better than BART--it has better coverage of most locations that people actually want to go or come from (except for the airports, as litigation has held up those extensions), and in combination with the MetroLink system extends as far as the San Fernando Valley, the desert, and Riverside.
VexFlow: A Music Notation Language and Renderer for the Web
Electronic medical records don’t save money
Evidently there's some interestingness in the precise choice of the colors in Boogie Woogie: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/mondrian2.html
There seems to be some confusion about what "it" refers to. You keep referring to Safari. The original poster referred to KHTML, which for most intents and purposes "turned into" WebKit. That's how I and apparently most others understood him to mean.
Charlie Somerville has already released his PoC. http://charlie.bz/blog/rails-3.2.10-remote-code-execution

You should release your PoC(s) as well.
More bandwidth for all that spying
well yeah, kick starter is no charity, but you can look at it in this way as well that the masses are still reluctant to install solar power in a lot of countries including my own, they just don't care even after our govt is giving heavy discount, but such projects, which take the money from who care to spread this technology, and installs free premises for others, are like a social entrepreneurs. Adoption of Solar Power, would just in turn drive down costs, increase reach and awareness, and in a way, no one could push solar power that easily on others before kickstarter. So except for this, I agree on majority of your article.
Data trumps everything
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This is a truly great experiment since it revisits something we've typically considered "solved". The current experience behaves a bit "jaggy" and slow but the core idea behind this is fantastic.

I would love to see where further iterations of magicscroll would go. Slightly disappointed by the extremely skeptical HN responses though...reminds me of the stuffy old science committee in Futurama.
Yeah, it doesn't work for me on Firefox 18 (Adblock and NoScript disabled)...
An easy to follow design course for programmers
http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/07/mnr...
Hey, that's what I just asked for!

No idea someone was working on this RIGHT THEN. You are my freaking hero.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018293
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Did you implement this based on my suggestion? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833793

If so, great!
For future reference and edification: "for all intensive purposes" => "for all intents and purposes."
I would not go so far to say evil. Horrible, maybe.
"Candidate is contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, and avoided answering all questions."

I know you're joking, and there is value to getting the interviewer to clarify the question and confirm assumptions.

But some of your responses ("define be") are nitpicky to the point of "this guy wouldn't be any fun to work with".
Contracts would still exist, as well as a few other rules, but for the most part there wouldn't be things like a salary cap.

European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top without a huge amount of outside revenue.

Pro sports leagues in North America tend to operate as a monopoly, allowed because they have a union to balance it out. That's why both the NHL and NBA settled their lockouts right before the unions were able able to de-certify (NHL) or file an anti-trust (after decertifying in the NBA) lawsuit.
This is super. Nice work.
Also, don't you think wages would be higher without unions? The collective bargaining is allowing professional sports owners to suppress all salaries. If there were no unions/collective bargaining, at the very least, the top players would immediately start to see much much bigger contracts. No sure if the journeyman player would benefit as much.
I fear that as the practice of medicine is increasingly centralized and depersonalized, such quaint questions as "what would be cost-effective?" and "what would be good for the patient?" will be made increasingly irrelevant. The rest of the software industry should carefully consider this case before emulating the "lobbyists as salespeople" model.
Your approach is more or less what happens in world soccer. Clubs like PSG or Manchester United essentially purchase their championships. Libertarianism doesn't make for very interesting games or teams.

I think sports leagues could do with a little less privatization and a little more Green Bay.
my local cops use facebook. they put up photos that place armed violent offenders alongside people who are late paying fines, and others who have not been convicted of anything. Sometimes there is an 'innocent until guilty' disclaimer, or a note saying they may be witnesses, not criminals.

someone usually replies with recent CCTV images of them beating an innocent man to death ...

Yes I think it's mostly PR. Our local force have certainly been capitalising on the mordich media's reality show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiwWwcUvY30
I'm so happy for you that you're almost allowed to take a cookie.

Speaking seriously, my desktop PC will beat up your T420. I can't imagine doing work (writing code) on laptops with their degenerate keyboards.
And for the rest you have desktops.

I don't know how you inferred I have any Apple products but actually I don't and never had. I think you just have problems with logic.
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This is a lockout and not a strike, for one. Two 'free market principles rather than monopolies' - monopolies and free market principals are synonymous. They are not in opposition to one another (except in libertarian-land).
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Well, the particular systems that have been proposed might not be that cost effective, but it doesn't mean, that to pursue for a cheaper more effective electronic record is wrong. Putting things in google drive might be quite safe in most ways, but it would still effect patient privacy in long run, mainly because each year millions of accounts are unlawfully accessed due to guessed or phished passwords. Doctors included, as at the end of the day they are still humans.
You don't understand logic.
Look: if I don't understand why people buy non-Apple non-netbooks, means that I may understand why people buy either non-Apple netbooks or Apple non-netbooks (for the aluminium case)
I usually post up at MIT. They have some cafes open to the public and have blazingly fast internet.
This is an absolute waste of time to even consider. First of all, you can't have a website with significant traffic and no revenue unless you explicitly make it that way, like Twitter. However, Twitter had lots of funding which made that possible, and even still, I'm sure they made some money even though they weren't serving up sponsored tweets.

Why don't you tell your friend to put 3 AdSense units on the website and you'll take all of that revenue in exchange for your work + 5% of the option pool that vests in 1 year?

It seems like you have stars in your eyes and are being almost completely taken advantage of. Even the scrappiest of start-ups that are worth your while will pay you a salary + options.
As Pete Doherty wrote - You know twice as much as nothing at all. It's still nothing at all....
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