skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I can imagine a freelancer pirating in that scenario, but if you're working for a company a) they usually have a strict policy against pirate software b) they'll probably already have a site license for the front-end guys' copies.
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Financially I do not think this is a great deal.

Emotionally its probably what many devs need.

Accelerators, meetups, co-founders, all serve the same need. Believing that the idea has at least one person who believes in it, and prods you to move on.

That said, this is probably a bad split - hmexx might be better to decide if he is an investor (early stage) or a co-founder -> if the latter then really its just one company - you cannot be a founder of two companies at the same time...
PSIRT advisory on this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/csa/cisco-sa-20130109-ui...
I think this is worth it if you would be a good co-founder in any case. That means you are really putting in 8000 for not working the first two months, and then work the same amount as the other founder.

However if putting in 8000 is the only thing you do, then it's a horrible idea. Putting in more money, maybe.

This is the perspective of someone in the Bay Area though. 5000 is easily saved/spent here.

You can find someone else cheaper, but likely would have to communicate remotely. That increases your risk too.
I just logged in to Cloud Player: "We've added 1084 songs from AutoRip CD purchases for free."
IOS layout helper, no more hair pulling in ScrollViews
Maybe it is not, but if it's one-click and time saving people would pay for it. For the same reason they pay for things like soccer match results via SMS or $0.99 shopping list app for their iPhone.
If you don't understand what "virtual machine" means in this context, why are you posting?
Regarding the performance of C, it is interesting to note that although hardly anyone does it, Java, for example, can still be very very low-level if you want.

You can still allocate a gigantic primitive array (say of Java 32-bits integers) and mess with it, including doing bit-trickery, etc. and that is amazingly fast.

When people want the uttermost speed in Java, they dodge objects as much as they can to prevent too much GC'ing.

For example that is how the people behind the amazing LMAX disruptor "pattern" (hardly a "pattern" in the OO sense) manage to handle, on a single thread, to process about 12 millions events... Per second. In Java.

"Thankfully" Java still allows to create a gigantic primitive array and to directly mess inside that array.
I think it takes more than productive say, to make your life better, like what you do, where you go, how you do it. Then there is motivation, people don't always 'want' to say whats productive (or something that makes something better).

Also, its about perception, a lot of times, what you think will not be of any good, might have been a input someone was looking for, like you saw someone five minutes ago, and your talking to her boyfriend (your buddy for example) who just made her upset, but you don't know that, and he has been looking for her like crazy, and obviously since you don't know that either, you think it won't make his life better, when it would actually do (lol)
It's funny, because developers do this sort of thing all the time for much less equity.

Startup: Hey, come work here for below market salary for 5% that vests over 4 years
Dev: Sounds rad!

This guy: Hey, work on your own project for 50%, and you only have to work on is the MVP for a month, and I'll pay you sort of crappy but probably better than other people in other fields.
HN Devs: You. fucking. bastard.
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Yes we have three implementations of this, and they mostly work but only some of the time :)

Problems: in a lot of dim rooms, the monitor is the main light source, and some webcams have terrible auto white balance. If you're on a Logitech camera it's totally easy, and if you're on a cheap netbook, it's awful. Still, you can solve all that, and we probably will ship a version of this soon.
Underground Gambling on When Cancer Patients Will Die Exposed
Given the recent forbes article on bitcoin gambling[1], I thought this article provides an example of an incredibly negative edge case scenario when anonymity meets gambling.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5031998
That's a really good question. I don't have a data-driven answer. I think that its a mix, to be honest - you have to have grit to get through education in the US, and success comes via grit quite often. But you can have grit and not an education.
Things I wish I knew as a computer science major
The cash dispenser part is probably just a black box with a simple interface that accepts a message to "dispense some amount of cash" and that can respond "request failed" or "request succeeded". It may even have no concept of inventory and just knows that it tried to dispense X bills and it only got X-1 of them.

Yes, it could have a query function added, and yes the GUI could dynamically respond to that, but it's a bit of an edge case since the assumption is that the ATM is well stocked if it's got mixed bills.
I think you are being a bit too used to the iPhone experience. For instance, for me the example on the camera app is very intuitive, specially because the image animates out of screen in that direction so it looks pretty natural to me.

I came from iPhone 3G, and an Android 2.1 before having a Lumia 900 (which I lost) and now a Lumia 920. I have to say that the windows phone experience was the most pleasant to me. Probably since I had worked with all them in a daily basis before that I am not specifically attached to anyone.

I am agreed that 920 doesn't feel like a mainstream phone because the form factor, but it is good enough for the "experiment"/bet that they are doing. If this generation would sell decent I think we would see a lot of 92x where people would choose the model that fixes better to them.
>Nokia's growth is being limited a lot by WP's own growth right now

According to Nokia they can't manufacture enough to satiate demand (components supply constriction). So even if they had chosen Android, they'd have the same unit sales. "Mr. Elop said the company has experienced supply problems, as certain mobile components have been in short supply, both for Nokia and other phone makers." Unless some of the unavailable components are WP-only, this is the main issue.
tldr - By going vegetarian at first, the Mars colony accumulates usable biomass faster.

(Also, the "Up on the Farm" chapter of this book is a good background read for this discussion: http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/colonies_chap0... )

The thing to remember here, is that, as Feynmann says, plants make themselves out of air! < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE > Go back to your basic biology education and remember the formula for photosynthesis. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis >

So a Mars colony's farms are basically chemical solar collectors doing two things: 1) providing chemical energy to the colonists (food) and 2) Converting Martian CO2 and water into biomass. If you introduce too many warm blooded animals into the system, a lot of your energy input gets wasted as livestock body heat. So by going vegetarian at first, the Mars colony accumulates usable biomass faster. The faster you accumulate biomass, the faster you can make more biomass.

This is also the principle behind the tactic of mostly making construction vehicles at first in Starcraft, or concentrating early on customer acquisition in a startup.
The first feeding of the day both you and the baby want to bond. By the fourth, the baby just wants to download milk from the bottle into her tummy as fast as possible and you want to veg out on the Internet. :)
That's true.

Another thing to note is that including numbers in titles also attracts more clicks. On our business blog, we've had varying success with that, though.

Good luck with the blog! :)
You probably aren't the only one who hates videos, but there are certainly studies done on the effectiveness of video from many aspects (marketing + advertising + engagement in specific here).

This platform isn't necessarily pigeonholed into using it for product features either.

I have heard some very interesting ideas of how this platform can be used.. A reporter I am talking with has said they would love to use this for a form of feedback engine on their content.

It can be used for crowdsourcing product development ideas to your consumers, allowing them to have some impact on the brands they enjoy.

Like how in the past Starbust's the candy allowed people to choose the new color they added to the pack, is an example of something that could be easily done on CrowdEngage.
The Eurozone is only 17 countries out of Europe's 50 countries. We're talking a combined population that's less than half of Europe's total population. So no, I don't think it's a fair comparison.
How Quora sent us 82.10% of our visitors
> Consumers don't know about or care about Android. "Normal" people do not go into a store looking for an Android.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Android is a well-known brand these days, and many people recognize the difference between smartphone OSes.
Nokia Admits to Decrypting Secure User Data But Denies Spying
well the thing is, it also works for std::vector<string>, or std::vector<int>, or anything you want. Last time I checked in C you'd have to either duplicate all your array code for each type or resort to something like void*. Only for that I'd use C++ (yes, you can use it without classes if you want).
It may be less confusing to say "C's underlying model of computation".
A very old version of it, yes. I had to hack a few features into it that, at the time, didn't exist yet: modifying browser URL so you can link to a specific picture, and a custom Flickr plugin since it all draws from collections in my Flickr account.

I really should update.
Yawn. Physical access is a joke compared to what you can sniff out of an unencrypted call (all audio, SIP registrations, etc) if you can get in the middle of the network, regardless of manufacturer.
I'll have to read more about the memory references to get a feel for that.

However it speaks of a compiler for ALGOL... it was compiled down to machine instructions. Assembly is just a representation of machine instructions, so I don't see how it can be said to not have an assembly language.

Maybe nobody ever bothered to write an assembler, but that doesn't mean that it somehow directly executes ALGOL.

Thanks for your replies, you have given me some food for thought.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems_instruc...
Client-side (browser-plugin) only:

Java in the browser (applets, web start) runs in a plugin which is supposed to have a strong sandbox to prevent applications from doing things like touching files or controlling your window manager without your permission.

On the server (or invoked from the commandline/jar), the security policy is much looser and there's no sandboxing (outside of what the OS and interpreter prevent).
Health insurance rate hikes. Why so surprised?
Ask HN: Could someone theoretically write a Rails server patching worm?
Theoretically, how effective could a Rails server-borne worm be at patching servers without disrupting the majority of them?

Keep in mind worm deployment (even "good" worms) is illegal and has a history of causing more damage than good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm#Worms_with_good_intent
Which language has EURO as EBPO? Must be one of the new ones.
Similar idea/concept in Portland as well: http://www.portlandcodeschool.com/program.html

And yes, we have way more jobs for most types of positions than programmers available.
Have no idea how this works with github, was lost in the interface and I removed this less than 10 minutes of use.
It also has to do with the type of people that program in FORTRAN. They often have backgrounds more grounded in Maths or Physics than computers. I don't think the GNU compiler had much to do with it because people using FORTRAN are more likely to be using something else (we use Solaris Studio where I work).
Upvoting just for sheer fascination's sake.
What if the person isn't a techie, and doesn't necessarily need to build a product, but just needs to take time out to build the business?
please please if you give users the control, please let them also allow completely free and open sharing. that way random interested hackers can play with the data for random weekend projects and the like.
WAN Optimization best practices - blog post
No, it does not do the same thing, Apple doesn't sell CDs.
This flags a design flaw, perhaps in mysql_connect. If a warning is trivial enough that it's reasonable to silence, it shouldn't exist. Otherwise, it's not reasonable to silence it!

I find it hard to believe that this is actually considered acceptable.
I thought the major point is that it's a "high level" language, high enough that a compiler can do serious optimizations. Read Fran Allen's interview in Coders at Work, she despairs of writing efficient compilers/programs in C because it's so low level.

Now, sometimes you need that low level access, but C is used way beyond those niches.
We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders. - you must be trolling?)

How would you like to become equal to the years of thinking and trying by just throwing some money?
I've asked the same question. I would guess the same vulnerability would be present but only exploitable if a Java app that you run somehow contains or downloads the malicious code. But any server/desktop app you run probably already has enough vectors to exploit your system.
I'd take you up on the offer, but for a couple things. Maybe it just means this isn't for me.

1 - That 50 - 50 split is a killer when I'm doing most of the work.
2 - You talk about taking a month or two and full time working on this project until completion. Trust me when I say I'd love to do that, the issue is I can't just go jump back into the same job as if I didn't ditch everyone here for two months.

Like I said this is probably just not for me, but those are two things you may want to consider for version 1.1.
The USA has a birth rate just barely above replenishment (and dropping), Europe has dropped below replenishment rate, etc.

Some pretty graphs here: http://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/2776214.html
Given the way that LLVM has come onto the scene, I'm not sure I'd agree. C defines assumptions in the programming environment and does not guarantee that it at all resembles the underlying hardware. You are never coding to the hardware (unless you are doing heinous magic), you're coding to C. That's a "virtual machine" to me.

The concept of C as a virtual machine isn't new (I first heard it around 2006 or so? I don't think it was new then) and it's much more descriptive than referring to its "model of computation".
I really like this idea.

It removes the risk for the developer to just 'build' (which is ultimately what they enjoy doing) and also shifts the key responsibility for the initial marketing / customer acquisition away from the developer (which is often what they either don't enjoy doing or suck at).

After this phase, either the idea is a success, the developer gets paid and a mvp is now a business hopefully with profit (for both parties involved) or the idea was not a success and the developer still gets paid some money.

If you have a world changing idea and you've quit your job with a plan to start a start up - that's fine. This probably isn't the right opportunity for you - try Y Combinator or go in search of real funding once you've built a self financed MVP.

However, if you're a developer with a niggling idea that you keep meaning to work on because you know it could turn into something bigger or you just don't feel confident in your own marketing / customer (or user) acquisition skills then this is a really great opportunity!

I've literally missed so many opportunities before, where I've had an idea - not executed it due to no short term monetary reward or no confidence that I could market it correctly and then watched as a start up is formed a year or two later by someone else which was essentially that idea!
Yes and no... on one hand, I'm at times frustrated by the app selection, on the other hand, every day I look at the Marketplace, some other app is there (and I realize I miss less and less yet another app I had on my iPhone).

On the /third/ hand, I find myself more and more tempted to download VS2012 every day and do some development of my own.
You may like Rust (disclaimer: I work on Rust). You get the choice of manual or automatic memory management, but no matter which you choose you don't sacrifice safety. The language is simpler than C++ but can be about as fast as idiomatic C++ and supports a bunch of higher-level features like closures and generics.
I hope you can recover soon enough to continue following your dreams.
Nice. But I wish Amazon would start a trade-in program (similar to Apple). I have CDs from way back when and I'd like to able to get MP3 versions of those CDs. I'm happy to send the CDs to Amazon and have then replace them with MP3s on my cloud player. How about that for a business idea?!

edit: Apple doesn't have this but they do convert MP3s you upload to legal versions. Unsure if Amazon provides this as well.
Also, while I realize it is easy to rip and upload, I just don't have the time to do this. I don't think it is worth paying someone to do this either. I'd rather Amazon take this up.
Isn't the $8k to build it enough to justify a 50-50 split? We're talking about ideas that would otherwise never see the light of day.
No, it does not. This is non-news. Agreed, nobody uses that anymore, nobody should.
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No. Gimp recently - or by now some time ago - defined their target group and work with a HCI-expert to get the software in shape for them. The target users are pretty much professional users (or "for intense use", like they put it), see http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/User_Scenarios and http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing.

Casual users are no longer the target.
I'm in, have many iPhone app ideas (businesses) that only need funding so I can allot time.
How can we reach you?
http://www.giacomoballi.com/apps
Sheeeeit.

Is there a quick way to fix this problem for sites running older versions of Rails? I can't be the only one who is in that situation. Frankly, provided it leaves some version of the website online, I'm OK with losing some functionality, even.
One man's nonsense overhead is another's labour-saving modern convenience ;)

(I like to write my code without heap allocations, but when you need an array of arrays of strings, indexed by another string, it doesn't half get a bit annoying to code up.)
Binary search trees cannot be implemented in 5 (reasonably-wide) lines of C.
If C makes use of a virtual machine, then why we have to recompile it for every new machine/platform?
Actually, most schemes for missions to Mars involve some kind of in-situ fuel manufacture. It's already been demonstrated, and the technology actually is from the industrial revolution.
Just checked and it looks like I can download the tracks to my PC or device for the songs that were added just like anything else in my Cloud Player.
Do you think 4.5 months salary is a tax-free alternative?
Maybe it's part because of psychological politics.

The market leader (that is, Apple/iOS; the numbers are irrelevant, they feel they're the leader today) is usually hostile to number 2 but friendly to number 3. While number 2 is usually hostile to number 3 - look how Google tries to bully WP.

(For example, MS used to bash Linux but kind of threw a bone to FreeBSD)

And this translates from companies to companies' customers.
You are, however, dealing with pointers, memory deallocation, the bit widths of integers, etc. C as a high level language is a questionable idea.
We use it at the agency I work at. The developers all use Linux (2 as 'main os', 2 via VMs on their windows 7 & os x boxes). We use GIMP to take what are finished designs produced in Photoshop CS6 & CS3 and make the assets for our sites and applications out of it from the designers exported PNGs.

One of us (the windows user) has a copy of CS6 which if needs be he can use to make any minor amends before exporting out PNGs etc. If a designer has forgotten to export out a certain layer on it's own too - that sorta thing. For everything that _we_ need to do - (eg cropping out, making sprites, minor color amends, some blending) it is absolutely perfect and just as good as Adobes offering in that regard.

I would go so far as to say the selection tools are actually _much better_ than in photoshop. I find selection transformation a lot more intuitive and easier to do in Gimp.

As an added bonus we've saved ourselves at least £3,000 at last count on license fees. I have also found as a side affect that because we can't open the PSDs there and then (usually), we're more likely to get totally complete assets from the design team that we can get to work with. Beforehand we'd just get dumped on with several PSDs as is.

We have applied a similar workflow when it comes to office documents too - making heavy use of Libreoffice for all but a few users that really do need to edit and send out docx "exactly".

Finally, for what it's worth I have never seen the big deal about it's UI either. It follows the same sort of paradigms as many graphics tools so I've never saw that as a barrier to use. I appreciate you aren't suggesting this at all, I always saw the "Gimp is for amateurs or is rubbish compared to Photoshop" argument as arrogance or snobbery. Especially in office environments - I think (some) people associate the cost of the PS license with a validation of their skill.
I saw the title, but I had to look it up.
Thanks for a though-out comment. I particularly agree with your conclusion:

>after dealing with senior business execs for a long while, I feel IT-as-is is untenable. without a rethink, the abject hatred that many business people have towards IT will grow and rogue systems will flourish.

At one of my former jobs, the CEO hated IT, and didn't hesitate to let us know it, either. I was told through the grapevine that he felt it was the one area of the company he couldn't control.

Fantastic response, and I do defer to your more extensive experience :)
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Ah OK. I have a 30" monitor so for me there was no CTA visible for only a tiny fraction of the page. As far as the carrousel is concerned, ideally you should just A/B-test what works of course.

Concerning the business model I just wanted to say that I feel the biggest opportunity in this area is actually for a site where you can just send all your digital correspondence and have it either stored or processed by a bookkeeper.

You can combine that with a service that will receive all your mail and digitize it for you or offer a discount on a Fujitsu ScanSnap (doable for yearly plans e.g.) and have the scans sent straight to your service.

In the Netherlands Yuki gets close but their UI is bad and costs are too steep to also send non financial documents there.
Not sure why you got down-voted so much, it didn't seem like you were being ridiculous. Maybe people didn't like when you equated the OP with a loan shark? That said sometimes people need loan sharks.
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The remote KVM facilities for my VPS host requires it and some web launchable VPN systems seem to require either Java or ActiveX.
In my opinion, it really depends on the brightness of your monitor(s).

My iMac screen is rated at 350 nits, a.k.a. super-bright, so when Flux kicks in, I don't mind it if I'm working on that screen.

On the other hand, my 2nd monitor is an el-cheapo Samsung I bought before I cared what "nits" meant, and is rated at 250 nits -- a significant difference.

My typical workspace at night is, left screen (iMac) holds the browser where I view changes, and the right screen (Samsung) has my code editor.

So when f.lux kicks in... my options are one of two things:
- disable it
- buy a new monitor

Guess which one I go for?