skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DevOps: manage servers from your iPhone in a few touches
I couldn't agree more. I've sorta kept my mouth shut on the issue as HN has fallen all over itself eulogizing this guy as some type of martyr but good God, he pulled the trigger on himself.
Why? What improved?
Actually, California's budget is balanced and it expects a surplus in two years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/us/california-balances-its...
Shove them (States) in between a rock and a hard place, and they pretty much run out of options. Not surprising.
Taxes have zero impact on my decision to start a company in California.
God knows something to ease the closing tag verbosity would make XML at least twice as useable. I wonder if there's anything in the grammar that would conflict with </> as a closing tag? I'm almost tempted to muck with libxml and add it for personal use.
You don't know much about Vancouver if you think this is a realistic possibility.

Vancouver, BC has barely any tech industry (a few software companies like Business Objects, and EA Sports are up there, but nothing meaningful), and the taxes are high. British Columbia has one of the highest tax rate in Canada. One of my Canadian friends told me that the 50% marginal tax rate started around $65k, although I haven't double-checked this for accuracy.

You can't compete between Washington State, with no state income tax, and Vancouver, BC.
And Detroit... oh, wait - Western Michigan. Should be a new state.
Ask HN: What do you think about the new MySpace?
http://new.myspace.com (it has just launched)
Lean Entrepreneur Sweepstakes
I wasn't lambasting you, and I wouldn't ever regret posting a snippet. It helps drive the conversation.

I understand and agree with Boost injecting a whole lot of dependencies, and for a small testing library or executable I would probably got the same route that you did. I'm also a pedantic const nazi at times, and merely replied back as it makes me feel that, in some else's code, they may find this useful.

If you take a look at the Doom3 code there are even places where they stray from the code style guide when it makes sense. I'm more of a proponent of "in the moment" styling to make sure that it matches the rest of the project, or at the very least, component that I am working on.
"Hire for fit, not code completion" is a great quote.
The Death of PC?
I believe the sticking point was being labeled a felon, not the jail time. Being a felon in the US is a Big Deal, and pretty much relegates you to permanent lower-classes [0]. Aaron also seemed big on moral integrity, and it's probably hard to reconcile admitting guilt to something you don't believe is morally wrong. "Live free or die" is a phrase with deep roots in our nation's history, for example.

0: from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony#United_States):

The consequences convicted felons face in most states include:

Disenfranchisement (which the Supreme Court interpreted to be permitted by the Fourteenth Amendment)
Exclusion from obtaining certain licenses, such as a visa, or professional licenses required in order to legally operate (making many vocations off-limits to felons)
Exclusion from purchase and possession of firearms, ammunition and body armor
Ineligibility for serving on a jury
Ineligibility for government assistance or welfare, including being barred from federally funded housing
You mean copyrighted files produced with public funding which should have never been put in private lockers in first place? How's this not context?
And plugging a pc in an ethernet port doesn't seem to me to be a crime worth neither 6 months or 35 years. In fact, doesn't seem to be more than something worth a small fine, depending on circumstances.

Perhaps not an everyday thing, but far from being something programmers don't do often, i.e. automate something.
Although I don't have any qualms with the subject matter, the manner in which articles like these are presented make me wanted to gag. They are obviously titled and worded to attract link-bait attention.

Don't tell me what mistakes I will make. You don't know me or my business, nor can you read the future. Why not, "Potential pitfalls to avoid as an entrepreneur in 2013".
Not really. At most, we should give incentives to those who marry and have children.
The original Babylon Translator, with the One Click Translation of words in the screen was a very nice and useful product. It's a pity that they pivoted to the toolbar crapware thing.
Be Awesome at Online Business (my new ebook is out today with a 23% discount).
I get the impression you haven't read the article - it's about how to choose a developer, not how to attract one.

It's also funny to hear one nameless derp giving out advice while saying you shouldn't hear the other ;)
I've been throw into the gulags and tortured at least 5 times while living in NY

Seriously, stop going to bars around Times Square. You should know better by now.
Indeed. Avoid eastern Michigan. Western Michigan is like a totally different state.
OK, for next major!
Being Overtaken and Market Cannibalization
A cohort of reasonable voters? You just keep racking up reasons to move there...
CPA = "Cost Per Action". Think of Cost Per Click advertising, except that instead of the publisher being paid when someone clicks on the ad, they're paid when the user takes a specific action (eg installing software, signing up for a newsletter, subscribing to a magazine etc).
Ask HN: Whats the next step after prototype?
For years, I've been meticulously designing a web app in my head. After numerous failed attempts at finding a developer who could realize my 'vision', I took the plunge last year and began teaching myself php/web design and development.

A year later, I'm sitting on a nearly-functional prototype of a next-gen message board, utilizing all the fancy bells and whistles of web 2.0.

It still has a long way to go, but concerning demonstration purposes, it works.

As I stated, I knew nothing about programming till a year ago, and at this stage, I must admit that I know nothing about start-ups.

And that's how I found this site.

As such, I would really appreciate some answers from experienced professionals who know of the many pitfalls that surround start-ups, and who could offer some advice on things new entrepreneurs might not think about.

I've googled for various tips, and while most are good reads, they are a little too broad to really help me understand what I am up for.

Without further adieu:

1. Whats the best way to find partners, or help.

I have been developing my web app in my spare time by myself. I have some programmer friends whom I have shared the idea with, but their conviction is lacking and they can never really commit to a project, especially one that isn't their own idea.

I have read in many places that meetups are a great way to find partners. However, this brings me to a different question...

2. How should one initiate a partnership proposal?

How do you sell your idea? Are NDA's commonplace? Where can you find a good write-up for a start-up NDA? Should you incorporate? What if this person turns out to be bad news.

#2 ended up being a lot of questions, so I'll leave it at that.

All in all, the summary of this thread is essentially asking how one moves from 'prototyping' to 'perfecting' in a timely manner. Whats the best way to 'sell' your idea while taking as little risk as possible.

Thanks to all for the read.
The Phoenix Project: A Review
Ed Bellis reviews Gene Kim's book, The Phoenix Project.
It's an older torrent which you can download here: https://tpb.ipredator.se/torrent/8014584/R.I.P._Aaron_Swartz...
Maybe a global Internet-based hackathon? It seems that we are split among the whole World.
Texas isn't too shabby either. Plus, fewer natural disasters means less downtime.
I have this weird issue with job interviews. It really, really weird because I get very nervous. My mind goes blank, and I can't even write FizzBuzz. Now, if I'm interviewing for a freelance contract, then I'm a Super Programmer, answerer[1] of all tough questions. I answer the most complex questions with ease, and write code on the spot without problems. Strange.

I got the "If you don't get this simple thing, I don't believe you'll understand anything more complex." line once. Turns out, I'm now building the platform that company will use to sell their products. Ha!

[1]Not a real word.
Europe's healthcare has nothing at all to do with "the spot they're in". The spot is due exclusively to short-sighted compromises in the structure of the Eurozone - the idea was to get into cheap markets and it paid off great for Germany, but now they have to pay the bill the voters are balking.

But no, the Canadian healthcare system is not going to pull you under.
The Justice Department is not intrinsically evil, they are the antagonist in this story though.

Understand that Aaron's story is a classic Greek Tragedy, I'm sure that at this very moment some playwright/screenwriter is putting together a treatment of the form:

Act I: The boundless potential of unlimited talent in youth

Act II: The conflict of passion and righteousness over the injustice of broken copyright law. Climaxing in the arrest.

Act III: The pain of our hero being buried under a system too inured to the reality of the situation to distract it from its mission, and Aaron's death.

It has Oscar/Pulitzer written all over it. And if it can move the nation to change, like the novel To Kill a Mockingbird did, then Aaron's death won't be in vain.

The Justice Department is in the role of bad guy/antagonist in this play. They were the unwilling heroes in the antitrust action against Microsoft, and the before that the enforcement of civil rights laws. So they are equally capable of being 'put' in either role.
I have to say, I envy you.
I attempted it pretty well in the last post, maybe you missed it.

Free software costs money to host and maintain. If you want to break even, you need some long-tail income source to cover hosting, etc.

That was a full sentence, happy?

People who release free software are often not hustlers. Hell, if they had business sense, maybe they'd make it a paid product. If you don't feel comfortable asking for money in exchange for your software, ads and bundled installs offer a much lower friction way to cover your costs. Charging 99 cents for a desktop app is ridiculous right now, although maybe the windows and mac app stores will change that. Either way, collecting a few dollars per user directly is a huge pain in the ass.

If these companies did what they're supposed to do, it'd be more about discovery, and less about shoving downloads down your throat. I had this argument about IVRs yesterday; how do you make a good product in a field people hate? If everyone shouts down the notion of an IVR, who's going to bother making a good one? If everyone is automatically against bundled downloads, the best, least sleazy company in the world wouldn't stand a chance.
Ironically enough, IIRC PG was one of pioneers of spam filtering.
and you can't legally buy a Big Gulp. Seriously, and city/county/state govt that would do that, you can't trust them with your livelihood.
Hadn't heard of Lamarr before, thanks for the link. I don't think Lovelace suffers from any lack of recognition, though.
They might just do some sort of mining on the messages. I imagine it'd be simple enough to pick out conversations setting up a meeting and then just measure if the messages continue after that or not.
http://www.care2.com/causes/aaron-swartz-faced-a-more-severe...
Looking at a 50 yr prison sentence with depression, I'm not so sure anymore.
Does 'spherical cow' make you think 'bloated bovine'?
The bankers I know work on giant clusters of much more modern things. I can't imagine the banks aren't moving to something more like that for processing nightlies.
The same is true of another great movie, Citizen Kane. It invented many elements of the modern movie (cinematographer Gregg Toland's contributions especially -- http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/depth-of-field-gregg...), but since those elements have all become standard parts of mainstream filmmaking they don't shock audiences they way they did when it came out in 1941.
Help me with CPA; it's not certified public accountants. Is it cost per action?
Why is it that they've lasted as long as they have? They offer so little to the end-user.
I know this article is focused on the business level, but I'm finding this to be true on a personal level as well. Contributing to open source not only leads to personal improvement but it essentially creates a public portfolio of your work. This can lead to more exposure which in turn can lead to more opportunities (and better paid ones too).

Open Source might not yield immediate benefits (i.e a paycheck) like say freelancing, but it is an investment in your future.
I am in São Paulo.

Oh, Sebrae do not help much, they ask too much stuff, you might run out of money before they ever decide to help, usually those that get help from Sebrae are from agricultural stuff or they have "friends" there.
Live from Facebook's 'see what we're building' event
Our now-dead app got absolutely slaughtered in the ratings (IMHO rightly) simply over our use of Facebook auth. Took forever for our ratings to rebound to this[0]

[0] http://monosnap.com/image/ULCknIobEcO6KarrfxwmHdHJC
I understand that some details should be kept secret, but it would be nice to read a blog post about this.
It pops a modal dialog saying that if you cancel the software won't get to be installed. I don't have a screenshot handy, but I get the feeling it was worded a bit verbosely to prevent people from guessing the correct of the two buttons to actually stop the install. If you pick the right button, your default browser gets force-directed to a page on their site to either a) re-start the download and install process or b) send a message to their CS team so that they can assist you with installing it. (I've got to admit, that is crafty, since you can presumably do the entire thing automatically.)
Success by creating great value
Have you given any thought to ArchBang? Seems ideal for your situation. It's Arch with a default configuration so that you don't have to edit any files and it installs as easily as Ubuntu.
Yep, shoot an email to science-liberation-front+subscribe@googlegroups.com and you'll get a feed of interesting hacks and projects. Hopefully this will catalyze some scrapers during the hackathons.

https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front
IE8 is almost 4 years old. I think in another couple of years market share will easily be under 5%.

Sure, people on XP can't upgrade to another IE, but they can install Chrome, Firefox or Opera. In the corporate world, admins will upgrade to something else when they have to. With a little nudging maybe they'll have to sooner than later.
The "produced with public funding" thing is a total red herring. The train I ride to work is partially funded by taxes. Does that mean I should refuse to pay for my ticket?
We use KVM and ECC RAM. And yes, you can install and run your own kernel. =]

Really?

I opened ticket 4740 and got the following response:

We currently do not offer a way to update or change the server kernel.

We often build up our features based on user requests. You can submit and

vote for features you would like to here:

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean

Thanks,

Etel
That's very interesting. I had been wondering whether they were hiding matches from me for the 'attractiveness' matching; empirically it seemed unlikely.

Are you saying that, if I never use 'Special Blend', I am unaffected by the attractiveness-matching system?
Perhaps defined-benefit retirement plans should not be in the public sector since they haven't been in the vast majority of the private sector for quite some time.
I would recommend reaching out to http://clarity.fm/home if you want expert advice.

As for peer group I see it in 2 ways:
1. You know the people but don't have a weekly/etc. meeting
2. People who you don't know but working on building a product/company

Another thought would be more of a mastermind group. Limit it to 10 people or something and focus on weekly meetings to encourage everyone to get things done. What did you do last week, what are you planning to accomplish, etc.

Just a thought
Apple Needs More Than One iPhone To Compete
According to this, it's pretty comparable to the US if you live in California. Higher than the US if you live in Washington under their current tax laws.

http://2vancouver.com/en/articles/vancouver-bc-taxes-on-inco...
Because often applications need to be able to read and write files that have been created by other programs.

Some programs also have features which add functionality to other applications.
Sometimes this can be useful , in cases such as lastpass and dropbox but other times they can be bad in cases such as spyware.
37signals Incoming Transmission Issue #01
Completely false. Like much of the rest of Bill of Rights, the second amendment has been incorporated (see Chicago vs McDonald), and thus held to apply to the states.

It slightly irritates me when people say this, because usually those people have no problem accepting that other amendments that they hold to be more important (e.g, the 1st) apply to the states.
Today there's an outage, what would happen if tomorrow they decided to terminate all services?

Use an open-source PAAS like OpenShift or CloudFoundry to avoid vendor lock-in and give yourself the ability to run your application on your own servers if necessary.

Same thing applies to Heroku et al.
>>>> That said - if the authorities consider the rehabilitation to have failed, and the criminal is still dangerous after his sentence is served, they can keep him locked up for another ten years.

Hmm... how that works I wonder? I.e. somebody can be kept in the prison forever even if original sentence was, say, 10 years? How do you know if one is rehabilitated or not? It's not like criminal psychopath would have any problem telling whoever is in charge any words they want to hear and present as "sincere" picture of rehabilitation as he'd be required to get out.

And how keeping somebody in prison for 10 years is not punishment?
I'm very curious how much Pixate differs from NUI.

I looked into doing something like this and it seems like a pretty straight forward idea. Map CSS properties to UIView properties. It felt like it was lot of brute force work. Creating a parser and some sort of renderer for every supported UIView seems like the majority of the work.
High taxes aren't an issue, since healthcare is free and there is a very strong social safety net.
The size of this is suspiciously equal to Greg Maxwell's release of the JSTOR archive of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Yes, the PDF scans of just those 18K documents are 33GB. I suspect Aaron's archive was far, far larger - and I similarly suspect that it really was destroyed, no matter how much Anonymous wants to count coup.
Not to be a buzz killer, but didn't JSTOR provide free access [1] to over 1,200 journals to the public days before Aaron committed suicide? You've got to register to get access, but that Anon release seems noobish.

[1] http://about.jstor.org/news/free-read

EDIT: And it's also a copy of an old torrent, pointed out by several others. Nothing to see here.
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Kies nu de goedkoopste autolening
That's what filters are for. For that of course users would need first meaningful (!) tools to curate their own content; instead of just throwing everything onto their profile in chronological order. Maybe some helpful default suggestions that can be renamed and deleted at will, like "status updates", "photos", "big events" or whatever. Even just that without any "subcategories" or "tags" would be enough for a lot of cases, and where it's not, you can put more effort into it.

Then it would still up to you as a "subscriber" to decide what of the things you're allowed to see you do want to see on a regular basis; it would generally be up to the user how lazy they want to be, and how much lazyness they want to tolerate in their inbox. Don't tell me it's hard before it was even tried?
Facebook announces 'Graph Search' to search its connections
we unfortunately don't have enough votes to influence their thinking on this. this is sleazy but not out of character for california. you can try shaming them with some media exposure (which is what you are embarking on) and hope it kinda works. good luck.
That reminds me so much of high school and college. I've had a rule of avoiding the shallow and manipulative types (of either gender), or at least minimizing my contact with them once I realize it. I've realized I don't have to put up with it. It has meant that some places are offlimits to me because I don't want the hassle, but the quality of the people I spend time with has improved.
I believe the poster is referring to Cuomo's press conference this morning (1/15) where he announced his intention to enact a ban on rifles, sales of rifles, ammunition, restrict magazine capacity and so on.

http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S2230-2013
liking these 'annual reports'. got one from warby parker this morning as well: http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-report-2012

seems like a valuable exercise for startups to take
To be fair, almost every modern Linux distro does provide some GUI for package management. In ubuntu you can either search the software store and click "Install" or download a .deb, double click it and click "Install".

It's just that experienced users tend to find the command line versions quicker and easier.
Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar, "Graph Search"
Already did. :)
I guess the way I see it is this. I imagine most startups don't have much profit, so therefore they won't pay much in taxes. If you are making a lot of profit and paying a bit more in taxes, it seems like the system is working. If these people are selling millions of dollars in stock options and complaining about having to pay more taxes on them, I have a hard time having sympathy. I'd love for my biggest problem to be figuring out how much more in taxes I owe on all the millions of dollars I made.
I'm not sure I would recommend Texas either. Use tax means you pay annual taxes on everything you own, plus sales tax on any affiliate deals; franchise tax will hit you hard even if your not making a dime because it's based on 'net worth' and not on profit.

It's a tough place to be.
Here's one of my favourite opening lines (all right, make it paragraph!)

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one today and it would ne indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Master of Dodge City. It is the oldest hand gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designed task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it’s also probably the best hand-gun ever made.... When a Peacemaker Bullet hits your leg you fall to the ground unconscious, and if it hits your thigh bone and you are lucky to survive the torn arteries and the shock, then you will never walk again without crutches.. And so I stood motionless, not breathing, for the Peacemaker colt that started this unpleasant train of thought was pointed directly at my right thigh...[1][2]

---- Alistair MacLean, when 8 bells toll

[1] http://jimalexanderwriting.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/first-li...

[2] http://docmo.hubpages.com/hub/Writing-Tips-1-Seven-Hooks-to-...
The perception of your actions is all influential
Thanks for the tip. I made 151 on verbal and 167 on quantitative reasoning. You think I should work more and try again?
"There is also an ongoing petition to fire assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann, also connected with the events that led to the tragic suicide of prodigy Aaron Swartz. That petition has yet to reach its goal." https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...