skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly -- it's a product with a loyal following, but not necessarily significant... and when you work on the scale of Google, a few million people (or even a few dozen) does not move the needle for them
I always examine PRECISELY how much (money), the firm in question will profit by my input. Then after nailing that down as closely to accurate as I can possibly do...I currently charge on a Contractual Basis 33 and 1/3rd percent of the ACTUAL projected profit they will make. There are the few rarest of folk that will be straight up with you and tell you EXACTLY how much your services will benefit them....tho not always dependable (even tho they will swear on a stack o Bibles and whatever else that they are being Truthful and Open with you...you cannot always count on it to be Honest. So, bottom line is; do your homework, figure out as closely as you can based on your personal knowledge of THEIR business Models as you can, and then charge accordingly....as I said before...currently my rate is 33 1/3 percent of anticipated profit.

As in ALL things, you will only get what YOU think YOU are worth....do not expect others to pay you a nickel more than what they believe YOU BELIEVE YOU are worth. Good Luck !!! Much Success.

Regards,
J
> Give them real life projects that you will use.

We do that. But we feel it is not enough to help people grow quickly. We are looking for ways to make the learning process as effective as possible.
A possible first step towards matching the broad ecosystem of their new chief competitors, Google Drive and Microsoft Skydrive. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them acquire an office app suite next.
No, they were pretty up front that Sparrow was a talent acquisition. They said that the product would continue to exist but they weren't going to update it and they were going to work on new projects at Google.
Big data best practice: Walmart is making big data part of its DNA
Isn't it what Amazon Market do? Downloading the apk, and notifying you that an update is ready?

But you have to allow untrusted sources installation in the security menu, and still have the installation screen (left screenshot in the article).

I don't see a problem, some games are downloading and updating their files too. If you don't trust the app, use FB website.
For everyone thinking Mailbox is getting Sparrowfied, there's good news:

To be clear, Mailbox is not going away. The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. Plus, imagine what cool things you could do if your Mailbox was connected to your Dropbox.

I'm so glad that Mailbox is going to stay alive. It has been just one month since I removed Sparrow and started using Mailbox mostly.
Did you not RTFA?

> " To be clear, Mailbox is not going away. The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. Plus, imagine what cool things you could do if your Mailbox was connected to your Dropbox…"
"The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. "

Why not do a funding round?
Lua 5.1 doesn't have this, which means I have to fake goto using what boils down to a switch statement. This is much less efficient.

Or he could just use tail calls and be done with it. I mean, that's the reason why the tail calls are there in the first place.
Are there any viable competitors to Google Docs err Drive and MS Office? Office is the feature powerhouse and Drive is lean and fast service, I haven't seen anything that can be acquired around!
For those who are interested in an alternative service check out Right Inbox. Lets you schedule emails in Gmail, allows tracking emails and setting reminders. http://www.rightinbox.com/
Acquihire? Not acquihire? Can't decide, this blog post is decidedly too party spirited.
Then don't complain. Either figure out what is new and point it out to start discussion on that, or just move on.
I love the promise of the internet. Nimble upstarts competing on a level playing field with huge corporations. A decentralized market without physical agency. More owners and more competition.

Then I read about stuff like this.
Dropbox Acquires Popular iOS mail client Mailbox
I did read the article. However we have heard things like that before so I'm a bit wary that 6 months down the line DB isn't going to reconsider and kill the mailbox platform.
That would be awesome, and it was our first idea, but it doesn't work.

It would draw direct issues - there are seedy massage providers out there offering sexual services under the guise of "massage".

So it's very dangerous to use the words "massage" and "happy" together. You'll start ranking on google for some very questionable queries.
Ask HN: Best way to gain dev experience - 'AppAcademy' or self-study?
What does HN recommend for people trying to become serious software developers as far as how to gain experience?

Are CodeSchool's/AppAcademy's worth it? Usually like 5-10k tutition for several weeks up to 3 months of class.

Or is self-study, with pet projects left behind in github, the better way to spend your time and money?

Thanks
"Huh. Hmm. Put a horizontal bar across the top. That's ok - maybe another one. That feature sounds great - it's horizontal bar can go right under the Google plus's."
Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate
I agree there is much more stuff than writing code.

> Teaching them the value of well organized source control and good commit notes goes a long way.

This is way too low level compared to what we are looking for. We want to find out how to help people learn quickly the basic values and principles that will enable then to proceed on the path towards learning how to build the right thing and how to build it right.

The question is not so much what to teach (there are great resources on that - Clean Code, Pragmatic Programmer, Effective Java, XP explained, ...) but how. And by how I mean little more concrete than "give them a mentor to help them" (we have tried that - but neither the mentor nor the mentee really know what to do).
not acquirehire. pretty clear

>>To be clear, Mailbox is not going away. The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. Plus, imagine what cool things you could do if your Mailbox was connected to your Dropbox.
Why doesn't he just ask the google reader staff?
Certain TLDs have restrictions on their use, and .ca is one of those.

Many registration authorities choose to let anyone buy their domains because it's a big source of income. Libya is one of those (or always used to be. Since the revolution it's been less clear).
Waiting for the accelerator bubble to pop
I hope dropbox builds on what Mailbox is currently doing. It would suck if mailbox just went away because Dropbox just wanted to get some more talent.
> Not sure if the acquisition makes strategic sense for Dropbox

I do - Dropbox isn't and doesn't want to be just a dumb, syncable file store. First your photos, now your email.
Carry them over from another product you've made in the past. I work for Appfluence, and we make Priority Matrix, and app for managers. Every time we build a new version (for a different platform), it's easier to get traffic, because some of the people that were using the app on the original platforms migrate to the new ones.

I realize this doesn't apply to everyone, but if you can use it, it's great. Zynga is the master of this, but network effects work at all levels. Even if you don't have another product, think of what other social circles you can tap into. Chances are you talk to potential early adopters on a regular basis.
Well I hope RSS does not become the Lexis Nexis service where only the privileged users with resources ($$) could access the information with ease.
This might be unexpected, but I can't see how it would violate any ToS. Google explicitly allows alternative app stores and side-loading apps. Even apps sold through the play store often have in-app purchases which significantly change the app functionality.

I think changing permissions after being installed is pretty odd. Other than that, this has been done before. The Battle for Wesnoth app is just a wrapper that downloads the real game after you install it.
You don't have to verify the code with gotos, you have to verify the translator. After all, if you were serious about this, you'd have to stop using most computers since they do actually run programs with JMPs in in.
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I don't find Drive to be particularly lean/fast -- it's been easier for me and my peers to work on content/formatting on Word than email it; Drive's lack of features is certainly not a proxy for being lightweight.

Drive's killer feature, though, is collaboration.
There is a world of difference between doing a cute vanity project that works for say 99% of the time but doesn't mean that they buckle down and do the hard work involved delivering a major publishers site.

Another example Google has a lot of smart people but they cant parse a robots.txt file with a BOM in it.
Show HN: Listen what you do at night project.
To be frank, it's really hard to believe that. They're being acquired, it isn't up to them anymore what happens to Mailbox. They signed the keys away to Drew Houston and the management team at Dropbox. Mailbox dies the moment Drew decides to kill it.
I hope this means that an Android app will be released too. Not that the gmail app is bad.
> - Assign a career mentor
> - Devise and maintain a career development plan for each prospect

These are great advices. The question is how to turn them into practice. People do not become great mentors by just becoming appointed :-(
Now only if they launch an email service of their own and integrate Dropbox with it for stuff like attachments and we will have a potential GMail killer.
Independant consultants are advised to bill on value-added. So for example patio11 consults on how to improve the conversion rate of visitors to a site. Using his light grey arts, he can go from 2% conversion to a 4% conversion. For a site turning over 10million a year he has just made them an extra 10 million a year.

So he can charge commensurately.

The question I would ask you is how does your prospective employer charge? Are they just billing hours and charging?
Are they delivering projects that have clear value outputs like patio11? Is their profit related to the number of hours you work (bums on seats), or could you do a days work and move them from 2-4% conversion as well?

Now ask how does your prospective employer make its money - usually they charge the client X and pay you .6x and pocket the difference.

Their risk is not having projects to charge X and still paying you .6X.

So - you could do three things

1. take the usual salary of X - employee consultants tend not to get paid much differently to actual employees - so try glassdoor.

2. Are they open to you taking on risk - that is can you get .9X for the willingness to get 0X if no projects come in the door? You are then a freelancer, and they simply find the jobs.

3. Are you willing to take on that risk? If so you probably dont want to be an employee
Wait. Did we just see a company who still has a waiting list get acquired? Well done.
So you're saying he's selecting for answers from people with weak egos?
And even if the rss meta elemnets are missing wordpress will still generate rss at /feed/. For example: http://danieru.com/feed/

This same method works for category specific feeds: http://danieru.com/category/life/feed/
Yes. If Google wants to satisfy Reader users, they have to push back against G+ taking over everything. G+ is supposed to br about a seamless integration between products. Making all the features subservient to the Stream is putting style --no, fashion-- over substance.

That is the philosophy of G+, though-- to cannibalize Google into a Facebook clone. G+ is like the evil vizier whispering in the senile monarch's ear.
Apptopia founder on how to make freemium pay
Android fans take note of how their app is iPhone only at the moment. This is important. In every flamewar people argue that Android is the same essentially as iPhone or better, but there are two HUGE gaps

1. iOS gets new apps faster. In this case, Mailbox is iOS
2. Accessories are harder to find for the large gamut of Android-running devices.

(being an Android fan, I have a self-interest in getting companies to release Android apps faster than they currently do)
Seems like Dropbox is ideally suited to do it from a financial and a technology stand-point.
Google is getting even tougher on sites that abuse links, says report
Where do you find this information? I looked for it yesterday, and couldn't find it...
Not only does the Firefox subscription mechanism work with other web clients, it supports desktop clients as well. It doesn't require registration with a centralised server, nor does it require websites to add a button to their page to enable subscription. In fact it's better than this proposal in every possible way.

The real problem was that not many people cared to subscribe to feeds, so it was considered a waste of space to have on the toolbar by default. It's easy enough to add back though...

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-navigation-but...
I can relate to all of this as well. Like the above person, I find myself lacking motivation to complete the most basic of tasks. I'm often motivated more by fear of embarrassment or failure, which causes things to pile up and lead to stress in my life. A while back I was on Lexapro for my social anxiety and that seemed to help. But I haven't had health insurance for the last few years and therefore haven't been to a doctor.

With that said, in your experience, what is the best type of doctor for visit for this kind of thing?
I'm glad it's not Google, Apple or Microsoft.

Here's to a stronger Dropbox and a long-life for Mailbox!
PS4 not worth the cost, says Nvidia
absolutely! it baffles me that vanguard is putting people in the position of trusting millions of dollars of their portfolios to username/password and a 'security image'.

if i were a black hat, targeting a place like vanguard would make so much more sense than going after a bank.
Mycroft, don't be too hasty. I remembered Eric and others working on this for a long time, and indeed with a little bit of searching I found an email Eric sent back in May 2009 linking to a page which led me to http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/search/label/brasil

In those articles, and in the email thread, he discusses running commands across multiple machines using methods which I believe are recognizable as multi-pipe like. This article predates your "time traveling". Let it go.

IBM employees are strongly encouraged to submit things for patents. You do something interesting, you write it up quickly and send it to the patent lawyers, they do the rest. Maybe eventually you find out it has been approved. I'm not saying it's good, but it's the IBM corporate culture and this is not an especially unusual situation.
so in my imaginary patio11 example above - he makes them 10million in revenue (at say 50% EBITDA), he should send in a bill for 1.66 million (5m x 1/3)?
Indeed.

My outsider view: they are going to build a full-fledged productivity suite. They have the storage, versioning, you can view files/docs and now you have an email client. The "obvious" next move would be getting into the online document editing space. But then, this is me just speculating from the sidelines.
it's not going anywhere :)

(actually, come work on it: https://www.dropbox.com/jobs :))
I'm already migrating away from Dropbox, after using a pro account for years. They lost my business.

Why? The competitors are better and have more features. SkyDrive integrates tightly with my OneNote, XBox music, Office suite, email and everything else I need. It has features Dropbox doesn't. And it's a better deal.

I don't regret using Dropbox. Not for a second. God knows I've talked them up to all my friends. But performance with them got a bit sketchy and better options are now available.
Racket supports running multiple (sometimes incompatible) dialects of Scheme through the use of a #lang directive.

If you prefix your program with "#lang racket", you get the definitions for the full Racket language, with all of the extensions and libraries that Racket provides.

But if you want to preserve compatibility with the standard and with other implementations, you can prefix your program with "#lang r5rs". It derives from the same base language as Racket.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/r5rs/r5rs-mod.html
..and you know what? I like text.

I 'circled' a bunch of people from the numerous Hacker News communities on G+, and I see far too many pictures and videos in the feed. And mostly personal life stuff, like their pets, or lunch, or some trees or whatever. (This is also my current complaint with App.net, but that's a different story).

I really wish there were a way to filter by post type (text and links only) in Google+, to bring it even one small step closer to replacing Reader.
When does depression become a disease?
Dropbox Buys Mailbox
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In Mountain View, all problems are engineering problems.

Even when they aren't.
I feel like any communications app, especially e-mail related, that's trying to label itself as "modern" needs to include some support for crypto as a requirement. I hope the Dropbox people push for things like that from Mailbox, given their past security problems.
Well look at the alternatives:

(1) join dropbox, probably for a pretty penny with stock options that will probably look very nice when Dropbox goes public -- fuel further growth and integration with Dropbox with even more significant resources at your disposal (including HIRING really good engineers a la "come work for Dropbox!")

(2) stay as a high-risk start-up with no revenue, no tested plans of monetization with huge problems of scale (due to its rapid growth) and create a funding round which liquidates your ownership stake significantly, puts you @ the mercy of some risk averse VC's and limits your exit options (depending upon valuation)

I love the product, but I have to admit this (1) would be my choice as well
"This means not only continuing to scale the service, but also including support for more email providers and mobile devices."

Please, please let this mean that they plan on supporting EAS. Migrating to Google Apps for Business in not an option for me, and everyone and his brother is building fancy IMAP-only email clients, while I'm stuck with the default mail client on my iPhone. I love Mailbox's interface, but I barely get a chance to use it, as my primary email address that 99% of my email goes through is on Outlook.com-hosted email.
why? do you see huge overlap between file syncing/storage and mobile email?
I haven't used any antivirus software in years, IMHO they're just annoying and reduce performance (used to use NOD32 until 2007, loved it back then). Here is what I do instead:

- surf the web consciously
- do not open any email attachments from unknown senders (seriously, it's 2013, who does that anymore?)
- do not open any URLs from unknown senders (same as above)
- disable unnecessary browser plugins (i.e. everything but Flash)
- use NoScript-like browser addons
- only run executables I 'trust' (tough one, I know)
- run executables I do not 'trust' in sandbox or VM
- properly configured router firewall settings
- * software firewall to monitor & block/allow incoming *and outgoing* connections (Comodo Firewall)
- * work with a user that does not have root/admin privileges (*Power User* privileges are sufficient for daily work)

Esp. the last two points are important and unusual. This requires a certain level of knowledge about IT, computers and some common sense, though.

If I really need to check a file for malware I use webtools like http://virusscan.jotti.org
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>The traffic to the web app was negligible.

This is completely and demonstrably false. It drives more traffic at this point than G+ itself.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-users-does-Google-Reader-have
I'm confused about what problem this is trying to solve. Can someone enlighten me?
When it comes to growth, it depends on how you look at it, as much as I've said trend, the question is which trend measure. That is to say, which derivative of the underlying performance indicator. Whilst they are still growing, the rate of growth has slowed, this is at a time everyone is jumping up and down to sell more to the BRICs, most importantly China. A Vietnamese friend of mine has a really bloody good Andriod device, I forget the brand name, good specs, good construction (argably more robust than iPhone 4 lets put glass with glass) and it cost penuts, about $100 including sales taxes.

So this is why I'd say, it depends on the idea of a high end device. There are plenty of bloody good phones at 4" and below, but many suffer from cameras that are poor, not expandable memory etc.

In fact I'd dare as far to say as someone who doesn't want a good camera, can't go wrong with the Nokia 620 at £140, sim free, no contract in the UK.

However Nokia should be aware bottom pickers get sticky fingers as they say.

What I do think has changed, from a UK mobile phone buyers perspective is market differentiation. In 2008 there was huge competition in the £100-200 range, but not much above. Each firm had a 'flagship' but little effort really went it to it, they didn't expect to sell many. the iPhone 1, which I stand by saying was a turd with a web-browser (buggy, short battery, no games, and ultimately no GPS - as a Londoner cardinal sin) came in at £1200 tco minimum. This was a massive game changer. If you had the cash, or didn't because it was on credit via a contract, there was nothing else near it. It's not just a choice between a Lambo and Ford, its a Lambo or a bicycle.

Within about 2 years the others jumped to arrange themselves, and here 5 years on samsung has shown you can have a diverse range, something that can max out each persons budget, but still sell something to the person that only has £100.

Apple isn't doing that fast enough, the iPad mini is a good example of them adapting to the competition, but sitting in with a one offering, at one price point, which doesn't have: The Best Camera or The Best Games or The Best Web Browser or The Best Design, isn't going to work. Sure some people are bought in, trapped on the ecosystem, but people fear that they are loosing product share to competitors. This year will be a tell. I think its unlikely Apple will be 450 come year end, much more likely 600, if they crack this mid end or 350 if they don't. imho.
Downloading the apk, and calling the good intent.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967669/android-install-a...
And... you touched a point which new people to dropshipping will hardly read somewhere else: that you take responsibility and accountability for your suppliers' mistakes. This happens all the time. I did some dropshipping in the past with suppliers in China. I can tell you it wasn't for those with faint hearts. Having customers calling/emailing you 10^2345 times a day to complain about the product they had received wrong, while it's not your fault, sucks big time. Back to the point, I'm glad you have made a note about this aspect in your website.
I use https://github.com/benmills/vimux for vim/tmux plumbing.
Major props to the reporter for not losing it. The self control necessary to get through this incident quickly and without things taking serious turns for the worse is something I can hope I have. (I probably don't.)
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