skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be that according to Apple's interpretation, you're allowed to:

* run javascript from remote sites using the existing JS API's (so you can create alternative browsers, like there already are in the App Store)
* expose custom objects to the JS world, and use those from local scripts

but you're not allowed to:

* download scripts and allow them access to your native JS objects

but the distinction is a bit hazy. There are also problems with 'interpreted code'. What about native code that is downloaded and executed? How about code being JIT'ed (using LLVM, or even something like C-code that is compiled and then run)?

Personally I think that something like PhoneGap is very useful for the iPhone ecosystem, as it's a bit similar to how the apps on the Palm Pre work. But Apple might be concerned by the lack of any security within the JS world -- you can't allow access to some objects from local scripts, and disallow them from remote code. Apple might be working on creating some kind of access layering within the JS world, and then expose this functionality themselves.
I have a recent Macbook pro sitting in front of me. Granted, you could match it feature-for-feature and probably save a bit of money (not as much as you think, though), but, there's one feature you wouldn't get with any alternative: build quality

I am typing this on a recent $2,200 Macbook Pro equipped with a econo-Sony-style el-cheapo keyboard and 6-bit low-contrast (and, therefore, glossy) TN display capable of only 256K native colors, the same junk Dell puts in their $599 laptops. My wife's white macbook is falling apart, literally - little pieces of plastic just chipping off its shell, I think it was by far the worst laptop we ever owned. My previous MBP used to overheat when pushed to full CPU/GPU speed (just like any other MBP).

As far as hardware is concerned, Macs aren't "premium" - they're quite cheaply built yet beautifully styled objects overpriced beyond funny.

Go for Thinkpads and HP EliteBooks, the latest Dell Precisions/Latitudes are pretty well built too. HP, for instance, is the only laptop manufacturer in the world who still offers 24-bit LCDs as an option, i.e. you can actually use their laptops to look a a photo without connecting an external display. All these machines require Linux, of course, to be HN-approved :-)
And some people buy based on the brand name of a product being a status symbol. In my mind Gucci is a brand often purchased for that reason. The quality may or may not be higher (admittedly, it often is), but that is secondary to the fact that only those who have "arrived" can afford to purchase that brand. Even on the higher quality products with the elite brand names, often the quality is not high enough to justify the difference in price. But if you are buying it as a status symbol, you probably aren't focusing on quality much anyway.
how does this make money?
Not a bad return if $100K is real(could still be a PR stunt to get more coverage). Probably not a recurring thing though, since I don't see anyone coming back to a site that only has eBay listings
Separate lawsuit after MS broke the Java license with their own semicompliant JVM.
Someone who only knows how to code is a lot less valuable than someone who can program and also has knowledge of the big, wide real world.
New Bajaj Discover Coming Soon in India
Wal-Mart is already an anti-brand among the market segment that would buy Gucci. Target may have a better chance, but Wal-Mart is too solidly right-wing, rural, downscale, and outright unpleasant to shop in to really threaten an upscale brand. I don't know Gucci (I'm not upscale enough for it) but most upscale brands are also more durable, while Wal-Mart's products are invariably designed to be cheap and fall apart in a few months so you can go back to Wal-Mart and buy another.
I'm very proud to run an ATL startup, and from the article it sounds like there are many others who feel the same way.
Graham and Buffet engaged in"fundamental analysis", which attemptes to determin an implicit value of a company based on business (accounting/financial) information. The traditional source of this information is from balance sheets, income statements, sales figures, and talking with management.

This is drastically different from "quant analysis", which tries to determine a stock price, or engage in arbitrage, from previous movements, relations to other stocks, and a host of other data largely irrelevant to computing the implicit value of a company. This information comes from real-time data streams from god-knows-where.
Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535818

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423679

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=356971

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=302020

(and several more articles discussing the company)
eBay affiliate id, someone goes to the site clicks open a car ad, sees its an eBay listing, and closes it. But the cookie remains, so when they come back to eBay a few days later to buy a TV the guy gets the affiliate credit
This is rather disturbing. Not only does it abuse the idea of trusted updates even more, since it's bundled with an important runtime you probably won't be able to opt out completely.

Certainly not what the users signed up for when they bought that computer or installed that runtime. And now every company with some installed base is going to try this. I can't wait for the Claria/Gator/Yahoo/AOL App Store!
At the risk of being spammy, I really do think they'd benefit from using the service my company has developed - http://www.80legs.com. They'll be able to reach and compare millions of images per day for less than $100 (depending on the computational complexity of their image comparison).
/Ubuntu/ is down-to-earth, not Microsoft. Even look at their UI. Microsoft has been going for slick/future/gloss while Ubuntu wants to keep stuff warm/friendly/earthy.
This is nice on some levels, and they document their goals well (basically, to have features in one language that would otherwise require several). But I think they should have started by investing in Python itself.

While they wouldn't have their desired features "today", they'd have been working with a much larger audience. This would have led to more contributions in terms of PEP comments and feasibility testing, and ultimately more programmers benefiting from the new features.
It's not just the Army, Navy, and Marines that need GPS. The Air Force has smart bombs (JDAM) that are guided by GPS as well.
they're probably going to get bitten on this, fairly hard. imo, of course.

if they do this, it'll drive away at least some of those pristine payers who they do get profit from. maybe not huge profit, but it is reliable profit.

and once those guys are gone, it'll look like the subprime market. credit will be being given to people who are less responsible and have fewer means to repay their credit debts. it'll be a cycle of giving them money to use, and then having to lose money to pick up their assets when they don't pay you back.

this is whats happening now anyway, but the companies are making good $ off of the people who do repay in a reasonable time period. once those people leave for greener pastures, the CC companies are going to be stuck with a chewed up field full of manure.
One of my VLSI friends lamented about his Gen Ed requirements:

"They want me to be a "well-rounded" engineer. Well, I know vector calculus, finite algebra, compiler theory, and enough quantum mechanics to know a little about what's going on under the silicon. Is that not well-rounded enough?"
Starting a "new business" does not equal starting a startup (at least in terms relevant to News.YC)
Illustrates that some people don't understand the concept of filtering search results. Here's the same thing from eBay: http://motors.shop.ebay.com/items/Cars-Trucks_?_dmpt=US_Cars...
I was one of those 590/100,000!
"entrepreneurial activity" wouldn't fit in HN's 85 character limit for story titles ;)
I just find it sad that a stupid software monopoly positions itself to speak on behalf of all the PCs.

In my world Microsoft has nothing to do with computers: I don't use their stuff. And my Thinkpads+Linux don't present "value proposition" - they're far superior to Macs in every way that matters to me: build quality, their military styling, Linux superiority over OSX, their full size "spill-through" keyboards, 5-button precise touchpads with pointing sticks, huge batteries, etc.
This could be very useful to show how some crowed-sourcing/spec-work design contest sites are filled with ripped-off illustrations and logos.
Example taking this screenshot:
http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/v5.0_images/CS-istoc...
From this article:
http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/anti-spec-...
Gives interesting results as to where else the crab-illustration got used.
(Not sure how permanent the search links to tineye are, but anyway: http://tineye.com/search/df2783dbde7f56ccdfbcdb61460185f4096...)
You get paid between 50 and 75% of your referees winning bid revenue, see: https://ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/gettingPaid.h...
this is a few days old people, what's going on? :P
You'd be a lot more impressed if you stood behind it when the fans spin up. And if you got to see all the lights in the house dim when it starts to draw power. Or if you had to carry ~140 pounds of the chassis and two blades.

Or if you had a shell account on the HS21 blade with two quad core Xeons and 16gb of ram :-)
His share price is still off more than 40 percent from its highs, underperforming even the S&P 500.

Oh, wow. I thought Lewis was in finance, but apparently he doesn't realize that the peak-to-trough performance of one member of an average is very likely to be higher than the peak-to-trough performance of that average. This is true, even with a two-stock index:

Year Stock A Stock B Avg.
0 10 12 11
1 12 10 11
2 5 5 5

Note that A and B both had a larger peak to trough loss than the average. And yet, the average consists of A and B.

e railed against derivatives as weapons of mass destruction, and now turns out to have been sitting on a $68 billion pile of credit default swaps and exotic put options on various stock market indexes.

He complains specifically about counterparty risk. Someone who read what he said would know that; someone who heard thirdhand quotes might not. The derivatives he holds don't have any counterparty risk for him, because he's getting all the cash up front and paying out based on future events.
What is important is what it tries to deliver.
Anyone find any of these tactics to be unethical?
I can't help but be tangentially reminded of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
"As with other app stores, Sun will charge for distribution - but unlike other app stores, whose audiences are tiny, measured in the millions or tens of millions, ours will have what we estimate to be approximately a billion users. "

I mean, come on...
This habit of monkeypatching core functions was what drove me away from Ruby. Even adorable little trapdoors like the map() example can lead to issues with performance, stability, documentation, or (ahem) unit tests that now have to reflect this new behavior but only in certain circumstances.

I understand the coolness of it. All I object to is this "__builtin__.old_map = map" fuckery. It's what people mean when they say "too clever, by half".
I think once the general public, who generally think of Alpfa as a Google competitor, realize Alpha's strengths and how to use it, it will be come a very powerful and commonly used tool.

I can't wait for the API to be released so that all the Hackers out there can do things Mr. Wolfram hasn't imagined yet.
Previous discussion about the study: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=597809
Do publishers have to pay special licensing fees to print a magazine or newspaper with text in a certain font?

I don't understand how font licensing works. Is it because the web browser has to download the font spec to someone's computer who hasn't paid for the font?
That's odd, I thought the gene had already been discovered, because I thought I got it from my mom.

It's one of those things I just never bothered questioning, but now I'm confused all of a sudden.
Since you're into music, I'd like to see some score paper there too .. that could have come in handy recently!
The firefox plugin (I found it very useful) is here :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922
Brooks' article greatly simplifies CEO personality traits as compared to different types of roles they must fill (growing a small company, turning around a failing business, etc.) just as the original article Brooks cited (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972446) is reporting on data collected mostly by private equity companies to take charge of companies they own. The traits of that sort of CEO may be quite different from a startup CEO, a CEO who is hired to pump and dump, etc.
I went to the supreme court's website to research this further (http://www.supremecourtus.gov). Honestly I expected more from the U.S. Supreme Court's website. The site looks terrible and the search is abysmal. I would think that a query for "sarbanes", "sarbanes oxley", or "sarbanse-oxley" would turn up SOMETHING if the court was to address such a landmark law. Search can make or break a site!
Wal-Mart is already an anti-brand among the market segment that would buy Gucci.

Kinda like Microsoft is an anti-brand to Apple fanboys. But both Apple and Gucci's customer base have a slice of customers that are on the edge and not necessarily fanboys.

A campaign like Microsoft's is often targeted at a very specific segment of the customers who are convertible(ie. not the Apple fanboys).

I only know this from my marketing analysis class where we studied similar case studies.
Dissident -- web framework designed from the ground up for massive scale
As am I, but honestly I had no idea about the startup activity here. Are there any meetings where founders get together and such?
As a job seeker, I'd expect a city with super-high startup activity to have its /eng/ section on craigslist flooded with job ads. It isn't.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eng/
i was debating with myself whether or not history was being included under the humanities umbrella. there is definitely some irony in well educated scientists/engineers loudly proclaiming the futility of the study of history. (as is being done elsewhere in this thread, not necessarily the article)
I don't know about them, but this looks very promising. Will you also offer search/parse primitives, like simple ways to parse classifieds or forums or other standard formats?
which in turn illustrates that a "viable" business can be built on making existing data more immediately accessible/refined.
Knowledge Engineer / Developer
Geez, yes. To the point that if you went to all of them you'd never get any actual work done.

Nice illustration of all the meetups, organizations, conferences, etc:

http://academicvc.com/2009/05/entrepreneurial-atlanta-2/
Top 100 open source gems
Then set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0 and be happy.

But actually linux never ejects pages to swap just for the cache. It will only eject pages for memory pressure, which, when freed, can leave extra room for cache. But it won't eject the pages in the first place for the cache.
literally D-Day
I think there is a lot of false hope in what the 37signals guys are telling their audience. Just because someone out there does very little to make a lot of money doesn't mean that's how the average jane or joe has to do it. Anecdotes to prove your case are easy to find, but the exceptions aren't the rule.

You can go buy a lottery ticket and win too. The question is, how many people just like this guy and the plentyoffish guy, etc exist compared to those who attempt to find success on the internet?

I'm not saying don't try hard and don't take risks. I'd be a hypocrite if I did, but don't forget to be realistic about how really hard it is to build a company and make money. The traditional rules of business apply to the internet as well. Lots of people got lucky striking oil in the old days, but there were way more prospectors than there were Rockefellers.
So Windows is better, Apple computers are 'pretty but dumb' but you can put Windows on Apple hardware so...? - brain explodes - very Star Trek of you MS.
Loopt gets name-checked on Gossip Girl
Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest Crap Store? (sun.com)

There fixed that for ya. Java might be extremely popular but it is not known for its aesthetic qualities. You can get away with it on the back-end but I don't believe they really know how to appeal to users/consumers (hence the roaring success of JavaFX or any other Java UI tech /sarcasm).
"I just don't want it paging my entire session out to disk every night in order to do that."

It doesn't.
Fair comments. For fun I typed the first query they mention into google...

And look what it found: http://screencast.com/t/8Z66EsDoz

Sneaky! So is google going to be the new way to search WA? ;)
Wow, thanks. I'm fairly new to the area, and my startup occupies the majority of my time, so I have met few other founders so far. I'll have to leave my cave from time to time to hit some of these.
So true.

I'd been happy if the education system pick a side and either focus on career preparation or humanity enrichment. But nowadays it pretends to do both and failed at them miserably.

Thus I can't help but think that the system is just a giant marketing scheme to make $140 off a hardworking family.
Here's a link to the original study:
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/kiea_042709.pdf

Interesting tidbit:
"Internet publishing" was considered a low-income-potential business but "software publishing" was considered a high-income-potential business.
They're missing the one feature I found killer: Unit parsing in math. Doing something like "sixteen miles per hour in km/ns * 14 hogsheads per parsec" Just Works in Alpha[1], it fails miserably in Google. Sure you can make it work with parens and careful phrasing but...

[1] http://www23.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sixteen+miles+per+hou...
yeah, bladecenters are awesome.
Someone whose only skill is fluency in a foreign language is limited to working as a translator

Foreign language + Generic Office Worker = Extraordinarily Valuable Generic Office Worker as long as you have the right language pair for your employer.

One of my best friends sells water meters. You don't have to be particularly expert to start selling water meters on the ground floor, and he wasn't, but after a few decades of it he is fairly good at selling water meters. He is also the only person in metropolitan Nagoya who can explain what a magnetic flowometer is in English, Japanese, and Spanish, and has a career of being flown out to various big customers abroad and explaining how good their flowometers are and why you want to go for magnetic or acoustic instead of the competition's inferior mechanical models.
Maybe this has been asked before, but what the hey:

Is anyone here on HN using Clojure for commercial production code - websites or otherwise?
Plenty of startup ideas, plenty of money, plenty of entrepreneurs in Atlanta. Not enough venture capital, but that's becoming less and less relevant to many classes of startups.
Er.. it's not like these folks will be going out of business soon. There is a large existing infrastucture (non-free) in companies like lexis-nexus.
Clickable link: http://www.findAlong.com/
I'm into music?
Peashoot looks amazing. I'm a marketer and can't wait to give it a try.

However I'm also a 37s customer, as are millions of other non-hackers out there. I can say without reservation that the design similarities between Peashoot and the 37s suite of products crosses the line. If you have good ideas, you shouldn't need to dress them up to look like another company's products. It sends the wrong message to your customers, most importantly, but it's also bound to generate bad karma between you and other professionals in your space.
This is quite creditable for Atlanta. But I wouldn't say "Move over, SF". This includes all businesses, from new ice cream shops to new biotech companies. SF probably still leads if you look at tech startups.
I read a very disturbing argument once which comes back to me when discussing what higher ed does and does not do. Paraphrased:

"The higher educational system is the only authority in America which is socially permitted to discriminate based on IQ, via entrance requirements. This is pretty useful, and accordingly everyone else pays them astounding amounts of money to do it. Given that they have a monopoly on discriminating based on IQ, they don't need to do anything else well."
All they need is a bit of syntax sugar and debugger integration on calls to Python, and they could at least benefit from many of the libraries. For all I know, the CLI already provides this.
None of my MBPs ever overheated. The new models don't even get warm.
Interesting discussion, thanks for all your input.

But let me put a spin on it:

Should we in some way help Google (and others) to ensure the internet doesnt 'go down'? (perhaps oversimplifying)

This is assuming (I think correctly) that the internet is crucial in todays economy and that if Google (or other) goes down it will have strateguc economic impact.

For example, having special international oversight group, massive backup/resillience scenarios, etc.

Just a thought.
We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage
Microscopic manufacturers produce eco-friendly plastics
Actually, it's even higher here in Atlanta. 740 per 100K, of which I am also included :)
Rob Pike at Google: Concurrency/message passing in Newsqueak [video]
"Kinda like Microsoft is an anti-brand to Apple fanboys. But both Apple and Gucci's customer base have a slice of customers that are on the edge and not necessarily fanboys."

These are two fundamentally different markets here. Computers (even Macs) are cheap enough that they aren't as stratified as fashion. A Mac might cost twice as much as a PC (though it really doesn't), but clothing can vary by entire orders of magnitude in price. If Gucci loses customers it will be to a rival premium brand or a midscale brand, not bottom-of-the-barrel Wal-Mart.

The auto industry is similarly stratified, and I understand it a little better than fashion, so let's discuss that. The strata (pre-GM/Chrysler meltdown) were about like this:

*

*

Aston Martin Maybach

Bentley Rolls-Royce

--------------------------

BMW Mercedes-Benz Lexus

--------------------------

Audi

--------------------------

Cadillac, Acura

-------------------------- | ------------------

Lincoln | VW, Honda, Toyota

-------------------------- | occupy all three

Mercury, Buick, Chrysler, | strata

upscale Ford/Chevrolet |

(Eddie Bauer Explorer, |

Corvette) |

-------------------------- |

Ford, Chevrolet |

*

*

These strata are probably wrong but they're illustrative. I
think Audi might be moving closer to the top tier, and I wasn't sure where Rolls Royce belonged but I made a decent guess.

No one says "I'm going to stop driving my Maybach and get a Ford Focus" unless they go bankrupt from buying too many luxury cars. Audi or even Acura could pick off Lexus/BMW/Mercedes drivers though. And someone who stretched too far and got an Audi might get a VW next time. But you're not going to have the lowest tier directly challenge the highest tier. In the PC market, Apple and Microsoft are already adjacent tiers, because there's no room in the market for any tiers above or below them. But the PC market is a lot flatter than other markets.
Java may have a great development platform, but it's not a great end-user platform. As a user, I'm never going to go to the Java App Store to shop for software.
You're confusing startups with tech startups.
By all means, count my Midtown living self in the 740 also.