skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was widely reported. You didn't read the article closely. Nokia is projected to have 56% of the low end market profits. Not the whole market as per apple and rim.
For me, Flickr/Picasa/Facebook weren't what I wanted, so I made my own.

But the interesting thing I'm finally really seeing is that nothing has to be wrong with those other sites. I have users who continue to use other sites and are enthusiastic about them. People who love photos enjoy sharing them in different ways.
Sunrise, Sunset. Game, Set, Match. (Oracle, IBM)
I would be more proud of living in a country where people didn't buy things they don't really need.

Not to say that TV is one of those things -- I'm just saying that having the ability to show restraint is a admirable trait.
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Plus, a hypothetical investor might note that:

1) The technically hard problem in photo sharing, which is "Holy cow, terabytes of photos! Where do we put them?" is now largely solved by the cloud. That makes the technical risk of execution fairly low, but not so low that you're going to be able to clone a successful site in a weekend. (Exaggerating for effect.)

2) The main value add is in the software you write for the sharing site. This is really hard to duplicate, which spells "moat".

3) Photo sharing is a broad market B2C app and for whatever reasons Y Combinator seems to like those.

4) People demonstrably pay money for photo sharing, which since it has negligible marginal costs (see: cloud) means you are essentially building a "turn pennies into dollars" machine. Those get stupidly profitable at scale (amortize engineering cost over all paying accounts, sell your typical user < 2 GB of space for $X0 a year, pay Amazon S3 a few dollars to service that user, reinvest your 90% margins into customer acquisition, laugh all the way to the bank).

5) There is a built-in viral growth model, which greatly decreases COCA compared to, say, a non-viral web app, Netflix, etc. (I happily pay 30~50% of lifetime value for customers because it makes excellent sense with 95% margins. Photo sharing gets comparable margins but your customers charge you 0% of lifetime value to sign up their friends.)

6) There is built-in lock-in of users. Moving to the new shiny is going to be painful for most of them, so they won't. Plus the pain increases with how good of a customer they are, which means you only lose the pathological freebie seekers anyhow.

7) Historically, the above factors have encouraged investors and buyers to throw stupid amounts of money at photo sharing sites, which is ultimately what YCombinator wants to see.
See my long winded reply to someone else in this thread. We have this, it's called CLSQL (the OSS version) or CommonSQL (the commercial version; each more identical than the other, btw ;-)

http://clsql.b9.com/manual/

Transactions are in chapter 5, unbrain-dead syntax, in both functional and OO versions are there. A killer query syntax, in Lispy prefix is there. It uses your database backend of choice (name any 8 major RDBMSes and it has support for them, it also ODBC for the not-so-major ones)

It's a clean beautiful API, learn it, use it, clone it for your favorite language[1], etc.

--

[1] Clojure guys, you need this; throw a Lispy API over Java's orgy of database interfaces at once. Get your major API defined and "standardized" ASAP, otherwise clojure will be assimilated into Java, culturally, and a generation of misguided programmers will be writing Java code with parenthesis.
If they have been using your system for 3 years, you might want to bid ~500k for a ~6 months contract to get it to the next level. It might not be fun but you can make crazy money building custom enterprise applications once you have some credibility.
Its not hilarity - its business.

The idea is to turn the complements of your product into a commodity. So - cheap hardware for Microsoft Windows, cheap software for Apple iPhones.
747 was developed on an AF contract but it long predated the AWACS. It was developed as a competitor to the Lockheed C-5 in the 1960s for long-range heavy lift transport.
It seems to me though that the best Companies (and Eras) focus the Internet through a vector set. Were you working on Infrastructure or Retail in 1997? Search or Marketing in 2001? Cloud or Advertising in 2008?

We may work for the Internet. But it only becomes what we choose to work on.
Sounds like a market risk company with your marketing machine going up against that of hundred billion dollar market cap companies. Not fun.

However, big congrats on conquering your own situation.
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ya doesnt seem like the best idea to keep it up...

how bout using proxies?
Already submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716147
Emacs users may like eproject: http://github.com/jrockway/eproject/tree/master
CouchDB is a document centric system. Its really a different beast, altogether. Its closer to a CMS than a DB.
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" I still get a kick out of the sheer arrogance of putting permalinks on every paragraph."

Arrogance? It's a great idea. Makes it simple to link to a particular part of an article of interest, and probably simple enough to build into a publishing tool so you don't have to think about it.
I like these trapezoids:
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/Series/infinite.htm
yeah thats why I'd like to see the breakdown, to see how many end up as paid users
Thanks (for the congrats).:-)
So far, my efforts have been very grass-roots. It's only since getting "clean and sober" ;-) that it occurred to me the issue is the information gap and the solution is a simulation.
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No. While you could build a CMS with couchdb, it definitely isn't one out of the box.

All "document-oriented" means in the Couch context is that the db's data model is "you have a key and a collection of attributes associated with it."
Very nice summary of last 10 years - The Javaverse:
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I've been reading the description of this contest and I am still a bit confused...
1. What do contestants submit?
2. Is the data made available to winners alone, or is it made available to all contestants at the same time?
3. What are the prizes?
His blog...
http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/
Interesting individual, I could never do anything like this myself.
I'm pretty sure I could survive on the waste and charity of others as this guy does, but I wouldn't want to.
No kids?
If you did even the slightest bit of searching you would find a few web frameworks, a few package managers, etc.
It very well could be the knowledge he has gained while living without money that will go toward educating masses of people out of work in our increasingly struggling economy moving forward.

More people are losing jobs, homes, credit. Debt is increasing. How many people will know how to correctly identify edible cacti?

I was thinking of my grandmother who survived the great depression. She has so much knowledge up there in her brain. How to can tomatoes for the winter. How to store potatoes in holes to keep them fresh during the cold months. How to stuff the gaps in the logs of a cabin with mud to stay warm.

Countness numbers of the x-generation, y-generation, and even the baby boomers are going to die, simply because they do not know how to survive without money and a job and a grocery store.

I feel lucky. I can go out into the woods and find an animal and kill it and skin it and cook it and eat it. Many of my friends can't even eat meat with bones in it because it reminds them it was alive.
I guess the name CouchCMS was already taken?
He's been calling for a decentralized Twitter-like service since about late last year, and seems to have recently begun work on his own out of frustration.
- You have to use a Mac to develop iPhone apps.

- You have to use Xcode as your IDE.

- You have to use the Objective-C language

- You have to manage your memory manually.

- You have to have a certificate in order to sign your code
to make it work on a device.

- You have to pay a yearly fee ($99) to get the ability to create such a certificate.

- You’ll have to provide various pieces of information, and enter into a distribution contract with Apple.

- Apple has to approve your app before it goes onto the App Store.

Seems a little restrictive. Imagine the antitrust concerns this would bring up if the platform actually did become dominant.
Here are several good ones:
IT conversations - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/
Churchill Club - http://www.churchillclub.org
CF Conversations - http://www.cfconversations.com
Did they really reuse the same model numbers? That seems annoying.
Sometimes I like to think I do.. I have some passive income streams that pay rent.
I'm not sure what you mean - the "Gx" part of the model numbers changed.

SSDSA2MH080G2 vs SSDSA2MH080G1
Nice set of basic legal topics for first-time entrepeneurs:

* LLC vs Corporation

* Is it better for a start up to incorporate in Delaware

* How should one go about protecting intellectual property
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> "Countness numbers of the x-generation, y-generation, and even the baby boomers are going to die, simply because they do not know how to survive without money and a job and a grocery store."

What? The only reason people would need to be able to hunt their own food in our society is if that society totally and utterly collapsed. And not just a collapse of the government... I'm talking mass-fatality pandemic, nuclear holocaust, or zombies. Something that wipes out any local community that could band together and support itself. If anything that drastic happens, the average gen X'er/Y'er has a lot more to worry about than finding food (which can be scavenged for a while)... like surviving the initial die out, or roaming bands of looters.
I've been trying to wrap my head around REST for a while - I found the Wikipedia article to be helpful - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
Good point, I really didn't want to use this as a way of harvesting email addresses, but I can see how you and others could come to this conclusion. I honestly did not want to do this and would never "betray" the folks at hn with some sort of bait and switch move... So please disregard my request, I've already removed the email address and album.
Thanks for the heads up !!
I think he's predicting that the current resurgence of proprietary communications channels (Twitter, Facebook, et al) will inevitably be replaced by public protocols (Wave perhaps?). I hope he's right.
Money is merely a means to decouple the promise of payback from the promiser.

Without money, you have to trust Joe to help you can tomatoes next fall since you helped him plow his field. With money, Joe can pay you to plow his field, and you can pay Sally to help you can tomatoes (because Joe moved to another town).
The subject of the story confuses money and wealth. He is not the first to do so, nor will he be the last.
> Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder.

Did you read the article? It says the guy would have been tortured and beaten (to death?) if he hadn't committed suicide. Given that he actually did kill himself, we can assume he was indeed going to be tortured and beaten, probably to death. It doesn't seem like personal disorder to me, just a honest and smart (engineer) human being wanting to die with dignity and peacefully.

As other comments suggest, he might as well have been murdered.
phubbard has a very similar submission as well:

BUgs bUGS bUGs bugS BlaNK BLanK blANK bLaNK BugS BUgs BuGs bUgs liwcC

Based on his Twitter account I'm a little more inclined to believe that they are indeed separate people all using the same algorithm.

Edit: This appears to be their info based on the submission by nkurz - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717174
No, that's not the problem. Did you read the article? The guy was going to be tortured and beaten probably to death.
I'd like to see more of this type of thing. When learning a new language, I don't need an introduction to the if statement or while loops, yet in the interests of completeness many programming books include a thorough (and mind-numbing) guide to them. For some readers that's called for, but many of us are stuck reading about concepts we're already comfortable with. I'm concerned that if I don't read everything, I'll miss out of some bizarre quirk of the language, so I'm reluctant to skim, but this gets in the way of what I'm really trying to achieve - using the language to make cool stuff.

Writers of programming language books take note: I'm generally not interested in the tool. Tools are boring. No really, they are. Making cool stuff and solving hard problems is interesting and fun. Get the tool out of the way so I can get things done.
Nice way to think of the introvert/extrovert divide. :-) Makes me feel a bit better about being the former...
Objectivity doesn't exist
Also new users is very different from active users - I don't remember how many ning networks I have signed up to, but I have never returned to any of the more than once...
I hope he'll post more info about his cluster. The 2nd place guy was running 5 nVidia GPUs, so it would be interesting to compare performance.
It's no more restrictive than any major game console.
If everyone did this, he wouldn't have a thing to eat. I'm not knocking it, but it's something to think about.

But that brings us to a more important point: Why does this guy have to forage to survive without money? Shouldn't he be able to save up, buy a few acres and grow his own resources? Nope, because of the absurdity known as the property tax (er, I mean "protection racket").
Agreed. I wrote a couple-page cheat sheet on Objective C, and since I've made a twice-yearly ritual out of forgetting Objective C, it's come in handy. Repeatedly.
Javascript just keeps getting cooler and cooler. The more I learn about it the more I find myself loving it.
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I talk to myself in real life almost all day long. An idea I can put into words I have a more concrete and memorable grip on than one I cannot, and working that out out-loud is often more natural than doing so in ones head.
Are there actually people in the world that can read text at that font size?
The only thing worse than not having a blog IMO is having one that hasn't been updated in weeks or months.

Can you explain why an infrequently updated blog would be bad?

I suppose you believe that it makes you look bad somehow. But what evidence do you have that that is really so?
I'm more interested in what they're doing with NSEC3, which is a key loose end in IETF's boondoggle DNSSEC system. NSEC3 is to domain names in a zone transfer what crypt(3) is to passwords in /etc/shadow.
Not where I live. 5% of my state suffers from "food insecurity" which means they dont know where their next meal is coming from.

I went on a field trip as a child through a state park and the game ranger warned us all, he said, "Don't poach deer kids. If you are hungry and your parents want to poach deer out of season, tell them to call me and we'll help."

He wasn't saying this as a joke. Many families here do procure a lot of their meat from hunting and fishing. A white tail deer can give you 100 lbs of meat. Thats $300-400. Rabbits, squirrels, quail, dove. Commonly eaten around here and much cheaper than the meat section at Wal-Mart.

Once, at wal-mart, I was checking out and a large family in front of us was buying chicken in ten pound bags and I could smell it -- it was cheap because it was rotten. It smelled foul. Thank goodness the check out lady smelled it too and told them to go grab a different bag. I think perhaps some had leaked out and tainted the outside of the bags.

I actually do think that some people may starve. I asked my grandmother what her thoughts about the current financial situation, remember, she survived the great depression and she said, "I haven't seen anything like this."

It's worse than we realize. Our faith in the system has collapsed. We don't believe in it anymore. That isn't something that can be fixed by flooding society with more imaginary paper money.
Bootupcamp - A startup camp in sydney - Launches today.
Bootupcamp is a program where young entrepreneurs start companies in two weeks under the guidance of people who have been there before. Today is the launch day and we think that you guys would find this interesting.
Right! It's impossible to own land in America. You merely rent it from the government.

But also, he uses the library for internet access. I wonder if he considers that "government dole."
If you ever have time or inclination to share it, I could use a good cheat sheet. The closest I have now is "Objective C for C++ programmers", but it's not short enough to be a useful cheat sheet.
Instead of an "expert system" for posting guidelines, the UI can expose and explain functionality.

Can't upvote or down vote a story? white-out the arrows and put an alt="can't (up|down)vote story, you don't have enough foo".

Can't reply to a post? remove the link but leave a white "reply" text in a box with gray sunken borders. Hovering over it should show the reason why.

Each deactivated post can also log its status and reason for disabling right in the title, or somewhere in the header area; maybe the top-color can change?

People shouldn't be sent to an Information Desk; instead, the system should be self-documenting, if not self-evident.
"I can go out into the woods and find an animal and kill it and skin it and cook it and eat it."

What animals?

If society collapses to that point, deer will be hunted to extinction in a matter of months, if not weeks, with smaller critters probably not getting hunted to extinction after that, but certainly to the point you won't find them readily anymore. There's still too many people with the skill to do that for you to survive.

Thinking that you can Davy-Crockett your way out of a societal collapse is underestimating the number of people who can still hunt, or overestimating the amount of resources actually available. The brutality of such an outcome would be well beyond what I've seen any survivalist even faintly dream of, because if they looked at the truth (such as, "city folk are not a homogeneous mass of morons who would instantaneously starve to death, there'd still be enough to move out and cause trouble") they'd realize that it isn't a matter of "ensuring survival" so much as "incrementally increasing my odds of survival from the low single-digit percentages to the high single-digit percentages", which is way less fun to fantasize about.

What this guy does is not scalable. wmeredith is exactly right. There aren't a whole lot of lessons to take away, except perhaps that we need less than we think we do, but that's hardly news anyhow.
So, um, he's a homeless guy who lives in a cave. Congratulations, homeless guy, you have somehow managed to convince everybody that instead of a homeless guy, you're a cultural revolutionary. NB: you live in a fucking cave. Forgive me if this doesn't sound like the future of mankind.
Thousands do in major cities every day. Often there are mental health issues at play, but anyone can do it.
This story reminded me of a grown-up version of the children's book "My Side Of The Mountain" for some reason. I love this kind of story because it reminds me that we could all do well to learn to live with less, and that there are some that do.
Very cool. Kinda like a longer, and more guided Startup Weekend.
While pedantic, the above "expression" is NOT = 1/3

1/3 is the limit, as the sum of n=1 to n -> infinity, of (1/4)^n

The "result" converges towards 1/3.
You can get as close to 1/3 as you like, but the result will never quite equal 1/3.

Cheers
Dion.
I'm not completely sure that Evan Williams is trying to exert control in the same way Microsoft has. Much of the great stuff that happens online is due to a "benevolent dictator" approach. Someone (or a team) needs to shepherd the "big new idea" through many phases, in an environment where a lot of people are trying to muck it up (trolls, spammers, you name it).

Giving anyone the firehose could cause all sorts of problems in the short-term. It seems reasonable for Twitter execs to think carefully about the right way to do that.
Thank you. This is what I would have said, had I been thinking straight.
Hey guys, just some more information:
#1) This is an Australian event, we are at the Australian Technology Park in sydney.
#2)
the current startups are Openondemand.com, which provides fast (10 second) autoconfigured CRM solutions to small busines, Menufan.com.au which has a comprehensive list of lunch menus in the sydney CBD area, glutenzero.com.au which is a directory of gluten-free restaurants and judgeitnow.com which croudsources market research.
#3) This is our first event, and we really want to get the word out there so that it can be bigger and better next year.

Thanks for your time, guys :)
That makes it sound more crazy, not less crazy. It suggests the reason they pushed for such a high valuation is so that existing investors wouldn't get hosed, rather than the true perceived value of the business.
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Yeah, this is a successor to startupcamp, which has the same sort of idea just over a weekend :)

We also have a lot more speakers, etc. from people in the community, everyone from journalists teaching us how to give good press releases to lawyers explaining the ins and outs of IP law.
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You don't need kids to survive like that, most adults I know can do it all on their own~
A few days ago, María Garaña, CEO of Microsoft Spain said to an economic newspaper[1]: "A search engine is not enough to be the leader on the web".

Well, I guess Google isn't just 'a search engine' after all, right?

[1] http://www.expansion.com/2009/07/17/empresas/tecnologia/1247...
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I get your point, but that is essentially what my company does.

We primarily use CL for bank software (not just the website, but for payment processing/fraud detection, trading algorithms, etc.) We've also used it for occupational medicine software, PEO management systems, pension administration systems, etc. [I'm largely using the royal "we" - essentially none of my woefully bad code ever makes it into a shipping product. But signing the checks gives me some sense of involvement.]

CL is a fiddly mess to get started with, and there is not as much open-source code available, but once you get going it is a very powerful tool. If you're going to make the ecosystem argument, why did you stop at Rails? Don't you develop everything in Java? It has more of an ecosystem, so surely you've abandoned those wheel-reinventing Railheads for Javaland? Or PHPistan? Or C++ville?
I am on the fence about whether this is a good troll or a bad troll. It certainly exploits the "someone on the internet is WRONG" ethos of HN, but I don't think it does so in a particularly amusing way. I'm going to say that it's a rather boring troll.

(I do find myself compelled to say that the mathematical convention is that an infinite sum is defined to be equal to the limit of the partial sums, if it exists.)
It's probably a more exhausting version of StartUp Camp! But yeah, we've all been learning heaps. There is a press launch tonight (7PM Sydney) with free booze and food for people interested in attending - drop @Bootupcamp a note on Twitter