skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like asking how to find a wife. A co-founder should be someone with not only have knowledge in certain domains but someone who have the same passion for your planning startup like you do. Attending to different events could be a good thing but start with the beginning, search your co-founder in your friends. Didn't find anything? Try to meet new people and don't just search them for their " abilities ".
If he spent even 5 minutes looking at the ios sdk, he'd see that there's no review process involved in distribution of beta apps to customers...
Trust this computer?
Hi. Thanks for the comment. We only use data that is publicly available (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yelp (for businesses), etc.
Regarding the "big data" logic we use a lot of complex algorithms to provide accurate resolution and to be able to create compelling profiles. We consider ourselves as a "big data" solutions because of the principles we use to aggregate this data.
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I completely disagree on the SUV being the perfect "form factor" for electric. At least if the SUV is being used for things like carrying gear for an excursion or off-roading. In those cases, it is a terrible form factor (especially with the gull-wing doors that prevent you from using a roof rack). Off-roading isn't as efficient at regenerative braking compared to stop and go traffic in an urban area. They go to areas not at all served by charging facilities let alone superchargers. They generally need even greater range than urban only cars. All of these things make an electric SUV not the SUV for me.

If you just mean the silly way Americans use SUV's (to simply be taller than the other cars on the road) then maybe it is a decent form factor.
Most normal users would search for apps for each channel. I don't think the guy is really trying to say that they are all totally unique codebases.

The author openly admits that this was a small, throwaway app that he wrote as an experiment, which contributed to his indifference as apps got suspended. It doesn't have to be complex to qualify as an "app".

I'm sure the author understands he can still write code for Android, but as he stated in the article, he might as well not if he expects any exposure. Alternative app stores and sideloaded APKs are used by approximately no one.

I don't think it can really be said he's liable for any kind of infringement just by using the YT API to wrap content. The issue would be in using the company name to imply endorsement of his applications, but even that could be a stretch. Should he have broken down to the old Red Hat trick and said "a prominent North American YouTube channel TV"?

While I probably wouldn't have made the same decisions this guy did, tolerance and handling of these types of uncommon miscommunications are part of the responsibility a company assumes when it decides to hook into so many parts of its users' lives. With the indispensability of something like Google, they really should be more careful before they mess up someone's life with this kind of action. Not everything can be resolved with a static, generalized FAQ.

The whole thing could've been averted if Google had taken the effort to clarify what was happening and why directly, by real communication from a human that is obviously personalized, at any point in the process.
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Yes. The difference is that our core data is based on phone numbers. Instead of an email address you can query a phone number and retrieve a profile associated to that phone number. Imagine "Full Contact" for phone numbers.
AngularJobs does offer an exclusive recruiting service. We're still scaling the recruitment side of things, so our "steep" fee is makes sense at the moment.

However, we offer a much lower cost option for those of you who would like to sift through a plethora of raw candidate data.

It's only $349 for the JobPost service.

We've had customers come back for as many as 4 JobPosts!

Here is the direct link to start a JobPost:

> https://www.AngularJobs.com/builder/start
The BBC should not be expected to reach our to every spammy app developer personally to politely ask that their infringing app be removed. Not only would this be more costly for them than interacting directly with Google, it would likely get some IP enforcement employees there fired when someone higher up noticed that apps were not being taken down promptly.

I don't like that Google banned this guy from Google wallet and from buying apps, but I have no issue with them banning him from publishing new apps. He blatantly violated trademarks repeatedly, and he published low-quality apps that by his own admission were identical except for an ID change, and provided no functionality aside from being a YouTube wrapper. He's a spammer.
>>but ultimately they have no legal obligation to be any of those things, and in business your legal obligations are your only obligations.

So businesses don't have any ethical obligations then? Cool.
It likely will, open source projects are nearly impossible to stop. The SSL/TLS standard and their associated standards and clients has shrugged off a number of attacks at surprising speeds. Patch cycles are measured in hours or days apposed to weeks or months.

If the attack is particularity disastrous then there will likely be a large fork. But once a project is started and a community built its unlikely that force will be stopped.
everyday, although I use Catalyst, not mojo, but it's still nice to see a Perl project on hacker news.
If you haven't played with Perl lately, it's worth looking into Moose, an object system for Perl. It not only offers a much nicer syntax for making objects, but provides features like read-only accessors, roles, introspection, and even types! http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual.pod

I work with Perl professionally now after having spent most of my self-taught programming education using Python, and I've been pleasantly surprised with the language. I'm both coding new projects and working with a more than decade old code base, and I've found that Perl code is as good as the programmer.

Yes, like any decades old language it has its warts, but Perl 5 itself is still being developed and improved upon. For those who know another scripting language, the free book Modern Perl is a great place to start learning: http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2014/
I can't send price changes alerts if I don't have user email
What, like hiring and training Americans?
I was going to post exactly this. The effect in Windowlicker is definitely memorable.
"We get new digital systems almost weekly, that help us do things like monitor peoples activities and map their opinions, but these systems are all being deployed within a political system that has largely remained unchanged for our entire documented history."

In terms of documented history, democracy is still a young experiment - after outright tribalism, monarchism was the dominant system until a wave of revolutions between the 18th-20th centuries.

Democracy is changing rapidly (in historical terms) - the "digital trackers", Citizens United, creation and repeal of the Voting Rights Act. These will all have far-reaching implications.

A world with a "new political system almost weekly" would be mired in violent localized revolution and tribalism, which is how humanity lived for far longer than they've lived under representative democracy.
Cool game. When I saw so many points I immediately thought of 2048 but it is not that kind of game. But I like the clean look, the fun premise and the slightly snarky comments. :)
His logic is probably: VALUE = timeSpent * overpricedBillingRate

In reality he only provided about as much value as people found in the app.
But users aren't QA testers. There's no way they "should" do anything. They're going to report feedback by the path of least resistance. Communicating through a review gives a user a lot of bang for their buck, because it's highly visible. Plus, lots of apps prompt users to leave reviews. I've never seen one that solicits feedback like that along any other channel.
Why wouldn't they? This is exactly the stuff I'd want to pay for if I was an intelligence agency; you want the hackers to come back with more exploits, after all.
But it's true! Can you do anything remotely similar to this[1] in Angular?

(Disclaimer: I wrote this and promote it shamelessly because it's so cool.)

[1]: http://gaearon.github.io/react-hot-loader/
Microsoft says government officials make sudden visits to China offices
From someone running a growing hardware business and living these headaches I'd recommend you take a close look at your systems- accounting, order management, shipping, billing etc and see where there are opportunities for automation and integration. The work is not fun but you're better off understanding how these things work and handing it off to someone to run instead of having them come in and build their own systems and processes. What happens when that person leaves and no one knows how the day to day is setup to run?

I have saved an enormous amount of time transitioning our business off of spreadsheet and manual processes to putting a remote-hosted Quickbooks Enterprise accounting environment, Salesforce CRM, and Hubspot marketing platforms in place. Each of theses platforms are integrated and we have dedicated staff operating in each environment and responsible for them. Constantly switching from one operations area to another is not only time consuming but highly prone to errors, especially shipping. Outsource your shipping asap with someone like Shipwire. Congrats on the growth in the business- I have found that starting up is hard but growth can be even more difficult!
I think it's worth noting that this is a solved problem if you take a NYC taxi. (Where you also don't need to pay with cash.)
Sorting is not O(N), at best it is O(NlogN)
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To be fair, he claimed that those he would have charged out each of those apps at 50K for custom development time. I don't know if he has the pipeline, infrastructure, etc. to actually bill out clients for Android apps at that rate, but that doesn't sound like an extremely high number to me for custom software work.

You are confusing $500K worth of "work" with $500K worth of billing. A common problem in our industry.
Well, they're selling it in America, right? So American behavior shapes their opportunities, even if it is silly.
Getting Nothing Done: a misguided quest for productivity
I cannot speak to the theory. But, if one starts out with the classical "bounce" intution, one then arrives at the escape velocity issue you and the OP are noting. I was trying to point out that the escape velocity argument may not be relevant, because of the assumption/intuition which went into framing the problem, as stated by the OP.

In general, yes, the escape velocity would need to be overcome. But because it would need to be a quantum and general relativistic phenomenon, there are quantum and curved spacetime effects which make framing the problem as simply "escape velocity", a potentially problematic approach.
Is percent charged also a factor?

If I understand correctly, I've read that fully charging a hot battery will degrade the capacity.

If true, I'd like smart recharging to target some optimal charge, say 95% full. (I think one of the PC laptops did this.)
As far as I can see this is no full single file app: The template is stored separately. In Mojolicious::Lite you can bundle all html/css etc. templates and even images (as base64) in the data section of the file.
Why do you need a username and password though? You could simply just provide the product and the price. Then email that user when the price changes. Offer a one time unsubscribe link in that email if they wish to not receive further updates.

Think newsletter with product price changes.
This is pretty unfair. It's super common to get country TLDs just because they make your service or site sound cooler. I think it's well-accepted that such rules are meaningless at this point.
So the connected social networking data gathered from a person's use of the 'Contactive' app is kept separate and private?

As with everything, I'll assume nothing is free unless I'm the product.
I am a business guy in automotive for the last 25 years.

What is your product? Who is the buyer?
Being the software guy gives you a lot of leverage in the situation, especially if you have a lucrative market lined up.
"Khan Academy TV - youtube.com/user/khanacademy"

Is that impersonation? Basically his app let you have a "bookmark" that opened a YouTube provided channel.

Sure he seems to be naive about the trademark issues (but interestingly never mentions how much money was made, if any) but Google were highly flawed in their customer service/developer relations [as usual]. The trademark issue isn't entirely clear cut (but I wouldn't want to try and defend it in court) as it's descriptive of what it is. There's an exhaustion of rights angle too - like being able to sell Nike shoes and call them Nike shoes as long as they are really from Nike. My point I suppose is it's not entirely without complexity.

Google, how hard is it to have a pro forma response that says "You can not use other business names or trademarks, which you don't have a license for, as part of your app name.".
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Because the pattern of Rayiners interaction is to post something misleading by omission and then get cute about asking other people to complete the picture. Screw that.
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Yes there is, but it hasn't gotten any HN love... :( it's called Househappy.org.

To really understand why it's different takes some knowledge of the industry. The biggest difference, the contact information on the listing is actually the broker who listed it! And it's free for anyone to post.

Oh... And it's the easiest to use! At least I think so :-D

Note: I work for Househappy
Do you also work with email addresses? i.e. give you an email address and get a profile back in return?
for price changes i use camelcamelcamel.com, it works like swiss clockwork
Direct sources.

Here in Houston, nobody uses Zillow because their data is not reliably up-to-date. The city has a custom solution: har.com. It's not as pretty, but it's what all the realtors in the city actually use.
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Please consider linking to something informative, not just a page with a huge picture where they apparently spent more time on the 3d effect than the actual usability of the site, you can't click on anything, it's just....weird.
There's a mental hack I would use in situations like these. Essentially, stop looking for a "cofounder" and start looking for a "collaborator."

Right now you don't have a business, per se. You have a concept. It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't need a cofounder just yet. Turn the concept into a project. Work on any bits and pieces of the project that you can. Go to meetups, bring your idea to a hackathon, and maybe do a Show HN when you've got something tangible. (Something tangible could even be a really interesting blog post about the topic.) All the while, look for collaborators to help out.

The "collaborator" mindset frees you of the mental bottleneck of having to have a cofounder before making progress. It also allows you to work with, and to vet people instead of having a shotgun wedding to the first would-be cofounder you think you get along with.

PG once wrote that a sign of a good team is one that's worked together and knows each other. You can't push a magic button and add five or six years of shared history to any cofounder you meet. But you can get some work experience with collaborators before cofounding a business with one of them. You're looking for someone you can click with over the next five or more years; it's worth a few extra months of scramble in the beginning to find someone great.
Sales. The more you know about the people you're cold-calling, the better chance you have of selling them something.

"Turning phone numbers into full profiles" is a primary objective of every telephone marketing/"lead-generation" campaign in the history of time, and automating part of it by aggregating publicly available data seems only natural.

I would guess this is aimed less at telemarketers calling people's homes, and more at telemarketers selling business services (especially B2B startups), where cold-calling is seen as more legitimate and is the way a lot of business gets done. You want to know, at the very least, that you're calling someone whose job title indicates that they have the authority to spend money.
Ugh, amen! Zillow's interface is horrendous, both from a user and programmatic/scraping standpoint. I've been relying on Trulia for ease of pointing queries at their results pages, so fingers crossed that some of Trulia's sanity trickles into the Zillow site. That article makes it seem doubtful that this will do anything other than beef up Zillow's stack with Trulia's data, though. =/
Ask HN: Science data as viable monetization strategy for mobile apps?
Recent data [1] shows that there are a lot of apps that aren't based on a sustainable revenue stream and have little hope of finding one. Many developers try to use advertising/IAP to make revenue on a free app, but success with this model isn't possible without very large scale. Additionally, returns are smaller and the market is increasingly crowded.

I suggest a new monetization strategy: integrate code to collect useful scientific data from the phone's sensors in the background. This data, in aggregate, is potentially valuable after being anonymized, cleaned, and re-packaged (by a third-party). App developers could make partnerships with companies who need this data - both parties can benefit through revenue sharing.

An example of how this might work: I run the PressureNet platform, which collects atmospheric pressure data from Android sensors. I wrote a library project that you can drop into your app that handles all the sensor data tasks. App developers can integrate this code and join my weather sensor network; in return for sending data, any profits in the future can be shared among the contributing apps. Does this strategy seem viable? Would you consider adding a similar library to your app?

http://pressurenet.io/

https://github.com/Cbsoftware/PressureNet-SDK

[1]: The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092518
I think the best comment, which was buried in the replies was this:

"There is a guide and it's pretty clear: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
- For example, if your app displays the brand, icon, or title from another app [...] your apps can be suspended and your developer account terminated."
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I guess soon enough Chef's and restaurant's will be rating customers as well.

Tyler Cowen extensively discusses the potential future of symmetrical ratings in Average is Over. The book is too complex to summarize here but it is worth reading.
It has been around for a while
Which JS frameworks besides React allow live-editing?
How does Bluebird’s util.toFastProperties() make an object’s properties “fast”?
They do, but I don't think Google is ethically obligated to let this guy post spammy apps that are closely named to companies he doesn't officially work with. I've been a professional Android developer for 2+ years and a user for longer than that. I'm 100% in support of Google banning this guy from the Google Play store.

One of the major misunderstandings about the Play Store is that there "are no rules" in comparison to Apple's App Store. That's not the case. Apple filters up front, Google deals with terms & conditions violations after you are already published.

Now, I think the negative here is that he conflated his personal accounts with his publishing accounts. I generally recommend against that, even if you are a hobbyist developer.
I very nearly stopped at this point:

"All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom."

Sorry kids, to increase freedom I'm taking away your iPhones and you have to use Samsung.

There must be a Franklin quote there, somewhere ?
Most SUVs will never see a day of offroad driving in their lives. That's good because most of them aren't suited for it in a stock configuration anyway.
He used the YouTube APIs exactly as they are intended to be used. There is no issue with his use of the YouTube APIs to wrap a channel. The only potential issue would be the implication that the trademark holder endorsed his app by including their name in the application title, and I think that's an arguable point. I definitely believe that the trademark owners would complain, but I don't think he necessarily did anything technically illegal.
Most projects like this have a contributor release which either requires outside contributions to either be entirely licensed to the project or have a specific grant allowing the founding company to use it as part of their non-GPLed release.
I love it! Thanks for this.
Lots of SUV's are bound to the concrete jungle, I doubt it is an american phenomenon. I see loads of SUV's incapable of going off-road here in Denmark, and I doubt the more southern parts of Europe are different.
He is wrong. But the technology giants wield way too much power and must be tamed.
Having just gone through a move in the midwest, we used realtor.com as the primary search site. Too many times we found Zillow/Trulia information to be inaccurate, either missing listings or just wrong data for bedrooms/sqft.

Realtor.com was very kludgy but it was leaps better than the local MLS website even if well below the UX of Trulia/Zillow

Both the listing agent of my old home and my buying agent in the new state asked for Trulia reviews when the process was over

/1-random-data-point
I get that it might be, but if I subscribed to all these news sites, the nytimes, the wsj, the economist, the information, the financial times, I'd be out a lot of money each month for what is basically an "I don't know how to use the icognito tab on my browser"-tax. I want to support these sites but they are too expensive, and it's too easy to circumvent their paywall. I actually subscribed to the nytimes for a month and I felt stupid for it, which is a weird feeling to have about it.

The Information has a real pay wall, and it's actually the most expensive out of this list, but if I subscribed to it, at least I wouldn't feel like a jackass for doing so. These companies want the Google crawling and the subscription fees, but it seems like you can only have one.
I really like how 'sh' is put together - it's become standard for me. Thanks for building such a useful tool.
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A well-organized hate group can use downvotes to silence reasonable discourse and trumpet their ideology, so it looks like the popular opinion when it's nothing of the sort.

You see this happen on Reddit. A hate group called SRS does it. They've even been leaking onto Hacker News recently, with some of the same lines they regularly use.
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Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit