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Show HN: Hooli – collaborate with your team in one live document
Link: http://hooli.io

There are a gazillion collaboration tools out there. Why build a new one?

I use Trello/Hipchat/Github-issues in my workflow on a daily basis. I have tried a lot more tools. Most of the tools try to do too many things and are not friendly on mobile devices.

Hooli takes the simplicity of a tweet message to make actionable discussions that can be tracked in one live document. We have been using it extensively for taking meeting notes, managing our scrums. It fits nicely with our workflow of Trello -- which we use for tracking weekly/monthly projects and Hipchat -- which is pretty nice for keeping our team updated.
The FSF, while the license writer, is not the copyright owner, or the contracting party. Their view of what should/should not be a derivative work, listed somewhere in an FAQ nobody here has probably read, would mean precisely nothing in court :)

In fact, in the only US cases to have a say on the GPL and definition of derivative works, the FSF's view was never asked for or cared about.
That's true! It gets really expensive to pay so much for minor updates, but, most importantly, for the money we pay (I am twice the sucker as I pay for both Parallels and VMware), they should open-source their guest tools as I really want to use my pricey tools with Fedora Rawhide, Arch Linux, and others as open-vm-tools is pretty limited and Parallels completely lacks something similar.
There are all sizes of distributors. But that doesn't mean all suppliers make use of all sizes, and regardless of size, they're bringing something of value to the supplier. The small hobby shop, for example, provides hands on assistance that a distant supplier can't. Telling people who sell via web site you want to sell via website isn't particularly compelling in and of itself.
This post exemplifies why you don't take legal advice from strangers on the internet.
I love IRC but Slack/hipChat has some features IRC can't provide. Especially, the "formatted"/"preview" (images, videos, URL preview, tables) messages.

Even if the IRC client supports some of theses features, the protocol is just text, you can't add meta/structured data to a message.
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I got banned from Dreamhost about 6 years ago for building something almost identical to this for my own use. We've come a long way.
Or the C11 safe string functions. It depresses me that they aren't already there...
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> You need to re-examine your review policies, and figure out why Chrome can manage to approve extensions in a few days, when you take weeks to review the same code.

AFAIK Chrome extensions don't go through a review process. That's why I know of two Chrome extensions that were spying on their users and submitted the visited urls to third party servers (Smooth Gestures and a Diigo extension having something to do with screenshots).

So while it's important to be able to iterate quickly, I don't think the Chrome team have made the best choice. The damn spying by extensions is the primary reason I recommend Firefox instead of Chrome to anyone who asks.
No, it's $450.98. AT&T Next does not require down payment for a new phone, since they amortize the phone's cost over two years.

For an iPhone 5S you pay $0 up-front and 24 monthly payments of $27.09. Of course, $27.09 * 24 = $650.16, the unsubsidized phone price.

You can, of course, still buy phones on two-year contracts instead of paying monthly. In that case you'd pay $199 for an iPhone 5S, in addition to a (lower) contract hit.
Google has stated they wont complete their transition until 2015
Hipchat/Slack bring a lot more to the plate than just text chat, I think there is room for a customized IRC system to fill that gap, but it would take a lot, including native apps, notifications and tight control over granular settings, as well as centralized permissions for larger teams.
Congrats on the design, but it's sad to see that once again, the wheel has been reinvented: there once was playdar [0], the content resolver that clearly separated the data that was of interest to the user (artist, song, ...) and the actual sources. Its biggest problem was, I believe, that it wasn't an actual music player.

Its gentle folks decided to restart from scratch with a music player in mind, and keep the idea of having different resolvers to target different sources, such as local disk, youtube, spotify, radioshark, ... Really, if you know javascript, you can write a resolver targetting the platform of your choice. The end result is Tomahawk [1] and if you're interested in that you should have a look.

Maybe it didn't spread because it's not a webapp ?

[0] http://www.playdar.org/

[1] http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
Cool change of policy. Brian Chesky says in this video that Y Combinator gave AirBNB an exploding offer back in 2009:

http://youtu.be/6yPfxcqEXhE?t=53m6s
Perceived correlation is usually not actual causation. That should help explain why not.
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Its just like general aviation, changing anything means anyone who got p0wned (or crashed) in the last decade is going to file a david vs goliath lawsuit with the change itself as evidence of negligence. But if they change nothing, then they admit to no mistake.
This is the coolest trajectory found on this thread for now!!!!
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> when someone offers you an exploding offer, it's because they really, really want you to take it.

Couldn't it be because they've got a lot on their plate and after a certain period of time they want to free up their brain cycles and stop wondering if you're going to accept that deal?

Couldn't it be that you're barely preferred and making the deadline shows them that you're excited about the offer? Missing the deadline shows that you're not excited and they'll know to go with the second best candidate?

FWIW, I'm relating this to exploding job offers as I have no direct VC experience.
People skills and programming skills do not necessarily correlate. See also Linus Torvalds and Steve Jobs.
"The key concept to take away from legal theory is that in the end, judges decide.
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This depends. If whether it is a derivative work turns on a question of fact, the jury will decide it, not the judge.

"The uncertainty and doubt that DannyBee comments seem to instill is a bit regrettable, since its not that complicated. "

If you honestly believe this is "not that complicated", you have apparently found a way to solve a problem that has plagued software copyright law for 20+ years!

You then go on to describe that it is not clearly defined, and there is no case law, which seems complicated to me!

". A derivative work is a legal concept built on a few vague concept, neither which has been clearly defined, and the precedential case law for software derivatives is almost non-existent"

With you so far.

However, you then claim intent and industry standards go a long way:
"When a judge look at a copyright case, intent and industry standards goes a long way."

Which is it?

Is there no precedential case law, or is the precedential software case law saying "intent about derivative works is what drives what a derivative work is". Because it can't be both!

In any case, there is literally no industry standard here, and no intent in the written license text. The GPL says nothing about it (the word "derivative work" appears twice in the GPL 2.0, and neither is a definition). Large numbers of authors using the license disagree on what it means (happy to give specific examples if you like, i deal with this literally every day).

"Judges does not seem amused when people trying to find loop holes or game the system."
I agree with this, but it seems, at least to me, irrelevant to this discussion.
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I can see this working on Android with a custom Classloader but how would this work on iOS
> It may be the best thing for accelerators to use time pressure to get founders to accept their offer, but it’s definitely not the best thing for founders.

isn't that 'not the best thing for accelerators' in the long run as well? if you're using a strategy which is clearly not win-win, you're going to lose _good_ deals to people who aren't doing that - so you'll get stuck with a portfolio of companies run by founders not smart enough to see this for what it is. enjoy, sucker!
Yep, I agree. VMs encompassed the problems that containers address, whereas containers do not encompass the problems that VMs are designed to address at least not in any competitive way. Containers are essentially a finer-grained way to manage dependencies on a VM than the VM itself is. So yeah, I guess I do understand the reason why the comparison gets made. I just don't feel it's a very useful one.
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> it can't work without a cellphone

I don't think that is the case.

http://bgr.com/2014/06/30/android-wear-apps-google-play/
I am an American who has a pretty strong desire to leave, at least for a few years. But your post is such a laughable caricature.

Maybe they want to live somewhere that people have the freedom to build mosques with minarets and where nearly every women born in the country had suffrage for their whole lifetime?
Is it fresher than the other dozen or two Lisps, Lisp-likes and Lisp-ish language projects that have popped up in the last year or so? Is it more interesting?
Yeah, I've already decided to make my next minor project in cl21 and see how it goes. Got to be minor though as there's a fair bit of syntax still to be nailed down. But as a modernisation project it's looking promising. It's trying to remove a lot of the niggling annoyances from the CL spec like inconsistent parameter ordering on functions, whilst also adding a bit of sugar like easy hash-table definition.
Fraud
There are different kinds of fraud one can face:
• forging your signature on a document
• rolling back or replacing the odometer
• falsifying figures or terms on a lease
• lemon laundering
• lying about the previous ownership history
One of the most common types of fraud encountered by our clients is being sold a used car which later turns out to have extensive presale collision damage. Often before buying the vehicle the consumer asks the salesman if the car was ever in an accident and the salesman deny it immediately. Later you discover that the vehicle indeed had sustained major collision damage, however rest assured that the salesman will never admit that he guaranteed anything.

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Use /leave for now. :)
Not being defensive, but I'm actually curious about why it made you feel saddened, because maybe we share the same thought.

The headline "paper-friendly" comes from my frustration with other resume building web sites that I've tried over the years that want to reinvent or replace the resume, to the point where I'm not comfortable using it as my own resume.

I built Creddle in the hopes that people will feel comfortable using it as their actual resume - for me that meant printing it out on paper and handing it recruiters at the career fair. That shouldn't have to be a headline or a feature for a resume builder.

Is this maybe what you were trying to get at with the state of web tech?
Hey, guys.

Thanks for all the attention! The repository is here: https://github.com/erming/shout

It's open source, so if you're looking for a cool new project to work on, feel free to help out!
You should make your stuff private if you are uncomfortable with the entire internet having easy, open access to it. If the sites/services you use don't have appropriate measures complain to them or use something else.

There's really not much point complaining, you might stop that person but not the actual process he's using.

http://bitbucket.org/ has unlimited private repositories for teams under 5 which is a great way to sandbox non-public projects.
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> only in the early years of YC did we require an answer right away.

I think the post would be stronger if it acknowledged this fact.
What's the difference between this and Swarm Corp?
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Very cool. I notice that many ships tend to get stuck on the edge of the map though. Maybe make it so they loop back around to the other side of the map?
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You're wrong. Most of their launches are not for Nasa.
> unix guys as a whole didn't try the same. "monetize".

um.. UNIX started out as a closed-source commercial OS.
They didn't issue a coin like Swarm did, no advertise as crypto-equity (get into legal run-ins) - these guys seem to be doing it in a legal, clean cut manner - raising money for crypto projects.
That's valid, but why do individuals have to live long enough?

So that we can build the technologies that will preserve their "information."

Think about it like this, all great breakthroughs were enabled because people were able to transform their thoughts to written or spoken word. Most people do not have this ability, yet the amount of insight worldwide is innumerable. For example first hand accounts of the 1920's are very quickly going away. If we can extract these insights and extend their metaphors longer, the pace of our breakthroughs will expand because we will have better data to compare to.
i agree, this is a huge missed opportunity while damaging their reputation. I imagine if this 99cent price had been revealed at launch that the response would have been much greater.
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>My personal sense is that browser extensions in general are a technology that's on the far side of the adoption bell curve. As the Web itself becomes a more capable platform, many scenarios that used to require an extension can now be handled quite well by sites on their own.

I disagree. Many kinds of extensions are designed to work across multiple sites, and add functionality most websites would either be unwilling or uninterested in adding. Consider extensions like Ad Blockers, Privacy Extensions preventing tracking, HTTPS Everywhere, No Script, download managers, extensions which affect the browser display as a whole (such as Tree Style Tabs), etc.
Circa 1994: Even if the web client supports some of these features the protocol is just text, you can't add meta/structured data to a page.

HTTP and TCP are just plane text too. Its what you do with that text that matters.

Somebody just has to find a way to shoehorn it in. I'd propose using a basic system built on top of the basic AK meta-protocol for serial communication.
I'm not sure why you are arguing with me. I have stated what I am interested in when in comes to building a new business.

I am not looking for exposure, cash or partnerships -- those aren't the problem at all -- but I am looking for sustainable, trustworthy, long-term business ideas.

I have no problem building a business on another business' API's, but based on the track record of doing so, and your comments about them being temporary by nature, I think I will stay away from them.

I think we're in agreement there.
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You submitted this yesterday, with already-significant discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8279982

Yes, you really need to change that name.

> What is Hooli? Excellent question! Hear it straight from our CIO Gavin Belson here.

That's not an "easter egg." That's infringement.
Of those, only fusion might be worth funding--the other two are just singularity wankfests.

As a species, we don't need to create AI to make our magical programmable waifus, and we don't need to prolong the lives of those rich enough to afford it and to reinforce the order of things that got them to that point.

AGI is a crock, because we can't even treat the sentient beings we already have with respect. Longevity is a crock, because it doesn't help the next generation.
If they don't really want you, they'll tend to give vague and noncommittal timeframes so they can check out other options.

A job offer might be time limited if there's a planned start date though.
Are HipChat and Slack free enough to use as an open source project chat/support room?
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Under Win7x64 with Chrome Ver 37.0.2062.103 m
It looks like the kerning is borked in some instances:
http://screencast.com/t/62mt8ipG0
It makes sense to me. I much prefer to hear someone's honest writing about their own mistakes than an overdramised article by someone else.
One more thing:
Freenode has given me about ~20 slots to work with on this demo. If you can't connect, try another network, like `irc.rizon.net` or something.
Equipment cost can amortize to zero in the long run. The thing you are avoiding acknowledging is that the table saw + chop saw + router+table+bits, planer, jointer, sander + misc hand tools do not cost zero dollars initially. Furthermore all people that live north of a certain latitude do not live in houses and this mythical card table is only going to allow you to glue up carcasses of a certain size--a size much smaller than most bookcases at IKEA/Target. The fact that woodworking would not be as much fun if you had to burn everything is essentially an admission that labor cost is not zero.

As far as the sawstop strawman and FUD go, I have never heard anyone say "I don't need to drive safely and be aware of my surroundings and other drivers because I have a seat belt and and air bags." Similarly I have never heard anyone advocate working carelessly around a sawstop simply because there is a blade brake. People on the internet say a lot of things but all of the people that I have talked to that own a sawstop table love it and I have never heard them say that they have had any misfires.
On iOS you can use method swizzling. I wrote up a blog post about a year ago[1], describing some of these methods for a similar-ish concept we built at a hackathon.

[1] http://blog.fliptest.io/introduction/2013/06/12/how-we-built...
Does Lob have a specific differentiator compared to other API-enabled print fulfillment houses? It seems to be a fairly well served market (at least in the UK) so I'm slightly surprised to see a fresh YC team on the case.
Hey, thanks. That's a bug! I'll fix it when the HN madness ends.
That's a really great suggestion. I'll be able to clear up as much vagueness as I can regarding the future of the project.
Are You Building an App or a Business?
I have made extensions and this review process is a total pain, but remember that mozilla is a volunteer based project and they seem to need help on that aspect, maybe they should invite people to join their reviewer team, they have local users groups that can make that happen.
My interest in longevity is closely tied to my interest in space. From my perspective, significant extension of lifespan (& healthspan) helps solve some inefficiencies we currently have in propagation and persistence of knowledge, which I think could help with solving other really hard problems because experts can keep being experts for longer, with less of their time spent on having to train new experts before they fade away. Lifespan extension also turns many "not my problem" situations into "we better figure out a way to deal with that". Once we're in that mindset, combined with possible gains in research efficiencies, I think we'll be able to address long distance space travel more effectively and efficiently. I'm all for both figuring out how to not trash Earth and figuring out how to colonize other planets at the same time. Certainly research in the sort of climate engineering needed to terraform another world could be applied to saving our current one.

I'm going to try to help open that longevity door first; I expect there to be quite a bit of exciting possibilities behind it (and probably a great deal of social chaos, but we can deal with that when we get there...).

Longevity will be
As far as I know, the reason why GCC and clang had to add random things like -Wextra and -Weverything is because of -Wall -Werror. Now instead of "all" meaning "all", due to backwards compatibility you have to write various other incantations to mean "really all".
If you were born in Northern Ireland, you are eligible to apply for the Diversity Visa lottery, if you want to try that route. 'Winning' nets you a green card (yes, this is a real thing; the US immigration system is crazy). There's a low chance of success - looks like 1.25-2% for Europeans, according to Wikipedia.

https://www.dvlottery.state.gov
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/dive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa

Britons born in other parts of the UK are not eligible.

The next lottery takes place next year, applications can be made from October. The only qualifications needed, other than nationality, are a high school education and two years work experience (http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/dive...).
Oddly no. There's a photo in the post where I show a well dusted board, but no shorts were caused by the dust. There was definitely weatherproofing we could have performed on the boards to handle that issue, but I was waiting until it actually became a problem.

It did rain one day, but only during the day when the installation was off. And thank goodness because if the installation was on, not only would we have a pickle of an issue with all of our exposed wiring, but we would have to get to the middle of the playa in the middle of a rainstorm. It's nearly impossible to move when it rains since the dust cakes onto your shoes and eats everything alive.
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Joe Dealfinder can get a Moto G for $179 and get a monthly pre-paid plan for peanuts from a variety of carriers that he can leave at anytime, include budget resellers of the major carriers. He could walk away with a monthly $30-50 bill with lots of data, minutes, sms, etc.

Or he can get this jalopy, pay his extra monthly fee to pay for the actual phone, and then pick from a pricey non-prepaid plan while being locked to this one carrier. Even with modest data caps, he's looking at a near $100 monthly bill.

The dealfinders know these .99 cent phones are ripoffs in the long run.
It seems unlikely that someone would instantly flip from wanting to do a deal to refusing to do a deal just because it drags on a little longer than they wanted.

But anything's possible. If you're happy with the offer and don't want to risk losing it, take it!
The cheaper the mobile device, the more it likely spies on you.
I would love to hear about Erlang and Postgresql adventures of the Chef team. Did you find Erlang problematic to work with Postgresql (there are a couple of not very actively developed drivers that people usually complain about) ?

Did you move more code to Erlang in version 12 compared to v.11 ? Do you regret moving to Erlang now and are you shopping around for a new platform (JVM) ?
Yikes! That's new, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll look to recreate and fix this up as well.
What do you mean slots? Is it just because connections are coming from one IP and there is a limitation on their end?
Along with the image previews, being able to just paste an image into chat (and have it automatically upload to S3) is a huge deal if you're working on anything visual.
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