skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggested (222 days ago) a way that'd make it easy for me to remember at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661

http://<address><uri> becomes http://<address>.pdf.scribd.com<uri>

http://www.janestcapital.com.pdf.scribd.com/yaron_minsky-cufp_2006.pdf

Instead of pdf.scribd.com it'd obviously be nicer if it was just scribd.com. It's easy in BIND to set a wildcard record for everything except the subdomains you actually use.
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Most of the site's I've made in the past have been tools to help my users, so the more a user is on the site, the more are getting at a personal level. Now if it were my blog or something similar, it's their time-I have no room to complain or feel bad. I do the same sometimes when find a new blog or news site I like.
Cayman Islands also screams shady

Heh, yeah, like KBR. A huge company and ... quite shady.
I know I'm not the first person to mention this - please take the time to correctly spell, capitalize, and punctuate your comments. It makes it even more difficult to take you seriously otherwise.
I agree. I've taken a salary significantly less than market value after an acquisition and would never do it again. I actually think it caused other people at the company who weren't involved in the deal to discount my ongoing contribution. Whether that was true or not, you should always be paid what you are worth.

On earn-out, I've never seen a company actually hit their earn-out numbers. IMHO, they're usually set up to get the management or shareholders to accept a smaller valuation than they would otherwise. And the earn-out numbers are usually based on the best-case scenarios being presented by the company being acquired. ;) The scenarios were somewhat unrealistic, especially considering the major disruption of going through an acquisition, and possibly increased levels of big-company-bullshit it may take to get sales closed. In some cases, the fictional earnout values were obvious face saving measures for executives and the board.
There is more room than people may think. IF you have dual citizenship and spend less then 30 days in the US you could be taxed a lower rate depending on the country. As long as you pump up your salaries and leave the company at the near break even point. Most loopholes need alot of exp to find.

all of this only becomes an issue when you have real revenue, by then you should be able to hire decent representation
I don't think scribd automatically publish it on the Internet beyond where you paste it (not certain of that). So I am not sure what it could change in your mind about getting permission.
Markets are relatively efficient - if this was a good idea, people would be doing it. They're not.
It gets interesting when they start offering commercial services around it. What a great platform for project teams, or even disaster notifications (civil services), etc. It would be great for emergency services to coordinate their activities. However, that is assuming that it can handle the volume without going down!

http://twitter.com/npost
Does the Windows version work with applications that don't understand shell extensions (e.g. DOS/Win16 apps, Cygwin &c)? For all the time that I've been searching through syncing programs, I haven't yet found one that presents as a drive/real folder (ala FUSE).
mark www.website.com and website.com as dupes
Is there still a way to download the PDF? What if I want to download the file permanently to my desktop and read it in Preview?
But there's really no need to hear about it until it's decided if you can't do anything to change it (i.e. you are not a voter in the US, nor have influence with any large number of them). I'm Canadian and, though I will be affected by the future actions of the US, there's nothing I can really do to affect them back, so the news of the presidency will probably only reach me a few days after the election, when someone mentions it over coffee.
Thoughts on Primary Elections
I know the YC community frowns on general political content ... but there's a mathematical twist here.

Observing the primaries, it makes little sense to me why all delegates count equally. I want to propose a better algorithm for determining the winner of a primary (better than simply, "who has the most delegates?"). I'm going to assume that a party wishes to maximize the probability it will win the general election in November - no other considerations.

Here's the problem - take the Democratic primary for example. It shouldn't really matter which candidate wins Oklahoma (the Dems are going to lose it in November anyway), or DC (the Dems are going to win it in November anyway). Performance in swing states like Pennsylvania & Ohio should count for a lot, because winning there is crucial to winning the general election.

Currently, the power of a state is proportional (approximately) to its population. I propose a system where a state's power (ie delegates) is proportional to its population AND inversely proportional to its average spread (absolute difference between Rep. & Dem. percentages) in the past 3 presidential elections.

So,

Delegates = k* (Population / Avg. Spread),

with k selected appropriately, and the rounding done appropriately.

What do you think?
Right now you can see the link to the original PDF just by right-clicking on the post title. But yeah there should be a link to the original PDF either in the post or in the document page. We are working on it :)
http://twitter.com/pkaler

But I use Jaiku a whole lot more. Seems to be more of a Vancouver area tech phenomena though.
http://pkaler.jaiku.com
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So I used dropbox as a beta user for close to a year now... the thing I really like about it is the "set it, forget it" feeling it affords me--it's there when I need it, and stays out of my way when I don't. What I would really like to (eventually) see is some kind of a dropbox server I could download to e.g. my SAN (external hard drive attached to my router) that would work the same it does now, i.e. over the internet.
You just spent 3 grafs kicking a straw man, which you'd know if you'd read the article. This is a discussion about an article. The source code for the software the article is about was published in 2005. Nobody argued that he should have kept his algorithms secret; they argued that bragging about them in an article didn't make him look more competant.

Also, you already said you weren't a practitioner; which is it? Your use of the term "Type 1 National Security systems" allows me an educated guess, but you could clear it up.
Congrats guys! Very awesome product.
I'm digging Twitter too. Here's me: http://twitter.com/webwright

If you care about marketing, learn to use Twitter Track (google it).

I get an SMS every time ANYONE mentions RescueTime on Twitter (friend or no). It's slightly creepy when I immedietely pounce on them and thank them. ;-)
It may come down to personal preference, but you can already cleanly pass the PDF's url as a GET parameter to /slurp.

So, your URL would become:

http://scribd.com/slurp?url=http://www.janescapital.com/yaron_minsky-cufp_2006.pdf
http://twitter.com/codergnome

I don't update a whole lot.
This change makes those types of content completely inaccessible to iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Which is funny since Buxfer released their iPhone interface to Hacker News this same day.

Edit:

I'm sure something will change about this, but until then here's a bookmarklet that rewrites iPaper urls to point straight to the original files (take out the line breaks when you make the bookmark):

javascript:function%20revertScribdLinks(a){for(var%20i=0;i<a.length;i++)
{a[i].setAttribute(%22href%22,a[i].getAttribute(%22href%22).replace(
/^.*\.scribd.com.*\?url=(.*)$/,%22$1%22))}}revertScribdLinks(
document.getElementsByTagName(%22a%22));
Nah. I think in general most users would just watch TV or play a game otherwise.
It may be more legitimate than you think. Google is one of the few companies I've interviewed at that isn't scared of my startup bug. They've been able to attract people who are otherwise entrepreneurs and keep them there (as, I suppose, intrapreneurs).
Everything you always wanted to know about HTTP headers status, but were afraid to ask
great resources on this site
http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.html
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Oh, so before you learned about the theorems, you thought you could know anything, and the theorems set you right on that point? And somehow that was a theological or transcendental experience?
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If you are truly proposing an electoral system based on mathematics, then either "Performance in swing states like Pennsylvania & Ohio should count for a lot, because winning there is crucial to winning the general election." is irrelevant, or horribly conflicting to your entire premise.
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During college: crappy internship < working for yourself < good internship

Sounds like you have a crappy internship. Working for yourself is a good option, but may not be the best. Besides, you have the rest of the year to work on your business.

I was in a similar position as you. I had a part-time business that was making as much as most people their first year out of college. I decided to grow it and work on it full-time during the summers.

Thinking back, it was kind of a mistake. I started hating my work and eventually suffered major burnout, due to a variety of unforeseen variables even though I was still making really good money.

Afterwards, I went looking for jobs, but had limited options due to my hodge podge of expertise. I would have had more attractive options and flexibility if I had covered my bets and taken a good internship.

A good internship is one where you build useful contacts, develop marketable skills, pursue an industry/area that you might be interested in for a career/business. If you are looking for something technically challenging, why not join Google's Summer of Code? Look for a good prof to take you under his wing? Shadow a guy that you want to be in 5 years? Work at Apple? Get street cred with an open source project?

You should be focused on exploring, finding your passions, getting useful experience, opening up more attractive opportunities. Not so much money.
Why is that conflicting? I'm only proposing to identify such states statistically, and give them higher weight.
Or maybe the title should point to the iPaper version and a [PDF] or [PPT] link pointing to the original URL should be automatically placed next to the title. No need to include it manually part of the title for those kind of files.
well, you don't have to speculate, as that was basically my meaning.

(where'd you get security through obscurity? christ.)

good designs don't hard code silly stuff like block ciphers and prngs. those come and go. you let the two sides negotiate what cipher they want to use, and design the overarching protocol to be as secure as the ciphers being used. (see ssh.)
You have a point. I'd also prefer not to read that kind of news in this site, unless they are related to the tech world (like an interview at the Googleplex).
I understand that, and you've definitely done the important part of making it so docs don't have to be uploaded via a form. That's a big deal. I think if you made it really easy to remember people would get in the habit of doing it when they linked. They're not going to go to your website and find "/slurp?url=" every time though. It should be simple enough to remember off the top of your head.

"Documents on the web causing you pain? Just add scribd.com to the domain!"

Yes. I'm a cheesy bastard like that. Thanks for responding.
This post really encompasses the essential boringness of stories (and by extension games, which we weave our own stories within) that focus on complexity for its own sake: a story is not made interesting by having a large dataset for many different items, or even a huge map of intricate subplots. It is made interesting by presenting ideas that awaken the mind. That requires no deep backstory, no fancy items, not even fancy words. Hemingway said it well, paraphrased and shortened: big emotions do not require big words.
I spent about a year and a half doing consulting with an big architecture firm several years ago.

The primary project I worked on was essentially the opposite of this guy's idea - to take the existing plans for the highly rated hotels the firm had designed and to attempt to algorithmically extract the heuristics for Alexander's "QWAN".

It was a very interesting, ultimately unsuccessful project - but I can certainly imagine a good future for this type of idea.
It might make sense to award delegates based on the percentage of all registered voters who vote for you, rather than percentage of those who actually vote. IOW, the number of delegates from a state isn't set in advance; it depends on voter turnout. That way candidates' ability to energize their base is rewarded.
I only use Twitter to integrate with beanstalkapps.com - this way my clients can see my SVN commits in real-time (since I'm cheap and don't pay for them to have an account to the beanstalkapps.com backend).
Sorry, I would have but I got your reply too late.
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#7 on the front page. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134236
Honestly, that's way more than I ever wanted to know about HTTP header status.

But certainly useful.
I will try again tomorrow
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Actually Buffett has pretty much been shouting this from the rooftops. In 2003 he even spoke at length about this at my school. So the "Warren Buffet.." part is not misleading. However I don't think the 16 trillion number came from Buffett, so I think linking the two is misleading
TechCrunch's info is a bit out of date.
I'd like to see a zero-knowledge protocol for a Dutch auction.
These things were seen as no-risk, basically like money market funds. Some startups have raised 8 digit numbers of money, and they have a CFO, and that CFO would be neglecting his fiduciary duty if he left millions in an account that earned 0.25% interest.
It's them plus me. Actually, for the record, only Arash dropped out.
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Relax... First, I had HEAD, PUT and DELETE in mind as stuff you usually don't need to support explicitly as a web developer...

I admit I went a bit overboard with saying "can completely ignore the lion's share" but I obviously didn't mean you should go out of your way to skip the absolute basics that caching, content negotiation, error codes etc. are.

I wasn't "advising" against learning HTTP, I just think lots of web developers get away with not learning much about it (I'm NOT saying that's a good thing.)

edit: Damn, the more I reread my previous post the stupider it sounds :|
Why not just buy a hard drive, store your audio on it, and leave it at a trusted friend / relative's house?
and another:

- http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.png, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134933

- http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.gif,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134236
I like it, but comment replying isn't working ("A network error occurred. Please refresh before continuing.").

The only thing I would suggest is that you make the hot spot on the comment smaller (only the top, maybe), because when I drag my finger, it keeps clicking the comments.
I agree with the general idea that delegates from swing states should count for more.

The problem is your function doesn't really maximize the win probability either. I am not an expert here, but there may be a way to more accurately characterize the probability. Also, your function blows up when "average spread" tends to 0. An appropriate sigmoid transform should fix that.
What value is he adding for his users?

First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion.

Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by recommending a web site that was so quickly destroyed after they all discovered it. Of course, few of them would likely realize that they, themselves, were the cause of the downturn.

Clearly neither of those seem like they're going to happen, based on the referral numbers that Paul posted so far, but it was a more feasible option when I made my earlier post.
If the party bases have no influence, then their constituents voices won't be heard intra-party, and the party risks alienating their base.

Although it may seem a more efficient way to decide the outcome, it is a self-defeating prophecy to believe that party bases will never change. Consider how the North and South "flipped" from Democrat to Republican, but someone without a history textbook would never guess that it had been the Democrats who seceded.
Have you seen the Array methods in JS 1.6?

http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/ncz/colum...

Granted, that's Firefox 3 only, but they could be precisely emulated with a library. IMO, attaching methods to Array is more the way to go here.
I agree on the supplementary link think. I'd much prefer to be able to get the original document.
A little late...Awesome iUI Video!
Yeah, @dcurtis. Recently, I've become addicted.
Awesome video by Joe Hewitt on the iUI library. Thanks to

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ashu

for mentioning iUI.
The primary is not a sampling to determine the most popular candidate for a general election. It is a method for a party to determine its chosen representative. Also, the rules differ from state to state about which kind of voters can vote in the primary -- in some, you have to be a "registered" member, in others not. So your method would never apply generally.

I find the American system baffling because consults the public so early in the process. In parliamentary systems, the party chooses a leader, and then this leader becomes the face of the party in the next election. In other words, there is only "superdelegates". That seems way more rational to me, although it sets a higher bar for insurgent candidates.
Or your startup founders?

I assume you have done the math.
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Of course... checkout Folding@Home stats
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

To make the comparison more relevant I look at the difference between Intel based Macs(because they are all relatively new computers) and PS3s
Agreed - I don't think it maximizes the win probability per se. I just think it's better than the current system.

Point taken about the "exploding near zero". I could do something like
Population / (.2 + 5^(x/3-1) ), where x is average spread, ... but that just gets ugly. I wanted to communicate a general concept, not propose a specific formula.
If you're a Delaware corp, but you live and operate in, say, California, don't you also have to be incorporated to do business in California and pay taxes on whatever income is received there?

Or is the whole point that we're doing business "on the internet" so that doesn't apply?
Perhaps they just not preferable for reproduction, or the current quantities are simply good enough for evolution's pressures.
I was just joking. They most definitely were not at SXSW.
If you need money and it's all locked up in non-liquid assets, you do what you have to do to stay afloat.
Just fixed that error. Replying should work now...

I will keep thinking about the reply "hot spot"...
It's description and the inane posts I originally read made me think the same thing!

But, after much use it's a great piece of technology. It allows you to survey a crowd, use it for emergency purposes (San Diego Fire Dept did just this), learn about what your friends are reading/sharing, where they are going for the evening, how they feel, etc...
Java on the iPhone?
What business or strategy books do you read to keep you on course
Every yr, I spend one day or so, re-read the classics- Sunzi's (Sun Tzu) Art of War, Laozi (Lao Tzu)"Tao Te Ching", Chinese Seven Strategy Classics, Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, Niccolo Machiavelli "The Art of War" and "The Prince", Niccolo Machiavelli "The Art of War", Marcus Aurelius "Meditations", Karl von Clausewitz "On War"and so forth. What books do you read to get your strategic bearings going?
http://twitter.com/danielha

holler @ me.

Also subscribe to the RSS of your company name (or keyword of choice) at http://terraminds.com/twitter. My favorite Kirigins have Tipjoy on that badboy.
1) Yes, this doesn't belong on YC

2) Superdelegates are supposed to make the kind of calculations you are suggesting. They have a big advantage in that they vote last so they know the most up-to-date breakdowns of the individual states. Superdelegates are immune to the cross-party registration (Rep voting in Dem primary) and are more likely to listen to actuarial opinion - you could provide the same info to the voting public but it wouldn't change votes much. That's the theory of Superdelegates anyway.
But it doesn't work on my iPhone :(
My own understanding of derivatives is very weak, but could someone extend this example to explain what the resulting state would be in this chain? Simplifying a little, a->b->c->a (a loop), where -> is "owes $1000". So party A dies, leaving B in the hole, right? This seems like a recipe for massive implosion, an unstable system ala a mountain of sand. Destabilize one grain, somewhere, and you get an avalanche.
You should rephrase the question.

Would you feel bad if your boss overpaid you(on purpose)?
There's definitely a level of premature optimisation, although it is becoming less common. I've lost count of the times that I've encountered forms that only accept five digit postal codes or 10 digit telephone numbers.

Take your business elsewhere and the problem will fix itself.
There's a similar example in Europe, but much more benign and regarding the water between England and France. In English it is known as the English Channel. In French, it is known as The Channel.
It looks really spammy, which is surprising because the site was designed by Electric Pulp, which was recommended on this forum ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134715 ).
I agree.

They should get the shortest domain names possible. For tiny utls. For the web view. they should just have a single character as a link, like a #.

iv.an is available for 450 euro! Is u.rl available?

I'd like parallel streams, with people that update too much pushed to the sidelines.
Hell yah. Terraminds twitter search is actually pretty useful. Searching for your company name is particularly valuable. Go tip 'em.
This isn't new. The article investigates a Warren Buffett prediction with five years of hindsight. Indeed, when Buffett's Gen Re started unwinding its derivatives five years ago, some thought derivatives would be the primary source of a financial meltdown.

I believe at the time that Buffett was most concerned that a large and permanent shift in major exchange rates would eliminate small margins of profit.
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Ask PG or RescueTime or 8aweek: how much time has the current YC batch spent on YC news?