skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the author's point - that current implementations of IMAP seem insufficient for today's world. It seems, then, the way to is implement the best damn email client AND 'imap' server, cough extending RFC2060 as you go, with features for moving mail to your imap server. For completeness, you would actually need a few frontends: local app (on windows, os x and linux), web app, iPhone/android app. Unfortunately, I don't see any viable business plans after that.

Sell email for your domain, similar to google apps? Sell the software directly? Sell support/custom development for the software?
'It's satire. If you can't cope with that, please off yourself for the good of the rest of us.'

ok
Considering all that, the fact that you guys were able to produce any game is nothing short of amazing, but that you put together a game that still looks fun and interesting to play 16 years later is absolutely astounding.

Having spent some time in Iraq during the recent "situation" from 2006-2007, I really look forward to playing this and seeing your home country reflected in a positive and proud light.

it certainly makes me feel that my long distance phone charges to Finland in the late 80s and early 90s to download games and demos at 2400bps seem like not such a big deal in retrospect

You guys are inspiring.
There is no gray area. If you support laws against hate crime or hate speech, you're against freedom of speech.
It is only a grey area in certain countries.
I found this very hard to read. The commentary seems unnecessary and is distracting.
How Improvisers Use "Status" To Make Sales (And Get What They Want)
That's why you don't visit sites like that. No visitors means no money, unless someone is digging into their pockets to pay for the thing (quite possible, of course, and I have no idea how ED gets their money).
It's almost like you didn't read a single word beyond the title of the initial post.
I really like 120 when it's small. Magnified it's less appealing.

Great typeface, indeed.
Consistently times out about half-way down every time for me. So half the preview iframes are left blank by the script.
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Beyond that, if you're on .Net it's trivial to add scripting to your application via IronPython or IronRuby (or any other .Net language, I suppose).
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Cofounder Google Doc-inspired app - in 24 hours 
Inspired by the Cofounder Google Doc's appeal (and the obvious need for a collaborative app), we coded up http://findmycofounder.com/ (based on feature suggestions in the comment threads), and launched it 24 hours later.
I remembered your earlier post. You made Estonia sound pretty good. :)
However, the approach explained in this presentation does just that. The solution looks like a crude process operating systems scheduler.
Cool, now I need an iPhone emulator so I can play it :-)

I miss my Amiga 1000 :-(
Using the new epoll-based event lib: scaling simple Haskell web servers
Well, I know for a fact that my email on a traditional web site is going to be indexed and cached by search engines, internet archive, etc, while on the Google Doc, I'm a little fuzzier on how permenant and searchable my email address becomes.

In a nutshell, I wanted to avoid spam; from bots, not from users here.

If I had had this account the other day, I probably would have just added that.
tyvm, but before you do could you please provide your name, so I can have the satisfaction of looking up your obituary tomorrow?
This is outright copyright infringement. To read the article online you need to be a subscriber to the New Yorker magazine (link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_... ) I doubt that scribd link has their permission to duplicate and redistribute like that. I know this is probably not a popular thing to point out but if this is acceptable then are we going to start linking to torrents of pirated movies too?
I don't get what makes "startups" different from other businesses. Why is a "cloud social network" business different from a new innovative retailer. Why is Wal-mart (started in Alabama), less financially successful than Google (started in CA).
Pragmata is very nice, but I tend to stick with 6x13.
Because Immigration and Taxation is a bitch.
does anyone outside of hacker news think of "hacking" as "learn about how things work"? i always thought pg made this up. whenever i talk to people outside of hacker news i say "maker" instead of hacker.

rambling: i like to think i've found the awesomeness that is hacker news (and ycombinator) despite poor naming choices. the 'y' in ycombinator combined with photos of men and combined with the classical hacker culture really lowered my expectations for this community....then i discovered it was totally different. ps - even knowing lambda calculus and fixed point calculations, i still half thought the choice of 'y' was ostentatiously male. on the other hand, it wouldn't be the first time i had a skewed perspective of language and culture.
It's considerably cheaper to build your own gym equipment than ever buying it. I remember reading someones efforts to build a human hamster wheel, built from steel tubing which cost ~$300. I know I saw a wooden one built for ~$50 of lumber. IIRC the wooden saw took a mitre saw and a single wood chisel, so with tools included it likely cost less than $100. The wooden human hamster wheel looked considerably sturdier than most wooden furniture capable of holding several people.

Exercise and 'medical' equipment go through rigorous testing, mostly to absolve the developer of liability.
I love that font and don't ever see it in any of these font reviews. My emacs is a very dark brown background and a light grey base face.
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you're right - i agree. i got the link in an email and didn't realize it was paywalled, though i don't see a way to delete the submission.
I wonder if, for exercise equipment at least, it would be worth developing it as a video game 'peripheral' and avoid much of the regulators control.

Imagine this: a row-machine that links into your Xbox/PS3/Wii and you can compete in tournaments in game and online, but have it completely usable without it being used as a gaming peripheral. It could be similarly attached to any 'sport' equipment.

I wonder if this would be enough to evade regulator oversight or not.
3D is probably inevitable if you think about it. Television has room to evolve until it reaches the limits of a pair of healthy human eyes. That includes factors like color, resolution, frame rate, and depth perception.

Most 3D tech seen today is in its infancy. There isn't much content for it. You still need to wear 3D glasses for most of it (those are probably going to get tossed before 3D takes off in the home - it's not natural enough to use).

HDTV took a while before becoming mainstream. We were hearing about it back in the mid-1990's. There was no content at first, TV sets were expensive, certain standards didn't solidify yet (Blu Ray, HDMI to name a few), etc... It didn't start taking off until recently.

Right now we're seeing the same for 3D. A bunch of different standards, all in their infancy. It might take 5-10 years before it starts becoming mainstream, similar to HDTV. The 3D standards you see today may end up being toys for rich people only to be replaced with something better shortly after, like Laserdisc's were before DVD's came to be.

Beyond 3D TV running at 240fps at 20K x 10K pixels, what else is there? Probably something that links directly into your brain, bypassing your eyes (and ears) entirely. A few decades away from that I'm afraid though. :)
I find it very helpful to start with a blank color file, and build from there. I've been using my own personal file for quite a while now, and it consists of about 3 colors, and some highlights. I like the simplicity of it, as a lot of the scheme's I've tried have used too many colors and proved to be distracting to me. Just my .02!
Desert.
Caterina Fake on how there are great engineers everywhere: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001215.html

she also touches on some cultural differences between NYC and CA:

But what NYC is actually missing is not engineers. In NYC you can find lots of great engineers, visual designers, and great publishers and contributors to social media. But in CA I seem to find far more people with multiple skills - engineers who blog and dabble in design, designers who can do great UI but also great UX, etc. These multidisciplinary people are the ones who hack together brilliant new stuff, can innovate across the board, see various avenues of attack, and are indispensable at startups. It is these hybrid people that we are always looking for at Hunch and for whatever reason find them much more often in CA than NYC.
Well dude, if it were up to me, I would have a "censorship is always wrong" approach. No exceptions. I realise this will never come to pass, but that's none the less how it would be if it were up to me. Censorship is never a force for good in my opinion.

As an aside, Google was running 'used aborigines' adverts from ebay for quite a while. Do you think these adverts should also be allowed to run?

I had not heard about this, but honestly I could not care less. If people just ignored this shit rather than pandering to the trolls, maybe there'd be no incentive for them to keep doing it.

Google has in place limits to stop things like pornography showing up, with it's safe search feature. This is already a form of censorship based on the values of countries like the USA.

And this censorship would be gone too, if it were - once again - up to me.

I think you must see where I draw the line now, i.e. I don't draw it. I can imagine that many people may think my view extreme, what about the children and all that? Well, that's what parents are for.

Whether a sociopath is able to say whatever they like on the Internet or not doesn't bother me in the slightest. Because I am an independent person who thinks for myself and feels quite comfortable judging for myself whether I wish to read the writings of a sociopath.

But more than anything else, I was actually commenting on the technological naivety of the people involved in this particular situation. Were I inclined to get a bee in my bonnet about satirical racism on the Internet, would I think having the offending material removed from Google is really any kind of satisfactory outcome? Can people still get to the offending content? Certainly. Do more people know about it now than could have ever possibly known about it previously? Yes.

My point is that no matter how tightly the Conroys of this world try to clamp down, there will always be cracks that are exploited. No matter how "clean" the feed, there's always going to something on the Internet that offends someone. Instead of worrying about where the line is drawn, we could start worrying about taking personal responsibility for ourselves and our children and leave everyone else free to do the same.
Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus and Neptune
0.5% - 1.5% is where a lot of _founders_ end up, in terms of equity ownership. Depending on how many rounds of financing, how long it takes, how desperate for the money, and, how long it takes to get to profitability, it's not uncommon for a founder to own 2-3% of the company.

Employees, even at quickly growing startup, and having been hired on in the first year, may be lucky to own as much as 0.1% of the company.
As in the other thread, I disagree that the correct language here is "Google censored." The site is up. You and I can read it. So no one censored the site. Rather, Google responded to a legal process that apparently exists solely in Australia to remove a link to that site from certain search results pages generated after Google searches.

I think everyone agrees with the principle that SOME sites are best removed from Google results pages, for example malware or spam sites. If I understand the other thread correctly, Google even notes for the user's benefit that some search results have been removed when it complies with legal directives such as that used in Australia. Google gets to decide how to do its business of generating search result pages, including how it wants to respond to the laws of other countries. Google isn't censoring the site linked here.

P.S. It amuses me that people who perhaps think they are supporting the cause of opposing censorship are in some cases indicating that by downvotes in the other thread. Should every opinion be heard, or shouldn't every opinion be heard?
There's no way to answer this question unless you say what the server is supposed to do. Why do you need "low-level control"? How do you plan to deploy the server when you're done? Who will maintain it?
Fairly worthwhile documentary discussing the etymology of the term Hacker:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5464925144369700635#
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is is a good read about 'hackers' in the true, original meaning of the word.
Check into it more. The tagging, alone....
This bring up a complaint about Scribd that I've heard from a few people.

Most notably Merlin Mann said: "The core of Scribd’s model is the lowest form of leeching; yoinking other people’s shit without permission, then deliberately making it a giant pain in the ass for people to use."
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/323549005/too-bad-so-i-went...

Thoughts?
An IT Manager/First IT Employee can expect to see 0.1% of a startup with $3mm in funding and a $10mm pre-money valuation.

And, just a note - unless the strike price has increased significantly, or a lot of employees have been hired, I disagree with the premise of the author of the article that "Re-Up" aren't to maintain the same percentage of equity. In my experience, they are used to do precisely that.

The people who are diluted are those who've left the company. Sometimes very, very significantly - particularly if there is a reverse-split in the mix as well. Existing employees simply get grants to keep their stake the same.
Erm, isn't what you're proposing pretty successful and called Exchange and Outlook (or Domino/Lotus Notes for the especially unfortunate)?

It's not exactly an easy market to enter, but there most certainly is one, and it's quite large.

Coincidentally, the article itself sounds like the author has never used Exchange, either.
Knowing little of Python, is it the case that the GIL was not initially deemed a bad scheme because multi-processor x86 machines were a rarity in the mid-90's (when Python was young)? I presume that Sun desired Java to be multiprocessor friendly because it had multi-cpu SPARC machines at the time of Java's design?

And, for those using Python for high-volume production systems, how do you cope? Do you run one process (say a Zope instance) per core and load balance?
Do as I Say, Not as I Do: 'Moral Hypocrisy’ in Powerful People
Water tank Installation and Maintenance Concerns
Installing water tanks and conserving rain water will save you from a lot of water problems. It will also bring a lot of savings month after month on your water bills besides getting you water tank tax rebate. However there are number of other concerns associated with water tank installation and maintenance. You will be able to resolve most of the installation and maintenance issues by choosing the right water tank for your requirements.
Has something new happened with this case? Was this link posted in response to some other thread I'm missing?
And, as much as it pains me to say this, some companies have a very, very strict policy about _not_ informing their employees or candidates as to what the number of outstanding shares are in the company.

Yes. I feel your rage.

In fact, I've expressed it to the executives of those companies.

But, as long as things look good, the company is getting funding, and an IPO looks like a possible event in the future, most (all?) employees are usually afraid to make waves.

It's like PG often says - there really IS a difference between a founder/early-stage-startup employee, and employees of more established firms. I'm guessing 50% of the HN core would probably call BS and walk away from any company who refused to tell them how many outstanding shares they had, particularly after they were employees of that company.
Affirmative action also creates distortions in the pipeline for new hirees. For example, since essentially all private elite universities in the United States systematically discriminate on the basis of race, for a given "quality" of applicant, minority applicants are likely to have a more prestigious degree. This tends to concentrate the top-of-the-field scholars MIT wants to attract at a very, small set of institutions, since if you move just a little down the institutional prestige scale you'll find schools happily admitting minority students who are not cut out for careers at world-class research institutions.

This is difficult to verify because universities lie pervasively about their systematic racial discrimination, but when data does come to light about them, for example in the Gratz v Bollinger litigation, it typically shows that the discrimination is less a "plus factor" and more "two institutions at different academic tiers which happen to be geographically co-located". (The difference between the mean white and black student at the University of Michigan is more than the difference between the mean UoM student and the mean Harvard student.)
When I drink I tend to be a bit of a jerk. I tend to be blunt and not care what people think about what I'm saying. I also tend to view myself as being more smooth/interesting/whatever than I actually am. Of the times I've gone out and barely drank or not drank at all, I've never left with/taken home anyone. There have been at least five separate occasions where I've been somewhere between pretty drunk and absolutely wasted and ended up going home with someone (and this isn't the beer goggle effect at work either).

Call it an anecdote or a small sample or whatever you want, but being more aggressive and boastful and jerk-like has clearly worked better for me, even if I feel kind of bad about it sometimes the next day.
Scribd wants to be "the YouTube of documents". It worked for YouTube.
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It's my understanding that a government run health care company would be more efficient and powerful, by diluting risk across the nation, and could easily drive the current private insurance companies out of business or hurt them tremendously.

So if such a company backed by China's mass was slipped into the US market, assuming no regulation, wouldn't it have an advantage?
Ubuntu? In that case, "Monospace" isn't really a font, but Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that after forking out x * 10^5 or even 10^6 dollars on tuition fee, you have to spend thousands of dollars on apps and textbooks to stand a chance on the exam. There is something very wrong with the US higher education system.
Thanks, you are actually right. Reuniting the team after all these years and building a product with this quality was not easy, especially that the graphics artist is now an architect and the musician is a medical doctor. Also, as a father of two and with a full-time job, I have different set of challenges. I started working on this project after hours and on weekends back in May last year, I was sleeping around 4am almost daily. Then I took a risky unpaid leave in October to work full time, I am now sleeping at 6:30am on average. I was also lucky to have a strong team working with me on this project.
Part of the guy's argument (and one I've heard from a few YC founders) is that with all the other odds that are stacked against you in a startup, do you really want to take a chance on location too? If it gives you a few percentage points better chance of success, why not take it? If your startup failed, how would you feel if it was only because you didn't move to Silicon Valley? Tech markets are often winner-take-all - if you're a couple percentage points better than the other guy, you win.
Great article!

But what if I offer 1 share for 1% and then sell myself a billion new shares, diluting that 1% down to practically nothing? I'm sure this would be regulated, but it seems if something like this needs to be regulated then it indicates a flaw with the system. Why can't we just give out percentages, and have that percentage stay constant?
Thanks for posting this, just today I was browsing http://www.vi-improved.org/color_sampler_pack/ and wondering how the colouring was done in HTML (assuming that's what the link uses...)
Do Judges Systematically Favor the Interests of the Legal Profession?
Fair enough. You can, alternatively, download and install the trial version of Microsoft Office 2007.

http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx
A startup where founders end up < 5% is going to be one with serious issues. Assuming a two-person startup where everyone starts at 50%, you'd have to go through three really low-value rounds (say taking in 1M on a 3M post-money valuation) to get the founders below 10%. Either you are burning cash way too fast or your idea just isn't taking off.

Regardless, everything is a tradeoff in a startup - if you ever get to that point, your employees are probably either staying because they are getting equivalent salary to a non-startup position and enjoying the environment or they are expecting a massive payoff (0.1% of a $500M exit is still $500k).

If you've made it through a few rounds of dilution as an employee and don't hold a lot of stock, you should probably be weighing whether it's even worth staying.
It happens. And then lawsuits are filed if the party being diluted put real money into the deal:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-ebay-finally-loses-cool-s...

In the case of common shareholders, the opportunities for redress are substantially less.
I'm not sure how old you are, but I'll assume that if you listen to me I can save you 50 years of repeatedly shoving your brain through a meat grinder.

Hacking is not about breaking into computer systems

Everyone at HN already knows this and has heard it repeated ad nauseam. No one else cares, and your attempts to correct them will do little beyond branding you as an angry nerd. If you must persist in your sisyphean effort, at least realize that you are doomed to failure. Language is shaped by common usage, not edict.
Is manual focus practical to use on an electronic viewfinder? On my P&S it isn't. The resolution isn't high enough; particularly in low light when the image is fuzzy - and that's just the situation when I need to use manual focus.
"Earth is <= 6,000 " and evolution are interesting choices. I'd have included reincarnation, astrology, yoga as a spirtual practice, "spirtual energy" and possibly "evil eye".

One interesting thing about my list is that believers are more likely to be Democrat/Independent than Republican and Liberal/Moderate than Conservative. (In most cases, Democrat more than Independent and Liberal more than Moderate.)

We see the same thing wrt "In Touch with the Dead", ghosts, and fortune-tellers.

Things are a little different wrt personal mystical experiences. (Dems and Repubs are tied at 50% while Independents are somewhat less likely while the order is Conservative, Liberal, Moderate.)

See http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=490 , specifically "Beliefs of Demographic, Political, and Religious Groups" and "Supernatural Experiences" (about half-way through).
Knowing the price of 1Kg of Potatoes, the street-side vegetable seller in my home town in India only needs to know how much to charge me for 3/4 Kg. He doesn't really care how innovations in mathematics resulted in fractional multiplication. This can be extended to the teaching of basic maths. Students who show an interest or an aptitude for grasping the finer and more insightful details can go on to read up on it, or ask their professors.

What we really need is professors knowledgeable enough to answer these questions or point the student to the right texts.
Old Article - please put 2008 in title.