skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lock everything. Is it that inconvenient to do? I know a lot of people that don't lock their stuff and I really don't understand why. But I guess my stuff is safer with other people leaving their property unlocked. Given a burglary it will be much easier to steal other peoples stuff than mine. It's like the joke, Q: How do you escape a wild animal? A: Be faster than the slowest person in the group.
There is a middle ground. My condo has a coded lock and takes four digits to get in. Lots of my friends and colleagues have the code, as does the doorman, cleaning service, etc. Never had a problem.
Is HODR listed on Charity Navigator (I can't seem to find it)?
http://almost.done21.com/2009/04/announcing-ie6-update-help-...

^^ ie6update bars author discussing the ethics of the situation.

I'll probably add this to my blog pointing to a browser choice page like the MS Windows "web browser ballot" screen.
"unofficial implementations with bugs unknown to you"

I think it's not much secure to rely on php core for security. If you want security you add tests, even php core developers are humans.
You're missing the point about the insurance company.
Baaaad idea. Seriously, sending username and password in cleartext over the wire because "it's faster to implement" is not something that's worth doing.
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A pen always worked for me.
With the way Google's corporate structure is set up I do not think the general shareholding public have the power to sue Google in such a fashion.

Separately, I think that as more of the story comes out we will see that this move is in Google's best interest; as difficult a decision that leaving China is. I've mentioned in other places that there is probably a lot more going on here. Today Techcrunch reports, http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/14/google-china-holiday-le..., that Google is sending their China staff home on early holiday. One can imagine a scenario where someone planted hard/soft hacks or network snoops directly at Google China HQ.
No, there's explicit legislation at the federal level making it legal to transport firearms. This overrides any state and local laws. The conditions are basically: (a) You can legally possess the gun at your origin and ultimate destination; (b) you take a reasonable route between them; (c) firearm is unloaded and not immediately accessible.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#....
I guarantee none of these "No Lock" people have bothered to read the fine print of their insurance policies and they don't own firearms.
'After I described the book to my Chinese dinner companions-a hip and artsy intellectual crowd-one friend declared: "Some day the same thing will happen in China, then I'll know who my real friends are."'

Sometimes I think people misunderstand why police states are evil. It isn't that it oppresses this group, or that group. It oppresses everyone. From the lowliest peon to the person putatively at the top, everyone must watch their step. Some people seem anxious to set up police states because they think they will be in the oppressor class rather than the oppressed class, but there isn't an oppressor class, just varying degrees of oppression. (I don't mean some people here on HN, I just mean in general.) As wonder as it may seem to be Chavez or Kim Jong-il, they find their hands pretty tied by the system they've created too.
Dozens (there really aren't that much more) of type designers are crying right now :)

Fonts are hard work, can be beautiful and deserve to be protected. It's just a shame that fonts are always priced with professionals in mind. I would very much love to be able to just go font shopping as a mere consumer. I cannot pay $100 (or more) for one font weight, though. Some sort of iTunes store for fonts where you pay $10 (or so) for a basic package (normal, italic, bold, bold italic) would be great. You could limit that to non-professional use. I guess there only aren't enough people like me out there to make that feasible.
> This article requires me to login :(

> Murdoch needs to get with the program.

The "I'm running one of the only two profitable newspapers in the US" program?

I think he's ALREADY with that program.

Sorry that you don't like it.
China’s Web Three Different Ways
If they put it to a shareholder vote and everyone decides leaving china is good that is fine. If they make a vote among a few insiders at the top and leave china and then it turns out billions in market cap are lost as a result, I'm almost certain there will be a lawsuit.
If we can sort this one out we can also figure out what to do about road rage and offensive driver behavior.

In both cases there's something that makes people forget they are not the only thinking, feeling, I-make-the-occasional-fuck-up person on the planet.
Even more then editor wars?
Sergey and Larry hold a controlling stake because there is a dual class of Common stock where the Founders' stock has 10x the voting power per share compared to normal Common stock.

Sergey and Larry have something like 30% of the equity combined but held 85% of the voting power.
silly aside, but did anyone else notice that the following sentence appears twice?

"Veteran observers of trade between the countries suggest that Google, and the U.S. generally, has little leverage to press China to back down on Internet censorship or other issues."

Seems like something a good copy editor would catch.
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I found it telling that not a single one of them talked about the coordinated attacks - at most they mentioned the censorship.
MSF runs some of the only free medical centers in Haiti -- if you look at the news stories coming in about the injured, they tend to be from or near MSF facilities.

The Red Cross and UNICEF and other large charities are great, but it's definitely worth remembering that organizations like MSF have been on the ground in Haiti since before the quake.
I've worked with PHP in the past, and occasionally still do when the situation demands it. I've also built web apps using Ruby, with Rails and without a framework. All of the following are possible options for building a website:

* Bare PHP
* Bare Ruby (but you probably should not use mod_ruby)
* PHP and a framework
* Rails and a framework

From a pure language perspective, I'm willing to declare Ruby superior without hesitation. It's cleaner, and it's more powerful. Ruby seems to have had a fairly clear vision from the beginning, while PHP has accumulated features over the years, sometimes without regard to how well those features might work together.

If you just need to get something done, you should use what you're familiar and comfortable with. No advantage of any of these options is as important as the programmer's ability to use the tool.

Frameworks are opinionated. The purpose of a framework is to take away the work of making certain kinds of decisions. If your opinions clash with those of the framework, the project isn't going to go well. Rails is of the opinion that the database should have a certain sort of schema, and be abstracted away by ORM. If you like SQL, don't use Rails. If you have a complex existing database, and you want to keep it instead of moving the data to a Rails-friendly schema, don't use Rails.

The article doesn't really serve as a comparison of PHP and Rails. It's just a story about what happens when a tool is a poor fit for a project.
I think that sampling bias has distorted the results.
In an ideal world, every vessel would sail back with the same amount of containers it came with, just filling up with empties on the weaker leg of the trade. However, there are many, many factors that can hamper operations (e.g. port congestion, vessel being behind schedule, lack of trucks for empty repositioning, etc), which don't always let you use your space to 100% capacity.

A single operational problem can cause hundreds of containers to be stranded on the wrong side of the trade and sit unused for months. It's incredibly difficult to catch up and recover when you're at a space premium.

There's also the issue of inland transport. You could save 75% of empty freight costs with this.

However, I'm pretty skeptical of the idea in general, as containers are handled quite roughly and damage to the side panels is very common. If they cost x3 to produce, they'll probably cost x10 in M&R.
Looks like an Eddington Algorithm (likely misnamed, but taken from Eddington's quote about monkeys typing Shakespeare). It's done by hashing the entire text and then randomly stepping down a line. The size of your step (one word, two words, etc.) effects readability. I recall once seeing somebody's bot use this algorithm to occasionally spew out the bible on a religious chat channel. Drove the locals nuts.
You can state it. I'm not sure you can make an allegation about your own mental state in court, unless you're declaring yourself to be schizophrenic or something.

Ignorance of the law is [supposedly] not a valid legal defence.
Fair enough. In the places I have lived (a fairly affluent suburb of Chiacago, and a college town in the middle of nowhere), the hysterical response is very common, probably because there is no practical side to it -- people who want in will break in anyway and mostly everyone else keeps out. Sure there is the occasional drunk college kid who is somehow lost and crashes on the wrong couch, but they are mostly harmless, and very appreciative when you don't call the cops.
In the military this was called 'incestuous amplification', I don't know what the civilian term for it is. We tend to lend more credence and legitimacy to that portion of a population that agrees with our own views.

Be very careful about falling prey to it. It has actually cost the US military dearly over the past 8 or 9 years. There are actually far reaching initiatives being pursued, at all levels of the military, to mitigate its effect with respect to groupthink in the future.
There's a lot more overhead to the plugin model, since the browser has to call to the plugin via NPAPI and the plugin has to draw itself separately, vs. just being integrated into the normal reflow/repaint of the webpage.
Not entirely on topic and kind of obvious. But, China has made great advances on economic growth. But they have a huge debt on social freedoms. We will see in the next years how much economic growth can be sustained in that environment. I am curious if China will opt to open up, may be slowing growth in the short term but giving viability on the long term. Or if they will insist on the current model. I don't think there is a single instance on the history of humanity of a country to become fully developed without the corresponding social freedoms. May be China will be the first case.
Creating easy-to-read links to the App Store for your applications and company
We just secure them with security cable ties.
Any baggage handler wanting to steal from a case is going to have a knife or a pair of cutters anyway, all a lock does is stop a casual pickpocket.

The main problem in the US is that baggage claim is on the street side of the airport and security is limited to a mall cop who might check your ticket tags if he can be bothered. A nice shiny camera case going around the conveyor 10ft from the open door is the main risk.
Seems like a survey of the issues that has very little new to say. It's an OK read if you're new to SSL issues.
If you have REST, why use XML-RPC?
The point is that the insurance company can claim this but it wouldn't stand up in court.
They would have to demonstrate that it an unbroken door proves negligence on your part - which would mean demonstrating that it is impossible for a thief to get past the lock otherwise.
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Im not so sure: a crappy easily broken lock suggests more value than unlocked. Further question: are your people who don't lock stuff constantly being ripped off?
These numbers are bogus. They include things like military spending and entitlements.

An Air Force base in New Mexico defends the whole country, but the spending is credited to New Mexico (at least, some of it is). And someone might work (and pay taxes) in New York, but retire (and receive SS/Medicare) in Florida.

Both military spending and entitlements will skew these numbers unfairly towards low cost of living states.
Many, many comments from when this video was last mentioned:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912105
I imagine single founders are more likely to click a topic entitled "are you a single founder"
Agree, but in your example you and me would be corporations (probably run by big countries), and not the actual haitians
there's a flaw with the voting... i can re-vote after posting a reply to a comment...
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Why? It's a fact that typefaces aren't covered by copyright in the US (unlike much of the rest of the world).
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Now everyone in China, the fastest growing market, knows that if they can get to Google (and they can) then their results will be honest.

Shrewed public move into a niche no established China search engine can fill.

Ethics pays.
This is the key point:

I started programming in LISP way back in 1971 on a Univac 1108
mainframe and also implemented a 68000-based Lisp system (~50K lines
of real-time assembly) for mobile-robotics use in 1983 - and so know
my way around the language.

All Lisp (or Smalltalk, or...) success stories I've read hinge on someone with an enormous amount of experience with the language. I'd argue that someone with that much experience could get the job done in (almost) any language. I'm surprised that someone with that much experience would put it down to language choice rather than deep knowledge of the problem domain.
This would be an unwinnable lawsuit. For all the hype, China is a tiny market for Google, and Google can provide a good business rationale for the move (hurts the brand, threatens their infrastructure etc.) Courts are loath to second-guess management except in cases that are exceptionally clear cut.

See Yahoo's refusal of the Microsoft takeover bid for a far more dramatic example of the latitude management has to take decisions that appear to lose the company money.
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Never underestimate the power of laziness. It is much easier to open an unlocked door as opposed to having to either quitely cut open a window or just smashing the window and having to avoid shards of glass and keeping the noise down. That is unless the person didn't bother to lock their windows.
http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-3135207-5764995 (aff link for fonts.com). There are a lot of cheaper fonts at c.£10 UKP, also some certifiably free (see links at http://alicious.com/2009/2009-font-survey-safe-web-fonts/, my blog) and open source fonts like those at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/.

The big problem with fonts for me at the moment is the uncertainty and fragmentation in web licensing.
Toxoplasma infection is so pervasive and influential that it has been fingered as a possible contributer to differences between cultures: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/10/toxoplasma_...
Your post reads biased against younger people.
I find that the young suffer as much if not more prejudice than those older who are generally more often in position of power.

The young are more likely to just accept it because their entire life, they have been influenced to accept it.

"Respect your elders"
I think the parent's statement is different. It has less to do with "your own" class warfare, than it does with simple cost benefit analysis. In your own neighborhood: everyone can know you are a theif, but since you don't steal from them or their friends, they don't really care as much, and so, don't report you. In your own neighborhood chances of a witness recognizing you goes way up. Even thieves have friends, and they don't want to rob from them. There are a few more I'm forgetting probably.
Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)
I slapped together a quick list for single-founders who want to find co-founders to complement their skillset

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950
The design of the letter forms is not protected, but the digital font files are. If you want to redistribute Helvetica Neue without paying Linotype, you must redraw all the letters.
Everything you have said is true and well articulated.

However it is worth noting that this is handled differently within different cultures and even within different fields within one culture. For instance, my step-mother is originally from Korea and she tells me that elder generations are treated with much more respect than they tend to be in America.

In my own observations in America, I have seen a distinct preference for younger employees in fields such as technology. On the other hand, from what I have seen in law, medicine, and intelligence analysis age seems to be less of a factor and the older practitioneers seem to have some advantage in the fact that they have had more time to build seniority.
that's true. Maybe it just needs to be re-worded "poll: single founder, or >1 co-founders ?"
I recently picked up Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" book. Supposedly, it's been updated recently, to contain her most recent knowledge on mark-making and 'seeing' the drawing in life.

I used to be quite a decent pencilist, but after 18 years of not having drawn a lick, and perhaps relating to the drugs that were consumed during my teenage years, I've simply forgotten how to do anything, how to even see the marks that need making, to complete even rudimentary drawings.

I'm only a few pages in, but at least on the premise, the referenced book in this works on similar principles.
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Adobe Acrobat possible vector for Chinese attacks on Google.
Thanks, added a brief entry. Don't exactly need a cofounder right now, but would not mind others reaching out.
And some comment by David Deutsch on ageism going the other way here: http://www.youthrights.org/final.php
That is close to saying that all languages are equivalent given the same amount of experience. I don't buy that. For a specific task some languages may be better suited / more productive than other languages, even given equivalent levels of experience.

I don't believe in a global linear scale of language power ("the blub theory"), but I do believe that some language may be better than others for a specific task given specific constraints.

E.g. if I have equivalent levels of experience in C++ and Python, I'm pretty sure I can write small webapp quicker in Python. OTOH if the languages are very similar, like Python and Ruby, the level of experience is much more important that the relative strengths and weaknesses of the languages.

Of course, it is seldom that you get that kind of fair comparison between two languages - usually everyone has a favorite language they know better than any other.
I'm a single founder but I really think I would benefit by having a partner. I would like to have a day (kind of a science fair day) where we all go and demo our applications. I will be willing to drop my idea if I could join with someone that is competent, open and has a good idea. I will be able to establish my own competency by showing off my idea.
http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Licensing#Are_all_fonts...

It's not as clear cut as you make out - if you personally redraw the font then you're fine, AFAICT, at least wrt the standard lettering.

The OFL link above says that it was considered that the standard alphabet couldn't be copyright. That means that any font use that includes anything beyond the standard alphabet would be copyrightable.

http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_13.htm is a bit more certain: If you copy a font file for use online, say, the typeface is PD (only in the US) but the other parts are still subject to copyright and the actual digital font file is itself copyright.
I wasn't specifically talking about security bugs, but bug is bug, so this applies anyways: Where do you think it's more likely a bug is found and fixed: In one of dozens of unofficial implementations or in the one official implementation?

"bloat" is not always bad (well. bloat is. but a big library isn't necessarily what I'd call bloated).

If you want to talk about bad parts in PHP, I could name a ton, but a huge base library isn't one of them.

Bad parts are:

- too much focus in backwards compatibility. A py3k like cut between php 4 and 5 would have done wonders and would not have made the adoption much slower (which was still very slow despite the more or less given backwards compatibility).

- wordy, inflexible syntax

- trying too hard to be like java while not being like java.

- inconsistencies in the base library (parameter order)

- very, very WTFy type conversion (IMHO the worst part of PHP)

But having a big base library is not what I would ever be disgusted with.
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> None of the security on my car does anything to stop a cinderblock, and that's the likely attack vector.

I think your profession is shining through there ;)
I bought a late-model eeePC recently, and one of the biggest behavior changes I've noticed is how willing I am to bring it to meetings. I can grab the thing by the bulging battery pack in the back, and because of its small size it doesn't cause any social awkwardness, as some bigger laptops do by creating a 'wall' between myself and the others in the meeting.

And because of its size, I carry it around like a small notepad. I think this is why netbooks do deserve their own category: they have a different set of use behaviors associated with them than I have ever done with regular laptops.
Ask PG: Nickb seems to have dropped off the leaderboard?
Does that mean you had a sign of life from him ?
He makes a good point, but his neutral façade crumbles a bit when he says:

Not only that we have a lot more money than you and we know a lot more too.

I think of people as whatever age they act and I think Dave is a curmudgeon a lot of the time who believes his age gives him special rights to press his ideas on other people. I wouldn't discriminate or put down his abilities because of it (heck, in many ways he's a genius) but his behavior doesn't go far to help people in general treat him objectively.
He's complaining about the odds but is still voluntarily throwing away 90% of potential candidates. I would advise that he recognize reality and relax his standards.

Alternately he can relax his standards about wanting a university educated woman.
>Try writing a check for a million dollars - the bank won't pay it

No they only guarantee to honour cheques up to the stated guaranteed amount. Usually this is £200 but can be more or less.
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"Bring up ageism and out comes it comes -- it's the one insult that's considered socially acceptable."

That and politics. I'm absolutely amazed at the hateful language that friends and talking heads use for people who are "differently politicized."

As for me, I "knew" I was old and irrelevant (or seen as such) the day I answered a telephone poll for local radio stations. The first question was my age, and the next statement was "Thank you for your time <click>."

I was guilty when I was young. The tables have turned, and I try not to let it bother me now, although it sometimes does.
Aside from the dearth of available literature, what does this mean for founders? Does anyone here think that a founder should behave exactly like the CEO of a mature company?
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Cool way to use Google Docs
Because it is useful in comparing rates.

Here's a nice write up: http://www.health.state.pa.us/hpa/stats/techassist/arithlog....
it's also a kinda funky question as its black or white. So the co-founder running a Series B funded startup is put against a lone founder that he only works on at weekends.

What are you trying to prove?