skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is tremendous value in taking the first step to anything–especially starting a great company.

Being confident enough to go out and meet anyone, to share opinions, to think differently, to solve your own problems and to shape your reality is both admirable and necessary to change the world for the better.

That being said, starting a great company is not a one step process. Your problem which you bravely solved may be shared by many people around the world, but a great company will never grow and survive around you–it will do so around that which makes other people’s lives better.

I don’t know every step to making a great company, but I’m pretty sure that Step Two is to look beyond your own needs and develop a deep interest in how your actions will affect others. I guess this fits somewhere in between “building for a market of one” and scaling your solution after discovering product/market fit.

Today, it’s easier than ever to hear what the people you affect are saying, but no one teaches you how to listen. It’s also easier than ever to publish content and put it in front of others, but no one teaches you how to think about the ways in which readers will perceive it and respond.

I think that the best way to approach Step Two is to assume that everyone can see straight through you. If you interact with them only to inflate your own status, they will eventually pick up on it. If you publish content to broadcast your own needs without serving theirs, they will figure it out and abandon you.

“You can fool some people sometimes,
but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” - Bob Marley

People are smart–they can tell when someone spends extra time thinking about what they need. You’re smart too, but you’re not smart enough to fake that.

Great companies spend more time thinking about the problems of others than they do their own. Those companies understand the best ways to solve our problems even before we do because they’ve spent so much time thinking about it. We love that feeling, and we pay for it.

So, whether you were part of the founding team of your company or not, be the first person on your team to take Step Two. Spend extra time to make everything you produce more helpful to everyone else, and ignore those on your team who will tell you that you are wasting time.

Your thanks will not come from them, but from the smart, real people whose lives you improve while building your great company.

Question for comments: Does what I wrote resonate with you? If so, please tell me what you’re thinking about now.
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Is Sony's clawback of functionality legal (and/or strategically sound)?
This, if true, completely flies in the face of the expectation that patents are not obvious to, and can be read and understood by, a person skilled in the art. No average software engineer could implement a system based on reading its patent, and no average software engineer would think these sorts of patents are inventive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in...

He who has the gold makes the rules. Corollary: he who makes the rules gets the gold.
How does self-sponsoring work? Are there any other requirements besides having enough income from somewhere? Can anyone do it?
There's a good chance $30 pricing will be at least half as popular as $10.
So how do you tell between options (1 & 2) and (3)?

It's not satisfying to chalk it up to "consensus", I think. Gelman himself recommends very generalized model checking as a philosophy to search the space of underlying theories, but aren't Bayesian methods supposed to let us "put a prior on that"? Why must something like human intuition go unmodeled?
I have to agree, came here to comment because the look and feel of the site doesn't really scream "online dating". Not that cliches are necessarily a good thing, but I'm not sure dark grey and orange are right for the job.
I agree with you, especially since I just made a similar comment above. I think that because conversation on this site rarely touches on the macroeconomic situation, an obvious comment rehashing our debt problem can seem like an insightful contribution by the author. I think it's good HN doesn't focus on macro speculation since it can be so polarizing, though I think it's unintentionally caused by a lack of discussion around leading indicators.
The circle of climate change deniers is truly strange and different. See, for example, http://www.desmogblog.com/crescendo-climategate-cacophony for an interesting study of who they are and who they represent.
Just moved to Pasadena myself. I'm hoping to go to a Mindshare event soon, my friends rave about them - http://www.mindshare.la/
I have noticed this while driving on interstates in a low traffic density areas. Often there will be a group of cars maintaining a similar speed and driving fairly close to each other. Sometime I notice cars following me, sometimes I catch myself following others without deliberately thinking of it.

I could guess a couple of reasons why this happens:

1) Hiding from a speed radar behind other cars. I often see a group form if a fast car passes a group of slower cars, some slower moving vehicle will speed up and follow the leader matching its speed.

2) It is easier to drive if you focus on following something. It defers some decisions (such as choice of speed, lane) to that car. Perhaps it takes less mental energy to follow something than to drive on open road perhaps.

3) Humans are social mammals that like to follow a leader. Such quick groups of leader+followers quickly appear and disappear while traveling on the road just based basic mammal herding behavior.

2,3 might apply to crowds as well.
Did you (or your siblings) do that? How was the wine?
Especially if your service doesn't involve mailing me anything, and I live in an English-speaking country anyway. You don't have to do anything special for me; just let me in!

...just don't use ZIP codes for anything. That's braindead in this day and age, even if you do live in the US. Give the user Google Maps and a pin to drop—this lets people actually be exact with their location if they want to be, without giving you an address that could be used for spam mail.
Money is created in a fractional reserve system by lending and defaults cause money to exit the system. The fact that the inflation that the government is generating is less than the deflationary effect of defaults explains what you're describing. We should be seeing more deflation and we need more deflation because we need bad debt to be written off as quickly as possible. All the attempts by the government to prop up shaky interests will only delay our pain and it make that much worse.

Japan has the largest Debt to GDP ratio in the G7. They have built every bridge to nowhere they can build. The only reason they haven't collapsed is because their culture encourages savings. Right now that country is a portrait of why Keynes was terribly mistaken about virtually everything written in his "General Theory". I'm not sure what the Keynesians would have them do now-where else can they go? I've read they've considered banning cash. I'm not sure this will have the effect they want. Eventually they will need to pay off their debt, let those banks fail, and roll back their government programs. One day they will have no choice in the matter.
notepad.exe

When I had jobs that required me to use Huge Enterprise Planner v 10.0, i copied my tasks as succinctly as possible to notepad. It's lightweight, doesn't get in the way, and just works. Todo.txt, and I keep it to 10 lines per day.
I give "Joe Six-Pack" arguments some credence since sometimes I am Joe Six-Pack. In term of Open Office that's usually, I don't care why the formatting is bungled I just want to be able to read copy and paste my specs.
I'm in LA but it really does not compare to startup scene in SF.
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> It has always been bizarre to me that companies are obligated to hand over data vs every other type of investigation request (physically) needs to be via a warrant.

If you print the data out (perhaps as pages of easily re-scannable 2D barcodes) and then proceed to wipe it from your more magnetized storage, do they need a warrant to search your barcode filing cabinets? What, then, defines "data?"
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We could do that but I can't think of any benefits. Not to say there aren't any, but the obvious negatives would likely outweigh them 100:1.
I presume you mean litigation... ligation has a variety of meanings, none of which typically involve lawsuits...
They are all protocol://host/path?params. Looks pretty uniform to me.
I don't know :) I'm not a twitter fan myself - I actually wish del.icio.us had been designed better from a social and interaction point of view.
I have no argument with that, but this article is about commercial real estate mortgages.
My 1.4ghz Celeron M gets 29fps in both iceweasel and Chrome in debian linux. I'm actually a little surprised at that, but I'll go with it.
This must surely be the final nail in RealPlayer's coffin. The BBC is the only service I can think of that's provided RealPlayer streams since about 2005.

Does anybody know of any other big hold-outs?
Of course it depends on the protocol and/or application. That's the way it is meant to be and why they will be useful for a long time.

However, a popular convention is to use protocol://[username[:password]@]host[:port]/path/components/separated/by/slashes?with=query&params=like&this and in practice many URL schemes use this format or a subset of it.
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What? IMS?

That would be XML. I'm guessing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
One of my professors is one of the maintainers of Scheme and one of the authors of DrScheme, and he's made us aware of their education efforts. One of the interesting things about those education efforts is that they compare the results of teaching people Scheme to teaching them C++. I certainly would rather learn programming with Scheme than with C++ as well! C++ is a horrible language to teach beginning programming.

However, you can talk to me all you want about how easy Scheme is and may be for people new to programming, but that doesn't change the fact that I have a hard time learning it well enough to get things done as productively as I can with other languages and I've genuinely spent time trying. I've also learned plenty of other languages and learn them more thoroughly than most programmers I know, so I certainly am not incompetent. Therefore, I stand by my previous assertions.
I mostly share Google docs these days.. the user can download it in any format he likes, if we he wishes to download it at all.

.odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, both will lose to the cloud.

On a related note, I hope we eventually have some sort of cloud-transfer legislation, that makes it easy for people to move all their docs from Google to say, Zoho without any hassles.. this would foster more innovation in the online office suite space
That will prevent you from using Paypal's Web Payments Pro service in conjunction with this. That's too bad. Still, I've been dealing with nasty workaround after nasty workaround to avoid ponying up $100/mo for SSL, so this is sounding pretty friggin' good.
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Here we are in the 21st century, with the capacity to give every internet user complete unfettered access to an unimaginably vast library of literary and artistic work. But we refuse to do it, we impose restrictions on our tools to create completely artificial scarcity, solely because we're stuck on an 18th century business model for creators that barely worked when the printing press was novel and rare—and is now more of a lottery than a vocation.
Man. I having some serious thoughts about online College startup ideas for the last few weeks or so. You know sometimes who like an idea so much you think about every single details of the project down to pro and cons and organizational structure and potential number of employees and potential amount of investment of such a project, legal problems, accreditation, on-premise exams, cost per course as opposed to cost per credit, on-promise lab classes for applicable courses (Chemistry, biology, physics, electronics), potential design of the website, free course materials, free study materials, free video complementary with each courses.

I am so engrossed with the idea, I have thought of almost every single aspect of such a potential institution and how much I might need to get started. Approx ~$20million and 2 years to get most traditional, on-demand courses available for everyone to study for free, charging only for each course exams - regardless of the credit - same amount.

Only problem. No money.

I think this has enormous potential, both within USA and outside USA. Imagine anyone, anywhere can get a college degree that is as good as getting a college degree in USA (accreditation by CHEA) similar to what British Council does with O'Level/A'Level exams.

Ok, maybe a bit crazy but I want to do it so bad.
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There is a great alternative for people who don't want to waste money on overpriced hardware and software:

http://keepass.info/ — Windows only

http://keepassx.org/ — Linux/Windows/Mac
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I'm not sure why they needed to develop their own process monitoring script, as bluebill does just as good as monit or god, even managing the children processes. With my bluepill script, I have it setup so if I send restart, it uses hot code reload. My deployments consist of git pull origin master && bluepill restart unicorn!
Or GEB ;)
2) It has no persistence.

Isn't persistence achieved when you use a Broker architecture, which is supported by ZeroMQ?
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I hear you! We are moving international as quickly as possible. Has mostly to do with legal stuff. Soon!
Oy. It’s really not worth arguing about politics on YC news, but here goes:

> backs the environmentalist approach of corrupting peer-reviewed science?

Which Democratic Party leader said that? Come on, name him. Is it Obama? Steven Chu, our energy secretary? Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA? Pelosi? Barbara Boxer? Come on, let’s hear it.

> seeks to remove our 2nd Amendment right to self-defense?

You’re confusing “self defense” with “carry a semiautomatic weapon”. That’s okay though, it seems to be a common confusion. In any case, current social consensus about reasonable ways and places to carry guns has almost nothing to do with the 2nd amendment, as was copiously documented by Stevens’s and Breyer’s dissents in Heller.

> Supports Kelo.

You’re right that Democrats mostly support the Kelo decision, if only because the opposite decision would set a precedent they view as dangerous. I’m not going to get into the merits of the case because it is complicated. What does it have to do with Apple? No one has any kind of eminent domain claim for One Infinite Loop.

> Supports restrictions on [hate speech]

That’s true. Personally, I’m conflicted about government responses to hate speech, because while it is reprehensible and can be harmful, I generally am happy to let bigots and fools say whatever damn thing they want to each-other. The Democratic party is hardly unified on this, and has a complex and nuanced history with free speech issues.

> Choose which evil you hate the least.

If current policy is “evil”, what are you personally doing about it? Shouting from the sidelines is utterly useless. If our current politicians can be called “evil” as a group, then the word has lost all currency.

> people blind themselves to the abuses of their own team

Are you talking about me? You know nothing about me. Keep your vague implied insults to yourself, thanks.
There are available alternatives and I wouldn't think backups provide any social status, so I don't think higher prices would mean higher demand.

But maybe... that's why I'd love to see the results (even just as an anonymised chart of price/demand).

The relationship between the "planning to charge" price shown and the price someone volunteers to pay in the "perfect world" would also be interesting.
China is a convenient country to blame. what's 20% up or down to the pundits.
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An interesting and worthwhile article.

Many years ago, I made a similar point to a friend of mine: that the U.S. Rep. Party attracts a relatively cohesive group of people, while the Dem. Party is attractive to various people who have little in common. He replied that there is a strong commonality among Dem. supporters: the idea that government is an effective and beneficial way to deal with societal problems.

I've thought about this a lot since, and have not really come to any conclusions. However I will say that it seems possible that, while groups trending Democratic are not very cohesive when measured on some scales (e.g., social & economic permissive/restrictive scales, as in this article), they are relatively cohesive when measured on other scales.
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yawn... does this apply to anybody on HN?

Also, security articles with a condescending or arrogant tone are a big turn-off.
Kids need to be able to work at their own speed. If a kid can and has the will to complete high school in one year, then he should have the choice. School need to stop being mandatory in the sense of actual school time.

When the teacher unions are causing halts of online schooling, you gotta think... Who really cares about us students anymore?

If people want to change the world, start where everyone begins, in the school system.
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Interesting. I'd like to get my hands on the data... the distribution looks vaguely exponential.
The 2 comments at the bottom are enlightening as well, and the second one is hilarious.
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I wrote something a while back to generate passwords for myself. http://trashb.in/pwgen/

Everything is in unobfuscated javascript except for jquery and the usage counter, so feel free.
But kids are lacking motivation for a number of things. One of which is the mandatory, boring subject matter and the way it's taught. It's also common society's mindset to think of "learning" as bad. Or at least that's what a lot of kids think. Some figure it out, but many remain with the attitude that learning is bad. These students also get so accustomed to being given every piece of info, they don't know or care how to find and learn on their own.

Is slides really worse than lugging a ten-pound book around all day and reciting emotionless, boring, seemingly irrelevant information? Perhaps the slides will be no different.

If any benefit of online education, it's the saving of our next generations backs. Most backpacks average 30 pounds. Is their a reason to carry such large amount of weight on our back through out the day, for 3/4ths of the year?
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I think it's also important to keep in mind that the topic in the article is heavily weighed towards financial success (and conversely, financial nowhere-ness).

There are plenty of ways to "go somewhere, be someone, and do remarkable things" without using smarts and luck as a means to wealth. It just takes time to realize that the standard definition of success is mostly a rat race.

Then again, this comes from someone who loves capitalism and is an entrepreneur wanna-be, so take my words for what they're worth.
Most universities that publish lectures online will have at least one (but sometimes all) of their courses in realplayer format. They also love quicktime for some equally unknown reason.
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Yeah, they're mostly in the westside (Santa Monica area), but it's actually not that bad to get there. Takes me 30 minutes from Pasadena. Choose wisely between 101/405 or Sunset depending on the time of day.
The NY Times article is a bit sparse, here is the full paper:

http://www.psych.utah.edu/lab/appliedcognition/publications/...
ODF or not, no "open" office document format is going to catch on until everybody can cheaply and painlessly open them. That means a variety of editing suites and viewers installed by default or trivially installable across every major PC and mobile platform. Let's face it: OO.o isn't for everybody, it isn't a quick install, and you are not going to convince a majority of people to use it. There needs to be other major alternatives (that's the point of the "open", right?) catered to all devices/OSes.

To that end, I don't think you can create an office document format that is wholly divorced from the client that reads, views, and writes it. Even if I believed that you could agree on a perfectly future-proof and extensible data format, you would need a whole suite of tests available so that clients could test that they are rendering them to the screen and print {pixel|point}-perfectly. The closest analogue we have for this scenario is HTML, and look how imperfect the browser space still is; and browsers don't even need to provide editing functionality for what they are rendering.
Pen and paper.

When I had my blackberry (before it got damaged) I wold use the "memo" area a lot. It was the most convenient way to make sure I could note down tasks that came up as they came up.
> We're a small team, RHAT had 20 people working on this.

They should have realized they already failed when they allocated 20 people just do work on the protocol specification. This is another example of a design by committee done by a large enterprise vendor and how it results in a a bloated, inefficient and overly complicated specification.

All 20 people feel the need to justify their time by adding more crap and features to the design. Usually no matter how simple or complicated the actual protocol needs to be, its specification will always be proportional to the number of people * time assigned to work on it.
So, I guess one strategy here would be to fill your own profile full of stories so obviously fake that they discredit anything that might be true.
I guess it would make sense that the earth is in a stable equilibrium rather than an unstable one.

At the same time, that stable equilibrium may be a local maximum rather than global one, so let's not push it too much.

Climate meteorologists have really done a brilliant job of telling the world they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not a global warming skeptic, in the sense that I believe we should do something about our production of polluting gases (greenhouse or others), but this seems one of the odd cases where scientists simply cannot be trusted to provide useful information.
I'm a fan of Todoist.com

Pretty simple, plus a nice Web API. I wrote some command-line tools and an Android app to work with it, so I have a few ways to read or edit my list.
There was an iGNiTE talk where someone visualized how the different groups have voted through time and it seem to also agree with you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8I5iMa_VV0.
...but when you're transferring your cloud docs from one provider to the next, what format should they be in during the transfer?