skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The franchise has moved away from that, unfortunately. Although they are fantastic games in their own way.
You don't have to be a U.S. citizen or resident to form a corporation in the United States. You could do so yourself, but it might be easier to use an attorney. Take form Articles of Incorporation, send with a check to the Secretary of State in most states along with 3 name choices (in case yours is taken by the time you send the paperwork in). You need to nominate a registered agent for service of process, there are companies that will do this. Your initial address can be a Regus ($200 per month or so, and they will forward mail). You can get a tax id number over the telephone. Whether you can open a bank account depends on your relationship with the bank. Normally, this will be very, very difficult unless the bank is a branch of a bank where you already have a relationship. For now, just use paypal. You want to file an election as a Subchapter S corporation, at least initially, so you don't get taxed twice. LLC and C are apples and oranges, the first is a type of corporation, the second is the tax treatment. An LLC can be a C or an S. I should post the forms, it's not rocket science.
The first one seems friendlier. The second seems a bit more professional.

I think you need to make it so when the arrow opens the bubble it doesn't cover up other information on the page.
That's a bit harsh. When I was 15 and learning how to program, I didn't actually have any problems to solve; I just programmed because programming was fun. If I hadn't gone through that phase, though, I would never have learned how to program well enough to consider using code to solve problems.
I like home2 much more. The contrast is nice, and the choice of gray gradient works well with the bright blue.

The spacing and alignment is a bit odd (e.g., the placement of the [ Try It ] button relative to the open space to the right, but it's very simple and you have a well-defined call to action.

Then again, maybe I'm just averse to the giant, bold, black capital letters in ?p=home.

Either way, it would be good to have a designer tighten up the design you choose. Both are great work for people without a strong design background, so nice job!
Totally agree. There are too many other confounding factors to make any strong conclusions from this.
Ask HN (and pg): Move reply button for denser threads?
I was scrolling through a lengthy HN thread when I realized that each comment's reply button has a whole line to itself. If it were moved above the comment to the header like this,

1 point by evanrmurphy 2 minutes ago | link | reply

instead of below as it is now, then more comments could fit on one screen. This way longer threads would be easier to take in, because you'd have to page down fewer times to get through them. Disadvantages could include decreased readibility with the removed whitespace and the reply button no longer being where your reply goes (i.e. below the comment) which is a nice touch!

Do you think this would be an improvement?
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It was a joking reference to the Parrot announcement, which started as an April Fool's joke about a merger of Perl and Python but which led to the Parrot VM (the One VM to Rule Them All).
By now it's pretty well established that college admissions are a crap shoot so why is this guy wasting time on failed simulation theory and applying it to college admissions.
A large number of laptops would be my guess.
I would like to say, though, that the original is a fantastic picture.
Also will try to attend, anyone receive venue location/time details yet?
With a solid C average coming out of high school, I got into Carnegie Mellon (not Brown, though...), but wound up going to a state school that gave me a free ride for 4 years. There are lots of ways to hack the admissions process, but none of them include Japanese calligraphy (unless you become a cultural ambassador to Japan).
For a second there I thought I was on HakkerNews.
I much prefer the first, it's far friendlier. The second looks a bit unfinished and cheap if I'm honest - lens flare? Purple to gray gradient? Glossy icons? Eeek...
Eyeballs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_complete
I think your reply would have been a lot more persuasive without "As someone who actually goes to a top school..."

It sounds like bragging. And worse: it doesn't do anything for your argument.

(And for the record, I agree with you.)
I'm totally for the war. I'm elated that the engineers aren't involved because if they were, then the war would be a completely different situation, but they aren't. That said: If this war really takes on momentum, then (assuming one side doesn't just win [Lawsuits take a while]) each side will try to out build the other with new technology. Has anyone seen the new Nexus One commercials (on hulu for me)? Google is finally advertising the capabilities of its new phone.

What's the best part? The engineers won't be pressured to give a hoot, but I admit it may seem a bit stressful.

General Google, I side with you =]

Well, this is what I hope will happen =/
Maybe there are enough people to make a subscription model worth doing, but I doubt that alone will be enough. I think they also need a transaction model for those of us willing to pay that dime or so for an a la carte article recommended by HN.

Of course that assumes a feasible micropayment infrastructure, which nobody on earth seems able to produce. Odd, that.
Your vote link doesnt work.

I like #1 more. The green CTA button is really nice.
Yes, and so he moved on to an easier to manage project by starting to write git from scratch.
Well, there's Ronin.

He also does a great deal of uncredited rewriting.
thanks for the tip, made it very easy to try out
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I think the intent was to make Linus feel like the child he was (is?). I thought it worked. Linus is quite patronizing in practically all of his e-mails, so I don't see why others wouldn't return the favor.
It is a great starting point to make Trotsky-duck disappear on Stalin's orders. http://i.imgur.com/xK6Jl.jpg
The wealth of free tools is just amazing these days.
I work here, so if you're interested in getting branded merch for your startup PM me. Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with this post but I'm not surprised it's here. By nature POD retailers generate apparel for every content niche.
I tried to bring out 2 points in my comment:

1) The people who write the parsers should not write the fuzzers
2) Using fuzzers based upon more rigorous standards of the relevant file formats may not be optimal. There is an advantage to dumb fuzzers; with defense in depth one would use both.
Hacking and transience
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The significance of reply's placement is a function of thread length, since it's only for long threads that you care how many comments fit on one screen. Average thread length has been increasing along with HN's popularity, and the move gets more worth considering too.
I like the second better because the capitalization makes it easier to read.

"HELP BUBBLE CAN SAVE THE DAY"

vs.

"Help Bubble can save the day"

I didn't realize your product was called Help Bubble when I read the text on the first website and I was confused. I thought maybe there was a can of bubbles that needed help saving the day.
You guys did hear about A/B testing didn't you ?
Your poll needs a neither + why field.
Neat, it's a single chip, with as the name suggests 480 cores.

So in raw power for computing applications it should be comparable to a GTX 295 (which uses two chips), but the new chip is said to be much closer to a general purpose CPU. Does anybody know more about the chip?

specs here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_us.html

and for the 295:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_295_us.html

At first sight the memory bandwidth seems to be a bit lower, but that's no surprise given the width of the memory bus being smaller, the increased clock rate does not quite make up for the less than twice as wide memory bus.

Interesting that it is quad sli ready, that would be a monster machine.

It also has a bit less memory on board standard than the GTX 295.

It seems there is also a lower end version of the card labeled the gtx 470.
Alright, has anyone actually read some of these documents.

Check out the US'govt report about WikiLeaks posted on WikiLeaks.

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf

Am I the only one that after reading it agrees with the government?

Specifically WikiLeaks posted classified documents showing troop equipment allocation and anti-IED jamming equipment specs. What possible purpose does this serve? There is nothing embarrassing/illegal about what our troops are carrying and how they are fighting IEDs, but there is a lot of extremely valuable intel for the enemy in those documents. Honestly the guys at WikiLeaks are lucky as hell they live in a country where they are not strung up for treason already. You would not be seeing Tweets from these guys in many parts of the world.

Frankly I don't WANT to help WikiLeaks. If you are endangering my friends actually deployed, what is the purpose of leaking this stuff? To show how good your sources are? So the guys running WikiLeaks value their journalism cred and their own ego over the lives of people actually relying on IED jammers to work?
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The Fall of Mexico
Actually, my thinking was 100 tables... so what! That's not a large number. Any software of average complexity will have 100 tables, easy.
Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
"There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.

"Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it.

"Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded “anti-American,” “anti-semite” or “conspiracy theorist.”

"Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government.<p>"Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt.

"Truth is inconvenient for ideologues."

Read on ... http://counterpunch.org/roberts03242010.html

--

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He sounds naive and his logic is quite the cliche. Surprised he didn't close it with a line from the hacker's manifesto.

I'm not sure what it is with some people acting like the smartest guy in the room while refusing to share their knowledge for the betterment of society. Entrepreneurs benefit tremendously from mentors and advice from those who've made it. I'd be surprised if he didn't learn a vast portion of his trade from the openness of information. I guess he feels empowered w/ his :15 minutes and this is how he leverages it? Weak^10.

+++the pxlpshr+++
Anyone able to give more detail? Maybe not on Millers specifics but how does inserting random data into a program become an exploitable vulnerability?
I'd be interested to know what effect the womens rating on masculinity had to do with what position they where in their own life, sexually and socially.

From what I've read of evolutionary pyschology, when women are younger and adventurous, or when their friends are single, they are looking for alpha males. But when they want to settle down they often lean towards less masculine beta males.
Meet the users of your products
"So what's a web browser?" A simple question that almost no one knows what it is. These are your users.
Online Dating is Bigger than Porn
Not All Companies Started In Garages Succeed (Funny)
HURR I DONT LIKE ERIC RAYMOND PLS VOTE ME UP TOO.

1) Ignores the content of the submission
2) Ignores the other discussion comments
3) Unsupported personal insult
4) Upvoted to 'best comment' position.

Look, pretend it's about someone else - Ray Monderic or someone - doesn't the idea that early formalising your development procedures pays benefits for other people and eases the transition from a system small enough that the leader can manage it to a system big enough that they can't have some merit?
Also varies on where they are in their monthly cycle

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559901/
How do we measure innovation?
Original source: http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/25/what-your-email-says-about...
"it's apples to oranges"

Exactly, and I didn't feel OP was saying anything but that. What I thought he was trying to get across was that there situations where NoSQL is a no-brainer superior, and by the sounds of it as a response to seasoned SQL DBA's criticizing the NoSQL option.

I work at your typical large corporation writing typical applications on top of sql databases all the time. SQL databases are incredibly flexible and perform excellent, and I'd need a VERY good reason to not use one on a project. For me, 49 times out of 50 they are more than sufficient.

But, at least in my industry, there are cases where its just the wrong technology for certain special requirements. I was AMAZED how poorly Oracle performed in one certain use case (real time aggregation of a relatively large hierarchial database), despite MANY hours devoted to indexing and tuning, with every table pinned in memory. So our solution was to write kind of an in-memory database, which out performed Oracle by >>1000 times or so. Of course this is not surprising.

What is surprising, and I think a large motivation for the OP, is how ignorant some of even the most skilled SQL DBA's are of what's happening in the real world. About a year ago I was talking with one of the most senoir database people at our company, and the topic of high performance databases came up, and I made some reference about how of course if you are dealing with huge performance, of course you wouldn't use something like Oracle. (I think maybe we were actually talking about Google). And he made some reference that Google uses Oracle, and I said basically, no they don't, and then he says he knows they do because ~he knows someone that works there as an oracle dba~. Of course, Google almost undoubtedly runs lots of Oracle internally, but he was under the impression that Google is run on Oracle. And this is a guy that is smart (always relative of course); but he really knows what he's talking about when it comes to Oracle. The thing is though, there is this whole other world, that he is entirely oblivious to.

And then there's just your standard DBA "professionals", who are just covering their asses. I personally consider myself to be largely uninformed when it comes to SQL Server and Oracle, but it's rare that I come across a xSQL DBA that knows more about the internal system tables than I do, or how script actions (sql server DBAs mostly), or write triggers, or do anything even remotely advanced. In the large corporations I work in, I'd estimate at least 50% of DBA's don't know anything about system tables at all beyond what they learned in their certification course. They've likely never used them in their work. A lot of them don't even know they exist. Their profession is largely a mystery to them.

tl;dr: SQL DBA's aren't very well informed about what's happening outside their bubble.
Probably not. There are a number of image inpainting, texture synthesis, and reconstruction algorithms that can be applied, with different behaviors regarding noise, color correction, detail scale, handling of regularity/irregularity, temporal coherence, run time, etc.

GIMP's Resynthesizer is based on a 2005 PhD thesis, while the Photoshop thing is probably based on a 2009 SIGGRAPH paper.

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/thesis

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.p...
Hey HN: I made something to add Help to your startups. Thoughts?
I think it could be claimed that a PAST action often should not be classified unless it directly affects an ongoing directly related incident. If it needs to be classified, then maybe the US population as a whole would not have agreed with the action (and rightfully so). I think it does stoop to a low I feel we (as the US) should not venture down. Are individuals not able to make judgment calls based on evidence compiled?
I've got to agree with jodrellblank's sentiment.

While the email was undoubtedly pretentious, I've got to say that ESR brings to light some really important points... at some point, systems that "mere mortals" use to keep track of a large code base become a necessity even for people like Linus.

I don't like how comments like these (even if they're from a user who normally has insightful/useful comments, albiet generally snarky) get voted so high up. It's time like these I wish I could vote down a response.

EDIT: Interesting to note for future readers: my comment was voted down at least once within 5 seconds (or less) of posting this.
I actually posted that to hackernews a while ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221594 and it got only 5 votes. I guess the story title really matters.
They are now around the 650,000 mark. I can't really imagine what is giving them such a valuation besides the veteran status of the people involved. $70 million for < $1million users seems completely 1999 (Mint.com was valued in the $3-4 million range when they had 1 million arguably far more monetizeable users).

Plus with Facebook's own check in platform coming out soon my feeling is they are about to be crushed. Am I missing something?
Wow. This is really, really awesome.

Edit: I'm sure you guys felt the urge to add more features and customization right out of the gate, and I appreciate that you kept things simple. I see myself (and others) using this specifically because it looks so clean and lightweight.
I guess this is a history repeating itself - before RDBMS there were hierarchical dbs, and other such technologies. There was a reason why RDBMS won the battle. And probably the top most reason was the simplicity with which you can define relation ship between data, store this data(with relationship) and access it easily. We are all use to using SQL, and even though with all the ORMs in the world, it is still probably a very simple(yet powerful) language. If you look at HTTP, the corner stone of web, one of the reasons it has been so popular, is because of it's simplicity yet powerful. And it can thought to represent the same simplicity as RDBBMS (everything revolves around some really basic operations - read, write, update, delete <-> GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). And historically, invariability the technologies which hides the complexity of what they do by providing a simple interface, normally win. And that was one of the main reasons for the success of RDBMS. And which still remains true. And that was precisely the reason why every one started using RDBMS for blog type application, even though it is not the best use of RDBMS. Come to think of it, why would you want to store lot of text (content of each blog) for each blog id in RDBMS - but people did (because it was so simple to do, and that is what they are used to). Hence the use of RDBMS for these type of applications was debatable to begin with. However if you look at transactions management that is required by some of the financial applications, for example, I doubt how far the NOSQL solutions will go in satisfying the requirement. With regards to the scalability, I will not get into the cost factor. Because there are different ways of calculating the actual "cost" of something - if you are Google - the cost of having few PhDs writing your own filesystem and db(or NOSQL) is not much compared to the benefits you are going to get out of it. But if you are not Google, it is a different story. So if we leave the cost factor aside, for a moment, the list of options available with some of the high end RDBMS technologies(with regards to performance), for example Oracle, are quite broad - from active/active clustering technologies(RAC), from different indexing types(b-tree, bitmap, clustered, index-organized), multitude of partitioning types - range based, hash-based(combination of these), list based etc, the list goes on. Same is true about Subase or SQL server(except of active/active clustering). So I am sure the performance issues can be handled in these RDBMS technologies (without just throwing hardware at it).
If you've been going for 4 years then vesting is not in the picture. At least, with a reputable VC it would not be.

The VC should end up with a minority (<49%) block of shares, in that situation your biggest worry is a minority share holders lawsuit that you settle by giving them shares, they then control the company.

Such tactics are great for movies (they do happen in real life but very rarely).

Go with a VC with a good reputation and none of this should be your worry. The smaller the company you deal with and the shorter it's been in business the bigger the risk of trickery.

Good luck!

edit: if after the investment with the money from the investors you decide to bring on board more people that you want to become share holders in the long run vesting would be normal for the new hires. If they put money on the table to buy in then those shares (the ones being paid for) would not be vesting either.
It was not because of the complexity of the code, but because of the workflow and poor version control systems. Bitkeeper helped him manage it first and then git was written
I didn't get that sense from the article - he's not refusing to release the info for his own benefit, or to be a dick; he's ostensibly doing it because he feels like this just encourages the "we'll fix stuff when other people find it in the wild" mentality, which doesn't help make software more secure in the long run.

He wants software producers to actively try to break their software so that his ostensibly simplistic tools can't find wide open holes like this.

I'm sure some egotism rolls into it somewhere, but I don't think it's altogether a bad stance... you shouldn't be waiting for your users to tell you where your security holes are.
There used to be several paragraphs, e.g. explaining the choice of name, but it's been taken down. I guess this wasn't the launch they were hoping for.
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I think the loading animation is too much. It'll be better if it just pops up.

Also I think this is taking up too much real estate, it should probably just be a 16x16 pixel image with a ? on it.
Disadvantages could include decreased readibility with the removed whitespace

There would still be the header line separating each comment's body, but maybe you do need more than one, considering comments can contain their own blank lines.
Interesting to note for future readers: my comment was voted down at least once within 5 seconds (or less) of posting this.

Comments without content are timeless, they don't suddenly gain usefulness through age. Are you suggesting that if only someone had let your comment reach maturity, they would have been obligated to upvote it?