skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to have a legal background to help firms with their IT problems. Just go out and do it. If you get an education in the legal field then you'll be doing legal related work. It is like saying dentists need help with IT, therefore I will go to dental school.

But anyway, the legal field really needs some help. Six years ago I was a clerk at an average law office. I went into the store room to get a pen or something, and pulled open a drawer of dictaphones. I asked one of the attorneys what the deal was, and he was like, if you want to make it as a lawyer you need to learn how to use one. They'd dictate out their letters, and then place it in a little plastic bag with a note and drop it off with a paralegal.
there is an excellent episode of Top Gear in which Clarkson and co. ride across Vietnam on mopeds. The percentage of the motoring population which use motorcycles, rather than cars, is simply staggering. They throw out some interesting statistics as well (road deaths per capita 4x higher than in the states). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHVD-gWPDk

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaP353v8JWY
Link to it on facebook. If they see you as a reliable authority on tech things, they will take your suggestions seriously, and in some cases share them. I've had more than a couple links go mini-viral after I posted them.
+1.
I'm trying to use Eclipse right now.

I love the Emacs way - but this uber productivy is exactly what f*cks up my hands.
Only by credit/debit card. The regulations exclude checks, so most sites have an 'echeck' option.
Right, because Humans are the only living thing on this planet. Converting one pollutant into another that doesn't directly affect us is not the solution.
FogBugz does the screenshot thing you are asking for. I have used FogBugz at my day job for years now. While it has it's quirks it is pretty nice.
The trick is to buy packages of at least 100 so if you drop one you just don't care :-)
I am not sure I understand the question. Do you mean you are just looking for a bug reporting system that handles binary attachments, or are you asking for the system to somehow grab the screenshot for them?

If it's the former, bugzilla will do it, albeit you will need to customise it a bit. No ideas on the second.
Here's what I think he meant. There must be a VC who would've thought Posterous can be substituted by a Wordpress plugin. Any 14 year old can create that. Obviously, Posterous is more than just blogging via email and the VC must not have got that.
While Java world doesn't lack appserver infrastructure (though they're not as good as they're marketed but that is another point), it lacks web programming paradigms which wouldn't be a PITA.
More info on the effects of Nitrogen pollution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
Is that the sort of thing a non-executive chairman of a board does? (I don't know that that means in U.K. corporate governance.)

For a more balanced view of the man see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley

But all that really matters for this discussion is that he was born in 1958, about 3 years earlier than me. Like him, I too was subjected to the same "we're all going to die!" mantra decade by decade, and like him I've noted that none of the dire predictions have come true.
Spot on--an 11.8% CTR on a mobile device is not sustainable.
The NOx is going in the environment anyway. This is trying to make it go there directly, instead of going via my lungs first.
I'm a 12 year veteran of early stage startups. One thing I found interesting about the whole experience was that on the technical side, smarts-based meritocracy was valued above all else, or at least that was the line we told ourselves. However, when it came to raising money, the most archaic, beers in the back-room, who-knows-who-knows-who boys-club approach was the norm. The things I saw would have made a 1920s Harvard admissions officer, or a 1950s hiring manager at an investment bank blush.

That said, the most successful startup I worked at raised money in an almost mechanical manner, with little or no beer drinking, or even much contact with the investors. YMMV.
In fairness, the article largely refers to the practice as 'gambling'. Congress itself calls it 'gaming' (eg 'Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act') so I don't think we can blame the writer for using the statutory term in a headline.
A guy fails at configuring BIND9. News at 11.

I've been wondering if I should get myself a website on a Rackspace cloud, but I'm not sure if I can keep the same static IP if I delete/copy server instances.

I currently have a physical box at home with dynDNS, but it's pretty old (p3 800MHZ, 196MB ram), which is quite a bit slow for my git repositories that I started using for everything, so I'm slowly configuring XEN guest, and for that matter I want to get a proper LDAP & Kerberos setup for authentication.
I currently have GIT+SSH/TRACK/APACHE/ and I want to get GIT/GITOSIS/REDMINE/NGINX/DJANGO/whole bunch of other stuff/ with everything authenticating against separate LDAP server.
The State of the Database with Tim Ellis (MixPanel / WePay TechTalk)
Thanks for the advice, I've heard this before about palettes and agree to a large extent particularly as I've seen my eldest move away from some unhealthy foods as he grows up and also to eat several foods that I really can't stomach (eggs, mushrooms).

I confess it was a slightly made up problem intended to elucidate the point. He tends to have rice snaps for brecky with some fruit but his diet the rest of the time is quite varied. He is less accepting of new foods than his brother was.
Look, these all sound like fine programs, unto themselves. But I find this column itself odd.

The author lists different statistics and percentages which demonstrate an uneven male/female distribution within the field. Conspicuously absent though is any discussion whatsoever of the causes of this uneven distribution. ("To combat these numbers..." Really? It's the numbers we're fighting?) Presumably, she's leaving the reader to fill in that blank him/herself. Thankfully for the author's sake, we're all very well trained in filling that blank.
I mainly use lists to export the people I follow into carefully packaged categories. I usually just tune in and tune out to the stream and miss vast amounts of tweets.
I think as the novelty of iAds wears off, the number of people who view them in otherwise empty apps will drop significantly. People who use the flashlight app could care less what was on the screen when all they want is the back to light up.

Considering implementing an LED flashlight is literally like 20 lines of code and a few .png files, I'm amused at how many (incredibly shoddily written) paid versions exist. I wonder what goes through a customer's head as he/she scrolls through pages of free versions to buy a $0.99 flashlight.
What PITA features does the java app server have?
Well, on one hand, the antibody would have been created whether or not we'd been spending all this money on research.

On the other hand, the antibody would never have been noticed if we hadn't been spending all this money on research.
Imagine you hadn't run since you were a little kid. Then one day you realize this isn't healthy and you decide to start jogging. And you then find out you can even jog for 20 minutes at a time! Is something wrong with you? No, you just need A LOT of practice and go slow.

This is exactly the same thing. To repeat an often repeated phrase: Social skills are called skills because they require practice!

Same with learning how to play the guitar.

So just keep doing it, when ever you find yourself with any other humans, open your mouth and say ANYTHING.

Keep doing that, it will get better.
Not exactly what you're asking, but I'd love to see software that:

_ Obtains incoming email

_ Parses it into something like a JSON object

_ Hands it off to a database or some software in configurable fashion

_ Explains how one configures it for a variety of common situations (email hosted mostly on Google Apps; email hosted locally; email hosted on mail server in same local network)

If you're interested in building something like that, I bet you'd find a lot of people who were willing to pay for it.
But how many AIDS patients have multiple strains?
Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager?
At works I've had this debate with some of my colleagues, what makes an IT manager good?

Basically the debate boils down to two camps (1) a few (proabably just me) favoring an IT Manager with strong
strong techical knowledge, and (2) the other camps that downplays the importance of technical knowledge
they argue that it is not required, for an IT manager to have strong technical knowledge,
and that People, communication and project management skills are far more important

I notice that many if not most of the IT manager where I work have modest or little technical skills.
They may know what a SQL Server or a router is, but I would not debate with them the merits of Dynamic language over statically typed languages,
Database design , Servers management , UML or whatever else that you may consider IT domain knowledge

So What makes a good IT Manager?
sadly unfunded masters, the MIT course was funded but my target group didn't had any funds.

Also since my undergrad was in a different field and I had to take pre req's I couldn't get direct funding for CS degree.

I transferred to Cornell after a year at less reputed university which gave me a bit of scholarship,
I could have transferred to RPI where i had good chance of funding but I chose Cornell.
Radioshack commercial about cellphones in 1990
What really got my attention was that working out increases dopamine levels, and dopamine levels have a direct effect on social status: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11...
So if you don't ignore the upfront cost, you break even at the 3 month point using his numbers. His argument is every bit as strong regardless of the shape of your cows.
I want a bank with a CLI.
Hackers and Founders meetup for the same event: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13987593...
while i agree you can raise money with no beer drinking and pure mechanics, my whole point is you're optimizing for the money and not the person.

for me, grabbing dinner with investors, getting to know them, getting them to know me, is much more important. So i want to have as much contact with the investors as possible.

They aren't just money. You will be working with them closely for years.
Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis [pdf]
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I'd say talk about "Reverse-Engineering Visual Design". As a coder who understands some of the basic principles of design but just can't seem to make it click, that would be the most interesting for me.

Optimization and SEO are nice, but if you don't have a solid design they're not that useful.
I agree fully. I find the fact that gambling is referred to as gaming. But, for better or worse, that is a common term for it and it has been since before video games or the internet existed.

[edit: spelling]
Counter-point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
What are the odds on failure?
you need three more words on the homepage linking to that about page: "Why We're Better"
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On the internet, there are few barriers to entry. It's incredibly cheap and easy to build most startups these days. That's not where the value is. The value is that you think you can do it bigger and better than anyone else.

Except for maybe Google search, I can't think of a product that I couldn't build tomorrow if i wanted to enter that space.
Hilarious parody of a computer science paper. My favourite part is the citation of the Odyssey as "Homer's longest path algorithm".
Social skydiving, or rather to put it bluntly, picking up chicks is a lot like debugging a program or riding a roller-coaster.

The first time you do it, there are so much anxiety, what if the person I'm talking to just snub me out, walk away, or starts to point at me and laugh out loud at me while other people are standing around me?

But that is not the point. The point is feeling that high that comes from overriding your sense of inhibition, so in that sense, it doesn't matter what the other person say, but that you are getting away from saying outrageous/assertive/shocking/amusing things to people and you absolutely don't give a fuck about what they think about you but that it feels right that you yourself are saying it.

Good luck but you don't need my blessing/permission to say whatever you want to whoever you want,

Also, for Rome, go where the romans go. go to reddit's subreddit seduction or StyleLife forum for proper advice.
Squatting 250 at 138 lbs bodyweight would be something to be very proud of. I don't have access to my records, but I think my max was about 325 at around 175 lbs bodyweight maintaining very good form and going deep.

There's nothing to it really: squat heavy 2-3 times a week, increase the weight regularly in tiny increments, get plenty of rest, and eat lots of protein. If you're overtraining, drop back to 1-2 times a week.

Weight training is fun because results are directly correlated to how hard you work at it!
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How nice would it be to have the negative aspects of vehicle use directly affected drivers?

The roads in the communities where they drive become toxic. Maybe we can create a diaper on exhaust ports of vehicles that is then scrubbed clean in their own drinking water.
Nah, they're all using iPhones.

(Seriously, that's what's been reported for MS employees including many/most? on the Kin team.)
Can't you have two types of "good" IT managers?
I know both types of great IT managers. If you forced me to choose from the two camps, I'd rather pick a manager with the better people, communication and organizational skills and lack of technical knowledge.

Somebody with the technical skills and a deficiency of people, communication and organizational skills will do more damage to the group than a manager with the inverse skill set.

Great managers from camp (1) are probably more effective, but seem to be harder to come by because they need to possess two sets of skills, rather than one.
And here are some great instructions for major systems.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

I ended up doing this on all three of Windows and Red Hat (work) and Mac once I got used to it.
"There are plenty of posts online about valuations, term sheets, and how to negotiate. I'm not going to get into that stuff here. This post is about the personal side of finding investors."

Really? From my point of view, I constantly find articles about personal fit, finding the people who have the same goals, etc. I'd love an article about valuation, term sheets and how to negotiate.

Can anybody tell me where to start?
Playdom acquired Virtual-world Startup Metaplace
Heatmaps, iRules Style: Part2
Your advertising makes me think you hate me.
To be clear, I don't have a "web 2.0" bank. The only thing non-traditional about my "bank" is that they are actually a credit union. However, they are able to do pretty much everything I need either online, over the phone, or via mail.
My most recent life goal is to learn how to shave with a straight razor... Don't ask me why, just seems like a cool skill to learn and someday pass down to my sons.
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I remember reading in "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell how STDs like HIV can be effectively stopped before they become epidemics. If this antibody can be administered and eliminate a large chunk of people with weaker strains of HIV, then assuming the stronger strains of HIV are in the same geographic area, a strong campaign of eliminating HIV spreading behavior in those areas could really reduce the spread of the disease. But like another poster said we don't know which strains are most prevalent, so it could be that a stronger strain is more widespread.
The insurance company can demand that you use helmets and seatbelt, and try to recoup their expenses from you if you don't. I'm not saying that's a perfect solution, but rationalizing limitations on freedom in terms of avoiding a public expense is a very slippery slope towards totalitarianism.

In particular, privacy comes to mind. Respecting privacy denies law enforcement access to tools that might aid in the quick investigating of crimes. Why should your need for privacy be allowed to harm the taxpayer that has to support expensive investigations?
@Vineet you can try doing some research, Grad Schools value that a lot.
You can try joining some research institute in india (I know they are rare)
and have at least a paper submitted before you apply
A good idea would be to target WWW 2011 conference which is going to take place in hyderabad,

In my case I had 2 international publication in a reputed International chemical engineering journal on topics related to machine learning which helped me a lot despite of poor grades,

you can try applying to universities like NCSU, UNCC which are decent also provide good support,
I don't count insurance companies. An insurance company makes a voluntary decision to be an indirect participant in a risk-taking activity. They can enforce helmet/seat-belt use as part of their policy if they wish, and deny coverage where appropriate.

The taxpayer question is more complicated, since most people would probably agree that we can't allow an accident victim to bleed to death at the side of the road because they chose not to use their seat-belt. I'm fairly confident, however, that a solution could be devised without recourse to state interference in personal decisions.
This is the second AngelConf we've organized. When you put on an event, it's hard to predict in advance how good it will be. AngelConf 2009 turned out to be really good. So for HN users who've made some money through their own startups or e.g. Google and have thought of one day trying angel investing, I feel safe saying this will be worth the time. You'll learn everything you need except the stuff you can only learn from experience.
Can Entrepreneurial Collaboration Bring Peace in the Middle East?
Tried to leave a comment on the blog but it wouldnt permit me.
If the author sees it here....thanks for the Gandi tip, was looking for a VPS solution that was affordable.

Do you know if they permit you to upload your own VM?
"If you need money, you are too late."

really means

"If you appear to need money, you are too late."

and restated the way one of my investors once put it

"If you have the stench of death about you it's impossible to raise."

If you don't need money, don't raise.
It's the latter, I want the system to take and attach the screenshot at the user's request.
If you would be building the Twitter, had no money and server costs were exploding, I guess it would be pretty easy to get some money somewhere by just showing your visitor stats?
Back to the future: how email is helping build profitable Internet startups
It's not so much the amount of bandwidth you need as it is the type of bandwidth and equipment required. You can get cable internet with a 2 mbps uplink speed, but the equipment won't handle the levels of concurrency that you need to serve pages with any reasonable degree of responsiveness. My developers are located in various places around the US, and at various times, we all run dev servers coupled with DynDNS so we can preview what's on someone's dev branch without a push and deploy. Even with fast connections (+2 mbps up) in metro areas (few hops), the serve stats are ridiculously slow. And what about an SLA? Your cable provider doesn't care that your sites are down when your lawn man cuts your cable with his edger. You need a T1 or better with a good router and switching equipment to do it properly.

Couple that with the fact that bandwidth is only part of the equation. How much downtime can you afford? Do you have redundant power? UPS? Generator? What about environment? Do you have sufficient HVAC?

To implement all the required facilities for a server or two is just ridiculously expensive, especially in light of all the quality VPS providers available.
Thanks for the tip - I'll check it out.

UPDATE: OK, I can only find the screenshot tool [1] which is a downloadable desktop application as opposed to something I can integrate into my web application unfortunately.

[1] http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/docs/70/topics/basics/Captur...
> On the other hand, the antibody would never have been noticed if we hadn't been spending all this money on research.

Indeed. But, even though he is a homosexual man, the gene would likely be passed along eventually, and run its course through the human race (if we believe Darwin). We just don't want to wait that long.

note: it would be passed one of a few ways:

1) his ancestors also had the gene, and he's not the only one to get it. He has heterosexual relatives who will pass it along, and they simply weren't found for one reason or another.

2) he wavers in his homosexuality, and passes his gene along to a few women OR he is bisexual

3) he donates sperm

4) it happens again in a heterosexual person. This gene arose in something like 30-40 years (I'm not really sure just how many) since the beginning of AIDS, which is an evolutionary blink. I think it's not unreasonable to figure it would arise again, and that it wouldn't take a bajillion years
I am currently in Paris and based on this city (for sure!) and actually a lot of my other international experiences: it seems to be a uniquely American idea that the public sometimes has human needs.

I say that kind of tongue in cheek, but to prevent every European from flaming me: I really am trying to understand what the alternative is that other countries are practicing. Drink less? More stamina? Or, as in Sydney: just find a convenient wall?
As a reference point have a look at profile of my friend who is doing PhD on a full schol and is from a decent school (not IIT)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmahatme
he had done research while doing undergraduate degree and he got direct admit to PhD
My understanding is that's it more about marketing rather than people stealing your idea. You may want to emerge on the scene with a new product and concentrate the media buzz rather than having information trickle out and have it seem like old news when you launch.
Thanks. Also, apologies I should have Googled that first ;)
I've never understood why there are so many legal restrictions on gambling in the US. Where I come from (Ireland/UK) there are lots of betting shops - mostly catering to sports betting, but you can walk in and ask for odds on anything, such as the outcome of a forthcoming election or whatever. Casinos are no big deal (though they cater mainly to the better-off) and most pubs or other social spots have a slot machine or two.

Of course, some people are compulsive gamblers and experience problems as a result. On the other hand my local 7-11 (24 hour convenience store) attracts gambling addicts too, one guy shows up there once a month and hangs out all night playing a quick lottery and smoking two packs of cigarettes. For a while I thought prohibition policy existed because the state wants a monopoly on lottery revenue, but state lotteries seem to be just as profitable in Europe as they are here despite the much lower payouts. The rates of gambling addiction don't seem much different.

I have virtually no interest in the pursuit other than buying a lottery ticket on a whim maybe once a year, but it's similar enough to video gaming that I can see how people get hooked on it - probably something akin to a dopamine deficiency. Prohibition seems pointless and wasteful; better to deal with reality and divert a percentage of the revenue to mitigation services.
Right. And strawmen like

I know that there are many would disagree and claim that Mouse-driven IDEs and XML based configs are the way to move forward, but I firmly believe that such convictions stem from a lack of exposure.

don't help the argument.