skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was already filling the form for UK formation, when colleague from UK appointed me that "fast fwd bank account" means only that they will pass papers to them, not that I get BA. Then I started calling banks in UK, I called 4 of them, answers were different, but bottom line you can't open account if you don't have UK passport (even if company is in UK). Only one answer was that I could open it, but if I come to one of their offices.

I focused back on US because one of advisors is from US and bizfillings seems to have nice prices / service. UK also had few nice online services for company formation.
Read the Terms of Service? http://flattr.com/terms
Most troubling for me:

"By using this Service you agree not to:
11) to create or modify a competitor product or service;"

That's a pretty sweeping noncompete...
I mean, did they ever have PayPal account and not being influenced by it? (I don't know how similar the actual working, didn't register yet)

Also agree not: "to advertise to, or solicit, any user to buy or sell any products or services."
They say it is for example bloggers. So if I review my new smartphone and tell the world it is the best thing since sliced bread and everyone should have one - is it a ToS violation?

I'm conflicted. Like the idea a lot, but don't like the ToS much... :/
I've been using BucketWise for over a year. Not only for my personal but also for my business' finances.

It works like a charm!

Source: http://github.com/jamis/bucketwise

Video: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2009/4/9/bucketwise-preview-2
Unfortunate site logo as well. Between his writing style, the content of some of his posts, and the choice of name and logo, I'm finding it very difficult to take this author seriously.
I haven't found any like that. Do you have any names / links?
Hmm, what you want isn't so much for people to see your ads as to capture their purchasing intent.

In your case you are going to have too kind of people comming there:

1* people who are in love with a "small" language, and want to see it grow.
2* people who are loking for a language to learn.

The people who fit in the first group are likely to be very good programmers, so you could have a set of premium job ads there.

The second set of people are in need of tutorials or books about how to program in that language; they would be good candidates to refer to some Amazon books.
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On http://www.ratemystudentrental.com, it was Watch Lists. If there was no available rental property that matched what you searched for, you could just hit a button to "create Watch List" and RMSR would notify you when a rental that met your criteria was added to the site or became available. Everyone thought this sounded like a "great idea" for the week or so it took me to build. Now 2 years later, exactly 2 people have ever used it.

Why did it go unused (I wouldn't say it totally failed)? The biggest reason is probably because no one wants to use your site as much as you want them to. If they couldn't find what they wanted on my site right away, why would they stick around when they could just go look elsewhere?

That's why I ended up building the "Around the Web" feature, where if a rental couldn't be found on RMSR, it will aggregate and map properties from other sites (around the web). This feature was mildly more successful.
Yup, except that's the only thing I do (no day job). Also I somehow never managed to make an app that was used by several people: all my projects are for one client each. Well, there was one who had two, but they merged (that was a fun moment... I'm still integrating).
I called it WorkSearch: http://www.linkup.com/worksearch/

Basically it is a timer for jobseekers that runs in the background, to push them to spend a longer amount of time hunting for a job than they normally would (even if it isn't on our site). People have always known that the biggest difficulty with job-hunting is spending enough time on it, but it is really demonstrated by the this 2009 NYTimes interactive graphic: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080...

Despite some bloggers writing about it (http://helpmegethired.wordpress.com/2009/06/), it never took off. I'd say the failure came from the execution. It needed to be dead-simple to turn on (w/o requiring an account), and always present yet unintrusive. Maybe the next version...
The whole "goatse" thing is part of the performance art. Hacker groups have a long history of over the top stuff like that -- look at the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), Phone Losers of America, Legion of Doom, etc.

weev is a troll (in the 4chan sense), and a performance artist, but on this issue, he's actually being pretty straight up. He got some information about a security vulnerability, was asked to publicize it, did so, and is now being unlawfully screwed for it.

Was what he did prudent, especially for someone already on the FBI shitlist? No. Was it lawful? Yes. And, it certainly brought the security vulnerability, which was an incompetent decision by ATT, to public attention.
I have links to a few open (gov) data sets at the top of http://elev.at
Maybe it didn't work because your site doesn't have any way to process payments? I wonder if Paypal imposes a per-transaction upper limit.
I recommend you check out http://walkercorporatelaw.com/blog/ They have a good online presence and share on other sites from time to time. I don't have any experience working with them, but what they say makes sense to me.

5) You might be able to open a bank account if you grant someone power of attorney, but I am not a lawyer and recommend you speak to one if you want more information about power of attorney.
Supported the entire 3GPP2-A10/A11 protocol for my product called Unsniff based on one customer's strong demand. One day my customer contact mysteriously disappeared and no one has used this feature ever since. That hurt.

Lesson learnt !
+1 for that link. There's so much of Joel's writing, I don't know where to begin ;-)
You can get all of Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database
So minimal... So inefficient...

There's a reason we do image, css and javascript includes in HTML. This idea undoes all that.

I can't imagine why the author, clearly a bright guy, went out of his way to build this thing.
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I like it, it's clever, but I was disappointed that the headline was misleading in the interest of being catchy. "How I made my website a one-hit-wonder (intentionally)" might have done the same thing without me thinking "oh, he just stripped out newlines".
Why Parents Hate Parenting
bootstrapped business, basics already up, full product is prelaunch, maintaining other full-time employment, about $45 a month.
Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers
Be very careful with taxes. Both your home country and the USA will want to tax you, and I am fairly sure (not 100% though) you'll have to file taxes in BOTH countries, using tax treaties to avoid paying double. This will mean you'll need to spend some money hiring a US accountant.

Question: what's the reasoning behind wanting to create the company based in the US? Is it for raising money? I assume you want to raise VC (since you're opening a C-corp, not an LLC)?
True. The massive ammount of code examples on the D website is what got me interested in the language in the first place.
I've encountered this numerous times with charting data for others. I find a great top level view of some key data, but it flies over their head and it never gets used.

This is probably our failure, not theirs. We can't expect our audiences to understand something the way we understand it.
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Same question I've been asking all along. Why did Mozilla choose to spotlight these specific features? I assume there is a strategic answer, but I don't know what it is.
I have a favor to ask:

Can we please stop using the word 'hip' to describe anyone youthful who is in any capacity, aware of what's going on around them? It's getting as bad as the words 'hipster' and 'yuppie' and says about as much about the person as does the term 'rockstar'.

I don't know if 'hip' is anything you'd use to describe a computer science student, not that there's anything wrong with that.
The very big difference between buying a book and listening to a tv, radio programme or reading a website is that for the former you actually pay about £10 or £20, for the latter you do not.

As for the contract point, I think there is an implicit contract between the publisher and the reader that they can access the content for free as long as they are willing to accept the slight intrusion of the ads.

As for the ethical matter, I do think that he is being a free loader, accessing content which is free only because of the many who do not use an ad blocker. In one way therefore he is cheating and that is unethical. It is perfectly fine, selfish and normal behaviour, but hardly angelic or ethical simply because he is not fulfilling his part of the bargain.

If he hates adverts so much and a significant minority acts as he does then publishers will either be forced to start charging for their content as Times Online has began to do and as they do for books, or valuable information will stop being generated, thus, making us all poorer.

Finally, this is capitalism, if you do not like it, you might be welcomed in North Korea or at least in China.
There's also a long history of cranks falsely claiming that their rights are being violated and that due process in their case is being trampled.

I'm not saying that that cranks shouldn't be defended when their rights are violated or that his claims are false. But he's certainly not helping his credibility with his disorganized, rambling writing, and his juvenile website, etc. It makes it so that my immediate inclination reading this is to suspect that most of it is wildly exaggerated.
The KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to Microsoft KIN
Thanks for the link. I will check them.

5) I have quite some contacts in US so this could go. I will further digg into it. Even if he would have to be part of the company it could if I manage to set it up.
iOS 4 demolishes Android 2.2 in not responding to touch events like molasses
FWIW, I also have the same problem (I'm a tarsnap user). I current have just shy of 2TB of GIS data (1.6TB is elevation data alone), so right now I backup everything except my GIS data. I loves me some tarsnap for the other stuff, but right now it's not a solution for this much data.

This is definately a pain point of mine. Luckily, the data doesn't change often, and if I needed to restore from data loss it doesn't need to happen ASAP. So I'm thinking just saving the data to seperate hard disks and storing those in a safety deposit box will fulfill my needs.

Does that sound right? Or am I missing some large dangers in this solution? (I'm pretty new to this stuff)
From the article: he doesn't want to be an entrepreneur or work in small-fish business. He is set for building a traditional career in a finance corporation. A yuppie born into wrong era.
He was not the first Foreign Samurai though, an African preceeded him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
There is a free version called www.MobileHunger.com
I bet most people on here don't like legal action, but this sort of trend seems like the kind of thing a libel lawyer or two could help to curb. The author seems to think people will do this ad naseum, but perhaps not if there are known consequences.
Lets hope Apple will step-in and to stand by his civil liberties. I heard they took some moves for the same for Chinese workers :P
For western Europe I would also suggest Luxembourg. Living there is also quite expensive ( but you may live in one of the neighbouring countries)...
European HQ of Ebay,Skype,Paypal,Amazon,ITunes are all located in Luxembourg for IP, tax, regulatory (e-commerce) reasons.It's also easier to find motivated multilingual people.
That's my favorite aspect of Windows Home Server's backup. It does it once a day whenever you're asleep. It'll even wake up your machine, back it up, and them put it back to sleep. And it's smart enough to only do this if you're laptop is plugged into AC and not running on battery. And if any machine isn't backed up in a while, you get a Health warning in your system tray. And this is all pretty configurable.

How's that for low impact.
I'm not sure what it means to be a 'hip developers' but it was interesting to read this and think about my current startup. My co-founder and I have been .Net developers for a few years and when we decided to finally make the jump and work full-time on our startup we decided to use a Microsoft stack for almost everything. We love C# and the VisualStudio. It has definitely raise a few eyebrows with investors and advisors though.

I guess I should figure out at what point did Microsoft brainwash me or something. I write this comment wearing a Windows 7 shirt and I don't work for them or anything. But I wish I did.
Do a test proving it this way is more inefficient.

BTW, everything is separated before publishing. CSS is one file, reset CSS is in another, there is a HTML template etc. Easy maintenance off line, online and published does not matter. It is similar with dynamic publishing.

As for the inefficiency we all know HTTP requests are the biggest enemy. All my pages are exactly one request. With everything being minimized, gzipped and unused CSS selectors stripped I do not see how this can be more 'inefficient'.
Just an example: https://online.citibank.com/US/JRS/pands/detail.do?ID=Checki....
Looking for video player and video server solution
A client wants to display short web videos on their website. This isn't my area of expertise so I'm looking for a video player, similar to YouTube, and a provider for serving videos. The client is open to either closed or open source solutions for the player. The client wants to serve video around the world. Any help in finding both software and services would be appreciated.
There is a tax treaty between us and our country. I plan on having an accountant in US too yes. I talked to one guy which has one in NY and pays aprox $400 yearly for a more or less pasive company.

Q: It's not because of raising money primarily. Primarily it's so I get access to better payment options (google checkout, merchant's account, ..) and because product is focused on US market. I would want to open separate company for this project anyway, so I don't hold all projects inside my main company.
From the original report [1]:

"It was not our purpose to examine, nor did we seek evidence on, the science produced by CRU. It will be for the Scientific Appraisal Panel to look in detail into all the evidence to determine whether or not the consensus view remains valid."

[1] http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/ph...
Maybe being a hip developer is like the 'cool kid' crowd from school. We do seem to poke fun and question people when they use X technology over Y because its not what the cool kids use.
This courtesy was drilled into me over and over again by my mentor. Asking a great question is shows respect for the speaker, who not only took time out of his day to show up, but put a lot of time into putting his presentation together and showed the nerve to stand in front of a crowd to air his ideas.

It's also an opportunity for you to challenge the speaker if there was something you disagreed with. Phrased correctly, a question can make both the speaker and the audience re-think something that was stated earlier.

One thing I see missed sometimes is proper form when asking questions. Standing up, stating your name and where you're from, and thanking the speaker for coming and for taking your question add just a few seconds to your question, but they can go a long way to making the speaker feel welcome. From the tech conference videos I've seen, I think this is something we can improve on in the hacker culture. We know what it's like to offer up our work without appreciation to people who don't understand what we do -- but I want to work on being more appreciative of my fellow developers.
http://infochimps.org/ http://www.data.gov/ http://data.gov.uk/
If you remove fundamentalists from both sides, won't there be new fundamentalists: the first and last elements of the spectrum?
If you don't want to look at ads, just be prepared to pay subscription fees for everything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_restaurant_process
Just because you don't "like" someone is no reason to violate the hell out of his rights. If they do it to him, they will do it to you. And your being "liked" won't help you one damned bit.
Hm, it seems to really be online. At some UK banks there was a online form but the second step was to go into one of their offices.

here:
"To apply online, you must be 18 or older, a U.S. citizen or resident alien, and have a U.S. address. You also need a Social Security Number and U.S. driver's license or state-issued ID."

will check about business accounts.
This whole article is not good for his case. I stopped reading halfway because it looks like the typical crazy person rant.

What he needs to do is get proper legal counsel.
This kid that turned down a 40K a year gig for something "perfect" is an idiot that deserves what he gets.

The first thing I would do if I was looking for a job is... get a job. ANY job. I've got an engineering degree, and I'd start flipping burgers or hauling trash or whatever just to keep working. THEN I would start looking for a more suitable career job.

It's pretty simple. As a hiring manager looking at two potential employees, one who is "waiting for the right position" and another that is "trying to get by", I go with the latter every time. The first guy is definitely out of touch with reality, and the second guy is doing what it takes to get stuff done. I want him working for me.
Faux Entrepreneurship, the Russian Spy Scandal and a Word to the Wise...
The openstreetmap project lets you download its whole dataset: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet

They also got a API ... see the wiki.
How long would it take to understand, learn, implement, and test this set up?

I understand the fully-packed 1 request situation is great for serve-time and page-rank, and after it is all said and done its probably the better solution. This is a slippery slope though because its possible to do too much of that and not enough real work.
However awesome this is, JavaScript animation still looks significantly smoother on iOS because of the iPhone's hardware accelerated graphics. I have a 3GS and an N1 running Froyo and can verify this first-hand.
I can see being it received like that. But the issue is deeper. Take a regular thousand line site and strip the newlines. It is not a same thing. A fact that buildout depends on so many utilities and little scripts and glue makes it clear the result is something a majority of people would not bother messing with. I bother because I really do care about the little differences. There is also no body, html, head, any divs or optional end tags etc.

On the website, it is clearly stated I am a minimalist and perfectionist. The URL slug of this article also reveals something :)

As for the title, it might be perceived as catchy. But I like nice titles on my sites and the fact I self publish entries (because of the HN blog comments experiment -- which I am happy with) makes it even harder.

Is it not a one-line website? :) Short and accurate title I would say.
you can't open account if you don't have UK passport (even if company is in UK)

That's complete BS. I (and others) run a Ltd company in the UK and none of us have UK or EU passports. Our company has a bank account with HSBC.

We are all residents in the UK though, which may be what's different for your situation.
I hate to say it, but if you have been looking for work for a long time and turn down an offer.... You can't complain.

There is a saying about beggars and choosers.

I completely understand being in a job that I dislike, but a job that I dislike is better than no job and no prospects of a job.

A single position can build a resume and open more doors. This was a foolish mistake it seems. I would love to hear about a follow up. Did this guy land the job that he wants?
Full Disclosure != Free Speech.

You cannot just publish personal data and then call it 'free speech' and 'industry standard practice' of a 'journalist'.

Seriously .. where is the ethics in that?

How about actually trying to work with AT&T to get this fixed behind the scenes? Oh no, of course not, because that would not result in the right kind of exposure for these 'security experts'.

These things are all about ego and status. Hidden behind a thin shell of 'full disclosure'.
Yeah they could have picked a more sympathetic subject.
Honestly Paul, I wouldn't worry about how others spend their time too much. It's true that social media encourages "consumption" instead of "production" but people learn to moderate themselves over time. Or they get fired, go into poverty and can't afford an internet connection anymore - one or the other.

However, if it's a fun problem to solve, then by all means try to. What would work for me is seeing how much time I spend on HN. Having the hours stare me in the face would have the same effect as having the calories I consume stare me in the face (while I'm standing in line to get a buttery, ginger scone for mid-morning snack).
I'm not so sure, marketing has a lot to do with how many people use a product/feature
Civil rights are actually not dependent on domain name, writing style, content of writing, name, logo, or in general any damm thing at all. They are called "unalienable rights" for a reason.

As Americans declared in a few days ago in 1776, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

If what he says is true, then it is our right, and our duty, to stand up for weev. If the government is this far in the wrong, then that is more important than any single individual's actions. Give him some cash (http://security.goatse.fr/help); write to the EFF; call your congressman; ask an America you know to do the same; but please, find another thread for discussing logos, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1493603

If he is lying, then we need evidence he is lying, not that he has bad taste in logos.

EDIT: I clarified the above to add the "If what he says is true... // If he is lying..." without marking the edit, which I am now doing. I apologise if I edited after the children had posted.
I'm hoping the new extremes are not ideological fundamentalists.
Don't know why you're being downvoted (I upvoted you), but I had the same thought and impression as you did.

weev talking about "this is not the first time" -- that whole section should have been left out. That makes it very conspiracy theory-like, and really has no bearing on what's going on now.
That sums up my opinion about the article as well. What I wonder though, is why people don't relate their distaste for online advertising to ads via conventional media. Advertisements are equally frustrating regardless of medium, and are by definition disrespectful to any half-educated person (ie. not a "consumer").
I haven't finished the article but I'm guessing his resume isn't stellar or he has no networking. I had no problems finding a job 2 years ago but this may have been to me being a CS major.

Everyone I knew and still keep in touch with also found. This includes a few with < 3.0 GPA and many were business majors.
You didn't read far enough, because he's being denied legal counsel.
This only applies to individuals. Business accounts don't have this option.
I think Mongrel2 has some cool ideas in its design, but using sqlite for configuration seems very heavy, creates more dependencies and you can't edit the data in a text editor which moves away from how you traditionally configure a unix service. Bad choice.