skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common identity would be powerful, but also dangerous, for the same reasons people oppose national ID systems. I notice that by default Clickpass creates separate OpenID URLs for the different sites you authenticate to.
I find the docstoc widget very intriguing, given how everybody here pretty much knows about Scribd as the startup to have opened up this arena. Although I'm not a Scribd user, the CrunchBase profile for docstoc is a bit annoying: "The YouTube of documents," even though that's what Scribd was intended as, over a year earlier.
I respectfully, but wholly, disagree that it is underhanded. The CEO can know I'm doing it; in fact, the possibility I may do it can pay dividends in communication. But if I am a major investor in the company I will definitely want that point of view. Too often nobody is able to change management's perspective when it is critical to do so.

Yes, they are collecting the best data because they are collecting data from multiple points of view. That is exactly the reason to do it.
http://www.textmarks.com/
Lordy, if I was grading a 10th grade English composition that ended with this:

For as it is written, the last shall be first and the geek shall inherit the earth.

...I just don't know how I'd react. Maybe by quitting. I guess the poll of "conservative" columnists is slim in NYC, but please, let's have someone who avoid writing op-eds that end in "For Better or For Worse"-style puns.
I'm planning to switch from local avatars to something else. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

Regarding OpenID, all the services I've tested with so far don't even return email, let alone anything else. Is this a heavily under-used aspect of the protocol on the provider side?
same. lame.
Indeed. Creativity can thrive within boundaries: look at what Shakespeare did with the sonnet, or Beethoven with the sonata. Limiting yourself to 80 characters enforces discipline and serves as a valuable constraint on code: always readable, never verbose.
Mobissimo Has 1/223 The Capital Of Kayak (And Out Executes Them)
As long as he knows, you're OK.

It's not the collecting of data that I was concerned about.

It was the implied secretiveness.
Sudo apt-get wife
I find the idea of calling them "entrepreneurs" to be just WRONG. What I think you're saying is "biz guy"... Which are critical for some startups, but useless for others.

Varying startups require that someone steps up to the plate to perform a variety of tasks-- and for each startup, the needs are different.

You're looking for a formula and there isn't one.
Care to back that "DRM overhead" up with data? I have measured performance of win2008 vs win2003, there is certainly no degradation, and there was no DRM in 2003.

So?
Well, you'll be paying the ~$1000 "real" price back in overpriced contracts with obscene minimum runtimes. (unlocked versions are available for ~€700-€1000 in Germany, France, so the real price is probably closer to $600-800, as Europe routinely gets screwed over on import prices anyway)

I'll stick with my cheap-ish phone that is actually mine, and a nice and flexible pay-as-you-go tariff. The way mobile phone contracts are going these days (in Europe) you're almost guaranteed a bad deal with a contract.
I said Student Developer discount, not Student discount.

The Student Developer discount price is $1599, the student price is $1799.
http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/ seems to be the best tool for the Mac right now, at least according to all the big boys.

It has features that few or none of the other solutions seem to have. E.g., the ability to record the camera at the same time as the screen, so you can have a picture-in-picture for the narrator at any point. Or, the ability to zoom and pan over the whole-screen recording at any point. It even knows at any given point where the frontmost window is, so you can select it after the fact during video editing.

All in all, a pretty impressive new approach to screencast editing.
I had to read this several times to figure out what heroin had to do with it.
Yes, you have had that link pasted to you. By me.

When you sign your posts. you waste time of people who read them. Your alleged free-thinking and anti-totalitarianism wastes others' time, for no reason. Think about that.
Wanna be both? I'm more a builder, if you look at my past, but I'm actively learning entrepreneurship.
Reliving the clone wars
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but typing "macbook pro led glossy" into Google shows the answer.
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Tridge is considers Australia's best hacker. But he has no interest in forming any company. The only time he was convinced was to help form a company was with Linuxcare. Along with Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Martin Pool (Apache), Paul 'Rusty' Russell (ipchains) and Richard Morrell (SmoothWall)

He is interested in superior technological solutions.
He does not care about term sheets (aka term shits) or vesting rights etc.

He get paid VERY WELL for stuff he loves doing.

What is better than that????

BTW, he was ANU chess champion and often played blindfolded.

PS Australia's greatest hacker was John Lions.
OK, so $1800ish after taxes.

You can still get a MacBook for half that, which has everything else you mentioned, so why not get a MacBook and upgrade twice as often? (With resale value, you'll be way on top.)
Locked telephones have set a bad precedent and some broadband ISPs are attempting to do the same thing with routers. In the UK, Sky, part of NewsCorp, supplies a badged NetGear DG834G or suchlike with patched firmware. However, it isn't obvious how to change the settings - or change the account details to make it work with other ADSL ISPs. It doesn't have default NetGear username/password of admin/password and uses admin/sky instead. Thankfully, the GPL2 source is available. However, I'm very concerned that in the future ISPs could offer enhanced or exclusive access through routers which are not trivial lock down or patch and which would be incompatible with other ISPs.
We are a web-shop, and the CMS we use is called Seagull (google Seagull Project) - it's relatively unknown, however has been in development for a few years now. It's quite powerful and robust providing many commonly used modules that are found in most sites (user, CMS, media etc.)

It's open source and the developers are quite helpful on the mailing list. Documentation is fairly decent with many howto guides for newcomers. Being a web-developer for over 7 years I highly recommend it.
Technology entrepreneurs head for 'startup camp'
Are you talking about sending, receiving, or both?
If anything, his quantity of posting in the last 30 days has slowed from the .9x a day he used to post.

Really though, the postings from last June pale in comparison to the poor posts from the past 60 days which include thinly veiled shills for products.
I calculate $1678 after taxes, a savings of $421. I thought the same thing as you and bought a MacBook for $999 but returned it because it was slower, dimmer, smaller, and more mirror-like than my glossy MacBook Pro while weighing the same and looking like a children's toy.

What ultimately caused me to return it was trying to run a 3D plugin of a scene in a drawing program. It was unbelievably slow, while I remembered how well a Dell m1330 ran, which has the same integrated video chipset, Intel's X3100. I researched that either Apple or Intel had crappy video drivers on the Mac for that chipset, which meant it was already behind the times out of the box, never mind in two years.

And with the discount, the MacBook Pro might even be sold for a profit after 3-6 months in the worst case scenario (since including taxes it's worth $2,100), but the same MacBook at either Student Developer or Student price would likely be sold for a loss.
Yeah VentureBeat reported that a couple of days ago. We're taking bets on it:
http://www.hubdub.com/m7672/What_Price_Will_The_3G_iPhone_Se...
I think that the most compelling uses of rooms are for smaller groups. We'll probably continue to refine the options however and may separate the read and write permissions.
Maybe it's an IDE thing. I like a skinny column of code next to something else -- either another skinny column of code (maximized gvim, one vertical split) or Firefox with some documentation/reference in it. Firefox and most IDEs seem to want the whole screen, especially on a 1280-px-wide or smaller display.

I can strip the stylesheets off of gratuitously spread-out web pages with Greasemonkey, but most IDEs seem to require enough screen real estate for, um, stuff, that a window with 80 columns of text still takes up more than half the screen.
> "...they all screwed up lexical scoping."

I have read a number of comments like this recently. I am very curious about what this implies but the person making the statement never gives an explanation.
What a silly comparison. The only company that has a chance of becoming the next Google is a company that can amass as much data as google. The days of better algos beating more data are behind us.
Given Cisco's history of designing and standardizing protocols, I'll consider their RPC protocol over SOAP at any time (even having a cursory knowledge of it).

The problem with SOAP is not that it's bloated or that doesn't allow for efficient parsing or whatever the flaw du jour is. The problem is that it's was created, promoted and embraced by people ignorant of established protocol design practices.

If they wanted interoperability, there was an ASN.1 in DER or PER encoding readily available. If they wanted forward compatibility - why not use trivial TLV encoding ? And why the hell would anyone want to use text-based protocol for passing binary data around ? "Easier to troubleshoot" they say. Huh ?! ARE YOU NUTS ? Why not render the data into a .png then and exchange those instead ?

</rant>

So, I really hope Cisco does standardize their protocol. RPC may be a flawed approach to begin with, but at the very least there'll be a decent protocol to utilize this "flawed" technology.
Hey, Microsoft, ShoppingNotes.com got a disruptive solution for you
I usually write Lisp in 120 columns. I don't actually put very much on each line, but my code tends to be very deeply nested so it finds its way to the right margin rather quickly. Twenty consecutive close-parens is not unusual for me.
TechCrunch on Twitter: Translation
Do you use different passwords on every site? I have three tiers of passwords I use depending on how much I care about the site in question. I can do the same thing with OpenIDs, although most of the sites that support OpenID in the first place fall into the lowest tier of necessary security.
Any idea how it compares to OpenCalais (reuters) Tagaroo? http://www.opencalais.com/gallery
Networking opportunity in New York
Hi. I was wondering if there are networking opportunities with other hackers and entrepreneurs in New York city.
also read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198437
Want to work at a YC startup, but not a hacker? Love music? Be Justin.tv's Producer
Justin.tv is the biggest Flash live video site online. We provide free live video and chat channels to anyone who wants to easily broadcast something to the web. We serve hundreds of thousands of video streams a day, and get millions of visitors a month. The site is rapidly growing, and in order to continue to bring awesome bands, events, and other content on the site, we're looking to hire a Justin.tv Producer.

As a Producer you will be the team member responsible for bringing interesting and entertaining live broadcasts to our site (music stars, movie stars, major events, etc.). Connections in the entertainment/music industry, good overall technical knowledge, the ability to create visual and print media, and the will to work 10x harder then the competition are a must.

The producer will be expected to:

- Attract top musical talent to the site
- Work with major record labels
- Attract large venues to broadcast performances live
- Attract popular radio stations to broadcast live
- Plan, coordinate, setup, and promote online events
- Deliver large audiences to the site
- Track and optimize web traffic to online events
- Effectively create and manage relationships with all Justin.tv content partners

Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and manage others
- Exceptional work ethic, independent, and the ability to learn quickly
- Desire to work in a fast paced environment where job requirements sometimes change
- Ability to build out and lead the production team at Justin.tv
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Located in the SF Bay Area

Justin.tv is still a small company (<10 people), and we are looking for someone who will be a core member of a fun, fast paced team. We believe in building awesome products that normal people like to use, and need you to help bring amazing content to the site! We're located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, one block from the Caltrain station. We have an NBA Jam machine, Xbox 360, 100" projector, all the free energy drink you desire, and catered lunches.

To apply, please email arram[at]justin.tv with your resume and a cover letter with some thoughts on how you would be effective at the role of Producer. Justin.tv is an equal opportunity employer.
That would be great! Are you willing to pay an extra $150-300 for your cell phone?

The problem is that it would cost more. In fact, you can already just buy a phone (unlocked) at many online places. The reason it isn't popular is because it costs significantly more - to the extent that even most geeks go with the cheap, locked stuff.

Now, would it make the monthly plans cheaper? Probably, but not by as much as the additional money you'd spend on the phone. Why? Adding a customer, even if they bring their own equipment, costs money. Billing needs to be set up, often it takes time from a rep, new customers have a ton more questions, etc.

So, if you'd be willing to pay an extra $50-100 (and convince 60% of other people that's a better way too), then the industry might change. Until then, we're stuck, but we have cheaper prices.
I think it is one thing to receive the odd insult in internet discussions, and another thing for somebody to do some sort of campaign against you. I don't know the details of the original problem, but I can imagine that there are some sorts of online harassment that call for more severe countermeasures than stableness.
Real world JRuby on Rails: Infectious disease reporting and management
Twitter is 5 things
Just need a hacker dude and we'll be rich
If they didn't add so much nickle and diming bullshit, I bet their customer service costs would go waaaayyy down. Most of the cell phone confusion from the large amount of confusing restrictions and nickle and diming.
Ask YC: Subscription Billing For On-Demand Startup
You're a web app like beanstalk app, lighthouse, 37 signals,etc. You charge per month. How do you handle billing? What service do you use?
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How To Burn Through 56 Million in VC Money
services we've looked at:

-zuora
-aria

they want 5-10k in implementation, 1k per month minimum, and 2-4% of your sales (keep in mind, that is ON TOP of processing fees)
PayPal ftw.
http://www.centernetworks.com/internet-week
http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
The truth is stanger than fiction. Specifically, the book Metrophage by Richard Kadrey ( http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/metrophage/ ) search for "Jonny looked back".
So I guess this argument would extend to other industries as well. You could buy a cheaper computer that was locked in to a particular ISP or a car that was locked into a particular fuel supply. Or perhaps a TV that only connected to a particular cable supplier. All these year of inefficiently allowing consumers to freely match their products and suppliers! What have we been thinking.
We use paypal's payflow pro. I'm very much looking forward to when google checkout adds subscriptions as well.
Government 2.0: The Government as a Platform
PayPal++
If there is anything you don't like about these services and their APIs, please let Tipjoy know:
http://tipjoy.com/feedback/
Open Source Money Management and ERP Tools for Business
Almost anything but PayPal. I have both heard and experienced too many horror stories involving that company to ever trust them with money on which my livelihood depends.
Bram Cohen: The diff problem has been solved
Google exposes search algorithm secrets
Come on, it's not that hard:

real_price = buying_price+contract_runtime_in_months*monthly_fee
kewl stuff, leet p@wn

seriously raytracing is cool you can do cool graphics easily.
hey ivan, we should chat. jason [at] publictivity dot com
ive been through one before, but it still comes out the simplest.
I've used PayPal for several years without significant complaint. However, definitely pay heed to the horror stories; they are often true. PayPal's one of those services that's "excellent till it ain't."
Both PayFlow (now owned by PayPal) and Authorize.net make subscription billing easily programmed. Authorize probably makes it a little easier because they have more code samples, but it's really just an API call for whichever.
I've been using GC for about 18 mths and we've had more than 20x the chargebacks that we've had on PayPal - just FYI.
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video)
Remote Procedure Calls are fundamentally flawed
a.) This costs money and b.) I haven't actually used it. But I bookmarked it a few weeks ago because it looked interesting. Seems to be a Rails implementation of the BrainTree payment gateway.

Worth a look, particularly if you're using Rails as a framework (which I guess you might be since you cite Rails apps as examples).

http://railskits.com/saas/
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Every one comes up with reasons why startups fail/succeed. I still do not believe there is a set of reasons why businesses fail. Idea, ability to execute, great engineering team and the rest are just opinions.There is no way to tell what will/will not succeed. You can only weight opportunity vs risk and there are so many other factors that make the equation much more complex that the only only way to know what will or will not make it is to actually take the journey. Just do it.
Microsoft has a long history of evil. I think most of us can agree on that. Google doesn't have any history to speak of. Google went from a search company with no money to an ad-farmer with billions almost overnight.

Companies, especially public ones, go for the bottom line. Which means making a profit.

Google makes money from advertising. Not web-based office apps, navigation or moon-charts. What we really have to wonder about is 'what is Google planning?'.

My guess is that Google has a two-fold strategy. One is pushing open standards - because that is the environment they thrive in. Hence the summers of code, etc. Two is going after infrastructure in the last-mile. Google is a third-party in most transactions and they are vulnerable to factors like regulation and telcos blackmailing them for access (or traffic prioritization).

Google is making a profit and is flush with cash right now, but sooner or later they will have to make more money than they do now or watch the stock price go down.

And preventing that will mean being less nice. Or slightly evil. Slippery slope and all that..
What beverage would you ask them to buy you? I'd ask for a Becks. What does that say about me? I dunno.
Not all of Google (yet), but there has been some significant lobbying for the use of git inside Google in the past by Linus himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 (Google Tech Talk)

If you want to learn more about git and the motivation behind it, then I really recommend watching the linked video. I find it quite entertaining.
What's GC? Google Checkout?
Anyone using it?
Wow, that's huge. I assume you'll be scrapping it?
Working mock-up of Hacker News with search box
Only a nonhacker would care about degrees...
$200 would probably make a customer out of me. I'm still considering jumping on the Spring SERO bandwagon, because $30/month would save enough money to buy stuff I want.

I thought about getting a smartphone with sprint for a subsidized price, but the phones are all totally lame. Nobody but apple figured out how to make a useful "smart" phone. The phone companies have gotten plain-jane phones down pretty well, but they never figured out how to scale up the features. Apple sorta went backwards. They scaled down a computer to make it a cell phone. (its not the best analogy)

I think i'll just get a sprint sero simple phone and save up some bucks and get a climbing rope.
Maybe it's just me, but simplicity is below reliability and "will not freeze my accounts for no reason" on the list of important qualities of a payment processor.

37signals doesn't even accept PayPal, which I think is one smart move.
Well I paid $400 and I don't regret it... I did unlock it as Canada has the worst cellphone market in the world. If the second gen is unlockable then 200$ is a bargain.
Ask YC: Filter out RSS noise by keyword
Our world changes so quickly that RSS is almost a necessary evil.

However, even with a quality news vertical news aggregator (like YC news), there are many articles that are simply not interesting to me.

EG: If I ever see a post about twitter or facebook again, it'll be too soon.

Is there an RSS filter that I could use in front of say, my google reader feed, to filter out articles tha that contain certain keywords like "twitter" or "facebook" in the title / content?

Secondly, I get a lot of dupes (maybe from direct subscriptions and aggregators, like news.yc).

Wouldn't it be great if I could also filter dupes?

Does anyone know of such a service, or would anyone be interested in making one?

I'd love this RSS filter, but don't have time to write it myself...
I don't get Facebook, explain please!
seriously it is not very intuitive, you cant really do much. no forum, no chat.

on myspace at least people have big profiles and can post stuff, on Facebook you first have to become friends.

i really dont get why this got so big!?

problem is it makes me feel trapped. like i cant find or do anything, it makes me want to get out of their.

and how do you find all the applications?

how the hell can some application on facebook be valued to 500K$/month whih i read somewhere.
degrees schmegrees
This looks like a reasonable advertisement for a first technical hire at a somewhat flaky startup self-evident web marketing competence. (yes, we're onto your game)

What's the big deal?
does an amateur stand a chance here?

i mean you have to be an expert and put in a LOT of work right?
Amazon also has a biling service (flexible payments service):
http://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Payments-Service-AWS/b/ref=sc...

I don't know if you can charge each month however.
What exactly does it mean for this problem to be "solved"?

edit: Bram says "It's been solved in the handwavy 'we got it to stop giving crap output so often' sense."
Obviously, they're nonhackers, which is why they seek a "hacker dude." How would you advise nonhackers to evaluate hackers?

I doubt there's really a good answer to that question. Looking for a degree is probably not the worst answer, though it may not be the best either (probably better than asking them what beverage they drink, which is presumably to establish their stuffwhitepeoplelike cred).
http://railskits.com/saas/

Good option if you're a rails app.
Entrepreneurship at Harvard University
It's fun when all your friends are there.
We use Pay Pal and Cybersource (http://cybersource.com/). They are both pretty much equally easy to implement and cost about the same.
I know what you mean. When I use the interwebs I want to post links and click on really tiny triangles. Sometimes I like typing how I feel about links into boxes. I can't figure out why people would use Facebook. I mean, I guess you can post links and type comments into boxes. All those photos and friends make it really confusing! I also don't see any tiny triangles to click on when I am on Facebook.