skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These become a lot more fun to read (after the 5th one or so) by replacing the debated term with something else. Let's say, 'pants', for instance -

Yes, You Need Pants

Don’t think about pants in terms of equity.

[...]the ideal number of pants is two or three.

I feel incredibly lucky to have my brilliant pants[...]

Revel in the intensity of your pants team.

Oh and if the author happens to be reading, it's 'for all intents and purposes' rather than 'intensive purposes'.
21st Century, that anybody can argue against (in this thread or elsewhere) that going by bike to work is way better, healthier, more humanly fulfilling, than by car leaves me speechless. Vote for mayors pro bike roads or ask for showers at work, there is always a solution.
You have to realize that what you are proposing is simply a bad idea, even if everything is trying to be pure and perfect:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experime...
It has everything to do with the comment I was replying to. Specifically the part quoted below:

> (I’m not sure how the IRS W-9 cut is handled; that’s about 28% in the U.S. It would suck if the IRS keeps that cut until tax time.)
I really like his design sense.
Reminds me of this lovely movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqUKj1GwJY&feature=relat...

Makes me miss living in Berlin!
That's "and," not "or." Wave team members don't need to worry unless they suck.
Anyone else already know 'hypertext reference'? Like that's what they read when they made first made web pages in the 90s, and they've never heard any different, or realized this was a mystery?
Ask HN: Building page rank by blogging, do subdomains work?
I'm working building up the page rank for our new startup, Nyaruka (http://www.nyaruka.com). Now our particular vertical, SMS data collections apps for the developing world, doesn't necessarily have a huge audience, but our technical work using Django etc.. very well might.

So I've been starting to blog little technical tidbits here and there as we run across them, things that might be genuinely useful to others. I also have some other ideas for entries that would probably attract some clicks and links.

My question, am I wasting my time by having my posts hosted by Posterous on the subdomain (http://blog.nyaruka.com)? IE, how much page rank 'goodness' is transferred via subdomains? Should I instead just blog on our main site? What are the pros and cons there?

Thanks.
Seven Reasons Not to Send Your Kids to College - DailyFinance
I totally agree that fixed schedule limits the benefits of this activity. As you put it, the barrier should be as low as possible if we want greater participation. Having said that, I am happy that someone is trying to do somehthing good for the HN community. .
Do you realize that millions of people bike to work everyday right here in the good ol USA?
I've lived for two years in Austin, now in Amsterdam (the one in Europe). Amsterdam (and actually, most of Europe) is infinitely better for biking than Austin. Actually I almost never rode my bike in Austin. Always cars passing at high speed right next to you. I think USA cities have still a lot more to do to be real bike-friendly.
This has inspired me to use larger fonts when I rebuild/redesign my personal site.
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I think that's an excellent approach. It's simple and functional with no unneeded overhead of planning, timings and what not.
How Secure Is My Password?
This kind of stuff (both sides) is why politics should be kept as far as possible away from Hacker News.
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If this argument was in favor of cars, for me it would be the same: Where am I supposed to park? You expect me to pay $400 a month just to park a car at home and another $400 to park it at the office? Cars are fun, but not very practical.

It all depends on the environment you are in, which is not a static unchangeable monolith. You have choices. Maybe living somewhere where biking is practical would involve making choices that go against your priorities, but those are your priorities.
That is incredible. That makes the browser into a visualization tool. Can we save the page? Resize the divs?
I think you're missing the value proposition entirely. It's not about stalking your children. It's about having the safety net: IF they go missing, I have a way to find them.

It's an emotional safety net, yes. But in certain tragic circonstances it could mean the difference between life and death.
But I guess many, many microcomputer startups failed because they were way ahead of the adoption curve. As a startup, don't you want to maximize your chances of survival + potential growth? (As opposed to just potential growth).
We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party.

Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C".

Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exercise, you'll likely be dead by eighty. (Which is quite a liberating viewpoint if you simply accept it.)
Hey plinkplonk,

We're the first to admit that it's going to take some time to get the balance right. Fundamentally though, we're pretty committed to the idea of making this useful for both parents and for children, and hoping that "last defenses" won't be needed.

As an example here, we built the system intentionally such that children would know their parents' location in addition to the parents knowing the child's. That's got a few implications that are pretty important, but for starters it means that parents aren't asking their children to do something that they're not willing to do themselves -- that actually raises the bar pretty significantly, and I think it does drive home to the parents exactly what it is that they're asking of their kids.

Do we think that parents should know when their kids have disabled the app? Right now: yes, we do. I'm open to the idea that we might be wrong on that, but to my mind it's just an extension of the negotiations about trust and so forth that parents and kids already need to engage in: if you want time when your parents won't be tracking you, you negotiate to get that time. It's like the negotiation that happens whenever a child wants to do anything without parental, or adult supervision. To my mind privacy invasion and responsible parenting are different things, and I think the straw-man arguments presented in that direction are a little unfair to parents, though I concede that there will always be exceptions.

We did actually look at doing this for spouses -- not to detect cheating (a cheating spouse will be even more motivated to subvert the system than a child), but to help out with stuff like "are you near the supermarket? Can you pick up some milk?", but fundamentally people don't seem all that interested in it. I think employees would be kinda similar: you get fired if you're not getting your work done, water cooler or no.
Freelancing is a possibility pretty much anywhere. You can do web development from anywhere and bring in money from anywhere. Technically it's probably illegal to work as a freelancer in Switzerland without the proper visa's and going through the legal steps to setup a Swiss business, but I'm not sure how anyone would find out either. ;)
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An entire blogpost that can be summarized by
google 'define:href'
GM plants 'established in the wild'
What's your point exactly? I bicycle to work in the heat and humidity you are describing, every day. As someone else said, if you just cruise at a conservative pace, you don't even sweat very much.
Google Notebook was actually a good product. I still don't understand why they decided to kill it.
You're right that trials should be represented as a first-class concept in the App Store, but right now the best solution is already fairly elegant: in-app purchases for free apps. That lets you sell the upgrade to the full version from inside the trial version, and avoids any issues with data migration.
This case is interesting to me, because I've always been under impression that in USA you can hire and fire whomever you want. Which is not the case here in Europe, where workers are protected like endangered species if they're on permanent contract.
This is that I think.

Sometimes finding a "co-founder" could take more time than developing the whole project. Time, that btw, you don't have. Time = Money. Money that you don't have either.

So...

If I ask you "Name a friend that you would love to work with and believe he is up to the entrepreneurial challenge of this project" and you take more than 10 seconds to figure out who might be suitable for the challenge, you simply don't have one.

I believe co-founders, partners (however you wanna call them) is more of an attitude thing than a skill thing. Startups require a lot of balls to jump in, even more if you have a full time job and you need to quit it to get this project on track.

Searching for the right partner could be just like waiting for the bus. I could just stay at the bus stop or start walking (coding) to the next stop and then maybe wait there. You could even get to meet your new biz partner half way the road.

It's a good head-breaker paradox. Wait till I find someone to work with or simply start doing it by yourself.

Partners don't always have to actually START the startup with you. They could jump in at any time and it could be extremely handy. Having an extra pair of eyes and hands is always good (you will have to learn to filter critics that you didn't have before and convert them into feedback)
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<h2>Windows 7 walks on the way! Are you out-dated with Windows 7?</h2>

<p><strong>Content of the article</strong></p>
<p>1． Use figures to point out the trend of Win 7</p>
<p>2． The advantage of Win7 VS Win XP/Vista</p>
<p>3． Should attach more attention on Win 7 password recovery</p>

<p><strong>Part one: Use figures to point out the trend of Win 7</strong></p>
<p>Are you still absorbed in Windows XP/Vista but in the dark of <strong>Windows 7</strong>? If that’s all real, you are totally out of date! Pick off your glasses to see what happened.</p>
<p>According to NetMarketShare, a well-known marketing research firm recorded, Windows 7 market share climbs up to 14.46％ in July, 2010, which castes off Windows Vista and turns into the No.2 Operating system in the world. To our astonishment, under the downslide of Microsoft, including Windows XP and Windows Vista,<strong> Windows 7</strong> still raises her head proudly and unceasingly keeps pace on.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-487" title="win-7-passes-vista" src="http://blog.passwordunlocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/win-7-passes-vista-.jpg" alt="Windows 7 passes Vista in usage" width="452" height="296" ></a></p>
<p>From the figure, it is not difficult to infer that <strong>Windows 7</strong> will take up a huge usage share one day.</p> <br>
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<p><strong>Part two: The advantage of Win7 VS Win XP/Vista</strong></p>
<p>So, why <strong>Window 7</strong> is well accepted and so popular with us instead of other OS? Why we prefer to buy Win 7 nowadays? Are there any advantages of <strong>Win 7</strong>? Less than a year after release, she gradually comes into office, enterprise and individual.</p>
<li>1. strong>Manage open windows more easily</strong>—resize and arrange Windows simplely by dragging their borders to the edge of your screen.<strong> </strong></li>
<li>2. strong>Offers your PC better protection</strong>—help keep your PC, your information safe.<strong></strong></li>
<li>3. strong>Connect to networks easily</strong>—view and connect to any available wireless network in as few as three clicks.</li>
<p>Of course, the above is just some aspects which are superior to other OS. With the newer information, are you interested in <strong>Win 7</strong> and want to know more about it?</p><br>
<ul>
<p><strong>Part three: Should attach more attention on Win 7 password recovery</strong></p>
<p>Undoubtedly, it becomes a common sense to add a Windows password for file or privacy protection in <strong>Window XP/Vista</strong>. So does <strong>Windows 7</strong>. A terrible thing is we often forgot or <strong>lost Windows password</strong> and blocked out of the laptop. Will you be bothered and anxious about encrypted Windows password if owning a <strong>Windows 7 </strong>OS? It is said that <a href="http://www.passwordunlocker.com/windows-password-recovery.html"><strong>Windows Password Unlocke</strong></a>r has the ability and performance in <strong><a title="windows 7 password recovery" href="http://www.passwordunlocker.com/knowledge/recover-win-7-admin-password.html">Windows 7 password recovery</a>.</strong></p>
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The cost in upgrading is changing all their existing systems, so the "pricepoint" would have to be negative X million dollars.
Another glorious institution ruined by the iPad/iPhone/etc
Nice to see another Köln-resident here. Meet up at some point?
Just because their ideas are different than yours, and they happen to be old, you call them "crustaceans"? Am I correctly reading what you wrote?
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Some of us live in cities where it rains pretty frequently. Today would be lovely on a bike. Yesterday in the rain - not so much.
Hipsters in Austin ride their fixies off car bumpers. Having a death wish is trendy these days. Greenbelt is also BA. (badass) I admire them for staying fit on their bikes. Helps to counteract their main foods of Lone Star beer and clove cigs
Doubling in one month means 1200% annual return. That requires some insanely risky deals to achieve. Looks at the high risk, high return ventures.

- Gambling.

- Lotto

- Stock options

- Forex

- Future trading

- Illicit activities tend to have high return but highly risky. And also highly questionable.
"if you want time when your parents won't be tracking you, you negotiate to get that time. It's like the negotiation that happens whenever a child wants to do anything without parental, or adult supervision."

The above is valid only if kids without your product have to negotiate right now for every moment out of sight of an adult. I don't think that is true (in general) anywhere. That would be a terrible childhood (and adolescence).
You are shrinking the time kids do have away from adult monitoring (at least as far as their location goes) to zero (with the unswitch-off-able version).

Just replace kids with employees. You can "negotiate" with your employer to not track you when you are off work, (he'll just get a message that you've switched off). So what's the problem? No adult will accept such a service (and there are good reasons for it). Why don't they apply to kids (including teenagers)?

But the problem isn't one of negotiation. The idea of subjecting anyone to potential 24 hour surveillance is terrible, especially when you dangle some bling in front of kids too young to realize what exactly they are opting into. Yes other people (including governments) are doing it but "he's doing it too" was never a valid defense.

(Imo) Kids shouldn't have to "negotiate" not being monitored every second of their lives. At least adults have the intellectual sophistication to think through the consequences of a leash like this and would flee from any such product like the spouses you interviewed, iow adults, are doing. Of course they aren't interested. Adults see the potential for misuse easily).

Kids are more likely to be too blinded by the thought of an IPhone to fully understand what they are giving up. And frankly I think only immature kids will ever consent to this kind for trackability.

I don't know you guys from Adam and I don't blame you for building this. You are trying to make money and not building anything illegal (I think). All I said is I think it is a slimy product (in other words ethically slimy not legally) and would never buy it for any kids I know.

This might make sense for very young kids or old people suffering from dementia or Alzheimers or something, but these don't need to be bribed to give away their privacy with an IPhone they couldn't otherwise afford.

All this needs is for one nasty incident for this to blow up in your faces. I am (slightly) surprised Apple allows this on their phones (and that YC is funding this. wtf?!!). As I said, not illegal, but (again imo, feel free to differ, ymmv etc) a somewhat unethical product.

To repeat, I am not condemning you as evil people. I do think you are being somewhat disingenuous with the "kids can opt in too" argument. Kids are not in a position of equal power with parents/other authorities for their "opt in" to have much value as a justification.

All that said this is your business. You (and your investors and customers) have to think this through. I am just a remote person expressing his opinion on the ethics of this thing.
Muenster is one of the cities with the most raining days in germany. Still nearly everyone drives by bike. There is no such thing as bad weather. Only bad choice in clothing :).
As well as what others have suggested (shower at work, don't try hard, etc) there are electric bicycles available that would address this issue. I've not tried one myself, but they seem to have a following.

As for the long distances, I've known people to drive some of the way, stop where it's easy to park and ride the last bit (generally the bit with the most traffic congestion, so it can work quite well).
Europe:
http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Humidity.aspx?region=europ
USA:
http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Humidity.aspx?region=namer
Rate my startup: Smart way to share photos privately and within groups
"[At Google,] young 20-year-olds don't necessarily see a place for tremendously talented, experienced 50- and 60-year-olds." - Reid's Lawyer

Definitely. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are neither talented nor experienced.
I understand, I just said "argue against", not "evbdy has to".
Ah, great news. I'm a big fan of the android platform, but it's severely hamstrung by the providers and the manufacturers - even HTC slaps Sense on top of android, and the Wifi tethering feature isn't earning many friends from the networks. The N1 is about the only unadulterated Android out there, so it's good to know they're still available.
demographically appropriate workforce

This is a wonderful, terrifying neologism that I haven't heard before. Has it entered common use yet?
Presumably the ideas must also be old. ;)
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Ask HN: What Sucks About Facebook?
The web tore through Friendster, Orkut, MySpace etc. Will Facebook be next, and if so, when? I realized that time was up for MySpace when I wasn't using it, and when people I knew where not using it. That gap was plugged by Facebook rather quickly, and it spread like a weed. Is Facebook still vulnerable? It would have been impossible to imagine MySpace dying the way it has, but it happen.

I now realize that I no longer use Facebook. I am there, but I rarely login anymore. Instead of listing my reasons, I wold prefer to hear from HN what they think sucks about Facebook. I spoke to some 'average users' and got some feedback from them as well, and it seems that Facebook could be a fad. So HN, Facebook: The next Google or MySpace and why?
I thought the joke would be - 'not very, because you just typed it into this site which means you would type it into anywhere'
In the context of the benefits of exercise, i'd imagine we need to be careful not to conflate health and longevity before we debate things being 'proved false'.

Also, obligatory [Citation required]
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This advice makes sense to me, and I would personally never want to open something that's a feature for someone else. However, there are startups in this space that get angel/vc funded all the time (Rapportive).

I guess I see the following scenarios could make this work:

1. Build a 'feature' that is complex enough that the other company will see value in just acquiring you rather than eliminating you.

2. Work for early mega-adoption so that you can pivot to larger scope/better product based on feedback
So don't live in the middle of the country or the suburbs of New York? Move near your job.
Netherlands is a really rainy country. Still, bikes are extremely popular, like the average is 2 bikes per person.
The typical commute scheme is (1) bike to the station, then (2) train (trains are good, really good), then (3) another bike to work.
IMHO gambling is probably the WORST way to go, and well given the 1 month time limit - you will probably have 29 days left to try and make 50,000$ after losing all of it the first day.

The time limit pretty much limits what you can possibly invest in for such a big return in such a short time.

This does remind me of a different HN article i read a while back - If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours how would you make as much money as possible : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912105 .

I Personally would do some research on current stock options and try to build a strategy to double the money in the time frame i have left.
I now live in Munich, which also calls itself a bike town. Although there are a lot of people riding their bikes, the streets are not at all as bike friendly as the ones in Münster. Each trip is somewhere between a suicide mission and a pleasant journey depending on where you want to go.
Okay but that right there is where people discriminate. Unintentional or not, it's still discrimination.

Just because a person or idea is "old" does not make it somehow inherently negative.

If you have to comment on age to argue against something that isn't edible or lovable, then you really have no argument at all.
Slim to none.

There was one study done in the hospital that I work at(not public, sorry) that showed that the doctors(not nurses or admin staff) were the ones not complying with the hygiene requirements and they were the ones causing most hospital acquired infections. Of course the doctors are not held liable for such behaviour so nothing can be done to fix that.
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
I, like others, have serious ethical problems with this and am disappointed in YC for funding it.
I hiked up past that place a few weeks ago. Right at the top of the hill is an old military barracks with some creepy overgrown sleeping quarters etc. worth a visit if its not too hot. Off topic, you going to Startup Saturday tomorrow at Cyberport?
Driving age is definitely a big factor, but also public transportation. The village I lived during my childhood had literally no public transportation. Therefore the only option to get anywhere was the bike.