skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been living in Chicago for 6 years now. I've been through 6 Chicago winters and 6 Chicago summers.

You don't really get lake-effect snow in the city. That's more of a problem for the suburbs. As for humidity; it's not an issue as long as you wear the proper clothes. (Summer clothes need to be breathable. In particular, jeans and a T-shirt will not keep you cool.)
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Does anyone know if RedGate will sponsor a visa for foreign candidates?
Not quite such substantial returns then unless you are one of those 9%.

I suppose however there would be some sort of trial and error. So the guy who got this ten times return probably had to invest in ten companies or so. Thus, we perhaps do not quite know the real return on general.
It's pretty well known apps under XP don't need to ask users for permission to perform privileged actions, unlike Vista, Linux, or OS X.
I don't see why it should come naturally. Sure, i can position elements in a web page and have a colorful navigation and background, but it looks far from professional.
> Agreement prohibits prioritizing data traffic over landlines.

Except that both NYT and Politico claim that that's not true. The agreement, according to Bloomberg, restricts Verizon from intentionally slowing traffic. NYT and Politico claim the agreement explicitly allows Verizon to speed up traffic from selected sources (which Bloomberg does not refute due to careful wording). If that is true, then you can certainly not claim as "fact" that the agreement prohibits prioritization of data traffic.
This is absolutely the boat I was in. I was interested in working for Red Gate before they started this campaign, because I had heard it was a good place to work.

The reason I hadn't applied before was because I was 'reasonably' happy where I was working but this campaign raised Red-Gate's profile in my mind again at a time when I was considering job hunting and also gave me the extra incentive to apply.

It worked, I was hired and I can say that so far it has been a great place to work. Plug for my team, check out http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Source_Control/
You're more pessimistic about people than their behavior in day-to-day reality warrants. We're not worried about intrinsic goodness, nor about goodness in extreme circumstances. We're only worried about effective goodness in normal circumstances. Can you ask someone to watch your stuff? Yes, you can. Whatever the reason, the vast majority of people can be trusted in the vast majority of circumstances. There are few that will simply let someone take your stuff when you ask them to watch it for you.

when push come to shove

Push doesn't come to shove. When someone threatens them, they may as well have threatened you. When there's a sudden flood, accident or any other unlikely incident, then you're often no worse off having someone else watch your stuff.
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5 exabytes of mostly useless information. Information is not an end unto itself.
I do the same, but leave a bottle of water, napkins, or half-eaten food at my seat. I've never once had someone take it from me.
He used nano and PHP, and I think that was a strong tactical choice. It shows how you don't need anything sophisticated to use Twilio. If he pulled out NetBeans with J2EE, or Visual Studio or Emacs with Rails, people will be suspicious there might be some "magic" happening behind the scenes.
Definitely agree with rjurney that you need to eventually update the homepage, but sweet idea for an app. I've signed up, but I'm still waiting to see how it actually works out my tweetstream
I'm a developer but I love design so yes, I design my own.
Product idea: a USB device with an accelerometer. When you need to leave your laptop for a few minutes, you insert the USB device and start a program that plays a loud siren sound if the USB device reports movement, or if it's removed. Then you lock your screen the usual way.

Downside: if they power off the laptop or remove the battery, they can still take the laptop. Would a thief do that? I imagine they'd want to leave as quickly as possible so they'd just put the lid down, remove any USB devices, and go.
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How many hours did you spend/are you spending per week before launching your startup?
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Cambridge is a nice town, but their "desperation" will be that most developers in the UK will head straight for London.
The guy who wrote this is a raving lunatic. Most of what he said was blatantly inaccurate or completely fabricated.
Gets where? In search? What!

Its the freaking internet man. You wanna use google, or type here the bad government or whatever, you use it. You don't want to use it, you use someone else or do without it or build a copycat of it.
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This sort of proves the point of the documentary film "The Corporation." Even if the owners, managers, shareholders, etc. of a corporation don't want to do slimy things, the system imposes a fiduciary responsibility on them to be slimy if doing so will make next quarter better.
I design my personal website, for the experience. I'm not great, but I'm okay, and I can redesign whenever I feel like it. But since I'm not stellar yet, I'll either use a quality template service or hire a designer for projects where it matters.
That's already happening: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb2008...
It's a bad habit, but people (including me) often say "New York" when they mean "Manhattan". The population density of Manhattan is 70,951/sq mi (27,394.3/km2) according to Wikipedia.
"Not quite such a substantive returns then"

22% (per annum) is a pretty substantive return for an asset class across a sample of 406 investments over over a 4 year period.

As other posters have commented - it would be interesting to see data over a 2008-2010 period to see if it has changed adversely since then.
If we outsource lawyers, now everyone who was previously a lawyer can do other productive work; to keep things simple, imagine they all become maids/housekeepers. After this transition, we get the same legal services we had before (but provided by different people) and some people have cleaner houses.

This may be bad for the lawyers and people in India who need legal services, but it's good for everyone else.
try hitting this url again http://keytweet.com/search/<your twitter name here>
They should be providing both as an option. There are a lot of people who use sub-domains, and in that case a CNAME is a better option.
Well, I don't work for Google but I know I would switch to Bing if this happened.

Bing actually isn't that bad anyway. It's a legitimate competitor on pure technical merit.
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As long as a sufficient number of people care about quality, quality won't go away. People still go to the symphony, wear fancy American-made clothes, eat out at resturants, fly business class, and shop at farmers' markets. These things are more expensive than the alternatives, but it's not that they've gotten more expensive so much as the alternatives didn't used to exist. For example, before airline deregulation, only the well to do could afford to fly. Before industrialized food, the urban poor lived in poverty and malnourishment, with infant and child death rates comparable to what you'd expect to see in developing countries today.

Also, part of living in a capitalist society is you have no right to tell other people how to spend their money.
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Hahaha, are you really asking:

Does "A Book of Five Rings" have the nature of the function?
I did this many time in college to, at the library that's 24hrs. It also helps if at least one upper level or grad mathy text is on the table lying open. That being said:
1) for the 12+hr interval (eg heading off to sleep then do something, then return) I add one of those laptop lock cables
2) those cables are more for the psychology of "don't touch this" than for security (just like how people feel uncomfortable near unfamiliar math), as a cheap wire cutter will remove one in a short time
Turns out our users really like vanity urls :) from an api perspective this makes sense except that it no longer mirrors the main site.
i tend to go for purchasing a template and making it fit. Simply not enough time to design everything and i suck at design.
Thus, we perhaps do not quite know the real return on general. [sic]

I think you may have misinterpreted the figures. The 22% average figure already includes the non-performing startups. Obviously there will be variations for each investor, depending on how good they are at picking winners.

The top 9% of investments generate 78% p.a. returns or more ("at least 10 times"), assuming the 4 year period average applies to them, too:

10^(1/4) = 1.778 -> ~ 78%
Me too. A power adapter is another thing I'll often leave there.
Did everyone suddenly stop using facebook because a few vocal people worried about privacy a month or so back? nope. Most people just don't care one bit.

Among my set of friends, I saw a lot of people remove personal data (e.g. employer, location, mobile number), clean up their friends lists and generally tighten things up.

People have expanded their sphere of privacy to include their friends - e.g. like living in a village where everyone knows all the gossip. But it's a village, not a city...
Have you look into hiring a graphic designer to create a PSD design for you in which you can then splice and code up? This is generally how design works; something I learned, after hiring a guy who said he was a web designer but on finished project he only gave me a PSD and said I dont code.

My 1st attempt at design was not great, so I have learned for me to create a sharp looking site, it's best I hire a graphic designer to do all the artwork (buttons, drop shadows, etc). I then modify their work(the PSD) and then splice & code the PSD.
Pongr, co-founded by Iowan, specializes in mobile marketing
A large application trying to do many things at once. Has a very long sales cycle and is expensive. It requires sales and marketing effort teams to get sales. Support services offered because it is a pain to install and/or run.
That's what the open guest profile is for. At least in theory :)
...augmented reality visors/goggles bluetoothed to your smartphone with useful advertising...

...walking down the street and an advert shows above a cafe saying "half off coffee today"...

...You could walk up to your friend, the goggles/smartphone would recognize their face as being your friend, analyze their emotions, show you their details next to their face...

That's nice, but I'm holding out for the flying cars and warp drive.
Apple actually includes accelerometers in their laptops, so there is a free app called iAlertU (http://ialertu.sourceforge.net/) that does exactly this.
How you would have configured SSL (or the PKI, as seems to be the problem) for the Internet?

Do you think a global, managed and secure PKI is feasible?
Well done. Have you considered submitting this to the 10K contest? (http://10k.aneventapart.com/)
I haven't seen anything suspicious yet. But you could use LittleSnitch (on Mac) to see when and what it is sending.
It's a tradeoff I guess, at the low end people don't want to provide documents, wait and pay a decent amount to get their identity verified.

Maybe it would be best to separate them, you can self sign or equivalent for encryption and the identity system can be separate.
They're pretty bad, but you might consider:
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

Just don't let the template you choose influence your decisions about what should and shouldnt be in site....let form follow function.
The most important quality for the designer is to have artistic taste. Try to objectively figure it out if you have it. Do you regularly get complimented on your clothing choices? Do you always match colors? Does your apartment look cool (if you did your own decoration)? If you're not sure, ask some non-family members for their objective opinion.

If you find out that you don't have much artistic taste, don't worry - most geeks don't. That just means you have to hire a designer, because yes, a good design is VERY important.
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It's worth noting that it's not for sale worldwide, unlike the previous dev phone (?):

> The Nexus One is carrier independent, and available for purchase in the approved markets (Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States) by any developer registered with Android Market™.
I wouldn't say they have not managed to make money on anything except ads.

For example, you have to pay for Google Apps for business and they say they have more than 2M customers. At 50$ per year per users, that's not negligible.
When making comments like this, I get the feeling you haven't studied what was happening around the world in the late 1920's and 30's. The USA's desire to isolate itself had consequences.
A sensible step would be to get into the habit of upgrading browsers/tools. A workplace that finds it traumatic to upgrade to IE 7, 8 or 9 or from Windows XP or Windows 7 or even from Office 2003 to Office 2007 is not going to be prepared for changes in the future.

Small steps. Regularly taken.
The term 'design' is taken differently here, with more emphasis on art than engineering.

If you're engineering a piece of work, your design will surely be better if it is minimalistic. But if what you mean by 'design' is an artistic approach, certainly minimalism is not a goal.
You need to tweak the speed - this is completely unplayable on my Macbook with 4GB of RAM and an SSD hard drive. Copter crashes in a second before I can do anything. But looks cool!
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I'm comfortable with CSS and HTML but I'm not very good working from a blank slate so I tend to grab a plain HTML theme from ThemeForest (http://themeforest.net) and then modify it myself (usually: recoding it to use Blueprint, removing excess elements etc, changing some styles). I find their themes to be generally of good quality and amenable to such modification.
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I'm a developer who sometimes gets stuck with design work for websites. Having no design training whatsoever, I find that minimalism is the form in which I will embarrass myself the least, and the one which requires the least amount of photoshop/illustrator know-how to get running. For me, it is the path of least resistance that still gets the job done.

I agree with the author entirely, minimalism is big right now, but it's silly to take that as a sign that it is the One Divinely Ordained Design Choice. But I wonder how much of minimalism on the web is a result of situations like mine.
After a careful re-reading of all three articles, I'm giving up. The articles are each incompatible with the others if you grant that weasel-wording is in play.
Why do you think browsers were "lying" when they said the certificate wasn't to be trusted? Without any kind of "trusted third party" involved there is no reason at all to trust your self signed certificate.
The API looks good to me. Nicely documented. Only found one thing that seems wrong.

You have:
http://api.mixcloud.com/popular/
http://api.mixcloud.com/popular/hot/
http://api.mixcloud.com/new/

http://api.mixcloud.com/popular/hot/ seems like it should be http://api.mixcloud.com/hot/ to be consistent.
>Until the situation is improved to the point that we can be reasonably sure that the festering cancer of the Taliban is no longer a threat to you and me, we have to try and improve the conditions there.

Realistically, the Taliban is only a threat to you and me if the US state apparatus allows it to be (for strategic reasons, such as justifying the invasion of a country like Iraq, or economic reasons, such as feeding the hungry mouths of defense contractors).

Even the most recent bombing attempt seems to have been conducted with the approval of the state apparatus (Wikipedia: "State Department had wanted to revoke Abdulmutallab's visa, but U.S. intelligence officials requested that his visa not be revoked": http://bit.ly/amFHQn).
we get the same legal services we had before (but provided by different people)

Yes that is the theory, but in practice I've yet to encounter a situation where outsourcing is as seamless as that. Generally communication overhead goes up and quality of service goes down. Ask anyone who's ever been put through to an outsourced call centre. Or spent more time writing a spec for an outsourced IT worker to implement 10 timezones away than it would have taken them to do the work themselves.

The only people outsourcing is actually good for is those managers who are going to get a bonus for saving money this year and no downside in five years when the friction between the parts of the organization has reached the level that it seizes up and everything has to be brought back in-house.
Great team, nice reading about them
Pangea3 a firm mentioned in that report is funded by
Sequoia Capital
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You're set- especially if you can afford to work an internship for free. We pay our co-op students quite well, however, there are a great deal of employers looking for free work. I'd choose one of these, they'll definitely have more for you to do (b/c they're at a more interesting stage, before the money is rolling in predictably enough to pay their interns), and will give you a great reference when you're done. You can write on your resume 'I helped this company off the ground', and 'mentored by their star (read: only) programmer!' Just don't work in government for your internship. What a waste of time that'd be.. Don't do it. Seriously.
No, as a reference implementation without random stuff added by whatever manufacturer.
iAlertU does that for Macs: http://ialertu.sourceforge.net/

It uses the accelerometers that the MacBooks already have (for the hard-drive protection)

However, I'm not sure what happens if you close down the lid, let the computer go to sleep and pack it up.
This actually seems like a usable concept. Too often similar software tries to magically predict stuff in a not-so-transparent way.

Your decision to focus on links is, I believe, right on. Because you're not trying to replace my twitter stream with your useless predictions, but you're trying to help me notice the most important links, I think this could work.

However, you're doing something wrong with your encoding. You seem to strip out the Icelandic characters from the stream. (A very common pitfall amongst english-speaking developers.)

ps. You need a designer.
I got a version of this helicopter game for my iPhone (iCopter) over a year ago and I still play it. It's mysteriously addictive.
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You click and hold the mouse button to gain altitude

You release to descend.

Sounds like you aren't using the controls correctly. My first time up I just clicked once and my copter fells to a speedy death.
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I should hire someone instead, but have not in the past. I grab a free template and modify it as best as I can. I have had a few users say they really like it, which always surprises me.

For the next venture I will be outsourcing the design to that it looks a lot better.
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I design my own, but I realized on my last project that I spend way too much time doing it. So I have told myself that next time I will work with a designer. Patrick (patio11) had a great idea on one of his articles about getting a designer just to do one page and then take and modify that for the rest of the site. That of course depends on how complex the design is, but in general one could get the best of both worlds by going with that approach.
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"but no alternative courses of action being put forth that don't involve me becoming a terror target."

The United States (along with other European countries including Russia and other non Islamic countries like India) is a terror target irrespective of what it does in Afghanistan. If you are an American, you are (in the abstract) a terror target already and have been for a long long time. The odds of you specifically dying in a terrorist attack are (and always were) very slim.

No amount of destruction in Afghanistan will change that. Americans will die in future terror attacks whether you pull out of Afghanistan or not.

And no you don't have to have a "solution" before you say "This is not working". By that logic civilians could never decide to end a war. That is hardly democracy. There was no "solution" to Vietnam when America quit. That happened because American civilians made a decision they didn't want to keep paying in blood and treasure to "win" a faraway quagmire of a war.

"Pull out" is just as valid a suggestion as "stay on". You'd still be fighting in Vietnam if "stay and fight till victory" were the only choice to end a foolish war. A suggestion has to be opposed with reason, not rhetoric like "But ... But .. that will make us terror targets" and "Our generals surely know what they are doing (if American history is any indication this is a very dubious claim)" or "You aren't a general How would you know?"

The 9/11 attackers were Saudi but you guys went to war with Iraq. The present day epicentre of Islamic terror is Pakistan/Saudi Arabia but you guys are fighting in Afghanistan, all the while funding the Pakistanis who fund the Taliban. Wtf? A war in which you fund the people trying to kill your soldiers, and your ally's intelligence services train and provide safe havens for your enemies is not winnable.

The next Islamic terrorist attack could come from Somalia or Yemen or the United Kingdom or the Balkans or Saudi Arabia, or Iran or Indonesia or Turkey or Egypt.

Are you going to war with all of them (and stay a few decades in every ungoverned badland on the planet)? If not why do you want to stay in Afghanistan? What is the plan for "victory"? And how is "victory" defined anyway?

I (personally) want America to win (I am in general very pro American and I take some flak for it locally) but "stay on till the Taliban is no threat" is an impossible goal for victory. You don't have enough money (trillions more), or the time it would take (many decades) or the fortitude to absorb the required casualties (tens ofthousands ), to have even a low chance of success.
Yes, it will 'work' about as well as putting 'I am an unprofessional clown, WIBBLEWIBBLEWIBBLE' in giant red letters on top of your resume. A silly fantasy doesn't become a 'strategy' by virtue of a dozen odd HN upvotes.
But maids and dishwashers don't eat out as often or as well as journeyman lawyers. What happens to places subject to this type of dislocation is similar to what happens to ecosystems undergoing desertification; fewer species, and the ones that survive are hardier and use far fewer resources. The trattorias go away, and all that's left are taco stands and bento carts.
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Oh absolutely.

Some routes I fly are only serviced by Ryanair, and I sometimes see business travelers who buy two seats so they can put their work next to them. No doubt they, or at least their companies, are delighted at how much money they're saving compared to BA. I keep meaning to ask one, are you working so hard so you can take your family on holiday to Butlin's in Skegness?