skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also, do you really think Microsoft is less 'evil' than Google?"

Both Microsoft and Google are too big to be given a blanket judgment of "evil" or "good". There are so many people, projects, locations, etc. involved that it's probably more constructive to talk about specific products or policies that you do/don't like.

For example, here in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Microsoft has opened their New England Research & Development Center. They've opened up their private office space to tons of public tech meetings (JavaScript meetups, web design meetups, startup-related events, Ignite Boston, etc. etc.). They offer great facilities and even provide food. As a result, they're really enabling the startup and tech community here. Google also has an office here in Cambridge, but I can't think of anything that they're doing here to help startups.

So is Microsoft good and Google evil because of this? It's just one glimpse of two vast empires...
As well as its own indexing.
Your link just upgrades "13 year olds and punk bands" to "20 year olds, phish, and alt-electronic bands". I'll stand by my casual dismissal, but if it makes you feel any better, I have the same level of casual disdain for people who claim communism just hasn't been implemented properly.
I wasn't really fair to Inc, having heard all the plentyoffish hype, I just don't buy it. And its still not actually passive.

I've been involved with a friend's site that pretty well fits the category. After some initial programming, SEO, etc, it did very well for 2+ years (> $100k revenue), but user support grew and grew, and then clones popped up, and started ranking ahead of him in Google results, then the revenue dropped to next to nothing. He could invest more time to get back to the revenue level he was at, but I just think that's the natural cycle for "passive" web sites.

Things go wrong, competition appears, users never quite fit the mold you want them to fit in, bad things happen externally...
My girlfriend plays roller derby and she absolutely loves it. I've not only learned what a blocker, pivot and jammer are, but all about the different permutations of wheels, bearings, and skates which are used to get every last bit of speed and maneuverability out of her skating. (And I've helped her learn to take them apart and put them back together!) She's only been involved in the league since January, but she's already hugely involved and helping to plan their events. It's been a huge thing for her, especially since she's only a year into living here and was flailing for something to do outside work.
I have an email in my profile.
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It was dead for a while but has since been moved to a static page.
Thanks. Too late to edit now...
We want to work niches that normally aren't approached by stock market websites. In the first phase we have a team that will produce high-quality content. Our objective with this app is to build a simpler interface where users can find and analyse what they want, with the backup of the community, instead of working alone searching uncountable hours over the Internet. This is a REAL problem I have.
Ph.D sounds good on paper but can suggest "too much time spent in academia", "not enough practical experience", "thinks awfully highly of himself, but can he make us money or do anything real?", and "is his focus even related to the job?". Or that is the general attitude I have heard.

Personally, I have a small measure of respect for the Ph.D title, but it does not sway me unless the focus matches what I need. "It's great that you solved P != NP, but can you write a financial app for this customer?"
You realize that lots of people don't get any healthcare benefits at all, right? Or paid vacation? Or company pension plan / 401k?

Is that equitable? No. But the problem is more on the side of private sector jobs providing no benefits rather than govt jobs providing too much.
> "Can't we now all agree that federal workers are overpaid and do something about it?"

No, we can't. We could agree that private sector pay increases and real wages have stagnated and private sector workers are underpaid.

Except the analysis methodology is bunk and either or any conclusion is hogwash.
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I had the same problem when learning Japanese. Whether teachers or friends, I didn't often speak it with other men, and definitely picked up some softer turns of phrase and pronunciations.

Once I became able to hear this in myself I started overcompensating somewhat, and had a few people comment that I sounded unusually brusque or was saying something almost cartoonishly masculine.

I don't think there was anything inherent in the language that changed my personality, but it definitely added another layer of concern and thought to how I interacted with people. A lot of it also had to do with just the more limited set of words available to me, though. Maybe I wanted to say something snarky or yell at a taxi driver or whatever, I might just not have known how.
Anyone who says "Programming? My husband does something like that I think." deserves, if not mockery, then something more like pity.

Passion isn't necessary, but why bother being in a close relationship with another person if you're not even going to learn what it is that they spend their time working on?
This is my girlfriend's mentality too, but I'm so used to people not knowing or caring about my geeky interests that I'm often reluctant to tell.
Yes, we want to have a heavy moderation system. We will only approve high-quality content.
I'm a non-hacker founder who actually came to the Dreamit program through Startl (www.startl.org). I just realized I have no way to compare Dreamit or Startl to YC or TechStars - no one can compare unless you've been to both, so I say it's innaccurate for anyone to comment that Dreamit focuses more on "building a business." Every company I saw at Dreamit was in a different place and had different needs, and all I can say for sure is that Dreamit was really good about not forcing anyone to fit some "mold."

If anyone out there is shopping for an incubator, my question is, "Why are you waiting for an incubator?" Go build something and if along the way the stage of your product matches up with an incubator, think about applying, but don't think you NEED an incubator to succeed. As much value as Pocket Tales got out of the experience (and we're really grateful for everything), this wasn't life or death for us. It was a boost.

Just keep that in mind if you're an aspiring entrepreneur.
This always blows my mind. You’re married to someone, and you aren’t interested enough in the person to know anything about what they do with nearly 40-50% of their time, aside from their job title?

This is underappreciated. I had a girlfriend who was an accountant. At the end of the day, she'd want to vent about work, and guess what? I couldn't follow her without asking some questions about accounting. Suddenly, I was interested in accounting, because I wanted to understand why she was annoyed or stressed or happy or relieved when she got home from work, and I didn't want to just nod and say "uh huh, uh huh" while she was talking about something that was an important part of her life. Now I don't give two shits about accounting.

If that's unusual, sign me up for an unusual woman.
And that's what I question, for two reasons:

1. The example of herself is invalid. Her interests in Ruby go beyond an interest in her husband's passion. They are her own passions. For some reason I don't think his interest in ballet is of the same quality. I'm sure there is something that she "tolerates" rather than "also enjoys", but she doesn't provide any data here.

2. I don't think it's required for my wife to know my programming passion to the levels of knowing that I prefer Python as a language any more than she should be required to know that the pilot-in-common sits on the left side of the aircraft in that profession.

The fact is that your programming passion in many cases is just one of your many interests. Provided that there are many areas that overlap with a significant other, in my mind it is silly to criticize those that don't share this particular one.
YC has invested in the company, not the product. They see enough good signs to be interested in networking into the company and investing in its potential success.

Even if the sub-20k investment doesn't pan out, YC is going to get good press and goodwill out of this. Other YC companies will absorb some of the buzz around any YC success.

The above all increases Rapportive's chance to flip the company even if only under the Greater fool theory.
Any resume that has been compiled to a PDF from LaTeX would score major points in my books. It's not that it requires an incredible amount of skill to do so (not to mention that there are quite a few templates available), but it does show that the applicant cares a bit more about presentation than the average programmer that submits his resume in .doc format.
You're quite right - spending significant effort on scaling when you're building an MVP is probably wrong. The point is that we got our first 10,000 users without any scaling effort.

When writing this post we talked a lot about this, and the wording is quite carefully chosen: be ready to scale. Having a contingency plan in case you need to scale, however, is a good idea if it doesn't cost too much (in either money or distraction).

The observation we make in the post is that cloud hosting like Heroku or Google App Engine makes it much more likely that you can be ready to scale without any substantial effort early on.

Obviously the "cloud scales easily" line only gets you so far. For example, while the web tier scales easily, if you built on a relational database that will impose a limit on your magical cloud scaling powers. Once you hit that limit, you still have to face up to the fact that scaling takes care and effort. But cloud hosting lets you delay that effort until you're at a size that warrants thinking about it.

Maybe we should have made this point more directly in the post: be ready to scale, because (for many applications) it no longer costs you very much.
I've just shown that to my wife who said, more-or-less,

Oh, that's not right! Why is he torturing it like that?! That's just mean ...

For me, I think that operator/pilot has definitely invested his 10,000 hours.
How do you justify removing gmail ads and replacing them with your social addon? Isn't google going to be slightly pissed?
Mowing with goats:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.htm...
Programming? My husband does something like that I think." deserves, if not mockery, then something more like pity.

Issues with programmer ego aside, how is this any different from suggesting that your husband is a doctor without saying he is a pediatrician, a lawyer without saying he specializes in tax law, or a pilot without mentioning that he flies F-16C's?

but why bother being in a close relationship with another person if you're not even going to learn what it is that they spend their time working on?

For the same reason that you have no idea what this year's hot brand of shoes is: it's not a common interest.

Now, not having ANYTHING in common isn't exactly promising. However suggesting that this particular passion is more important than others - simply because you happen to share it - isn't exactly insightful.
How does it look to HR or another programmer when an applicant doesn't have a Facebook account?
I'd definitely fall into the coordinate bilingual w/ personality shift camp. I think, speak and act in one language or the other, and have difficultly translating, though my comprehension is fluent, like two hemispheres of the brain with impaired communication.
This is very educational: http://www.jobsfed.com/bene2.htm

So to take an example look at vacation time. If the average person is making $39 an hour (based on the USA Today numbers) and they accrue 8 hours per pay period + 4 hours sick leave per pay period that alone is 39 days of time off per year. Add the 10 vacation days and you're up to 49 days a year or $15,288.

Then look at Health Care. Supposedly a U.S. citizen spends an average of $7,290 per year on health care. Assume even one child and maybe a spouse (which are all covered under the employee's health care plan) and you get into some serious money.

All in all it isn't a surprising number at all.
What typestting do you need for a resume that Word doesn't provide? I've written thousands of pages in LaTex, and at one point I probably would have written my resume in LaTex. But now that I know Word, I see very little advantage to writing my resume with LaTex (I'm probably a little odd, learning LaTex before Word).

It's not like your resume is likely to have equations or need a lot of cross references in it.
This is not how bankruptcy works. When you declare bankruptcy, you have to propose a plan for repaying your creditors to the best of your ability, and that has to be approved by a court. You don't just fill out a form and file it at the local ATM; there are judges that exist to stop exactly this sort of mischief.

If your theory is true, it should apply to all unsecured creditors---especially credit cards. Why isn't it common practice to incur tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt during college and then declare bankruptcy the day after graduation? Credit cards aren't secured debt---Chase has no legal right to repossess your Xbox. The answer is because this is the real world and that's not how the bankruptcy code works.
How about having an RSS reader that displays a random selection of headlines (or just the latest, depending on how full your inbox is), but it only lets you read 10 of them. You can click those 10 links, but after that the rest are greyed out until the next day.

Why? Putting a limit on how many articles you read will mean you don't feel any pressure to read more. It'll also mean that you'll make sure to spend your time reading things that are interesting to you. Your daily selection of 10 articles could be used by a stumbleupon-type learning algorithm (I know NOTHING about these, by the way).
"Student loans are a rip-off."

If you know of another way to get government-subsidized, interest-deferred or interest-free loans to spend four years of your life professionally learning, and that have generous deferment provisions after you're done with those four years of professional learning, let me know. I'd love to access that money.

"Smart societies have free education, and their schools may not be always as good as those that you pay for with half of your life or so but they're adequate enough."

I would like you to name those smart societies with free education and world-class universities. Notice the Shanghai Jiao Tong University list of schools: http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp .

The problem with "free" education is that a) it isn't really free -- someone is paying; b) as with so many "free" things, you get what you pay for to some extent; and c) people without any skin in the game aren't likely to value their "free" education as much. Any society you manage to name with a nominally free university education is going to suffer from some or all of those problems.

(Note: the above isn't to say American universities are optimal, or that they don't have problems: they do. But the solutions are not to proclaim that everything should be free, as if there is no such as opportunity cost, or that free from the student's perspective is equivalent to free from society's perspective.)
And if you solved P != NP, why are writing enterprise apps?
There is a general assumption in most non-engineering industries that Ph.D means ivory tower philosophizing without any connection to or experience with the "real world".
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Many people in this thread recommend Bing, which may be a good search engine... However, the reason you are switching is not to find a better search engine, but to make a political statement. In that light, recommending a Microsoft search engine seems a bit odd. I don't want to go all Slashdot "Micro$oft sux" here, but... if one thinks Google is evil because of this net neutrality thing, then what is Microsoft, whose track record is about ten times worse?
Comex @ github: "the code behind the second incarnation of jailbreakme.com"
Uh. Time to patch.

The code in cff/ generates the poisoned PDF. CFF is Compact Font Format; here's the spec:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/pdfs/5176.CFF.pdf
There even was an attempt at making a digital form of cash: http://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm

It preceded powerful browsers by a couple of years but the ideas were very similar (I believe) to what you suggest.
Ah, yeah, aware. Should have put something up. Thanks!
Wasn't it originally going to be called iTV but ITV (british television company) complained so it was then called the AppleTV?
as brief as i can be:

Google has long represented themselves as 'not evil'. Large segments of the tech community bought into it and overlooked certain things that google has done overtime. After all despite various issues, they were a strong proponent of net-neutrality. Basically, that all traffic flowing over the internet should be treated as equal. In addition, they advocated giving enforcement powers to FTC.

Flash forward and Google at some point realized that this wasn't nec. something that benefited them. They were apparently in talk with Verizon for the past 10 months to craft a framework for net neutrality that basically showed that they are in fact a corporation out for their own interests not some altruistic organization that people could project their idea of what 'not evil' is upon.

some basic points from the framework:

the wired internet should be traffic neutral expect where users or network operators are blocking unwanted traffic etc.

that there should be no such rules for wireless but that any traffic shaping etc that telecom companies do should be 'transparent'.

that new services should be allowed to run along side what we now call the internet and not be subject to same rules as the 'open internet'.

there are lots of analysis of the massive loopholes in the various points. there are many troublesome points if you believe in net neutrality or something close to it. i'm sure you can find plenty of different articles covering various finer points if you are interested enough.

i doubt this agreement would have drawn the same ire were it not for the aforementioned belief that many people clung to that google was somehow different from other companies.
I'm using Rhino + jQuery + env.js + Postgres for processing html and it works great. None of the code will ever need to run on the client so being in total control of the environment is liberating.

Oddly, jslint.js is just fine on either end of the spectrum, but probably isn't intended for your end-user.
Awesome, but I predict most of HN won't be able to update until the similarly-awesome Firebug is updated for FF 4.
The problem is that any time you want to interface to code outside of that library, you run into the same "convert vector to list" problem the OP was talking about. The solution really is to cram down Rhodes' proposal into every implementation's throat, so that all existing code can start handling new sequence types.
Does anyone know how much a federal IT analyst make per year? If it's six-figures plus a full life-time tenure and pension. Then, I want to be on the American tax-payers' payroll!
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Can you point me to more information about master's degrees being a bad idea? My wife is about to start a master's program, and it'd be good to know ahead of time.
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Zoho Writer's docs are available offline as well as online which Google Docs aren't at the current time. And Zoho Creator is awesomely handy.
Could you elaborate a bit more on "Microsoft's track record"? Most people complain on Microsoft just to complain, without any valid reasons...
Peoples' day jobs are generally something they spend at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week doing. That's what makes them more important to know at least something about.

I don't know anyone who spends that much time thinking about shoes.
Not to mention, many HR departments, recruiters, etc require resumes (when submitted electronically) in Word .doc(x)? format
It's getting more interesting when you have mastered a language to such a degree, that you can think in it. Having lived the first half of my life in Russia and the second in Germany I can think in both, russian and german, and switch between them instantly.
I found out, that I am more happy and more relaxed while thinking in Russian, while thinking in German helps my problem solving skills. Probably it's correlated with my life experiences. I also talk in a higher, more boyish pitch while talking in Russian, while my German voice is deeper.
At parties I often enjoy talking in English, as I have no cultural baggage at all associated with it, and can use it to say things I would hardly say in any other language (knowing how it may be interpreted).
While it has its upsides (being able to switch to another cultural mindset on the fly helps with taking things easy), having two personalities occupying my brain makes both of them less deep, and while it's more or less interconnected now, translating the pieces of information between the languages feels often impossible in polynomial time.
That's one of the canonical dumb investor questions. We try not to ask those. Google could blow most startups out of the water if they chose to focus on building exactly the same thing. What protects startups is that in practice big competitors can only focus on a limited number of things at once.

User indifference is a much, much greater danger for startups than competitors, big or small. So we advise startups to focus on that. What's going to kill you is the Back button, not Google.
Free from the students perspective is actually a net gain for society because a better educated general public benefits everybody, not just the students.

France comes to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_France

Not 100% free but the stipend more than makes up for the very low tuition fee. There are also private schools and universities in France, they charge considerably more.
For a few years I dated a girl (translator) that spoke several languages fluently. She would talk with her father on the phone and sort of regress to the age/personality she had when she primarily spoke that language.

In English she was a young professional. In Italian she was a teenage girl. In Maltese she was a much younger child. I still wonder if they had a richer communication by going through the languages like that. It was so abrupt and obvious that I loved to sit and listen.
HPOA (HOPA?) girl "Jenny Whiteboard" is obvious troll LULZ
My clue was that she didn't show any percentage of his time being spent watching porn. It's inconceivable to me that an obviously straight, sexist man (HOPA remark) would spend all that time playing Farmville and none watching porn.
I may be in the minority, but I like header files. Interface => Implementation, enforced at the file level. Add Obj-C's #import macro and they even look reasonable!
Apple TV as an iOS system wouldn't make very much sense, at least not using the same App Store. TVs aren't touch-sensitive, after all.
Thanks! I'll be looking into a purchase then.
What I don't get is... what happens to touch? The whole point of the iPhone OS is touch. How does that work when you can't touch the screen? Isn't that the #1 issue? Or are we talking about a remote control that would effectively be an iPod touch?