skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0 degrees fahrenheit + 0 degrees fahrenheit
Fashion of Bumper Stickers 
Talking about car decals bumper stickers, they are exceptional kind of stickers at all. That is why company offers the best bumper stickers printing to its valued customers internationally.
It was also submitted 6 minutes later, but without all the feedburner, etc, crap in the URL:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612318
Why Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard
Don't bring liberals into this. Just because the NRA tells you that we want to take your guns away doesn't make it true.

The NRA endorsed Senator Jim Webb's opponent. Webb subsequently got in trouble for accidentally taking a pistol into the capitol building. This guy is not anti-gun. The NRA is just running a donation scam.

"Won't someone think of the children!" is non-partisan, and if it has a label, it's most closely associated with NIMBY.
I leave it so people can understand why my responses are so brief.
i usually reply only when there's a problem and i want the people to know i'm not at the computer so there's not much i can do :)
A fellow I was in grad school with said that he regularly took his gun to high school, so that he could go hunting afterwards. He said that the principal would check up with kids--say Dave, you brought your rifle today?--but casually. He went to HS in Alaska, and I'm guessing it was the late 70s or early 80s.
RIP Gopher, Firefox 4 following other major browsers in dropping support
This is BS. Net neutrality has been the status quo for the last 30 years, if only because the network providers didn't have the ability to throttle traffic they didn't like, and weren't concerned about squeezing every cent out of their oligopoly position. Only in the last few years have the providers possessed the network hardware and the concern about becoming dumb pipes that they've actively attacked net neutrality.

Also, I think he's deluding himself if he thinks the Google/Verizon deal is going to protect Bittorrent on wired networks.
If you really wanted to show off that you had an iPhone you'd probably at least want to say: "Sent from my White iPhone 4, 32GB with Retina Display" ;-)

But seriously, I imagine most people who have this signature in their mobile emails have no idea how/where to change or disable it. The other reasons you cite are legitimate possibilities, but probably to a much lesser extent.
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

--Mark Twain
And do you accept/support a limited monopoly for the original artist or inventor?

It's right there in black and white. I don't believe the constitution is infallible, but I do think the founders got this one right -- the way they intended it, anyway.

Presuming that you do, do you believe that that monopoly right is transferable?

No, for two reasons: 1- it's not actually permitted and doing so automatically creates "property" which the guys who actually wrote the copyright clause were completely against, and 2- it goes against the whole purpose of the copyright clause. See, the idea is that if you get a limited monopoly, you're more likely to keep inventing and creating. But Walt Disney is dead, and still Mickey Mouse is somehow off-limits. He's not a cartoon character -- he's the "property" of a mega-corp.
I personally never start travel from search engines -- I go to a Expedia, Orbitz, sometimes the airline directly (Southwest).

Traffic from brand can be better than traffic from SEO in some cases. You have to spend money, but it's under your control.
Funny you should mention that, because both of those things took DECADES to enact, through massive policy overhauls, with millions of man-hours of deliberation.

Thank you for demonstrating my point.
I hate to do this, but I'm going to quote the guidelines at you:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
I actually had to laugh when reading it the first time because it seemed such a neat spoof on the article in so few words. You could have used bacteria or insects just the same. Just goes to show that there are many well known facts that turn out to be not that well known after all.
Foursquare Tweaks Its Privacy Settings, Offers Finer Controls
My pet peeve is address forms that give you a State selection in a dropdown. It's so much easier to just type "NJ" than to hunt down the state from the list. Then I have to go through the same thing for the credit card expiration month and year.

Typing "NJ" is easier than finding and selecting it from a list of 51. Typing a 1 or 2 digit month is easier than finding it on the list (especially when you have to translate between month names and numbers), and typing the year is likewise easier.

It's not always easier to select. And it's not saving the programmer any work: you've still got to make sure that I didn't use firebug to mess with your selection list.
I don't think we're going to agree on this.
Mine says: "Sent from my iPad Nano" People always get a chuckle out of that, so I leave it.
You know, ever since the stupid "your coffee might be a bomb" thing started I've been waiting for someone to put a bomb in their underwear, not because I want to see anyone hurt, but because I wanted society to confront the prospect of either making everyone get naked in security checkpoints or acknowledging that my coffee is not in fact a bomb.

Then some jerk invents these x-ray scanners and we're out even more money on the fiasco without any recognition of how silly we're being. Thanks a lot, x-ray guy.
I work at isocket - ping me at my HN username at gmail and I'll bump you to the front of the queue.
That was a bit confusing. Here is the actual article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html
Here are the highlights:

* Use Quickbooks.

* Make it a Delaware C-Corporation.

* Put 100% of expenditures on a single credit card.

* Practice interviewing.

* Let the law firm handle your cap table

* Print long emails. You'll actually read them.

* Get Errors & Omissions (E&O) insurance early.

* Buy a computer and chair you like.

* Pay yourself something.

* Always get Proprietary Inventions Agreements from every employee and contractor.

* Never ask for an NDA from third parties, (with three exceptions)

* ... decide when your company's "day" starts

* Rent month to month.

* Get good t-shirts.

* Pick a company name based on URL availability.

Now if you care, go read the article.
So your posting was actually academic. Go figure, I completely bought it and thought that you were actually hiring people according to this practice!

Where did I go wrong?
Good catch. I meant to say that tcpcrypt is vulnerable to active attacks, rather than passive.

The point is that it is not a useful comparison to say that tcpcrypt is 36x faster than SSL, when it offers a weaker level of security.
When I asked my father this, he said that he does this so his clients can see that he's engaged in their business even when it's inconvenient for him.
RIAA and Broadcasters Tell U.S. Government to Mandate Radios in Cell Phones
London College of Fashion
To clarify, this first Venture Capital Human Capital report only covered Internet companies and does not include healthcare, greentech, etc which we expect to add over time along with longitudinal data.

This first report only looked at founders of internet companies who raised their first round of institutional funding between January to June 2010.

Hope that helps.
Sweet! I hope this will be just as fruitful as Scribd's transition to HTML5. iPad naysayers, whaddaya say ye now? Ha!
The same question with celsius ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610354

... and much discussion.
Krakow has the most beautiful town center set in the dirtiest town I've ever been too, though in recent years they've cleaned it up quite a bit from when it was at it's worst (late 1980's).

There are lots of nice cities in Poland.
5 years ago today, Google acquired Android Inc.
Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers
"Mom and Pop is where we need to go, in terms of our future business and development outlook support to end the threats to net neutrality and shoddy/arbitrarily wrong/and unethical big businesses dominating our social landscape..."

Many mom and pop shops turn into big businesses. Are we going to also have a law that prevents a business from growing to a certain size?

I also don't think I want a mom and pop store running something like cable. I don't think they would be able to keep up with service calls/support
When I used travel agents, it's more like this -- I have $X and I want to be at a beach next weekend (Island? Florida? Big lake? Fri-Sun, Thu-Sun, Sat-Tues -- what's the cheapest)

If I know exact dates, places, etc -- travel booking isn't hard enough to pay much for. The problem is, you go book it somewhere else when you have the info, so you have to go after affiliate fees and be as good at the booking as you are at the advice.
It also works on a larger time scale. When I was working 9-to-6, weeks passed like days. Now that I'm on my own, time passes much slower because there's so much different stuff you have to do and learn every day.
Being able to throw away the static type information is a good thing. (Also Haskell throws away less than, say, Ocaml.)

The static types in Haskell are a way to mechanically prove certain propositions about the program. You do not need to conserve the proof during runtime---because your very aim was to statically ensure runtime properties.
Advice on building out your sales plan as a startup
I added my phone number after '--sent from my iPhone' so people can call me while I'm on the go if they need to. I feel the signature works for me because it reminds people about brevity. The only stuff I answer from my phone is important, anything else can wait.

I guess I could change it from 'iPhone' but I don't see the point. Do I need to pretend I don't use an Apple device?
Yeah, isocket can do pretty much all of that (disclaimer: I work there), including that it looks professional (disclaimer: I'm a designer).

Techcrunch was our first customer, check out an example of how you can request to buy a leaderboard:

https://www.isocket.com/socket/ZOT76H6IF9

I said "request to buy" instead of just "buy" because being able to approve an ad before it runs is an important part of direct sales (#3 in your wishlist of features). Building in those kinds of checks while improving the overall process has been my main usability challenge in my 6 months or so here.
Really would like to hear how they got access to the data. Does Orbitz do deals like this?

I've got a technology that I think would be applicable. Be happy to hand off any booking to the data provider... but just need to be able to get to the raw data.

This wouldn't compete with hipmunk, it is a different idea in the travel space.

Just trying to find someone to supply data seems impossible.
An example is here (for the lazy):

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/flights.htm?session=91c4f25b-e...
Oh, I believe there's certainly something to be gained by going with YC, beyond what any prior success would offer. Sorry if my comment may have not gotten that across.

There probably is some loyalty there, but that's largely due to your prior success in getting Reddit launched. If you hadn't been helpful, someone would likely pursue other options.
I leave it because it lets people know that I'm out and about, and I'm not really going to be able to do much in terms of solving problems until I get back to my laptop.
Thanks for the interesting link. The world may have a "huts and lions" view of Africa and may find it convenient to classify Cape Town as no longer "African" because it's more developed. But I would question that sort of definition of Africa as necessarily implying "third world". As you say, people must regard Africa as a whole, from North to South, East to West. What's needed is more definition, more detail, more brush strokes within the outlines. Talking about all kinds of African cities (including Cape Town) will help in that respect.
Kurzweil is reported as equating 25MB of compressed DNA to 1 million lines of source code, which seems several times too low: if I compress the comment-stripped source to one of my own projects, it compresses down to 8 bytes per line of code as defined by sloccount. If we suppose compressed DNA has similar real info rate to my gzip-compressed source, then 25MB corresponds to 3 million SLOC, not 1. If you include blank lines and comments, then more like 5 million.

For another take, http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/linux-kernel-cost.html puts the Linux kernel source at 4 million lines. Can you compile a 25MB kernel? Compressed? (How much of it is 'introns', anyway? This might not be the best example.)

(Not going to touch the argument about applicability. It does seem to me that whenever Kurzweil glosses over details, the closer look always appears less utopian. There are other writers about these ideas who I can read without having to check every assertion, like Anders Sandberg.)
Yes but where's the cellular automata? Those things can do EVERYTHING
Annnnnnnd Reddit just freaked out...

I'm always stoked for new releases of Ubuntu even though I don't really use them much at all (except on servers). Is there any real reason to keep up a release cycle like theirs when you can just update the apt repositories?
Daft Punk used this sort of extreme time stretching in the opening of their Alive tour in 2007. They used (I think) the stretching algorithm in Ableton Live to cut one of their hooks down to 1/10 speed or so before slowly bring it back up to normal. You can listen below (about one minute in).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1138681157301244564...
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo!

We've said there will be ways to get BOSS without having to pay a fee. This will probably involve including advertising. The exactly details of this aren't available right now though.
That does sound like Sigur Ros! Oh my god. I really like this song.
10% is my gut feeling. I'd imagine that the plan of attack would be figuring out the top 10 or so most important cities and working out the details for them (airport transportation, transit, car rental, taxi rates) and going from there.

As to loumf's concern, once I trusted the site (say, after getting one booking commission free), I'd have no problem with the details not being revealed to me as to flight numbers / lines, details of public transit, etc. until I'd purchased. But I'm not sure you'd need that if the commissions are reasonable; I'm willing to pay to have my planning simplified.
This article just prompted me to change my Blackberry signature:
* In e-mail application, Menu key
* Select Options
* Select Email Settings
* edit text beneath Use Auto Signature
We eventually learned to fly, too... but not by sticking feathers up our butts, as Kurzweil is advocating.
I did a small modification to the background (rotated it a little and it's form is not 100% identical although very very similar).

I really wanted to understand this better. Let's say I start from scratch and the result is the same as that final result I showed, does it change anything?

I understand this is a gray area but this should be more clearer...
I thought of mentioning that, actually, but figured it would be extraneous. However, if they are all indeed pathological then perhaps we can do our simulated humans a favor and not simulate the pathological path.

Still, as discussed in another comment I made, I seriously, seriously doubt that we will ever simulate any sort of intelligence by raw physical simulation. It just isn't feasible with any realistic computational technique.
Here is how Common Lisp developers view the question of sequence interface abstraction:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...?

This discussion came up recently over the usage of Christophe Rhodes' generic sequence protocol extension to CL. Pascal Costanza makes a good point about the appropriateness of having an overly abstract interface tower, and I agree with him.
Clickable: http://www.mindquilt.com/beta
It works for me. Try again?
Momentum, I imagine. The best way to keep getting press is to keep making news :)
Next Rise of Silicon Valley or Why I Quit My Job For Facebook's Death Problem
I have a friend who changed her gmail signature is "Sent from my iPhone" for reason #2.
Are you seriously arguing this? Day t someone chops someone up in a school with a sword, day t + 1 someone walks into the same school with a sword on his back and you'd be like 'oh, carry on, I took Stat 101 so I know that you have no higher chance of getting violent than in any other place!' ?

People's judgments of situations are influenced by their previous experiences. Is a fear of flying of someone who survived a plane crash rational? No. Is it normal? Yes. Is a (heightened) fear of dark alleys normal for someone who was raped in one? No. Is it normal? Yes. So, when someone walks in an area where there was recently an attack with a sword, it's perfectly normal for people to be more jittery than they would have been had there not been a recent attack.

Apart from this, there is a different dynamic at work. After an attack, there is public pressure on the people in charge to make the area more secure. We can bicker about the measures they take and how it's token security blah blah blah - but when you get a signal that there is a guy walking around with a sword, as a security officer you'll run your ass off to get there and check this guy out, before it's another nut job who has come to vent his frustrations on his ex roommates or whatever. Rational? Not sure, may not - but irrelevant. Is it understandable? Yes.

You can argue now that you feel that these reactions are wrong because they are not rational (for a narrow definition of rational, i.e. based on facts and pure, logically sound reason). That's fine. However for you to not acknowledge that the reactions as they were in the present case (for as far as we know the facts from this thread) could not have been foreseen, or that they would come as a surprise, or even that they are not 'normal' reactions for the majority of the population, is plain intellectually dishonest.
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! I also have no insight into the Bing API roadmap.

To quote from the Bing Terms of service:

3. CODE OF CONDUCT / RESTRICTIONS ON USE.

You will not, and will not permit your users or other third parties to:
(o) commercialize (i.e., sell, rent, or lease) Bing results;

12. PRE-RELEASE. The API (and related services) are pre-release versions. They may not work the way a final version of the API (and such related services) would. We may change the API (or these services) for a final, commercial version. We also may not release a commercial version, in our sole discretion.

As I read these conditions, so far the Bing API seems similar to how the BOSS API was before this post. Bing may results not be "commercialized". We've announced that ours is going commercial BOSS, that seems like a good thing for actual business rather than just hacking.
Thanks for your feedback! I've passed it on to our iPhone people. If you find anything else, there's a feedback button in the app, or you can email onthefly-comments@itasoftware.com. I wasn't able to get a hold of the development schedule or a developer just now, but I imagine flexible dates would be on the list.
What is the Next Bubble?
App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas
Ha I know right? Sorry about the feedburner crap, and the start of the article seemed suspect but the later half of the advice is pretty solid.
Storing Git repos in a CouchDB
What if there is no "really interesting stuff"? What if the stuff in the world was all "regular stuff"?
... and you're on now!
No, I suppose not. It's been fun, though. :)
Oh, I have so much to say, and I really don't have time. I'll take two minutes ..

MindQuilt is a private Q&A platform that leverages
matchmaking and gaming dynamics to get your questions
answered and documented FAST!

Don't care about "leveraging" or "matchmaking" or "gaming dynamics" (whatever they are) - I'd lose this sentence completely

Have you ever spent an inordinate amount of time trying
to find an answer a colleague could have provided in 15secs?

Can you ask that question in half as many words?

MindQuilt connects the questions in your organisation with
its experts and documents the results delivering Just in time
documentation!

"Just In Time" is not a good buzzword to use. What you're claiming is that it automatically sends questions to the right person, and documents the answers for future reference.

What I'd also like (I haven't read further) is that if the same question gets asked in the future the system spits back the answer without having to trouble the same people over and over again. We have a system that does that - how does your system do it?

Like Quora or StackOverflow for the Enterprise, ...

What are they?

... MindQuilt provides consumer ease of use while respecting
the confidentiality and security required for corporate use.
Where else can you post a question about internal products or
policies?

What?

MindQuilt reduces the cost of new employee onboarding by
allowing your organization to build a knowledgebase of
commonly asked questions, allowing your employees to leverage
previous questions or to be connected to an internal expert
immediately.

Oh, so many buzzwords.

OK, I'm a technical person and this is way too high on the Ginger factor. Make it more real, make it more direct, make it 1/3 the length, and make my pain your focus.

That's your two minutes. I'll look at your beta when I have time.

PS: All my own opinions - and I'm weird.

PPS: An email address in your HN profile would be nice.
Seems to me these people are all in the wrong. The way it's described in the article, these were people who reproduced whole articles on their website. Like it or not, this is contrary to current copyright law (and to add my opinion, as it should be). Even if they would've challenged the suit they would've lost. Standing up for your legal rights is not blackmail.
I worked in Mathematica quite a bit, still use it for some quick visualization hacks. But after some time, I wanted to do stuff that wasn`t available in Mathematica and the only choice would be to implement the algorithms by myself. At that point I realized that I`m locked to Wolfram and started to look for alternatives. I found http://www.sagemath.org/ - a python based framework. Now if I want to use something like evolutionary algorithms and some higher math, I can simply connect sagemath with e.g. pyevolve. And I heard they have an interface for R...
Overall - not bad, however I'd have to say that "Print your long emails" is pretty old-man-ish for such a list. Also, the part about "pick a time of day to work" should probably just be changed to religiously manage progress on set goals - hours are even a little retro in many businesses.
What do you think the benefits of YC are to a company started by previously successful founders? (Honest question... seems like you have mostly touted the connections you can broker, which I wouldn't think they need help with now.)
Thanks alabut, another isocket HN member ( jasonshen ) has already bumped me.

But it's appreciated.
We need more posts like this. The nuts and bolts of bootstrapping. Too many articles talking about what to do at step 43, need more about steps 2-5.

Speaking of, has anybody had success with rather than dumping the 9-5 and jumping straight into your startup, tried going contractor for a while and use the down time to work on the start-up?
The visualization, yes, but there's a lot more to what we're doing than that. Better sorting, pruning out dominated flights (80% of results), trains, and time sliders, for example.