skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If startups are so great then what are the civil engineers, accountants, financial analysts, lawyers, botanists and other top-tier professions in the world doing with the idea? Surely they are bored and uninterested in their jobs too right. I'm sure that among the million employed in those professions, some might have budged and become interested in the idea right?"

That is far from true. Civil engineers set out on their own and form small partnerships and own a niche. I am related to two civil engineers, one specials in airport runways and the other in environmental remediation. They travel all over and make a bunch of money. They both have PhDs and do novel stuff. Their work is probably more variable than the various RoR startups being founded now, and takes a whole lot more capital to start. Some people wouldn't call them startups in the snotty valley sense of the word, but they are equivalent to your average bootstrapped software startup.

Accountants, lawyers, architects, and doctors are always stepping out to be their own boss. That is one of the allures of those professions. (I know nothing of botanists). More of them work in solo offices or partnerships than for big companies.

A lot of them require just as much capital as a startup, if not more. They all need offices. They need paralegals or medical equipment or CAD software or nurses. They all advertise for customers. They are fraught with risk too. But scores of people do it, because it does have its rewards.
> ...once people realized reddit wasn't going to switch to a pay-only site the outrage died down.

I'm not very active in Reddit anymore -- HN is my last distraction now -- but I did watch that situation carefully because it was interesting. I got the sense that the outrage died down only because Reddit promised to migrate its paid features into the "free" arena. Until then, a lot of people were angry that there was going to be some kind of "elite" class on the site.

Practically speaking, even if Reddit had managed to permanently piss off this chunk of its userbase, I doubt they would have left altogether, and even if they did, there's no way to gauge what fraction of Reddit's traffic was really represented by these guys. It could've been (and probably was) just a tempest in a teapot.

But either way, in that specific case, there would have been some vocal rebellion if the paid-for features stayed locked behind a paywall.
I'm not saying that its possible to do it in an automated way. I'm just saying that tools exist to create red flags that would make thing easily verified by a human. They have ways in which they deal with these things. All I'm saying is so far, its been working for them.
Don't think so. Was he part of Store? Cuz I left before their hiring really picked up steam. Heard it really went downhill right after I left (not claiming that was why).
That's like 7 steps away from posting lolcats.
The one Mason that I knew ten years or so said the membership fee was around 60EUR/month. So it's hardly I-have-a-yacht-exclusive, but you still have to be able to afford it.

You may realize that a membership at a slightly-better-than-average gym is at a similar price level. Many group-based activities (i.e., tennis clubs, geek clubs, creative anachronism) have both inclusive (meet people with similar interests) and exclusive (meet less of the other people) aspects.
I'm a bit bemused by your question, but anyway:

'Perhaps the easiest way to epitomize the differences between these two groups is to contrast the way they use the phrase "I see." When visionaries say "I see," they do so with their eyes closed. That's how visionaries see. Pragmatists, on the other hand, like to see with their eyes open. They don't trust visionaries for the same reasons that they don't trust people who want to navigate using the force.' - Moore, Geoffrey A. Inside the Tornado (1995) p. 19

for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
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This is a rear-view mirror sort of thing, so it may have already but they don't yet have the data needed or are still making up their minds.

The general theory I've heard is that companies re-built their inventories after they let them get low in the extreme uncertainty following the 2008 fall financial shocks. That appears to have tapered off earlier this year and we could be treading water or going back down right now, but as mentioned above it can't yet be called.
If startups are so great then what are the civil engineers, accountants, financial analysts, lawyers, botanists and other top-tier professions in the world doing with the idea?

Those are pretty bad examples to prove your point. I don't know any civil engineers, but lawyers, financial analysts and accountants are always going off to do their own thing.
It's true. My old boss used to get interviewed by The Economist from time to time. Their editors really are a bunch of 25-year-olds.
That's all fine and good. Why do they need access to my google contacts?
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My best friend when I was around 7-9 was the son of William & Mary's computer guy. This was back in the 80's when they probably only had 1 computer guy. After swimming I remember going there and being shown the mainframe and tape drives by my friend's dad and just loving it. They also had a computer room that was meant for students but no one used it. So we would go there and checkout games to play on their IBM 386's in monochrome.

This went on for 2 summers if I remember correctly. Then on the third summer I showed up and suddenly the computer lab was full of students. And the damn grad-student guarding it wouldn't let me in. I remember his strange look when this loud mouthed 8 year old demanded to be able to use a computer. But I walked away dejected.

I always had a computer around the house growing up because my parents are teachers and they saw them as learning tools. I went from TRS-80 to Apple-IIc to IBM 286, 386 and on and on. But I really fell in love with these infernal machines in the basement of Small Hall on the W&M campus.
We had an Apple //c when I was a little kid, because we were a decade behind the times. I wanted to change what was on the screen. I found BASIC books in the library by accident, while crawling around looking for something else, and the rest is history.
if anything is "free", YOU are the product sold.
He writes like he talks - straight to the point, with a lot of style. He's also one of the few judges on Top Chef that I can stand to listen to. Too many of them are finicky little shits, but he's truly appreciative of talent.
Thanks for the great feedback donohoe, it's a call for beta testers, I have your url in the back end and will update everything manually.

hmm, to (1) I will try some A/B testing on the signup to find what works best.

I couldn't come up with a better call to action for the mobilize Now button, so I'll probably have to experiment around with it, all other Buttons I tried look weird on the design.

Sorry for the paypal paywall, my bad, I should say the datas are stored when you hit the Mobilize Now button.

For beta testing subscriptions, I just set a new page:

http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/mobilize/beta-teste...
tako is japanese for octopus...
From the FAQ (this is crazy):

Your documents will automatically be entered into the Archive after an initial period of time. You can recall a document from the Archive by opening the document's properties, clicking the Archive Status tab, then clicking the Recall from Archive command. If a document's properties page doesn't have an Archive Status tab, then that document has not yet been placed into the Scribd Archive. To learn how to edit your documents' properties, please see our Writer's Guide.

After a couple months your document will return to the Archive, and you can repeat this process to recall it again.
I agree that I'm making valuable contributions, but I'm clearly in debt to the society I live in for the opportunities that are available.
Definitely. If more people rolled their own, the spammers would be screwed.
But wasn't his success not really "in" the kitchen, but outside it?
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The blades degrade simply by being worn down. The cutting edge is a few molecules of soft steel. I really don't think corrosion is an issue.
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Ask HN: How do you use Twitter for hacking?
I have mostly been ignoring Twitter for the past years, but now figure it's worth trying out. However, I don't need yet an other way to waste time on the internet and have no interest in daily life of most celebrities. So, share with me and everyone how you use Twitter for things related to programming and startups. Learning, sharing ideas, asking questions, finding collaborators, jobs or employees, getting customers, anything like that.
Even the iFund companies (Ngmoco) are making Android apps now
If you feed it words and appropriate features from a programming language you should get something close to a tokenizer. Laura dietz ( http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~dietz/index.html#publications ) has some work that applies similar techniques to programming languages to find bugs.
Unsurprisingly, not true.

The discussion document (link below) suggests that instead of sending employee's tax information to the government once a year, modern computing and telecommunications would make it easier for everyone if that information were updated each pay period.

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPort...

In the UK, employers are responsible for calculating and withholding tax, and only self-employed people need to file tax returns on their own behalf. If you change jobs it can be 4-6 weeks before your tax paperwork arrivse at your new employer, because it is sent from your old employer to the treasury from there to your new place of work; during this time you pay 'emergency tax' at the highest rate. Any overpayment is refunded as soon as the new employer has the tax information, but until they get it their payroll will cover themselves by withholding the maximum. This is not a fun thing when you begin working or change jobs, because for a month or so your employer is working on the assumption that you are fabulously wealthy until the Treasury gives them evidence to the contrary, regardless of how much your actual job pays. So everyone who enters/moves within the workforce is taxed like a bank CEO for the first month - something that's a lot more memorable than the refund which comes many weeks later.

Employer filing of payroll and income tax information each pay period would eliminate this archaic practice and make it easier for both employers to do payroll and employees to switch jobs, because the current tax information could be passed back to a new employer just as quickly, eliminating the wasteful (and expensive) disruption. They further suggest that if this worked out well, employers could upload gross pay information and have the treasury do the work of calculating the taxes, which would reduce employers' administrative overhead considerably as they would no longer be required to collect taxes and tax information on behalf of the government. It would also increase employees' financial privacy, since the Treasury would be storing the same information that it does now but it would no longer need to be duplicated in the recorrds of a person's employer for the purpose of calculcating their taxes.

It even states specifically: At no stage would HMRC [the tax collection agency] or its agents have direct access to any money or information contained in the recipient’s bank account or indeed the bank account itself.

The notion that the money is proposed to go to the government first is simply Not True. It's a short document written in plain English. There is no way that CNBC could have interpreted it the way they did unless they are either stupid or dishonest. You've been had.
>The problem is that they introduce irregular memory layout.

Good point. I thought that the original thread was about pointers eating up space.

My understanding is that C++ class definitions, because they themselves may contain function references...even just constructors/destructors and access methods, would represent the object with a pointer on the call stack to the location of the object (and all its data + method pointers) on the heap (which like you said could end up anywhere resulting in an irregular memory layout). Otherwise, suppose a class is defined as a collection of objects (which are defined as collections of objects on down etc.) some of which may of arbitrary length...ergo you'd never know how much memory to allocate a priori to hold these irregular data structured. Far easier to just allocate a bunch of word length pointers pointing to whatever random blobs of address space the OS gives back on malloc requests.

But yeah, if it's just POD then one would assume an easy optimization the compiler could make would be to just create the objects as contiguous blocks of object-sized memory. I'm all rusty on some of this stuff (last time I seriously used C++ Borland was still a major player in the compiler business and templates were highly experimental) so I'm sure I'm quite out of date these days.
HopToadApp.com did the same to me. About a year ago, I signed up for their free plan. It allowed two users, so I added our lead engineer.

Recently, he left and we added another engineer. So I removed engineer #1 and couldn't add engineer #2 unless I paid to upgrade the account. I don't mind paying when it makes sense, but a) HopToad was totally unwilling to grandfather the account, which meant I couldn't add the new engineer, and b) there was no messaging that the plan changed. I found out about it when I tried to add engineer #2. Lame.
Ask HN: Are you saving for retirement?
This is for all the self employed hackers. Are you saving for retirement?

We don't have company 401(k) options, so what are you doing to save/invest?

I opened a Roth-IRA and just learned about Solo 401(k)s and SEP-IRAs. I think I'll keep contributing to the Roth, but look into other options as well.

Where are you putting your money?
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Ask HN: What do you use to collect beta testers email?
I'm trying to collect Beta testers for ggmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/ , I've set a google form to do that here: http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/mobilize/beta-tester , what do you use collect beta testers credentials ?
It seems reading the comments here that entrepreneurs are the only group that make society get better. Was Einstein an entrepreneur? Probably the future will be shaped by people with a lot of knowledge and intelligence that are hard working, but probably they are not entrepreneurs.
I get 1FPS on the terrain generation one. Still cool :)
I ride a bike for fun, or hike a trail, or sleep under the stars. Please don't insult me with hats and balls and fake parties.
what a TERRIBLY written article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption
Social cost of love is two friends...
Could you please help me find some links on the GPL3 ban in Windows 7?
In a manner of speaking, he found his true self. It's a great piece of writing.
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Yeah, I think scott_s is right, the issue is that Java just dumps pointers on the call stack to objects on the heap. And heap objects can end up all over the place in all kinds of non-optimal locations, like out of cache, or in different pages of virtual memory.

There's not really any such thing as just a block of a data allocated for however many bytes the object needs dumped on the stack...like good old C structs AFAIK.

It's one of the problems of languages that don't let you do your own memory management.
Please tell me more :)
Aha! Consider me educated. -1 for a stupid question is perfectly justified.

(I naively assumed you used "interstitial" to mean "occupying an intervening space," which would not have made sense.)
Copying is not stealing, at best it's IP infringement. For further clarity consider Thomas Jefferson: "That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
To avoid that weird incentives gap the basic income should be unconditional, so without a means test. Regardless if they are unemployed or employed every citizen receives every week or month a mount of money. No questions asked. Any money you make from a job is just additional income.

The expectation is that people will want to work. Naturally a unconditional basic income will change things: Some will seek employment, others will start a business, and then there are the open source programmers. etc. Another advantage is that one could eliminate minimum wage.
This is a sleek idea !
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I don't think having people solve capchas for money is all that common. Do you have a source or something? Even if it is common, capchas still stop those spamming strategies that rely on each spam being free for the spammer.
I've found electric to be the only way to comfortably shave daily. Wet is a little closer, but doing it daily just tears up the skin too much.
I suspect you're using MacOS? Chrome/Safari on MacOS perform horribly slow on some of these demos. CoreGraphics seem to be the culprit.
It's also the wrong way to go about because once you end up on the friends ladder it's almost impossible to cross the abyss. ;)

http://www.laddertheory.com/ladderconstruction.htm
I have trouble reading this page because the background image makes me feel like I'm going to fall if I don't look at it.
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So the myth is who invented it and maybe some of the mechanics of how it works? Who cares? It is still happening and will continue to happen.
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Air Video is nice, but you can't store movies for travelling.
My understanding was that to publish to the app store, the publishing developer must agree to certain GPL-incompatible terms and restrictions. Apple seems to think that their terms have been fulfilled but FSF has said that GPL and App Store terms seem to conflict. I think Apple is in the clear wrt GPL but the publishing developer may have violated its terms.
I read this same post on reddit a few weeks (maybe months?) ago. I'm looking for the post, but it's difficult to find old posts on reddit.

From what I recall, that person didn't get their data back, and given the nearly word-for-word similarities between that post and yours, I would guess that this is an ongoing scam.
Or just use Plex - a bit smarter than AIR Video - it includes placeholders so you can stop watching in the living room (via computer) and start from the same spot in bed (via iPad/iPhone).
I did the same thing this weekend. Setting up node on ec2-micro with a ubuntu 10.04 image. The process was mostly straight forward but I had a issue with in correct entry in fstab resulting in not being able to ssh in after a reboot. The fix was simple but I did waste an hour on it.

Here is a list of steps I did http://pastebin.com/gz01XZnU

Main thing is to fix the fstab as soon as you login the first time.
I'm just drawing a distinction. I would describe myself as an anti tax liberal.
Thanks, even more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/
A significant portion of the poor are taxed well below 15% on a average basis, with a non-trivial fraction below 0%.

I'd be hard-pressed (as would you) to concoct a "poor" person's tax return with an average rate of roughly 30-40%.
Sorry to be the slow one here... What is a Distributed Task Queue Worker? What problem does it solve?
Interesting article. I think the financial factor sells me on the concept.

I actually didn't believe that it would work, but apparently it does; would love to get some more numbers. Maybe in a mixergy interview?

@Zach: kudos to you, my man.
That's a shame. A lot of municipalities see their libraries (and museums) as low-hanging fruit in times of financial distress. Often they're pared down to a bare minimum of services: circulation.

This is troublesome for many reasons, but the most important, in my opinion, is that libraries generally see an upsurge in use statistics during economic downturns.

People go to the library to learn new skills (literacy, resume help and proofreading, etc.), to look for work, to escape into a good book and the company of their fellow man, and to just get away from their troubles. Programming should, and often does, provide just the targeted help they could use most.
well, he was able to capitalize HBS, which obviously is much more important.

rather a lack of ability, perhaps this indicates a lack of regard.
sigh .. etc. There would be more than 8 options, many more.

YES, it would be a pain to update the library, which is why I'm commending this particular concept for solving that problem ...
Really? That seems unlikely. Very few people have ever made such a claim, though it does seem that it could be possible.

http://www.denisdutton.com/jupiter_moons.htm
It really surprised me that they assigned three-letter TLD for Catalan, whereas all other countries have two-letter TLD's.

It happens to be not a country code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...), but the generic TLD, alongside the likes of .com and .org, "for Web sites in the Catalan language or related to Catalan culture", the only one of this kind in this category. Go figure.
Or, instead of going along like everybody else, find a job where you're valuable, take a pay cut, work 30 hours a week and take 2 months off a year and make your schedules so you're never stuck in traffic again.

The belief that material wealth is always more valuable than being able to spend time doing what you want is astounding.
> Copying is not stealing

But it does nothing to, as Jefferson would certainly point out, improve the human condition, to simply copy what someone else did and crush that someone else with your market dominance.

This is just plain evil.

Demonstrating, BTW, his own point - he too became an hypocrite that's capable of doing anything immoral in order to make more money, much like the HBS alumni he was criticizing.
Ah, you are right. I read a 2002 advisory that allowed them.

http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2002/press_release_0104.sh...

Alas.
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Eh, I think both of those are silly framings. Nobody likes paying taxes.

I'm a "pro balanced budget" liberal, and that meant that throughout the Bush years I was saying "Hey, we're gonna have to pay for these tax cuts eventually", while simultaneously saying "Hey, let's cut defense and homeland security spending because at least 1/2 of it is BS that doesn't make us safer."

Not like I love the idea of paying more taxes, or of quote "big government" - I just give basic arithmetic a lot of respect.