skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 points to be aware of when starting a new company
Good for her. Even if you are open to an acquisition, being ready to be 'in it for the long haul' puts you in a better position to negotiate - especially if there's only one really good potential acquirer out there. If you don't like their price you can always tell them 'see you next year', rather than becoming more desperate as the acquisition drags on.
Here's a link to the paper: http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/carneyetal.pdf

It's about a 5 minute read if you skip the statistics.
YongoPal apologizes to users, concedes its product 'sucked'
Everything you have said confirms that Coke has a fearsome sales force and distribution business. And that proves my point - it's not the taste of the drink but the way in which it is put in front of everyone that might be thirsty that makes them successful.
I appreciate it. We'll post a follow-up after we clean up the UI and get a second round of opinions.

The team currently consists of tech/business talent -- no designers. And it shows.
fwiw, i managed 61 fps on a karmic machine w/ i7.

and out of curiosity i tried a froyo powered device (droid 2.2) and got up to 26 fps.
There are of course large projects on GitHub, but your point still stands.
Exactly.

Case in point: I just found out about ending the backupdir with two slashes to include the full path in the filename by reading your .vimrc. Thanks!
Oracle's JavaOne Underway: Mixed Reviews So Far
Disclaimer: VLC dev here

This is the first version of VLC on iOS and it isn't the best yet, especially for performances...
The important was to put one version of VLC out on the AppStore and iterate quickly small updates and fixes... (you should understand this way of thinking, being on HN ;-) )

It will get better and faster.
Congratulations and best of luck with your new project! Have you thought about which language you'd like to learn? Don't forget to experiment and keep banging away at it until things fall into place!
One of the only platform noone is working on from the VLC dev team is WinMo7.
Some people are working on Android, some on Maemo, some on WinMo6, but noone on WinMo7 since it requires .Net and C#
Yes, I'm contributing to my Roth IRA, as well as my wife's Roth IRA.
I don't disagree that a rate increase _might_ be a bad thing (although I don't think it is). But I do think, that as Krugman points out, this is not the current argument.

In Reagan's era they would pitch trickle down as how everyone benefits from these tax cuts. The actual stated goal was to make life better for everyone, but starting from the top.

The current stated goal from the right is that the rich deserve the money, and the poor do NOT deserve. Not that the tax cuts will have some side benefit to the poor. Rather that we need to keep the money out of the hands of the poor. This is why the constantly use the code word "welfare" when talking to their base.

Again, there is a very rational argument to be had here. In fact, I think a rational argument would be a very boring one for most people in the US. But I think the reason that everyone is up in arms is not due to their passion for capitalism. But rather I think there's a fundamental belief that there are certain groups of people unworthy of _their_ money.
What's really crazy is how well these demos work on my Android phone.
Ask HN: Should I learn ASP.net?
Do a lot of companies still use ASP.net? I have a chance to learn it if I dont get an internship. I'm wondering if its worth my time to learn to use in the future.
90% superficially sounds unreasonable, because we have a tendency to think that wealth is distributed on a bell curve. But wealth is not distributed that way, it is distributed according to a power law, which means that a significant number of people make in excess of $100M per year while others make less than $1000. If wealth were distributed according to skill and ability, the ratio between the highest and lowest would be much lower and billionaires would be as rare as 100 ft tall people.

The idea that a person could personally contribute the equivalent of $100M of value in a year per their efforts and skills (which ARE distributed on a bell curve) is absurd. It is this mismatch between the distribution of ability and the distribution of wealth that the rich exploit. So for someone making $100M/year, a 90% tax rate is not unreasonable at all.
The place I'm at right now has an open kitchen, and this is greatly minimized (at least the cursing). Being right off the dining room means it's also very cool (only kitchen I've been in that's refreshing to walk into right in the middle of summer) and has good lighting.
You cannot have been reading very closely Tim, because the quotation about 'at no stage would [govt.] have access to money or information about the recipient's bank account, or to the account itself' is drawn from section 5.10.

The ideas examined are for the centralization of payroll information for purposes tax calculation only. Money transfers would continue to take place between employee and employer directly, not least because an employer may be making other deductions for the purpose of pension contributions, union dues or whatever which do not have any bearing on tax liability.

As I said, in the UK the government already collects all this information already. The change which is being proposed is to gather electronically it each pay period instead of a batch at the end of a company's fiscal year.
Thats pretty cool
Disclaimer: VLC dev here

Yes, a very simple one... Someone needs to patch the interface to scale nicely on the iPhone :D

You have to understand that we are volunteers working on our free time. People work on what they want/care/need, not based on external thoughts (no market research, no marketing, no boss orders... just fun)
yet.

;-)
A keynote can only be assessed with respect to a value system.

It's impossible to understand or influence someone without knowing their value system.
It could.

Just file a bug on http://trac.videolan.org/vlc if it doesn't.
What about using something like OpenID, Google Accounts or Facebook accounts and not doing the login yourself?
My theory is Google is trying to make their search engine as fast as possible and by not clicking the enter button it reduces 1 second and also appear to be faster.
I've applied economics to historical and current data to discover where markets were mispricing assets. But for myself, as a hobby. Not sure what you're looking for but might be able to point you to a source of info...
6% of my income finds its way to a very conservative (mostly bonds) Simple IRA.
Steve Jobs tells annoying college student, "Please leave us alone."
The keyboard itself contains a 2 port USB hub (regular ports, btw, with enough juice to power a Wacom tablet and charge my phone at the same time), so I'm not sure that makes sense.
With the implication that there's no such thing as a wasted argument?

I prefer, "Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." I'm still learning that one, though.
Put away college money for the kids with the Dell buyout. Put the proceeds from the Silicon Valley house sale into a farm in Iowa. Worth about $1M if it doesn't turn into a swamp or desert (pick your global-warming scenario).

Money in the retirement acct never did anything for 15 years, should have put it into gold, buried in a mason jar in the back yard, for all the good the stock market ever did me.
I will be trying this out! thanks for the great work.
Cortes' burning of the ships was to make discipline among his men a non-issue, not the discipline of his own mind. Your point remains untainted by the imperfection of your analogy.

As you say, gambling on relationship success may cost friends; I chose my friends and believe I am happier for it.
Creating Passionate Users, part 2
I'd like to ask the question "when do you intend to retire?".

My father is 64 and although he's had an era of poor health a few years ago (since recovered) he has no interest in retiring (he's a highly sought after executive consultant in his field).

He's probably the first generation to actually question the whole notion of stopping work at 65 and quietly going off to die. Like most of us on HN, he is able to work in a career he enjoys that isn't labor intensive (thus capable for older people)

The WorldBank says the average life expectancy in USA is 78 (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?cid=GPD_1...) so if you finally gave up work at 73 that's only an average of 5 years you need to live without an income - and that for most successful professional workers this is probably manageable through savings and/or reverse mortgage on a reasonable sized house.

The pension industry hasn't really changed in 50 years yet the way we live, work, and end our lives has changed (and continues to change rapidly). If the shift is towards us working longer that means we need them less, so there is no reason for them to adapt.
I don't know that they envisioned everyone running their own server instance. It's more likely that it would exist somewhere in between everyone running their own and a centralized service.
Spray bottle ionizes tap water for anti-bacterial, chemical-free cleaning
My name is unique to begin with; I've taken further steps to own it on the internet. I made the mistake of tying it to this username, once, which has led (for better or worse) to a greater discretion under this username.
There is certainly a structured market (secondmarket) for this. Also, many angels are now selling their shares in later stage financing. So its certainly more liquid now than a few years ago.
I've also requested an invite.

I'm less concerned with the lack of polish (as kilian brought up) -- but I would definitely start copying and pasting some of the information that you have on the noderabbit site to the DjangoZoom page, or at least, before you come anywhere close to live.

I would tell you to look at the Heroku site for what kind of information sells to users, but I've always had a hard time reading their color scheme, so I much preferred yours.

Any plans on support for Tornado, or is it JUST Django on the roadmap?
You win the internets.
Awesome thanks for answering my question, I was just curious, not trying to be snarky and you answered it well. I really do appreciate the response. I love VLC I would be willing to pay for it on the iPhone, so think about charging $1.99-$2.99 for it, I'm sure others would pay also.
Make sure you love what you do. It's a matter of going the right way, then you just have to keep going.
Ask HN: HN for non-programmers?
I recently got my girlfriend hooked on HN. She doesn't know how to program, though, so a good chunk of the content on HN is of no interest to her. The other half (non-technical articles+discussions) she thoroughly enjoys.

My question: is there a HN-like website for non-programmers? Something like HN without the clojure/node.js/etc. related articles.
> For example, in July, a CNN journalist was fired for tweeting her opinion about a Hezbollah leader. I wrote a piece about how ridiculous it was that she could not have an opinion.

I know someone who works for CNN. It is in his contract that he cannot blog or otherwise express his opinion (and I assume not Tweet - contract predates Twitter).
I use disposables in the shower, usually with soap and a bit of lathering time. I can draw a blade out for months at a time, and usually prefer it after the first few days since a dull blade is more forgiving. The caveat(if any) is that the technique requires a lot of slow passes - first with the grain a few times, then sideways a few times, then against the grain - so I end up with 15-20 minute showers. The skin preparation is a big part in how well it comes out in the end; a moist lather is the only reason I can work with dull blades.

I compared my brother's technique against mine once. He took the cream, spread it on without lathering, and then practically rammed a fresh Mach 3 blade straight down his face, one stroke per section. Finished in under a minute. Suddenly, it became clear why he always had persistent five-o-clock shadow; as I told him upon seeing this, he wasn't really shaven by doing this, he just wouldn't get a beard.
i am looking for historical data "easily" digestible by software. As far as I know it is not there (not for free for sure).

I am trying to evaluate an idea based on financial modeling but I am not ready yet to share it (not out of secrecy but out of doing some basic research first:))
I've been saving 20% of after tax income into a savings account until I get to 5 months living expenses.

After that, my corporate IRA match will have kicked in (just started a new job a couple months ago) and plan to save 15% overall into retirement accounts, with the other 5% to put into paying down the mortgage and/or starting education funds for the kids.

I'm following the Dave Ramsey "baby steps", by the way.
The Geography of a Recession
I really wish there was a nice way to run nested screens, I like having screen run locally, but I always want to be able to easily attach and detach from screen sessions on my server. I know I can escape them with keyboard shortcuts, but its confusing and I have never managed to get used to it, so I generally do server screen sessions in a seperate terminal
Too many different logical fallacies and false premises here to even start, so we will just jump straight to the end:

> most rich people vote Democrat, so his entire argument [...] is questionable to start with.

Not even close to correct. Gender, age and state of residence are good proxies for voting patterns, but none is better than wealth/income. The rich, as a class, support republican candidates. The basic rule is that rich states vote Democrat, rich people vote Republican.
This is an excellent vim tutorial. Unlike others I've read, it makes me want to be vim power user by clearly spelling out the benefits of various tricks and commands.
I do agree, but the issues are multiple:

- This isn't the usual VLC philosophy (that can change, yes)

- The application is still not very mature yet, it will get better, but that will depend on the patches...

- As you can see in an above comment of mine, the situation regarding GPL is complex, adding a cost could make a shift in the development community, that we don't want...

- Many other stuffs, that I don't have time to answer right now ;)
You could also delegate the login to Facebook, Twitter, Google, OpenID, etc which are all supposed to be secure. It also reduces the friction of the signup/login process. However, I do hate it when sites don't let you signup directly and force you to use OpenID.
DjangoZoom (http://djangozoom.com/) is mentioned several times in your article, but none of them are clickable.

General request for business blogs: make it easy to navigate to the site you are talking about!
into my startup!
syntax on

filetype on

filetype plugin on

filetype indent on

You do not want "filetype off"

Also, check out snipMate as it gives you easy to use TextMate type snippets.

In Vim:

:h filetype
I know a few people on HN who are interested, but probably not thaaat much ahead of you. For example, I find the idea quite itneresting myself and have considered getting more intimate with quantative trading software, but have yet to get around to actually doing anything. I do love complex event processing (CEP) distributed computing type projects though. They intrigue me :)
unless you are working for PETA, or some vegeterian oriented website, it is a shitty idea.

You are basically forcing your 'dietary' choices to everybody else in the company.

You are a business, not a cult.
Replying to myself because I can't seem to reply to sigzero:

Yeah, I definitely need to get around to reading :h filetype.

I mentioned Snipmate in the article, so I know about it :)
Your A/Bingo site just isn't as useful to me as a GitHub repo would be. I had to clone your repo to see how active your project is. And what if you should lose interest? No link to the "Network" to see where the patches are going. What about bugs? I don't see a bug tracker. And for measuring how many people read my code, well, I think forks and watches on GitHub are a better gauge of the level of interest than that.
so if you finally gave up work at 73 that's only an average of 5 years you need to live without an income

Not necessarily. A couple of reasons:

* Life expectancy in developed countries has been increasing by well over a year every decade.

* Life expectancy for someone at age 73 is notably higher; remember that the average of 78 includes everyone who has died before age 73.

Personally, I come from comparatively long-lived ancestors. I have no desire to find out when I'm 78 that I'm likely to live to 90 or 100, but have no money left.
Seesmic. I think the lesson learned there was that everyone wants to watch others, but few want to record themselves, out of fear. Solve that, though force like chatroulette, or inspiration like funny or die, and you could make something I would visit...but not participate in.
At the risk of similarly being voted down, I'm experiencing the same error. Trying to associate an OpenID with my HN account results in a return of "Unknown" from the openid_merge link.
There is a non-zero possibility that Jobs simply doesn't want to publicly admit he was wrong.
A lot of folks signed up for multiple accounts. Just think, finding some with the exact mirror of you might be difficult, but you could fill both roles with two different "mentors". But, I still totally see your point. During streamlining, I made the decision to simplify a lot of the matching.
There is a structured market, and most angels are allowed to sell into future rounds (in addition to being able to sell more generally, with minimal restrictions usually being a ROFO and No Competitors clause)
Honestly? Because it looks like entirely too much work. I'll admit that I haven't looked into it as thoroughly as I should have, but just a quick check of StackOverflows login screen shows 12 different providers they accept with a field to allow any other you want. That sort of scared me off.

Now, thinking about this logically, the fact that they provide a field for "just throw your OpenID here" probably means that there's a singular path to follow, and that the other 12 are just shortcuts so that you don't have to remember the full URL for your credentials.

I'll look into it a bit further now, but if you have any suggestions on documentation or tutorials you've found helpful, I'd appreciate it if you could pass them along (I'll be using PHP).

Thanks.
Definitely, thanks for pointing that out.
HN has a speed-limiter in place to prevent flamefests. If you find yourself in the position of not being able to reply due to the previous comment being made too recently, you can click the "link" link and reply on the resulting page.
Entirely agree on the aesthetics, one of the things holding me back from switching is that I love vibrant ink in textmate. I just can't seem to find a theme that is quite as bright (vividchalk was pretty close). Any suggestions?
This is not vim-related, but the reason you couldn't reply is that HN doesn't let you reply to a comment until after a certain amount of time has passed. This amount of time depends on how deep the comment is in the tree. (I believe the restriction is there to help prevent excessively deep comment trees that are just people arguing back and forth.)
I understand and I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my question. Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback, right now it is HEAVILY weighted towards hackers and such (my main push has been in Hacker News) although one girl found a wedding designer match. That's kind of unexpected!
nah, don't get me wrong I was raised on a steady diet of sci-fi and love it to death, when I say I own a lot of terrible sci-fi I mean it in the best possible sense.
If you start learning ASP.NET, I'd recommend skipping WinForms and start with ASP.NET MVC. The latter is a really good framework for .NET projects. It shares many features with popular frameworks (RoR, Django…) and doesn't get too much in your way. No _postBack() and horrible viewstates.

If you like corporate culture, once you've acquired a moderate level of expertise in .NET, finding a job should not be too difficult — depending of where you live of course.
So maybe both RubyPay and iStockphoto fall into the same category that is quite different from wallet systems? A category that includes sites that use virtual currency, but don't store your VISA credentials for future purchases.
Po Bronson also wrote a surprisingly good book that I picked up from the bargain bin.

"What Should I Do With My Life?"

http://www.fastcompany.com/node/45909/print

If you get the book, read the one about the catfish entrepreneur
>I'm wondering if its worth my time to learn to use in the future.

Not sure if it's worth learning on your own, but if you get hired to do it, a lot of the skills are applicable elsewhere, if not the knowledge of the libraries.

I'd have no problem hiring someone proficient in .NET for a java job, and vice versa, presuming they were smart and hard working.
Microsoft shops.
7 Secretive Aircraft of the Soviet Air Force
First, the advantages for people were already described. Scribd provided them with things that they found valuable. You dismissed these things because they weren't valuable for you. When you say:

> I'm still curious to learn about the advantages of scibd.

You really mean "I'm still curious to learn about the advantages of scibd for me." If you meant what you originally said, your being purposefully obtuse.

Indeed, in rereading you original comment, you were simply dismissive, and all the alternatives you provided lacked the specific feature sets he was looking for.

> With enough ideas or usage scenarios, maybe somebody will make something better!

Yeah, another document host. Scribd2.
More scary: http://xkcd.com/792/
Depends what one's passionate about exactly. My passion isn't cooking, it's cooking in professional kitchens with dynamic menus. This is why I can't work at a software company, it's waaay less fun. Conveniently, restaurant sw almost universally sucks, so I'm now growing my startup with former and current employers to solve a major pain point in a lucrative, untapped industry that I love and deeply respect.
The DomainTools archiving can be annoying. I don't think they will want to remove your data, it would set a bad precedent for them. An archive of previous whois records is by definition going to have out of data information, so that probably shouldn't be your main argument.

Let us know how it goes.
Looks great, but It's more of an 'EngineYard-like service for Django apps'. Heroku does this marketing / technical trick where you don't have machines, just ruby running in the cloud. No servers to reboot or configure, just X$/mo add-ons to click.

I use and think both services are great, but Engine Yard has all of it's thunder stolen by Heroku. Steeper learning curve, but far more dynamic than Heroku.
>Too many different logical fallacies and false premises here to even start

Keep in mind that I am merely stating that an argument exists, an not making it per se. I am questioning Krugman's rhetorical strategy of assuming that no reasonable disagreement exists.

The only data I can find puts people making over $125,000 as 46% Democrat and 51% Republican in 2004[1]. Of course, this was before the banner Democratic years of 2006 and 2008 when Barack Obama beat McCain in campaign contributions 3 to 1 among employees of large Wall Street banks.

So you're right, it more even than I thought. Rich people probably went Democrat in 2008 and may swing Republican again in what is shaping up to be a huge year for team GOP.

[1]Ugly google link:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&s...

[2]-http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&...

-http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&...