skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently the front page shows the top 30 articles, so people coming to the site see this by default. Maybe the front page should instead show, for example, 10 of the top articles and 20 new ones, in separate lists.
Stuxnet virus likely target: Iran's nuclear program
Google Names Five Winners Of Project 10^100, Awards $10 Million Total
If you formed your entity correctly (I assume this is where your $3k debt to your lawyer came in), you likely can declare bankruptcy for your company and take no personal liability.

You might want to find family and friends who can loan you the money without interest.

Can you sell the domain?

Just curious, how did you get so much debt from your lawyer.

Hope it works out and best of luck.
I certainly hope so, but how was he able to get his SSN to the verge of being blacklisted?
Thank you.

a) Yes, and I'm dealing with a startup lawyer, at a very well-known Silicon Valley law firm (this is when we had money). He's been very very patient with our lack of being able to pay the retainer.

b) Through the corporation. It's registered under the Inc and has the EIN associated with it. However, it also has my SSN associated as the primary contact.

c) Well, I have a feeling that most of our credit card transactions are fraudulent, being in the space we are in. (For example, someone charged $12k on a card and tried to cash out to PayPal.)

I'll call up Rackspace and give it a shot. Thank you.
I see the end value in all those except "steal your data and sell it". What are they stealing and who are they selling it too and what do those people do with your bought data?

Also I know how botnets work, but where is the money in attacking business servers?
I remember having a PC emulator on a OSF/1 Alpha about 94 or so (SoftWindows?) - was perfectly usable.
From Visa/Mastercard through the merchant account. My SSN is listed as the account owner.
Alternatively, get a consumer loan from a bank and pay off your creditors. Pay the bank back over time.
Work something out with Rackspace. They will be happy to not report you to the credit bureaus. That leaves about $3k to pay to the lawyer. And maybe you can work something out with him too so he doesn't report you to a collection agency, which is probably a hassle for him anyway.
I just threw up a little. ARM, Java, desecrated by a goober. If you own Oracle stock you are a greedy fucktard.
Can't talk for sewerhorse, but I think the HN design is quite good. Following is my opinion I'm by no means a designer.

Right now there is no distraction anywhere. It's straight to the point: Here are your headlines. Read first post title, if you're interested read/open, else proceed to next headline.
The meta info (points, comments,...) in lighter grey colour serves as element to visually separate the individual posts making them easier to parse.

Your design I find busier. Name of the poster and amount of comments are unimportant while parsing headlines (for me?) and thus are in the way. The light colour on #other is barely noticeable on my uncalibrated TN panel TFT and doesn't help at all.
For individual post/how comments are displayed I'd say the same thing. Username/points are way to prominent vs. the actual comment itself (and the up/down vote arrows are still on the same spot :D instead of downvote to the right of the meta information)

Aside from that, your design only has different colours with a fugly orange "more" button at the bottom.

Neither your design nor the current would be more or less 'perfect' when I'd first see it but in hindsight I prefer the current one; I am better at parsing it than yours for the reasons stated above.
I have to agree. There's almost always _something_ of value the business has, even if you're not sure what that is. (Even your list of customers, however small that might be, has some value.)

I understand why you're reluctant to name the business, but you may want to reconsider since you're probably too close to the situation to clearly identify all of the possible assets.
That's because people associate 'good wife' with a subservient wife. Feminism has encouraged women to act in their own interests rather than their families interests for some time now and the values have sunk into the culture.

'Good husband' doesn't have that connotation and for better or for worse, people still think that husbands should care for their wives and children and be respectable people themselves.
As far as Rackspace goes, contact Rob (@kr8tr) and see if you can work out a payment plan. He has a real passion for great customer service. Plus, he's a cool dude.
Don't Blame the Person. Blame the Problem.
The general advice here is very good, but the point of languages being fast or not is in fact discussible.

Languages with cleaner semantics ... are faster to code.

Languages that are easier to implement ... have more fast implementations.

Languages that have more fast implementations ... are likely to have one very fast implementation.

HOWEVER! Worrying about all of this before you've coded anything is premature optimization. Before you're holding something that is too slow in your hands, the only speed that matters is how comfortable you are with a language and how quickly you can code with it.
nperez (author of the darkpan-schmarkpan post) may not be a contributor to p5p (Perl core language developers' mailing list), but a quick glance at http://search.cpan.org/~nperez/ shows that he's contributed some interesting code to the POE and Moose codebases. I think Rafael was a bit harsh in his "Perl Developers Actively Care..." post when he seemingly dismissed the opinions of anyone who doesn't contribute sufficiently good patches to p5p.
iCub robot learns archery
Wow, I must be a terrible parent, because I can't sympathize with either of those.

My son's been playing the same PS2 for years. If he's bored, I tell him to read a book or go run around outside or he can help me with something. If he doesn't want that, well I can find him some chores to keep him busy. If he whines, I tell him I don't want to hear it: go do it somewhere else. Attempting to be manipulative e.g., playing one parent against the other generally gets whatever he wanted taken away for a while.

He (almost 10 years old) absolutely loves to read and we happily feed that habit. Video games/cartoons are a privilege rationed out carefully and taken away when behavior problems arise.

I worry a lot more that I don't have time to take my son fishing than whether or not he's got the same toys his friends do.
An odd thought – you may be doing yourself a disservice by posting this through your throwaway account.

If you are as well known as you say, your reputation might open some doors for you. Some people who like you but assume you're busy doing your thing may be excited to do some work with you that would solve your problem.

Moreover, relationships matter. So if you're a menschy guy, someone whose brother works at Rackspace, for example, might take this through a back channel on your behalf.

Pride is tough. Looking back on the last time I fell on tough times, my biggest mistake was not being more transparent about my situation to people who liked me. I felt weird and silly to be not successful, to have failed, but I ended up making things harder on myself.
It's funny because some of us have the opposite problem. Too many ideas, but not that much interest in learning new languages for their own sake. So when it comes down to implementing a new idea, we want it done quickly. We don't want to take the time to try to figure out how to make it in Haskell, and just revert back to Python.
So some people don't use "literally" literally anymore.
The last startup I was involved in, the guy who was running it talked to the lawyers and got them to waive a good chunk of the retainer fees when it sank
Good luck - transparency is the name of the game.

Regarding (b) if your SSN is associated that's one thing - it's still the corporations debt and you can walk.

If you gauranteed it via your SSN that's another story, and it will reflect on your credit.
Actually, in my mind price is what anyone will pay for something - the value may not be the same as the price
Flightcaster is a good solution for tracking whether your flight will be on time or not. You could probably use it for this, but it is obviously not going to be 100% accurate like an actual fight tracking app.

http://flightcaster.com
I've been seeing a bunch of "redesigns" of HN over the last few days, and none of them seem to acknowledge/realise that HN has pretty much nailed it's core purpose in the current design. Sure it's not "shiny" or "pretty" but the accentuations are on the right thing... the content.

Most of the redesigns try and accentuate the people's profile links, post times, and other metadata, whereas I think HN's biggest design strength is that the front page is an easily-readable list of post titles, with all other metadata small and hidden. Also, when actually reading a post page, the post text itself is the prominent readable part, with metadata once again small and out of the way. We come here to read the articles, and click the links. The when/who of each post is really just a post-script and shouldn't be any more noticeable than it is already.

I haven't seen a single redesign (all of which claim to be "easier to read") that is actually easier to read, or better laid out than the current HN. Then again, that's just my personal opinion on it all.

Short answer: No. It doesn't need changing. If anything, it just needs people to be more focussed on voting up the relevant content, and less of the "fluff".
In general, people are not trying to patent entire pieces of software. Indeed, it's difficult to understand how such a large work could reduce to mathematics. Rather, people are trying to patent very specific algorithms and methods that can be used to make a larger piece of software, and it's easier to see that those do reduce to mathematics.

Knuth argued well against patenting that: http://progfree.org/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt
A Digital Video Primer for Geeks - Three Thumbs Up (esr)
Yes, it is. I'll try to talk with them.

Corporate. Incorporated in Delaware. Thank goodness.

I'll try to see if they're good with the payment. I'm just not... like that, though. I'm not one of those guys that can call up Rackspace and be like, hey, if you go into collections, you won't get shit, so we're doing it my way. You know?

Lots of time passed before I came to my senses.

Thank you for your help, Jacques. You know me, and I'm thankful that you're imparting your advice.
The game mechanic is based around survival, and an open world. You are free to effect change as you wish, to suite your needs to survive in game. To survive you must gather limited resources just to live through the first night. As you progress into the game, you become more secure in your survival, so you can risk more to establish yourself more. Eventually the mechanic is that you've ended up with concrete changes upon the world you play in, can take pride in them, and then expand on them. Emergent gameplay, where non-scripted events happen, making your experience unique provides a great deal of re-playability. Additionally since Minecraft is under active development, I think a lot of people are looking at the game with an eye towards it's ultimate potential in their mind.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_world

Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_big_planet

Also
http://www.youtube.com/user/davidr64yt#p/c/E005D335B57338D1 - A play through of the game from a first time users perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3s4iVijpA - Minecraft Calculator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6JqoE7MZEE - Minecraft 16bit adder using sand.
Wow, that is fantastic. What kind of long-term effects happened? I'm guessing he would never be getting account with Rackspace in the future.
In my unproveable anecdotal experience, the tendency towards gross-out books identifies the problem but misses the solution. The problem is that reading curricula tend to focus nearly exclusively on literature (novels, short stories, plays) and target the choice towards the students' reading comprehension level rather than their emotional comprehension level.

For example: Most 10th graders can read "Of Mice And Men," but how much are they getting out of it? Conversely, "Romeo and Juliet" has much harder words, but at least works at an emotional level they can understand.

Beyond that, there's usually a token 'biography' unit in a reading class or a short section on comprehending a science article, but almost never a full science, engineering, history, current events, etc. book assigned. Kids who have acquisitive minds are left out in the cold by reading Jane Austen -- in their minds, they're learning nothing useful at all.
That is a good idea, but my credit sucks so it might not be the best option to go with. Though it would help my credit tremendously, huh?
I don't necessarily disagree that MSFT stock is a better deal than these MSFT bonds, but the risk of "this cash-rich blue chip going out of business sometime in the next three years" is not the only one you have to take into account. For the stock to do worse than the bond over those 3 years, it wouldn't have to go out of business, only to go down a bit. For example, if MSFT stock ends up 3 years from now being down 20% from its current price, that wipes out all the dividends and eats away at some of the principal, and the 0.875% bond would win. And that doesn't seem particularly absurd as a possibility. Microsoft going bankrupt is quite unlikely, but MSFT declining from $25 to $20 is certainly in the realm of possibility.
Thank you for the article, BTW. :-)
Completely disagree. You just assume that corporations are going to be rolling out truck fleets without providing any evidence of the fact. The current reality seems to indicate right the opposite of what you seem to fear. It's independent restaurants that are starting food trucks and it's CORPORATE interests that are colluding with local government to stop the threat -- precisely because they know they CAN'T compete with the decentralized system of street vendors.

I've spent a lot of time in China, India and Brazil -- everywhere you go there are street vendors -- all run by small business owners. When McDonald's and KFC go overseas they are usually considered a luxury item.

The problem is that corporate food has nothing to do with food. In the gilded age the entire industry has been based on selling "experiences" -- that's how you maximize revenue. But when the economy contracts people suddenly care about the FOOD again -- suddenly people are unwilling to pay an extra $2 for "Starbucks experience." My guess is that this is a long term trend.

Here is one thing you CAN be sure of. When a corporation says "jump" the politicians say "how high" -- and right now corporate food wants MORE regulation in order to protect their revenue stream.
Keyboard Layout Analyser - which layout is best for you?
That's good to hear. I'd like to pay this lawyer in full for his services (retainer minus un-used retainer balance). I don't like screwing people over, even if they're expecting it to be a percentage of their clients that do that. I don't want to be in that percentage.
Check out this article on using Amazon's Mechanical Turk http://harperlindsey.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/how-i-used-ama...
I'd imagine that they can get loan's against it. Many high level employee's do this when they can't sell their stock.
My Dad was a big reader so 8 was probably the big motivator. Although I grew up in the 3 TV channels/no game box era so the inside distractions were pretty low. We were pretty poor for a while (Dad went back to school) and I went from Dr. Seuss to whatever Dad was done reading (War/Action/Sci-Fi). I will say 1st edition AD&D probably did a heck of a lot for my and my brother's reading comprehension.
"The point: anecdotal evidence is not very useful."

Indeed, I'm not arguing that, I just wanted to share my anecdote because it was relevant to the article.

"Also, the article and your comment seem to take a very naive view of human development. There is a lot more to this than just "video games made my son stupid"."

Sorry if it sounds that way, I didn't want to imply that (though my father does believe it). I'm pretty sure there are lots of people that played video games a lot and turned out well.

Also, all I have to show for it is an improved reading ability, I don't think it made me smarter or anything(1). I'm extremely bad at personal interactions, communications and other stuff, which is why I'm still programming and not in a managerial position.

I will try out doing a startup on my own, but I doubt I'd climb the career ladder in a "traditional" way - I'm always being overtaken by the arrogant, self-confident, usually way less technically capable people-talkers on the way up, at least on the big corporate environments I've worked in (finance and insurance).

(1)Edit: see these two other posts by maxawaytoolong and awakeasleep which seem to agree on it not being that useful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724089

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724269
Depends on the app but I've had luck with SitePoint.com, DigitalPoint.com forums - lots of entrepreneurs, techies roll there.

Never discount SlashDot as another - with any of those suggestions helps to build up credibility, plant seeds by sharing pieces of your start-up story, building excitement for a pre-launch , etc
I hadn't heard of shweeb, but after a look at the website, it does indeed sound like a remarkably unworkable idea. Still, maybe there's some kind of possible idea for human-powered public transportation that doesn't look like a haven for system-destroying minor breakdowns and upskirt photographers.

There's also a lesson in there somewhere about how if you have an idea which seems silly, you should avoid also giving it a silly name.
Our Rope-A-Dope International Monetary System
It's not just that xkcd is so hugely famous, it's that the example is accurate, demonstrative, humorous, and memorable.
About page in Klingon [Humor]
Fortune: Ron Conway is wrong
If you gave $150.00 to a homeless person, you deserve props. If you gave $150.00 to Khan Academy, you also deserve props.

A homeless person might not teach himself to fish using 150 dollars, but Khan Academy will teach lot of people how to fish with 150 dollars.
Or you could do something like the Notch, the developer of Minecraft did. The MineCraft desktop app checks with the server to update itself every time it loads. This is very common for multiplayer games. Giving your desktop app the ability to store data on the server is also a great idea.

I really like the idea of desktop/web hybrid apps like Dropbox. You can get the best of both platforms.
This is a Finnish politician who has an About page in Klingon!!

I found this really funny :)
I think that the real problem in operation over here is information deluge. People aren't reading stuff on that page because it overflows on a minute by minute basis. So let's say, if I click to read a long article and I come back to upvote it. This would mean that I am putting a flag for others to read it, but in this time frame it has moved beyond the first new page. Hence, the stories that tend to get upvoted are the ones with a recognized tilt that appeals to the lowest common denominator (which is still pretty high, but for how long?)

However not all stories are created equal. Most of the stories on that page are from noob users who want to jack up their karma. Hence, the deluge HN on the weekdays (only dedicated ones stay around on the weekends) leading to this difference between the weekday and weekend articles.

How can we solve this?

One simple way to do this would be to post noobstories only to the noob stories page and sort the entries not by time, but by karma of the user as well as the votes given like the comments.

This way we could have a quasi front page which will create a positive feedback loop. Hence, there will be an implicit reward in going to the new page which will ensure that only the good stories were posted. Also, since older users (by karma, PG's metric) who are more settled in and are less likely to do karma antics it won't overflow every minute or so.

However, this might create a barrier to entry on HN and perhaps that's a good thing. This would force people to comment and get karma before it shows up over there. Hence, ensuring that the quality get maintained.

All in all with the same code behind the comments the new page problem can be solved.

(update: wrote a lot more detail)
He is studying Applied Math and Physics. He took 8 math textbooks with him when we went to South America for "summer break."
I agree, that is the one the (relative) dangers when you are proficient in a language; it is so much easier and faster to write something in the language you already know, rather than having to learn everything from scratch. Of course, it also depends on how much difference there is between old and new languages; a Python expert could probably pick up Ruby in no time, and vice versa; but Python vs Haskell is a different story.
Somebody offering a $200K salary should better find out himself whether a person is worth that much rather than from a random guy on the internet
Hey guys, all it takes is a simple email, and they provide the address on the webpage. They also provide a form email.

I wrote my own:

I believe software patents have deleterious effects on both an individual and societal level.

As a software developer, my job is to encode symbols within a computer. Simply to represent an idea in the precise medium. Then I manipulate those symbols in whichever way seems logical.

To patent that process, to claim certain methods of writing and thinking are off limits, does not contribute to a free society, no matter how much money it allows an entity to make. Because a computer is only a tool for the mind, as a hammer is an extension of the arm. Patenting patterns of codified thought makes no more sense than patenting swings of the hammer.
I have an idea that I want to throw out there. I haven't fully thought it out, so I'm sure it would have drawbacks.

But what if one were able to earn karma points by interacting with the "new" page. The details could be worked out to make it un-"gamable", but the basic premise is to reward users that put more effort into discovering posts in the waterfall of the "new" page.
It just looks confusing because you're not accustomed to reading it. The bizarre turns of phrase are just as transparent to lawyers as an if-then-else statement is to a programmer.

As evidence, I provide the fact that court cases rarely come down to ambiguous phrasing in the legalese portions of the law.
I don't understand. You're in USA? It is supposed that you can fail in USA. That's capitalism!. Why do you want to pay those debts? Your company is bankrupt and it has to be declared bankrupt then go into liquidation in order creditors recover their money. Those are the rules of this game.
I wonder what motivated a bill like this. Imagine if he can just shut down facebook or twitter :)
I really wouldn't consider Chrome OS a threat to Windows. It's geared toward a niche hardware market (netbooks), centered on a paradigm that almost no one really understands (cloud computing), and underneath it all it's still Linux (which has made leaps and bounds in user-friendliness, but it's still the hacker OS... some people can't even seem to learn OS X). I'm not even betting on Chrome OS to overtake Ubuntu.
Now's the time to start. But yeah, you don't say "we're doing it my way." It probably sounds more like, I'm broke, I want to pay you back, what can we do to help me make it happen?