skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the article, Bourdain admits he succeeded primarily due to luck, and that "luck is not a business model". I suspect many here have heard the more famously quoted "hope is not a business model", which is also true. Perhaps less famous, but more dangerous to entrepreneurs: "passion is also not a business model".

Interestingly, although each of those is certainly not a business model, all of them are ultimately required for a startup to reach a [VC|FU-money] level of success.
I honestly really like the transparency of the current icon. I can see the fish in my wallpaper aquarium swimming behind it.
(I wrote this).

I'm not saying that libraries should be abolished, just that they should be expanded. My point is that the world has changed, and it would be great if the libraries caught up.

Absolutely don't get rid of books, that's not what I'm saying at all.

To me, libraries represent an academic resource for the community. I would just love to see them be an even greater resource than they are now. I think the idea is fantastic, and I think that history agrees, I just want to see that fantastic idea expanded a little more.
A VC: Outsourcing vs Offshoring
Morality aside, murdering someone is a new experience that you will likely learn a lot from. Of course, there are highly negative consequences that you would not want to deal with. And of course, you are hurting other people...literary.

If you decide to murder someone, then you have to agree to support the decisions of your past self.
We need not guess -- these things can be measured. Here is a graph with a language people will pick up and use, versus one they will not.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+lisp
Interesting, but won't ever use. It also seems that it is just wrapping typical queueing systems, which I would use anyways because this only supports the JVM.
Oh goody, combining my two favorite things in the world: Captchas and Advertising!

It's good for the user: They get all the respect of a common parrot!

It's good for the site: They piss off their users!

It's good for the advertisers: They get to associate their brand with the single most irritating part of the modern web next to advertisements!

It's Win/Win/Win!
Apps using the built-in media controller views
get AirPlay out for free. Apps that don’t (like
Hulu) need to roll their own using AVFoundation.

via http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/17/weintraub-airpla...
I'm not sure what libraries are like in your town, but all those services you mention are the bread and butter of public libraries here in Ontario. That sort of targetted programming is by far the best way to get people in the door.
What would you say are the most important differences between your bad, old code and the way you code currently?
I am entitled to keep what I have earned. Taking my earnings is a moral wrong. There is no two ways about it. It is no more right to take a dollar from a man who has a hundred of them than it is to take a dollar from a man who has one.

Just to be clear, you are stating your moral opinion. There is nothing inherent about these opinions. Just like my opinion that if you are rich you have likely benefited disproportionately from and made use of the structures of society that made it possible for you to get rich, and as such it's perfectly reasonable to ask you to contribute from your wealth to the upkeep of society is also just an opinion.

And speaking of moral wrongs, what about the moral obligation to help people those who are less fortunate?
Then I guess this file is automatically generated by some script.

But still, maybe Nod32 is overreacting.

btw:
You could limit permission to this folder on "444" Read-Only.
This could help.
Apple USB keyboards notoriously come with a USB extension cable that's notched in the middle, so it doesn't fit other USB devices.

Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/Aweqo.jpg

Technically, if you're willing to risk damaging it, you can force a regular USB device in there, but it sticks out at a weird angle because of the notch.
What Would Sheldon Cooper Use? 5 Apps with Bazinga
There is nothing about 'A' and 'B' that necessarily correlates to startup vs mega corp. I'm sure there are plenty of people at IBM, Google, GE etc doing type 'B' work and I'm equally sure there are several people in startups doing type 'A' work. One major breakthrough every three years might be plenty for GE, but it won't pay the bills at a tiny web startup.
Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff? - George Carlin

If you have some free time, do watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
I agree, that's a pretty naive statement to make unless you can:

a) Make a believable case for there being 10 million people who would be willing to pay for your product.

b) Make a believable plan for how you're going to reach those 10 million people.

Who have you guys talked to other than one of the founders' girlfriends? Do you have real data, qualitative and quantitative, that backs up the claim that you've located a market for Whereoscope? Is anyone paying for the product yet?

Most of statements in the article seem rather speculative.
Publishers, I'm guessing, want to avoid SPAM without inconveniencing their customers. This idea seems to be pitching the latter (making it easy for the customer) but says nothing about the former (SPAM!). Apart from the other issue of showing someone else's brand as part of a sites conversion process, I think the fact that it does not talk about the spam issue might be a concern for publisher.
National Library Of Medicine Launches Public API
It would be cool if iPhoto auto tagged your photos.
So combine this with a HDHomeRun, which encodes over-the-air HD and turns it unto a UDP stream.

Broadcast TV in your lap. Nice.
Is there a reason there isn't an iPhone version?
I'm getting 60 fps approximately for the spinning cube with chrome 6 on Ubuntu Lucid and my laptop has a core i3 with built in arrandale based GPU, not an nvidia or ati one.

Not long ago, on an older laptop, I was getting the same fps for native Linux apps. Seems browsers are acquiring native capabilities, but at a faster rate :)
I call BS on this.

You were able to earn that money because:

1. You most likely live in a relatively free society most likely operating under the rule of law.

2. You were able to achieve what you did by "standing on the shoulders of giants".

3. You're most likely the recipient of an education provided by society that gave you the tools and opportunity to succeed.

Now, if society says that "Because we've helped you be so successful, it behooves you to contribute X percentage of your earnings back to society.", is that so wrong?

You have a moral responsibility to leave the world the same or better than you entered it. This concept seems to be lost in a sea of selfishness today...
I have to say I really like this startup, they have innovated so much, really pushing what is state of the art in the context of a browser based web app.
By hack I meant workaround to overload the original function of the CSS menu tag to replicate the function of the <meta> tag. The <meta> tag is explicitly meant to represent metadata about the page. The <menu> tag is explicitly meant to represent a menu in the page.
LOL. Done. Hopefully the YC gods don't frown too negatively on my 'advertising' my projects on HN.
How Social are America's Restaurants and Cafes on Facebook (Infographic)?
I'm just saying -- I've yet to hear about an entrepreneur who didn't have to accept client feedback, didn't have struggles with clients who wanted a pet functionality, didn't have to work for other people, constantly argued with their customers, didn't have to accept that the one who gives you money has "authority" over you whether he goes by the title of "parent", "boss", "supervisor", "client", "eyeball", or "VC".

Or one whose start-up made money, anyway.

It's perfectly okay that some people work differently, but let's quit with the glorification of start-up experience as the boss-less free-for-all nirvana.
Our economy is an ecosystem. I'm a software developer because there is a demand for it, and the only reason this demand exists is because people are educated enough to use my product.

How do you determine the line between what one has earned vs. what one may have been granted via a series of societal issues?
That article forgets that it only applies to relative performance comparisons. Frames per second is still a perfectly valid and useful unit for measuring the performance in an absolute sense: 24fps is just barely enough to be perceived as smooth animation by some people, but 40fps will be perceived as smooth by almost anybody, and and at 57fps, you're closing in on the limitations of consumer display technology, so you can stop optimizing.
By "easy" I mean assuming no major issues or windfalls. Now, starting at 24 is really late IMO. By, 39 "She" should have 16 years of work experience, if "She" contributed the cap into her 401k (16,500$) each year and got a 5% return over inflation that works out to 390,348$ in 16 years. Granted that's pre tax, but some company matching is also fairly common so let's call it 300,000k and assume she contributed a little less when starting out. <I>Down to (90 - 16.5k) = 74.5k which needs to create 200k in assets.</I>

Now let's assume she bought a 2br condo @ 26 and had 1 roommate to reduce her rent. At 30 that becomes a BF and at 33 she had her first child etc. By 29 she is easily 13 years into a 30 year mortgage and after 13 years it is probably worth more than when you bought it so 150-200k of equity is reasonable as is someone living off of 73k having other assets to make up the difference. (The assumes the husband followed a similar path and maintained equivalent savings.)

As to having that much money earlier conceder what happens when two 24 year old 90k / year developers get married. Split a 1br apartment and they can each live off of 60k vary comfortably while each saving 30k pre tax in a mix of 401k and other investments. In 2 years they can save up a 60k down payment while maxing their 401k's. Once they have children saving money becomes far more difficult, but until then they can create a significant nest egg.

PS: You could also have long stretches of unemployment a crack habit and a husband with a gambling problem. I am simply suggesting that the “happy path” represents a significant opportunity cost when you’re looking to start a startup.
Commodore vic-20!
I still have it, 5Kb RAM teach you how to be efficient
"Portland Fucking Oregon" is definitely a PDX thing. "We're too cool to not swear" or something. I dig it, but then I live here.
They show up inline in Safari and Chrome.

If you switch to Firefox, you can install the PDF Plugin to have a non-retarded PDF experience without Acrobat.
Well wait a second, couldn't the same thing be said about books? Or public basketball courts? Or study rooms or anything that is made publicly available and isn't unlimited?

Yes I could build a cluster in my house if I wanted one, but 15 year old me couldn't, and 15 year old me would have spent his entire childhood in the library if the one described here existed.
This may be tangentially related, but here goes:

During the last week of high school, my favorite teacher pulled me aside. It was a po-dunk high school and I had gotten into one of the top engineering universities in the US, so I was pretty satisfied with myself. But I was also a geek, incredibly coy, and completely one-dimensional.

I admired the guy a lot. He never bull-shitted any of the students. If he didn't like you, he'd say so. But me and him hit it off, even though he was a history teacher and I was a hard science guy. I think he always saw me for the person I could be, rather than who I was at the time. He pulled me aside, and he said "promise me in college you'll live you're life fully." And I knew what he meant. After getting into college, I kind of collapsed. All the work paid off, but I had so much free time, I didn't know what to do with it towards the end of high school. Hadn't asked any girls out. Never played any sports. Never found a good group of friends. I completely neglected major parts of my life.

So in college, I sort of reinvented myself. Joined a bunch of social clubs, even became president of one, asked girls out, got shot down, asked girls out some more, didn't get shot down, played sports, made a great group of friends (who all studied different things), and also did well in school. I became much MUCH happier (and I was already pretty happy).

Getting shot down - man, I learned more about myself from that experience than I have all of the science I studied combined. His point was to live through experience, not just knowledge. Up until college, I was someone who had filled his head/life with books and studying, and stuck to what I was good at.

What I realized was, in high school, you can't possibly know who you are. You might know a few subjects you're good at, and try to reinforce your confidence by sticking only to those subjects and hanging out with the people who do the same. Thats how you get geeks, jocks, cheerleaders, emo kids. Each group follows their own limiting ideology. You'll never see geeks into sports, or cheerleaders into science, etc, etc. At least at the school I was at.

But its the perfect time to just explore. To NOT get stuck in any particular group. "Who you are" should be a very fluid concept when you're young. And as far as I'm concerned, after graduating recently, its still a useful way to look at yourself. "Sticking to what you're good at" may be the way to rack up success. But you don't live through a diversity of experience that might ultimately define who you can become.
Isn't VLC GPL? I thought the AppStore was not compatible with the GPL.
So you think it's great that rich get taxed at 15% and the poor/middle class at roughly 30-40%?

I'm pretty sure among you and Krugman, you're a hack.
I can fondly remember changing the terminal background and border color for the first time on my C64:

10 POKE 53280, 0
20 POKE 53281, 0

I can still remember working through the BASIC examples in the manual and magazines. Good times.
When I was little, my father had a spare computer on which he let the kids install games and play around. I spent a lot of time getting shareware games to run and then playing them. When I was around 9 or 10, my dad (who was an EE) decided that some simple programming might be a practical skill to teach me as I was home schooled at the time. He installed a compiler for Turbo Pascal on the kids' computer and set up a lesson plan. I learned from him for about a year and a half.

When I got older, about 12 years, I pulled out a book on c++ and started teaching myself c/c++. I spent most a large portion of high school trying to get proficient in c++ and ended up coding some very broken games.

I drifted away from computers in high school and more so in college when I began to study other things and made a number of friends who had no interest in computers. I drifted back however when I started playing with Linux and BSD. I managed to get a summer job programming at a the startup of an associate of my father's. So when I graduated from college, I did so with work experience as a programmer, but no other marketable skills. Fortunately, there's not many things I would rather be doing (for a living.)

These days I work full time as a programmer and sysadmin and spend a lot of my free time working on little programs for this and that.
it can be mentally challenging, depending on what you are working on.

While I agree you are not lifting heavy stuff, or doing anything physical, working on hard problems can be mentally tiring and tasking to your health if not done in moderation.

If you are just doing anything that is easy (a simple web app), then the hard part would be getting motivated to get started, but after that it is more mechanical, your are just cruizing by (and probably not learning much).

BUT if you are working on really technical stuff, beyond your normal comfort level then that is not the case at all. Your brain will fatigue, and you will actually feel the pain of work, (this is a good indicator that you are learning something new and it is tasking your brain).

Also, for people with more responsiblities, the worrying about work doesn't really end when you go home. If you are managing people, or need to learn new technical skills/updating your self, it becomes a bit hard to just switch off. When you are working more normal jobs, once you go home you can just 'switch off' and just worry about your home tasks.

So, it all depends...
I dislike this framing of taxation in absolute terms. Yes, the government "takes" a portion of your earnings, but in doing so it provides a number of services, some of which were prerequisites to those earnings in the first place (paving the road that brought customers to your storefront).

Sure, we can argue about particulars of how the government chooses to allocate those "takings." I wish my government would spend less on its military, for instance. Other people might wish it to spend less on social welfare programs. But neither of us can honestly use absolute language like "Taking my earnings is a moral wrong. There is no two ways about it." Arguing that states cannot tax is arguing that states cannot exist.

My apologies if you are an honest defendant of some form of anarchism, but I feel like using such absolutist language to discuss a proposed three percent increase in the top marginal tax rate seems incongruous. It feels like you have the intent of inspiring knee-jerk emotions instead of rational discourse. It's fishy.
That's at least a 13-week window for Joyent to wow us with no.de, the hosting they used for the recent Node Knockout. I'm a Heroku fan but I'm also impatient.

http://joyeur.com/2010/09/16/smartplatform-and-node-js/
You only need to modify the tool that runs as the hook script...which may or may not be protected
Then you should perhaps point out the good arguments of the other side.
My wife is a librarian and I do think there are some points that have been glossed over.

Book are still super important. In fact not everyone can afford to buy books. Esp in large metropolitan area where there is any sort of impoverish population. They can't afford book let alone a kindle.

That neuroscience journal might not have been on the racks but I'll bet there is a good chance it was in one of the online databases that libraries pay good money to have access to. Feel free to check out the prices online and I'll bet most will pass on paying for it your self.

Also illustrated Children's Books are something even parents in Suburbia take advantage of as children go through them quickly and they are very expensive to buy.

That said many libraries hold on to books long past their relevance. And more space and time should be devoted to public events, like video games, and education, like the class my wife teaches "how to sigh up for email" and "learning to use the mouse".
Ask HN: How can a startup entrepreneur make some extra cash?
I've been running my own business for about 5 years now, so i'm not sure it can be called a startup anymore.

I lived with my parents for a pretty long time to save on expenses but at some point i had to move out.

My business demands alot of me and there are 3 of us in this business, and while there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel i.e. i very much feel that i can definitely make this business work within the next 6-8 months, in the meantime im seriously struggling to pay my own personal bills and keep getting hit with unplanned expenses as is common in life.

>What might i do to tie me over for a few months?

I thought about just working at the local macdonalds or something, but they prefer 16-18 year olds.

Im quite well skilled in IT Server support and related work but i cant seem to find any part-time contract work that i could do say 1 day a week that would tie me over beautifully.

Any suggestions?

(Any donations? Just kidding ;-))
If your argument shows that all taxation is immoral and not to be borne, doesn't it prove rather too much?
mrdoob is a genius
It doesn't seem to. I put three videos on: an avi, an rmvb, and an mpg. Only the avi is showing in the app, and it's only playing audio properly, though it does generate a thumbnail correctly for the menu.

(Edit: wrote 'auto' instead of 'audio' originally)
I wonder what the battery life hit is like. Apple has maintained that hardware H.264 decoding makes a huge difference and is why that's the only format supported.
Horrible strawman—though, in theory, you "could" go out and rape or murder someone, there is likely no you from the current you whose biological processes would predetermine those actions (or, in simpler terms, "you don't have it in you.") You can't get there from here—you wouldn't allow yourself to start.

On the other hand, everywhere that you can go, every you you can be without you evaluating you-prime negatively, you should become.
In a complex society with specialized occupations like "entrepreneur", "economist" and "congress-critter"? Yes. BTW, how's DARPAnet working for you these days?
"earned" is a more complicated concept than you make it out to be.

did you "earn" the particular set of aptitudes and interests that made you a "high earner" at this juncture in history? i'm pretty sure you were just lucky in that respect.

you mention "or my family before me" - it takes quite a particular set of beliefs to say that you are entitled to what your ancestors earned.

what if you inherit tremendous wealth from ancestors who "earned" it through tremendous injustice (slavery, exploiting addiction, etc.)? even if you go on to leverage that wealth legitimately, how do you compare your earnings against those of someone who started out differently.
The UI needs some work. Especially on the "left navigation" area to make it more useful.
But I really liked finding my elected officials when I validated.
The 'Example's section aren't using your GPU, they're all using CanvasRenderer it seems.
Very interesting. We're currently working on a quick project to test integrating Hazelcast into a distributed server to use as a queue. Did you look at it by any chance? Curious if it was missing something that you needed.
Previously asked and answered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1676756
Better: use this plugin: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

It uses the native Quartz PDFKit backend.
Personally, I'd be inclined to go the other way and change my name to John Smith. I'd rather not be easily Googleable by my real name. That's what handles and business names are for.
RabbitMQ on github
This is why it pays to be the platform.
What do you give up by not hosting your projects on your own site?
So lame:

If you're building a business by yourself it's probably a cutesy widdle lifestyle business.

But if you're doing it with a co-founder you're shooting for the moon!!!
I don't think it's any mystery why the rich are angry. Whether it's right or wrong, they see it this way:

"I've spent my entire life working to build wealth. I've sacrificed and it's paid off. Now I'd like to use my wealth in the way I see fit. Whether that's spending it, saving it, investing it or giving it away, it should be my decision, not a government planner's decision."

Again, right or wrong, that is how the rich view the situation when they are facing increased taxes and dilution of their wealth through inflation. Whether you agree with it or not, it's not hard to understand.

Krugman believes that the government can, and will, spend money in a way that benefits society as a whole more than the people who earned it would if they were allowed to keep it. The rich disagree.