skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are correct in theory, but it is difficult to put that into practice. The biggest hurtle, regarding money, is the question of when to increase the burnrate? That was an issue that P struggled with. In 2002 and 2003 we mostly just tinkered with stuff. He did not spend serious money on the web at that point. In 2004 it was clear that the music industry was changing in a big way. He had been dabbling with RSS projects, and he had been working with musicians. We played around with some podcasting stuff, we talked late into the night trying to imagine how iTunes would effect things, iPods, free music, FLAC files, more bandwidth, etc. In 2005 he felt it was time to go all in. So he hired a lot of people, so he could pursue some of his more ambitious projects. At that point he was spending maybe $30,000 a month.

At some point, you do need to start thinking about money. It becomes an obsession, I think for nearly any entrepreneur. I see the problem like this:

1.) if you crank up your burnrate too soon, then you will run out of money and fail

2.) if you do not ever crank up your burnrate, then you do not ever build a big business

Obviously, there are some qualifiers that it would be good to add, but I think the above problem covers a situation that maybe 80% of all entrepreneurs must face.

Once you do crank up your burnrate, then you need to think about money. A lot.
~# uname -a
Linux slice 2.6.32.12-rscloud #26 SMP Mon May 17 12:35:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In any way is it worse than not having that control at all (ie the current status quo)?
These are not the droids you are looking for...
The desktop app store has this now - it has links for "Was this review helpful? Yes/No" and sorts by Most Helpful by default.
I haven't interacted with him much, but Vinge was a speaker at this year's main North American AI conference (AAAI), and was impressively engaged. Unlike many famous speakers he didn't just fly in for his 2 hours and fly out again, but attended a whole bunch of sessions for several days, and he was asking pretty intelligent questions. Mostly normal questions about the specific research at hand, too, not singularity-related questions or "how will this research help the robot revolution". ;-) Seemed like a very down-to-earth guy; I don't think most of the researchers who got asked a question by him realized that he was a famous sci-fi author at the time.
Just the important ones:

BetterPrivacy (LSO Cookie Remover)

Firebug (+ Firecookie)

Hackbar

NoScript

Tree Style Tab

Web Developer Toolbar

All of which have no (satisfactory) Chrome equivalent and thus prevent me from switching ;)
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular

Next question.
By the way, for anyone interested in the question "When should I increase my startup's burnrate?" the best answer I've seen is in the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany:

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

The book is by Steven Gary Blank, whose weblog is often linked to from Hacker News.
If you're a Vinge fan, the annotated version of A Fire Upon the Deep is a great find (available on Kindle); it has his emacs notes (linked in-text) and you can watch the characters develop, his editor suggest improvements, etc. Looks like his system hasn't changed all that much, either.
I disagree strongly: I imagine that most companies are started to make money. Ideally someone can make money 'because of a love or interest in something', but that's not always going to be the case.

I think you have an overly romantic and naive view of the world, which is why you're so angry at Intel for doing something that's in no way unfair or immoral.
Quadrotor Drone flies through hoops
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/09/17/5-companies...

How's MSFT doing for you these days?

"In 2004, Microsoft earned $0.75 a share. Over the past year, it pulled down $2.10 per share. That's 18.7% earnings growth per year. Extraordinary. Yet Microsoft shares trade lower today than they did for all of 2004. Dividends provided some return, but shareholders have essentially been handed a donut for a company that's blown the lights out on earnings."
Slashdot has a much bigger population of "normal" developers and engineers, I think, especially from big corporate places that aren't Google, and areas of engineering that aren't software engineering. That's sometimes useful in the comments area; there's plenty of junk, but there are also sometimes good comments from people who work at places like IBM/HP/Boeing/Motorola/Exxon, which is less common here. I think there's probably also more scientists of the non-computer variety.
But companies (and individuals for that matter) need money to pursue their love/interest in something. Without reaping profits from low end, they couldn't afford to make those awesome high end CPUs.
Chromium:

Adblock + Browser Button for Adblock (obvious...)

Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller (similar to iPhone kinetic scrolling)

Google Mail Checker Plus (obvious)

Instachrome (integration with Instapaper)

iReader (similar to Safari Reader)

Pinboard Tools (integration with Pinboard bookmarks service)

Reader Plus (changes the default theme of Google Reader among other customizations)

Redgur (shows all imgur stored images present on a page)

RSS Subscription Extension (obvious)

Search Preview for Google (website previews on search results)

Send using Gmail (mail_to integration with Gmail)

Stylish (similar to Greasemonkey but for CSS styling)
When entrepreneurs call it quits
Being tactful with someone who is wasting your time just ends up wasting two people's time.
I thought I read a while back that FB's biggest growth area is middle aged women: http://www.switched.com/2009/04/14/middle-aged-women-flockin...
Time to Hang Up the Sleeping Bag
Did I miss how Python fits in here? Seems to be a rather large cognitive gap between the premise and the supporting argument.

The commentary about the "true entrepreneur" has some interesting insights, although it seems a bit religious. We are all organic variable individuals, not Platonic types.
I saw that you've been reading his articles for a year, so it makes sense that your views reflect his misogyny and subscription to the violent totalitarian credo that might makes right. You wouldn't tolerate him otherwise.

Locklin was no more making a defense for the skirt than I was making a criticism of it. His position is that the proper state of a woman is to wear dresses and skirts, and that the only possible reason for wearing pants is that she's ashamed of her gender. His position, in other words, is that women should be easily identifiable by a uniform. This is part of his preference for women who are subservient and can be kept in what he feels is their proper place.

That you attempt to frame this in terms of liberty reveals that you recognize the shamefulness of this attitude. Well, shame on you.

On class wars: Locklin proposes to "get along with a lower class person" by beating them until they "lick the boots that kick them". Even if class warfare were inescapable, Locklin's views offer no insight except into the violence of his own imagination, and my point was simply that.

You may think your views are legitimatized in seeing them written by someone who claims intellectual authority (even while railing against the institutions who credit it), but the rest of us recognize them for what they truly are: crude, violent, and misogynistic. You are right on this much: I'm not convinced we can fairly add racism to that list, but I'd hardly be surprised to be proven wrong.
I'm a reasonably experienced consumer and until now I always would have answered "yes" if someone asked "is cancelling your credit card an acceptable way of terminating a monthly service?" I'm also a reasonably experienced seller of recurring services... and my answer would have been the same.

If I'm pre-paying a service each month and I cancel my card, getting threats about collections is the exact opposite of what I expect. What I usually expect is for the service provider to either cancel my service or put it in some kind of suspended mode and then follow up with me to see if I really meant to cancel. Good billing providers would actually do this automatically: http://chargify.com/features/dunning-management/

As an aside, half the purpose of Zipcar is that it isn't a critical account. It's an easy-to-use convenience that saves you from the complexities of owning a car or making arrangements with a traditional rental service.
No, it's __FUN__.
Gmail Checker (Official one by Google)

Rapportive

Chrome 2 Phone

Google Voice

Lastpass

Google Reader

Craigslist Comprehensive Cleanup

Craigslist Preview

Facebook Photo Zoom

Extension Gallery Inspector (Invaluable if you want to know what an extension is going to do BEFORE you install)

TackyNotes (I should note that I don't really use this, I just have it installed because I wrote it. I suppose the fact that I don't use it is a good indicator of why I've lost interest in developing it. They say it's best to write software to fix a problem you have or someone else has and I think that kind of missed the mark.)
Streamie: Node.js + Websockets = Real time Twitter client
> Yes. Also, credit reports focus on currently delinquent accounts -- a missed credit card payment a few years ago almost certainly won't show up if the account is currently not delinquent.

This is absolutely untrue. Have you looked at a credit report before? There is a table in it that includes information about each month for the last few years (I believe seven); and each month is a whole column of information about each of the various accounts you have been paying to. It indicates whether there was no payment needed, payment on time, or, yes, a late payment. Even if the account is currently paid up.
American students on busy work, shitty teachers, the tied hands of the non-shitty teachers, teaching to tests, promoting attention to apathetic and failing students at the expense of the ones who excel and care, inability to get any kind of credit for learning about things interesting to them that aren't on the district's curriculum, and not explaining to them how anything being taught to them is supposed to impact their lives: "Not a fan. No, absolutely not."

Video games are a formidable player in the war for childrens' attention, but they're not going anywhere, so making them a scapegoat when you can't get rid of them isn't going to help anything. Even if we eradicated them from the face of the earth, something else would take their place.

The goal shouldn't be to erase the distractions that the world provides or pretend they don't exist, it should be to learn how to deal with them.
You're right, you don't know much about IP addresses. The entire 10.x.x.x block was reserved long ago for use on private networks, it's not routed anywhere on the internet. This RFC from 1996 describing best practices for their use is still accurate: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918

All of those addresses in the header posted are hosts within one of Google's networks. The same address is likely in use on other such networks.
This is pretty depressing. There have been so many studies as of late regarding all the benefits of playing video games(in moderation).
Well, the simple answer is that is is a con. Disabling hardware capabilities that have already been confirmed by QA is nothing less than an attempt to subvert the laws of supply and demand. The chipmakers are artificially restricting supply of high-end parts in order to maintain the pricing structure they want. They can only get away with it because they are a duopoly, and Moore's Law means that the market forces that could eliminate this practice can't ever catch up.
Fear, uncertainty and and the padding oracle exploit in ASP.NET
Best css / js libraries for real-time updates
I'm developing app that uses comet connection via google channel api in order to provide realtime updates.

I wonder if some has experience with css / javascript libraries for real-time applications?

Any hint would be welcome
I had this happen for a domain renewal at "1&1 Internet Inc.". The card expired and it failed to autorenew, except that A) I wasn't expecting an auto-renewal and B) no notification was ever sent from the company that the domain was expiring or that there was a billing issue. 6 months later the domain actually stopped working (with 6 months left on the registration, of course) and I got a collections notice for $40. I tried to reconcile with the registrar but they told me to pay up to the collector before they'd do anything, so I walked. No domain for 6 months until it expired. I check my credit yearly and have yet to see any mention of it. Of course the normal thing for domain registrars is to let it expire if no payment is received by the expiration date, but this company seems to be geared for web hosting and buddied up with an apparently shady collections agency.
It certainly is the case that in the Paris metro I have seen crowds form around good buskers.

Sure, doing this at morning rush hour assured the least chance of success, but the interesting thing is how many people reported not even noticing the dude - they didn't seem to have interviewed many people who said "Gee that sounded awesome but I had to run or else my boss would fire me".
Please don't take offense to this, but if "Is this the right paid?" is representative of your English fluency level, then that could be a significant factor limiting your salary potential. As an employer, I understand that not everyone speaks English as a first language, but you'd also have to understand that your lack of English skills limits your ability to communicate effectively. This reduces your efficiency when working in groups. Even worse, it reduces the efficiency of everyone in the group who must communicate with you.
This is not at all what you're asking for, but I was reminded of something I found a few years ago that some of you may find interesting, the Arcade Ambience project. This is a series of ambience recordings done in video game arcades 1981-1992. http://arcade.hofle.com/ If you're in the mood for a nostalgic, noisy ambience. :D
A technical suggestion: learn to use LaTeX as soon as you can, and consider having BibTeX collections of the papers you read.
Qfm - A new file manager with a little more salt and pepper on the keyboard.
A group of people who find pedophilia funny vs. a group that is willing to ruin the lives of elderly and children to make more money. Somehow I just don't care what happens.
Will Intel be chasing people legally for cracking this facility? If so, what legal means will they be using?

I am most worried about these legal implications. Never mind the L3 cache size; I would prefer it to remain legal for me to hack and modify my own hardware. I don't want to lose control over this ability. If companies can dictate what I do with the hardware after I buy it, then to what extent will this affect "hackability" generally?
I don't understand. You use all popular Chrome extension?

My intention is to find out the extensions that hackernewsers use, not the popular extensions. Of course there will always be some intersections, but I doubt everyone here uses all popular extensions, and I doubt no-one here uses some good but unknown, unpopular extensions.
What formatting system is that?
Apparently some specialize in tracking the oembed providers. See http://oohembed.com/ & http://api.embed.ly/documentation for example.
Cablecolor Bandwidth Speed Test
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to His Nephew Peter
Does anyone know what the requirements may be to connect with the hotel chains directly and bypass all these sites?
No doubt New York's a very different beast, but in Melbourne it seems cafes are still bursting out everywhere (and have been for years). This is even more amazing given how many still serve bad coffee. It seems to remain profitable here, whereas the dream of running a restaurant is what seems to drive more people to ruin.

A local celebrity chef started a new restaurant with another talented chef partner. Six months later, the partner left to run a cafe, since the work and stress involved in making paninis and light meals for people was far less than a gourmet restaurant, and the payoff better.
As did my Nexus.
"if the next 5-10 years are going to be all about mobile."

Yeah, if.
I think it has a lot to do with synthetic happiness as described in this TED talk by Dan Gilbert: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_w...

TL;DW: People who make an irreversible decision (buying an app) rationalize their choice ("it must be good, I paid money for it") and become more satisfied with the outcome over time, while people who make a reversible decision (trying out a free app) waffle back and forth ("maybe the other one is better after all") and become less satisfied.
Any ideas when they plan to include materialized views? Last I checked it was part of this years GSoC.
I forget what it is called, and am on my mobile now, but I use one which loads the next paginated page below the one you are viewing, so hacker news becomes one long page for me. only loads the next age when you get down the page. love it.

also one to tweet the page I am viewing. I use twitter as more of an annotated favorites/bookmark list than anything else: twitter.com/liamjford
I'd add the only caveat is that bouncing around too much (like never holding a job down for more than a year, doesn't sound like you) can turn people off.
I use several Firefox addons, most of them have been already mentioned. However, one of my favourite addons has not been mentioned:

Quieturl

This addon transforms urls that are plain text into clickable anchors. Very very handy, I couldn't browse without it now.
We need to keep repeating this until people understand: charging more gets you better customers.
Well, he was a professor of computer science (San Diego State University: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/) No surprise he asked smart questions!
Adblock

builtwith - tries to tell you what tech sites use under the hood

delicious bookmarkts - official

docs PDF/powerpoint viewer - opens PDF links with google docs viewer instead of adobe

eye dropper

goo.gl url shortener

gmail checker plus

ireader - reading format

lastpass

linkpush - saves link for opening on android (has an app on anroid you open to get that link)

measureit! - measure pixels between stuff

rss subscription extension - adds fireefox like detection for RSS feeeds

stayfocusd - 30 mins of HN/facebook etc a day
I think you're talking about AutoPager, useful addon indeed.
Intelligensia (http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/) seems to put all the focus on the product.
Further to this point. I went over to the link and found my way to an iphone app ( free ) to read free books including titles from the gutenberg.

http://www.lexcycle.com

I also want to add, you can set the reader to display as "terminal" which means im reading this book green text, black background.
Chrome:

AdBlock

FlashBlock

Google Analytics Opt-out (not sure why :)

Google Mail Checker Plus

iReader

Modified keyboard navigation for Chrome

Rapportive

-

Firefox: FireBug, YSlow, Page Speed.
Games are designed to be engrossing and entertaining in ways that other media can't approach. It's hard enough for adults to consciously think "X hours of gaming a night is too much, maybe I should work on this side project". I can't imagine how distracting it is for a 15yr old when the side project is say a French essay.

At the end of the day the only way I win the argument is to realise that spending 100 hours playing Dragon Age is great but it's 100 hours I could have ploughed into fixing tickets for my favourite OSS project. One of those has a lasting benefit. Still a difficult decision to make when I have Mass Effect 2 sitting there unplayed...
Why Startups Outside Tech Cities Aren’t Totally Farked
As a game designer, when I look at this problem, I don't see kids being distracted away from something worthwhile by something pointless, but rather kids being distracted away from something boring by something fun. The thing is, there is nothing intrinsically boring about the subjects taught in school--rather, the boredom is created by the linear, contextless, no-immediate-feedback method of batched homework questions.

Really, there needs to be game design thinking put into the design of homework and projects--either as a separate editorial step after the creation of the actual academic content, or, better yet, done by the teachers themselves, made capable by having taken courses in game design (psychology, applied economics, and UI design, mostly) as part of their own schooling.
Wow this attitude is really offensive. If I want to auto renew a contract it should be something I willfully decide to do--not something that is auto-default. Then to presume that this guy gets his credit score hurt and potentially will have trouble getting loans and a mortgage all because some company is so insecure about the value of the service it provides that it has to trick consumers into renewing?

If your service is good, people will renew automatically. Given the proliferation of online services, it is absolutely impractical for people to keep track of many dozens of expiration dates.

There should be a federal law preventing this behavior. It's dishonest and a very bad practice. Zipcar should be held liable for any damage to this lad's credit. GRRR
I'm sure if you argue this approach actually changed the times that much:

<God>"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."</God> Samuel 15:3, quite a while after Exodus and commandments
Safari:

Shortly

ClickToFlash
Just for your information, I noticed a few weeks ago that there is a beta version of Firebug for Chrome.
Instead of Web Developer I use "Web Developer" in Chrome, which is quite similar by features, but is not shown as a toolbar as in Firefox.
I would have had to agree with you, if it wasn't because they themself started it.

So now, it is about showing them what happens when they thread on 4chan.
Actually I don't exactly understand your reasoning on this.

Given that the method of delivery is all-or-nothing and nearly immediate, I don't see how a resistance could be developed.

We are not discussing e.g. XDR-resistant TB, where the levels of delivery of antibiotics to the TB mean that some of the bacteria die and some live.

The snake is a single organism in this case, and the liver metabolizes the drug, and the results of that metabolism are what cause the liver damage. As long as 80mg is enough to kill the largest snake that would swallow the bait.

Can you explain how a lethal dose of say, cyanide, delivered individually to humans, would eventually result in cyanide-resistant humans?
FYI, Google Mail Checker Plus already includes mailto integration with Gmail.
Indeed, it's great. It just works on all sites with next/previous buttons.
Thanks for clarifying; I get where you're coming from now. It's really not a bad ideal that you express: that profit should not become the ultimate motive but something else should be the core driver of the business (a passion for solving the customers' problems, for example). I think that when a company takes on investment money from others then their focus must shift more toward making money; otherwise they would be using the investment money unethically. However, if you bootstrap a business, you have more control over the direction of the company and have a little bit more wiggle room over to what extent profit plays a part in the company's mission.
No. As I understand it, porn sites depend on recurring subscriptions that people forget to cancel. If it were overuse and undersubscription, they wouldn't be profitable.