skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among other things, the port was/is/will be a:

- Firewire Port

- USB Slave Port

- USB Host Port

- Audio Line Out

- Audio Line In

- VGA Video Out

- Micro SD Port

- Future Port 1

- Future Port 2

- etc...

I suppose I might care about the complaints if I were not already swimming in iPod-USB cables.

On the other hand, I have a micro-USB phone and exactly one micro-USB cable that I use for charging both at home and in my car, and for sync. One time I misplaced my one micro-USB cable and decided to go shopping for an extra, only to find that every store I visited had no idea what a micro-USB cable was.

And my micro-USB phone is a lot more finicky about flaky USB power sources than any of my iDevices, so I have a very difficult time understanding the complaints about the iPod port.
I have launched several tech startups (one acquired by Yahoo) with a senior partner now at Goodwin Proctor. They did all my docs for my current venture. A couple thoughts:

1) Goodwin proctor is super respected and they're not going to put together some shitty docs. I've used shitty docs and it's a nightmare.
2) As a previous poster said, these won't answer the whys, just the hows. That said, if you plan on creating a venture- or angel-backed company, you're going to want a Delaware C-Corp.
3) Damn, I wish these had been released three months ago. I love my atty, but I'd still rather not pay him for ginning up docs. This is MUCH better.
I don't have a problem with this description. Us humans think in symbols, and this is a high compression method to convey a complex idea.

Besides, even if they described it another way, astute observers would be asking the same question: Why won't Quora, or [include social platform] compete with you? This is a good question for the founders to know the answer to, regardless of how they want to frame the description of their company.
When you see a need that you feel like you can monetize, and also think you have the time and/or love for the project to be able to launch it.

I feel like I've missed the target on the second one way more then the first. One of my first projects launched well and had some good stable income (about $1500/month). After that I decided to think big, and now I have a few projects that are just too big for me to do in my spare time. I think some thought should be put into how long it will take you to get to the minimal viable product.
Do you think you can make port it Google App Engine?
Ahh...thanks, that would explain it. I didn't make it on Hacker News yesterday. This was the first time I was hearing about it.
I'm sure you've heard more than your share of complaints about every possible flaw in Bundler, but are people really still complaining about it?

I had my issues with Bundler since trying out earliesh version of it last year, and jumping on the early Rails 3 betas during the January bugmash and intervening months. There were warts for sure, but the biggest one was the pace of development and the outdatedness of the blog posts.

By now, however, it feels like all this complaining has put Bundler through a kind of crucible that RubyGems never had. From my perspective Bundler 1.0.0 is a pure joy to work with. The problems it solves were very real, and from where I sit it solves them in a very thorough way. At the moment I'm contemplating how to bring my 50k line 3-year-old Rails app up to Rails 3, and converting to Bundler is the first step with immediate and significant benefits. I lump Bundler in with efforts like RVM and Rubinius, as ambitious projects that are pushing the state of Ruby forward and keeping it relevant in a world of Clojures, Scalas and node.jses
Your calculator is wrong. Social security taxes have a cap on them.
Oh, for crying out loud! Have you no sense of history? The whole point of Lisp and Scheme is that you can write the interpreter in Lisp or Scheme! It's a sad day when you have to write a Lisp interpreter in Python, which is itself an interpreter written in C.

God has killed so many kittens because of you. ;-)
Wow... I think I've got it all, but could you give an example of who would be a "servicer"?
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The last thread about this got killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744568

Now on one hand, humor can be fun and insightful, but at the same time I don't want one liners to dominate the comment section.

I like insightful humors, but I do not care much if you masturbate, play pokers, or play with your cat. Well, maybe unless it is particularly a novel way of playing with your cat or hacking together bots to dominate poker tournaments.
Private, voluntary solutions that achieve the same goals as government programs at equal or lower cost are always superior. However, I don't think your proposed solutions would achieve the same goals. There would likely be more impoverished seniors.
I quite like it, it's not too intrusive, and definitely make it easier to catch up with my friends. Best if the notifications service serve the 4square, gowalla and facebook community.
Cameras also take pictures with an order of magnitude more pixels and far more coefficients than are needed for web display. You can safely ignore the transcoding effects when you are also downsizing and "down-quality-ing".
Psyco does not work on 64 bits, which makes it nearly useless for most servers-oriented kind of work
I don't even think the elderly are the problem. I think Congress as a whole is the larger problem. And the structure of national elections, the existance/tactics of the Republican Party, as a close 2nd and 3rd.
You just described the exact difference between innovation, and following a trend. People generally do not like to hear about innovation (new ideas), they want buzz.
You know, I'm always impressed with the clarity that the EFF posts explain their situations and how they affect them/us. If every group took such trouble to explain their cause, they'd have more supporters by the simple virtue that people could actually understand what they're saying, rather than wading though mountains of misdirection and propaganda.

Or maybe I'm just so used to wading through the EFF's particular brand of misdirection and propaganda that I don't notice it anymore...
When I was in Nottingham they installed an art installation called the Sky Mirror[1] in the center of town.

Somehow my PhD supervisor (who was a professor in astrophysics at the city's university) ended up get a consulting gig to calculate whether or not there was any danger of it focusing light and blinding anyone.

He ended up doing a media interview, where he explained that carefully placed shields would protect anyone at ground level from being at the focal point, but then he made an off-hand remark that "it might fry a few pigeons". Of course that turned out to be the only line that got repeated in the ensuing media frenzy[2].

I'm not sure that's what they had in mind when they hired him to consult for them, but we found it pretty funny.

[1] http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/about-us/sky-mirror/

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/mar/07/paulkelso1
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agreed. a better approach would be to take the amount you made per year and recalculate the fica vs. not-fica amounts. other interesting features that could be added would be a pie-chart of the data and also, how various legislation would change the mix and the total.
Have you tried selling stock photography on iStockPhoto? Collis from Envato said he made something like $6k a year without even touching it. Why not upload all your photos there?

He also has a site called CodeDen or something, where you can sell PHP scripts. Why not do some work and upload your stuff there?

There are lots of large communities specialising in the stuff you list there!
I tired about 10 random ones and 3 were real links. So are they approx 30% full already of the 4 character urls? I guess you better not shorten a url to a page you don't want to be public, because then the address will be easy to guess.
Writing C extensions is only easy if you do trivial things. As soon as you do something significant, writing all this C code by hand becomes increasingly complex, especially because of reference counting and error management (http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ext/thinIce.html).

If dependency for distribution is an issue, you can just include the generated C code (as we do in numpy and scipy, as a matter of fact). Also, cython can generate both python 2 and 3 compatible code.
I don’t think there’s necessarily a hard-and-fast rule about this, and I find sentences sometimes read easier when a/an is set by the immediately following word inside parens, and sometimes when the choice is set by the word after the parens.
You can give TaskRabbit.com a try.
An HN line can be fairly long, and there's nothing wrong with one-liners. Yay for brevity.
This works only if your bottlenecks are a small portion of your work. For example, if your twisted application is slow, you will have a hard time optimizing it by writing a bit of C code.
It seems paradoxical that one liners could dominate the comment section. They're only one line!

Of course, I completely agree with you.

Perhaps the real problem is that when a one liner gets upvoted it brings with it the one liner's replies. What's the only valid reply to a one liner? Another one liner, in response to the first, drifting further and further away from the original point of the conversation.
I still posit that awk '{print $1}' is simpler
Google's New Image Format (WebP) and Why Should You Care?
I agree, though what you wrote works really well in terms of selling yourself - could keep it in mind for some kind of landing page to use with the services suggested above.
I don't think most pictures on the Internet come from a camera verbatim.

If you look at something like cnn.com or arstechnica.com - most images on that page have been scaled, cropped, composited with other images and finally re-encoded.
That is true, quite often time and work gets wasted because the right specs are not decided or not communicated or the right questions not asked up front .

As a supplier of data analysis and reports to cost cutting/six sigma projects, I have seen it too many times where some project leaders don't go by the 'data first' principle. They pre-decide the direction of the project with no or minimal data and then go about collecting selective data supporting their direction.
Grey-washed.

Looks like a Windows 95 application.
I haven't been in the bond business since 2003, nor did I deal with servicers then, nor did I deal with user loans. Therefore I don't know the names.

However it looks like http://www.americanbanker.com/mortgage_serv/top-subprime-ser... can give you a bunch of the names and how much servicing they do. I can guarantee you that they will be a bunch of companies you've never heard of from all over the country. Except that if you have one of these loans, then you're familiar with the one who is servicing your loan.
>Pidgin debacle

elaborate
so when the govt makes "a good profit from its investment" (according to the article) ... where are those profits applied? Surely not to lower my taxes slightly ...
There's something bogus about those war numbers, it's far too low.

The US has a $700 Billion ANNUAL military budget (more than every other country combined).

Something is being hidden in other numbers because of all the cost to support military and their families (taxpayer paid "free" housing?) and thousands of military are coming back with traumatic injuries that previously would have been a one-time funeral cost but now are surviving with extremely expensive, continuous medical support and therapy costs (and disability pay for them/family).

Where is the "homeland security" portion in that receipt? Are we to believe the billions in security theater at airports is free and not funded by taxes? What about the billions doled out to local governments under the guise of "homeland security" so law enforcement can buy new toys to abuse?

Where are the secret military projects budget in that receipt (like their own space shuttle, military satellites and other stuff we aren't supposed to know about so their budgets are hidden?)
See also the metafun addition, which works well with ConTeXt, a TeX macro package.

metafun: http://mirror.contextgarden.net/general/manuals/metafun-p.pd...

ConTeXt: http://wiki.contextgarden.net
It seems to me that there are two or three things being conflated here under the "NoSQL" moniker, and Stonebraker isn't helping things.

First, there's the standard relational storage model. We've known for almost 40 years that some kinds of queries are a lot faster if you denormalize so you're not even in 1NF. Occasionally this matters. "Document stores" are a lot better suited to things that aren't in 1NF than relational databases. In theory you could maybe make this problem go away by throwing more hardware at the problem, so that the extra factor of lg N (which might be around 20 or so) goes away.

Second, there's SQL and all of the hassles it comes with, which can be largely papered over by things like SQLAlchemy and Django and the like, but there are still tricky issues like schema migration and incremental rollout.

Third, there's the CAP theorem. ACID requires consistency (the C in ACID and the C in CAP are the same), so you give up either availability or partitionability, and when you give up partitionability you're usually giving up parallelizability as well, which can put a crimp in the "throw hardware at the problem" approach.

It's true that the costs of abandoning standard SQL databases are high. But there are things you can't get any other way. If you need a million queries per second per database server (serving up variable-length lists of structured data), if you need to be able to incrementally roll out a new database schema across your site, or if you need to tolerate network partitions (and latency; a partitioned network is just the limiting case of high latency) without your database becoming unavailable, standard SQL databases aren't going to give you what you need, as far as I know.

As far as I can tell, these are the three sources of "NoSQL": rejecting the relational model as a way to organize on-disk storage, rejecting the SQL DDL as a way to manage change, and rejecting ACID transactions. Interestingly, none of these necessarily implies rejecting SQL as a user-interface language, and indeed FQL is an SQL user interface on top of some very non-SQL-ish systems.

(SQL itself is a terrible language, as Stonebraker will no doubt tell you if you ask, but it's not so terrible as to justify the switching costs.)
that's actually not true, they like the founders to stick around; Buffett is great at keeping founders around long after Berkshire buys them
If you see a need, then do it, but do it cheap so you can fail without causing any long term damage to your finances. Most likely you'll fail (most companies do after all) so doing it cheap and failing fast are both useful and pragmatic. If you do manage to succeed then bravo. If you don't succeed but you enjoyed it then do it again when you see the next need. Wash, rinse, repeat. If you didn't enjoy it (or if you're looking to gain wisdom) then change paths and go work with or for someone else for a while. Pay attention to their successes and mistakes, be actively involved in their business, and then start your own again.
Why do some HN users have no sense of humor? I got a bunch of down votes because I mentioned orgy once in relation to AIDs; this of course added someone else to fray and they got down-voted.

I remember watching a documentary on bad humor which I believed ultimately related the fact that humans find inappropriate things funny to deal with the stress of life. (does anyone know what I am referring too because that would be awesome).
This smells like a bug.

Has he tried reporting it to http://crbug.com?
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he's talking about the government lending money to the government, not our massive borrowing.

even more obscene than this fiction is how the Federal Reserve prints money, lends it to the banks, who then lend it to the Treasury and collect 3% for doing so. Its such an obvious subsidy of that whole sector, without which would look much worse.
Loose vs. lose comes up far too often here.

Also: http://www.uta.edu/owl/top20.htm
Confused. Why would replacing larger chunks of code be a problem?
"creating marcos"? Marco who? :-D

Please tell me you meant "creating macros" -- or is there some secret meaning of "marco" that I'm missing here?
Still, the shortest and fanciest name (in my opinion, of course) is bit.ly's http://j.mp/ :)
Don't worry, they are well aware of this fact. The people running China certainly know this intimately, and even university students know:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK14475620090601

"Chinese assets are very safe," Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.

His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.

Economically, China is playing Chess, the US is playing Checkers. China is more than willing to sacrifice one or two generations of people to gain global dominance. The people controlling the US economy think in periods of 4 or 10 years.
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New Twitter feels like Old Twitter, except it's faster and puts more of the stuff I want to see in front of me.

Facebook has many, many more features than Twitter does, and the features it has are not as easy for users to understand or use. When they reorganize the UI or change fundamental site behavior, users struggle to relearn how to use the site. It is a necessarily evil side effect of iterating on complex application features.
Seriously, you should start your ideally after you've done market research and determined that there is a definitive need for your service and/or product.

Too many start-ups don't do the research and totally just go straight to development. Mine included. Ie. http://www.plentyoftweeps.com

In anycase another startup I had I waited 5 years, craigslist.org had been operating that whole time and basically dominated in the markets where they had that 5 year run time, so I had to squeek by and penetrate markets where craigslist.org wasn't.

Anyway start ASAP with the market research. Ask people on buses, at restaurants, in planes, family and friends if they would use your service/product.
The biggest, outside of twitter, has to be the method of emailing enormous html links to someone.

Last I tried, I could send an email formatted in HTML, where:

<a href="http://my.crazy.long.url.gz">See this</a>

didn't take that much space, and could be read by any half-decent email client. Even alpine can do it.
I think most of the reason why there is no facebook-style backlash is because the majority of users on twitter (those who actually post stuff) use separate clients to do so.

I personally use twirssi [1] as my twitter client. YMMV.

[1] http://twirssi.com/
The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
From my previous post: "(Use the dropdown to select year=2008, the last year for which full data is available.)" I don't think I was unclear - jbellis certainly figured it out about 2 hours ago.

As for the specific mechanics, I'll refer you to another post in this thread which provides a number of mechanisms: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745969

More or less any of them should work.
The layers of irony in this discussion are quite astonishing.

The reason, I take it, that some are concerned that a comment about masturbation appeared on HN is that it is a signal that the quality of discussion on HN is in decline and that it's audience is gradually shifting over to the mindless hordes of Reddit and Digg.

Now presumably,by quality, we mean things like ability to propose a well thought out point of view and defend such a view with rational argument and sourced evidence.

But notice - what they are focusing on is a signal that quality is declining. And treating the comment as a signal is as far as they seem to take it. There doesn't seem to be much effort taken to get to know the person who made the comment, to investigate the degree of contribution made before.

Hence the irony. There is sophisticated discourse, and there are "signals" of sophisticated discourse. At some point, if you really want to participate in an extended sophisticated discourse, one that is really capable of going beyond group think and shallow mindedness, your first impressions and understanding of what the surface implies about what lies below need to be bracketed and put out of play. (After all, superficiality knows only how to reflect itself when it stares into deep waters).

The irony goes both ways however. In a group of highly sophisticated thinkers, and I've been around a few - I'm particularly attracted to the ones mouthing off all sorts of low brow and inappropriate things. For these are the ones I tend to think have a greater propensity for independent thinking. Quite often the signals are right - but eventually, if you want to get to know them, you have to put them out of play.

Having said all this - the hordes of Reddit and the rest will likely respond to the low brow signals as most people do - and will be attracted to them because of it. If you don't want them here - don't signal to them that they will likely fit in.
Since these are almost incremental, it's easy to guess existing links. There must be both good and bad uses for this...
I prefer text email in theory. It's cleaner, simpler. Text for messages, that's how the web was meant to work, right?

I also cringe when I purple text in Comic Sans, as well as other unmentionables.

Yet, when I want to emphasize something, I hate using asterisks. It's not semantically correct, and it looks ugly. And how do you differentiate between underline and italics?

For this reason I support HTML email.
Ask HN: How do your organize email communication/client support?
Currently when we receive an email, we reply an BCC: each other but it's not convenient.

What is the most efficient way? mailing-lists? or some third-party like zendesk? We are just starting on not getting tons of emails.

The goals to achieve are:
- Client support email that everyone (3 people) in the company receives. When one of us replies, everyone should know that the message has been replied to avoid wasting time.
- Internal communication: be able to filter organization vs. development stuff

Do some of you use something like Google Groups?
Or do you have a support@ mailing list and dev@ / general@ mailing lists? How do you make all this as efficient as possible?
I don't know why, but I think a lot of it has to do with keeping HN a space for purely intellectual debate and conversation, or as riderofgiraffes says, "for insight and information." The main argument would be that HN could descend into Reddit, but I think that's very unlikely.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." -- Michael Dell on Apple, 1997

http://news.cnet.com/Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_...
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Sure, I'll throw in.

I need a nice, clean PDF report done up with good typography that will be offered as a free report on the main MakeLeaps site.

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Does anyone know of a similar resource for startups in India?