skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I helped run a large, high volume college bar for around 8 years and then opened and operated my own venture (with partners) for a year or so.

Much of the details of your venture will depend entirely on its location. Sticking to advice that will apply no matter where you are:

If you have to equip the place from scratch and need to do it on the cheap, find restaurant auctions around your location. Restaurant and bar equipment depreciates at a sickening rate, and they go out of business frequently. You can save well over 70% off of catalog for six month old equipment.

Find a local insurance agent and get to know them very well. Don't ever, ever skimp on liability insurance.

In my experience far and away most important aspect of operating a bar is the staff that you employ. Obviously they need to be as trustworthy as possible - employee theft is a constant. Much like fighting illegal downloads you will be fighting to minimize it rather than abolishing it. The theft will rarely be in the form of removing money from the register till, but rather in the form of unpaid product.

The larger reason that your hires will be important though is because hiring the right people is the most effective form of marketing that you can possibly do. Hiring a staff of well connected, social butterfly waitresses, door guys, and bartenders has an infinitely higher ROI than any print or radio marketing that you can do.

Additionally, good employees are perhaps the most important differentiating factor for your business. Unless you are a multi-million dollar Vegas-style theme joint, your business is a commodity. There are already twenty other businesses just like yours. Having employees that are both good at their jobs and eager to establish relationships with your patrons will be key in converting customers to repeat customers.

Could type all day, but the last thing that I would add is that as with any new business you will struggle to gain traction. When marketing I always tended to look at my job as one of disrupting traffic patterns. Potential patrons already had their favorite bar and a list of five others on a short list. My job was to get myself on that list, and in order to do that I would have to offer an awfully compelling reason to get them to disrupt their patterns.

I would usually use either a heavy loss leader (really cheap drinks) on a typically low revenue night or high profile events (big name band / DJ, fight night, etc). Once I had ac customer in the door and I provide a well executed experience it becomes a numbers play much like PPC advertising in the web world. 50% of the people that tried me out will be back someday, I made it on to the short list of 10% of the new customers, 5% wind up being new regulars.
Nevermind the Bullets. IE9 HTML5 showcase.
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If you have no income then there is no "income" tax (neither Federal or State). If you have an office and you are meeting customers, you might have to pay City tax (depending on the City). Once you have income, things start to change. First of all, the $800 Franchise tax is a minimum and California actually charges a percentage based on your "gross" income, not net profit. Also, Federal treats any income you incur as an LLC as employment and is subject to self-employment tax (in addition to Federal and State income tax). My own experience is that in the beginning of a startup, you don't have enough that actually warrants hiring an accountant. My advise is that you learn to be your own accountant until you start hiring. It actually is a good exercise to start paying attention to money as opposed to just hiding behind the comfort of being a technologist. Good luck.
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You can't own a shape. I say bring on the clones.
Why are you being downvoted? Sites that have useful searches was exactly what I asked for. Thank you.
It's a curious thing, but most of the extroverts I've known self-describe as introverts. The thing about introversion is that there's little to no payoff from interacting socially, so lack of social skills tends to be correlated. Without a strong positive feedback loop, the skills don't grow, and over time, atrophy.
A few months back we decided to take a risk and do an "X-Files" episode (as opposed to our normal fare of tech and startups) and interviewed Richard Dolan, an historian in the field of UFOs and national security. It turned out to be one of our most popular shows to date and we covered this very topic in some detail. It's definitely worth a listen if you're interested in this kind of stuff: http://techzinglive.com/?p=248
My Dropbox folder has replaced my documents folder entirely. I also save preferences and sync files within Dropbox, so I can run the same program (say, 1Password) from multiple computers with exactly the same data.
Microsoft's DRM makes your computer vulnerable to attack
Interesting point about 'Exit Interviews'.
Ask HN: How H1b holder setup a startup to sell app on Itunes?
Some friends & I (all internationals with H1b) worked after office hours and on weekends to come up with Iphone/Ipad app. Before we submit this app to Itunes, we are wondering how should we legally setup our startup & make money ,if we can, without getting into any troubles. Please advice.<p>Thank you!
Any honest attempt at attaining objectivity through introspection will, I believe, be written in the first person. See the introduction to Descartes' "Discourse on the method" for the classical example. This list looks more like the author being pissed off after some arguments, and gathering a collection of what he believes are his opponents' repelling personality traits.
Is there any reason why session replication wouldn't work? It works ok on Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html) and Jetty has support too.

(I've never use Lift or Scala.)
I don’t dispute that.
The problem with this article is the focus on the most visible companies that generate the most revenue or grow the most quickly. There are significant innovations pioneered by silicon valley companies that demonstrate remarkable long term value. I'm also going to use Silicon Valley broadly to mean internet startups because the valley is now more of a culture and group of people than a region. Additionally, I'm choosing technically challenging problems instead of difficult execution challenges or marketing challenges (SMB SaaS companies, local advertising aggregators).

1. Media delivery shift: Netflix, OnLive, Pandora are now distributing previously physical media in ways that will disrupt their respective industries. Blockbuster is now bankrupt.

2. Communication: Skype is now the largest long distance carrier in the world. It's Scandinavian, yes, but give me some leeway!

3. Information processing: Palantir manipulates huge data sets for financial institutions and the government.

4. Financial markets: SecondMarket and TheReceivables Exchange are creating markets in previously illiquid markets.

5. Medical innovation: there are tens of companies working on EMR systems and building business intelligence applications for hospitals to increase quality of care while reducing costs

6. Big Data: Hadoop and other NOSQL databases have been built in the past 10 years to enable massive computation on commodity hardware. Not to mention the three storage companies that just sold for $1B+ each in the past 2 months.

7. Energy: Solar panels, fuel generating algae, carbon sequestration: Innovation is happening here in the valley using the techniques and science developed for semi-conductor fabrication and novel ways of processing.

The most recognizable startups may not be innovative in the sense the author is describing, but it's clear to me from an investment point of view that there is more innovation across more industries occurring today than ever before. And this innovation has just as much potential to dramatically impact lives as did the semiconductor.

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It may be instructive to consider how deliberate the Open Source branding and media frenzy was, and particularly the few paragraphs where the author deliberately positions himself as a spokesperson. Consider how well it worked to bring open source into the corporate world.

Perhaps more campaigns of this nature need to be fostered.
Machine coprocessors for the brain
I disagreed that having social issues is related to being an introvert. Maybe I'm not right, just my POV.
That was a typo sorry. I meant to write "I wasn't implying"
I was about to post the same thing. Code examples are the second thing I look at when I see the web page for some new library or framework. The first thing I look at is the one-sentence description right below the title, if any.

You may notice that this maps pretty well to how pages on Github are set up. That's because Github has really nice design.
Old web's patch is for the most part optional, if you don't want the shinies. With "new" web, what is there to disable if your hw can't handle it's stress?
How ghosts, superstitions, and vampires have been used for psychological warfare
I don't think many people worry about robot dinosaur communists, now that the Cold War is over.
One reason I like HN is that comments seem to lean more towards the Perceptive (vs Judgmental) end of the scale in the Myers-Briggs sense, compared to other sites. So it's sad to see many of the responses in this thread. Myhrvold/Lyons/Newsweek aren't the issue here, the issue is what you choose to do with your life.

In 1983 Steve Jobs recruited Pepsi's president to Apple by asking him to choose between changing the world and selling sugared water. Much of Valley's current output is closer to sugared water than to the Macintosh.
Links like that are a common way to implement "share on twitter" buttons.

Twitter does monitor the referring URL and can automatically block suspicious sites. For some reason pastehtml.com didn't set off any alarm bells.

Being around for a while was part of the problem, they didn't want to break existing sites.
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What's so innovative about the Internet? Means of communication have existed for many, many decades.
It does look a little nicer, from what I’ve seen so far; the cutoff on the lowercase "r", for example, is vertical instead of horizontal, bringing it closer in line with Helvetica.
The author has stated as his main purpose the acquisition of truthful opinions, and avoiding delusion with groupthink and such. "Objectivity" is, I believe, the generally accepted name for such a pursuit; and introspection with such an object is a perfectly valid activity. Hence the main paradox of the article, which is that the author doesn't seem to have engaged in any form of such introspection before writing down these unstructured, and pretty much useless, musings.
> either blog.YOURCOMPANY.com or www.YOURCOMPANY.com/BLOG

Most definitely the latter, actually. PageRank "juice" doesn't cross subdomain boundaries.
I think you can mod it to be an Egg Timer, some people still find it useful, paid version is selling for USD $5.
1. "Never said it did prevent CSRF" -- probably should have clarified.

2. You're arguing about semantics. CSRF is a security issue. Being able to send updates without user's knowledge is a security hole too. Backed up by a wrong behaviour if you wish. I should never forget that HN is a Serious Business.

None of the above mentioned makes twitter guys any less lame.
His blog is definitely a treasure trove of insights but I fear the principles that he confer in his blog will be lost to the sea of information that I digest daily.

This is something that I am aware for some time now. I have no coherent modeling system and my knowledge are organized very ad hoc. Some economic insight here and there, stories, evidences, etc. It's not very systematic at all.
Wednesday and Sunday we had live acts, essentially house bands who built a following just by being a routine as much as anything else. Common tactic, and it works. Wed. night we paid them about $100 each and Sun. about $150 each. We made many times that in additional revenue.

Friday and Saturday nights we had a live DJ for a few hours a night for atmosphere, but I honestly don't think it mattered much one way or the other. People would have showed up anyway.

We tried boosting Mon/Tues night, but nothing made any difference at all on Monday, and the difference on Tuesday didn't cover the costs. We pretty much considered Monday the paying-your-dues night, and had fun amongst ourselves and the handful of regulars and closed at midnight (vs about 2 am on other nights).

One thing about the non-fri/sat nights, there's a definite trend of "them that's gots, gets" in the bar scenes on those nights. People go where people are, so it's not a linear function on those nights, it's discontinuous. Once you have a crowd, you get a crowd. Weekends are different, there's crowds everywhere.
I honestly don't find comments like this funny anymore. I just find them unprofessional and inappropriate and they make me think about how many someone would need to write for me to fire them.
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Yes, but the _list_ of symptoms for a cold is necessary and sufficient. The list in the article is neither of those; therefore, it's at best useless.
The person who wrote this article asserts that these fonts are “very much similar” to Times, Arial, and Courier, respectively. However, Times and Tino would never be categorized together (except that they are both serif fonts, but hey, there’s about a 50-50 chance of that). Cousine is also quite different from the typewriter-esque Courier.

Edit: As lambda points out, they have compatible metrics, so there shouldn’t be cases where layouts meant for one of {Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New} “break” by having content overflows on Chrome OS. (The team has also set up aliases for these relationships, besides setting the default "serif", "sans-serif", and "monospace" fonts.) Cool!

Direct links follow:

Issue & related commits on Chrome OS: http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5287&#...

Download the fonts: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/download-and-use-the-new-...
Good point. The only problem is the Netezza appliance is definitely not used by drones, for controlling drones, or anything directly related to their operations. The Register headline (and the many copies) are typically hyperbolic.
Interesting point about hiring manager (at new firm) providing new employee with attorney access to advise them on how to resign and conduct themselves post-resignation.

As the article then goes on to state, albeit buried, there is massive client/attorney privilege issues here - the client is the new employer and I'd be concerned about what got fed back to the client from the employee's discussions.

If you need one, get your own lawyer.
I thought the same thing.

Then I realized that it's odd that Americans think it's distasteful to be loyal to your family.
If a significant amount of my friends do, yes. I'll probably wait to delete my Facebook account until at least some of my friends are on Diaspora.
It depends on if there were other sources they could rely on in time? Any idea what the travel time of these nukes would have been if they were real? Presumably in the event of a real attack they would want there missiles in the air before they probably got hit as some of the first targets.
Is the story getting any coverage outside the SV echo chamber?

I'd be quite surprised if we see the issue cross over into the mainstream.
For reference - the canonical URL is news.ycombinator.com
It's okay to be the quiet one. That improves the chances of you being a good listener, someone that really listens instead of being tuned-out while composing your next line.

It's important for many reasons to strike a balance between work and play (and quality solitude), but don't be alone out of being uncomfortable with others. Try to seek a space where it works for you, where you can unwind, and you can be "in the moment".

By being in the moment I mean not thinking or worrying about what happened last week or last year, or what will happen next week or next year. Relax... take in the sounds around you. Get i tune with all of your senses. Hopefully as you unwind you'll find yourself breathing slower but deeper. Perhaps you can casually go somewhere with someone on a picnic, a hike, or camping. Visit the coast or a lake, enjoy the night sky. The things people stress over at school or work may not even matter years later. Don't throw your time away in a stressful limbo that's in-between work/study you're into, and the off the clock pleasure time. Get plenty of rest, regular sunshine, some exercise (at least plenty of fast walking), eat with variety and moderation.
The rest and sunshine play a large role in healthy brain chemistry and various hormones.
Living out of the moment is a bit like driving while texting. Life flows better if you're all there for it. Get in tune with yourself, discover how seemingly small things influence the way you feel.

Go at your own pace with people. Take time to figure out who you are, what you like, and who you want to be with. If you're thinking about your orientation, don't feel alone. Whatever you're going through know that there are many like you, and you'll get wherever you're going at your pace. The people that matter will appreciate you for who you are. Be tolerant of and not preoccupied with the rest. Be in tune with peoples' feelings, and learn to see who can sense and really care about yours.

You might experiment with different types of music. There's a rush from the energy of metal, but some other types may work better for relaxed intimate periods.

Do what you feel is right, even when no one else seems to. Learn to trust your gut feelings more than what people say.

Best wishes.
They are "very much similar" only in that they have compatible metrics. Thus, text typeset in Times, Arial, and Courier won't have to re-flow when using Tino, Arimo, and Cousine. You're absolutely right; the style of the fonts is quite different than the style of the one's they are intended to replace.

From the font info for Arimo:

Unique name	Ascender - Arimo
Copyright	Digitized data copyright (c) 2010 Google Corporation.
Trademark	Arimo is a trademark of Google and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Description	Arimo was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Arial™. Arimo offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms.
License	Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Fidonet is a network like bittorrent is a network. I think you are getting downvoted because of the hardware/software distinction, or lack thereof.
I don't think they have primary responsibility for antitrust law, but the FBI often assists the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (http://www.justice.gov/atr/) with the fieldwork part of investigations (the FBI is an agency of the DoJ).
Have you read about the Briggs-Myers personality tests?
I found them quite interesting.

I'm an introvert like you...
being with people normally sucks my energy and I need times of solitude to recover. That is how I am...

However I enjoy really small groups of smart people, to be around normally... 2 to 5...

I've been a teacher and also enjoy being in front of a class... 25 teenagers
and just last week gave a talk to 100 youngsters...
and I enjoy teaching a lot... BUT, after both things... I'm so tired that I need to rest, when teaching a class I need to sit down for half an hour and disengage...
When giving a talk... I need a nap. literally I need to sleep.
So long you are not completely, entirely alone, you are fine. Know yourself, accept who you are and work to get a comfortable environment instead of trying to change; never mind if that's now how things are "supposed" to be and forget about those pesky extroverts.
Communists are so 1989, nobody really cares anymore.
> I fear the principles that he confer in his blog will be lost to the sea of information that I digest daily. ... I have no coherent modeling system and my knowledge are organized very ad hoc.

You might consider creating a file or note for every major project, campaign, or life goal you have. Then when you see something relevant to that, you copy/paste it in or make a note.

There's ideas I've done that would have been totally gone if I didn't have loose thoughts sketched into a file on them. It takes a bit of work to set up, but it's actually surprisingly easy and natural to update throughout the day.

Edit: I took a screenshot and uploaded it to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastmarsh/5028168457/lightbox - that file was built out and iterated over five months, so definitely start smaller and let things expand. Feel free to email me if do something like this and have any questions on getting set up.
After doing some reading it looks like you can get a path to the image by poking around undocumented methods in the UIImagePicker class, but Apple does not allow those private API method calls past it's approval process. Just like you said, it is possible, but Apple curates it out.

I am surprised the images aren't accessed through another process that has directory access but enforces limits. Couldn't that process just allocate a buffer or take a pre-allocaed buffer for a UIImage and pass back a pointer to the requesting app? Is there some sort of technical limitation that forces it to send the image back via a slower method like IPC? Sending a message to the managing process to get the image and receiving a pointer back shouldn't have too much overhead should it?

I read on Ars that hardware virtualization support is coming to mobile at some point. The ability to trap the right instructions so an app can't break out should hopefully help secure these kinds data stores without having a curated app library, and without too much of a performance hit.

I thought we were there already there, so this is dissapointing. For some reason I am less comfortable with my phone apps having the sort of file system access than my desktop apps. Restricting internet access for apps in order to control data from leaking out is too far reaching, lots of apps need internet for things besides stealing data.
Good info, thanks for sharing. I do have one question that stands out as a paradox to me ...

You mention hiring well-connected, social butterfly types. Can't doing this increase your risk/amount of theft? In other words, if many of your patrons are socially connected to your staff, aren't they more likely to expect/get free drinks?
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No, actually, it is not, and you surely know this. People may be asymptomatic yet still have an illness. People may have all of the symptoms of a particular illness and yet not have it. And lists of symptoms are not (cannot truly be) exhaustive.
In 1983 Steve Jobs recruited Pepsi's president to Apple by asking him to choose between changing the world and selling sugared water. Much of Valley's current output is closer to sugared water than to the Macintosh.

Beautiful summation.
... Why does nobody understand how the adversarial method works? What I'm basically saying is that the usage of the comparator to create elements on the fly IS NOT LEGAL if you are trying to break randomized quicksort because this requires the adversary to have PRIOR KNOWLEDGE of the elements. He doesn't if its randomized.
What's hilarious is that RedHat already commissioned Ascender to make freely-available metric-compatible fonts, resulting in the Liberation family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

Given that Ascender is the official vendor for Microsoft's core fonts including the original Times, Arial and Courier, one wonders if they're utterly sick of those particular sets of metrics yet.
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