skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know here in Canada you have to register as an accredited investor to loan money legally (as far as I've always been told at least), which has quite ludicrous requirements for small P2P loans.

You only need to be an accredited investor if you don't qualify under other rules. Lending money to a relative? No problem. Lending money to a friend you've known since high school? No problem. Lending money to a company you're working for? No problem. Lending money to a company which provides you with a detailed prospectus? Go right ahead.

Lending money to a complete stranger who hasn't provided you with full disclosure of his financial status and you don't have enough money to qualify as an accredited investor? That's when the rules stop you... and that's exactly the sort of situation which should be disallowed, because there's no way for you to not be the victim of a scam.
Make sure you exercise and are healthy. I find once I've taken care of this, I am so much more likely to have focused, productive time on projects.

A good summary of other things that can be done to improve and simplify your life is at zenhabits: http://zenhabits.net/brief-guide/
My impression is that the Supreme Court's significantly pared that back in further cases. Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube (1984) held that parallel action was inconclusive evidence of antitrust violations, though it could serve as circumstantial evidence. In Bell Atlantic v. Twombly (2007), the Court quoted that approvingly, and held that an allegation of parallel action, without a further plausible allegation of a conspiracy to engage in the parallel action consciously, wasn't even enough to state an antitrust claim sufficient to survive immediate dismissal, let alone prevail.

I'm hardly a legal expert, but I do recall some law-prof bloggers around 2007 claiming that it was confirmation that the parallel-action-suggests-conspiracy rule was dead and buried, even if not explicitly overturned.
>You still have the right to sell your good to another ... you do not necisarrily have the right to ... distribute ... it.

How is distributing something different from selling it? I just got a presentation at work today from a company, and they complained that a lot of their product was being resold by distributers, but there was nothing they could legally do to stop it besides only sell to individuals in small amounts.
If you consider you employee mindless drones who do not notice or care that their colleagues have been laid off on the spot without any advance notice or severance, then, by all means, lay off left and right as much as you please.
Scribd Posts A Public Apology To Vocal Critic, Then Takes It Back
Do you actually care about privacy?
To be clear, I did not adjust any of my numbers to include an extrapolated extra 10%. Any numbers you see in my post are based on direct observation of a script tag's src attribute.
Startup or innovator or not, I for one would much prefer to see success only for vendors who treat their customers as tool-using human beings.
If I have an investing club and we come to define an investment approach, say, what stocks we like and what we think they should be valued at, are we colluding to price fix the market? If I think a company is over priced and I am in charge of executing trades for my investing club, whose members unanimously agreed not to buy the stock in question until it fell down say, $20 more in price - are we colluding? Yes. Colluding to price fix? No. We're simply colluding not to participate in the buy side. That may or may not lead to sellers slowly changing their asking price. But that's a two-way street. I don't see the illegality according to anti-trust. Now if every major instututional house/hedge/mutual/pension fund that owned that stock got together and colluded to refuse to SELL us any stock until we agreed to their higher price, that I understand is illegal. They are fixing the price literally. But I don't see how us refusing to participate in a transaction on the buy side is illegal whether we have 5 members or 5 million.

Saying that the angels are colluding to price fix buys into Michael's assertion that "together, the men in that room account for nearly 100% of all angel deals". That means that their "deals" are the commodity in question, and they are free to do as they wish. If it's their money, then it's hard to make the claim that their money is the market. There's certainly more money in the world than theirs.
Guys, isn't ycombinator all about helping us become good entrepreneurs? Why tear down a good effort? How is this productive? These guys have serious supporters and cliemts so they have to be on to something
That's a scenario that the local-fallback technique handles well. The CDN reference will immediately fail for those overly-firewalled users, jQuery will be undefined in the next script block, and the fallback can detect that and inject a script element referencing a local copy instead.
Whats a good way to find iPhone developers to outsource development?
Looking for good ways to find outsourced iphone development for our startup to build off an API that we have built for our HTML5 mobile web app. How much would that cost??
> why would someone in the group or at the dinner admit to the collusion?

He mentioned that they were uneasy with the direction the talks had taken. I could definitely understand a couple of them seeing this admission as a good way to get out of a compromising situation while not leaving themselves at the disadvantage of being an outsider.
Favorite bit:

NEWNAM: So why Ronnie?
RONNIE: Well, it's the perfect pseudonym because it's my name also.

If those sandwiches are 100% cheddar they're missing the flavor that only gruyere can bring to a grilled cheese.
Since we are all adding our own, here's my contribution:
Source: http://www.thomasdimson.com/res.tex
Results: http://www.thomasdimson.com/res.pdf

The template may lack some negative space but I think it is pretty reasonable. The content is crusty and questionable :)
I used to, because I was brought up that way, and lived out my belief in a very concrete way by working for a time as a cross-cultural missionary. But I don't believe in God anymore, having at length reexamined the rationales I thought I had sufficiently examined while an undergraduate for either believing in God or not. (There is, of course, also the issue of WHAT to believe about God, as not all self-described believers in God believe in the same thing.) I have still have immense respect for persons who act out their beliefs at personal cost, but now I advise everyone in general to test their beliefs on all subjects against reality. Many of the online sources I read regularly to find interesting, thought-provoking articles for HN come from sites that have the point of view that people ought to spend more effort and care on examining their beliefs for truthfulness.
In the age of multitasking, I'm not sure that "when you're not using the app" is even defined. But yeah, it looks like this service can get your location even if you haven't installed an app at all.
The disappearance of salesmen explains America's economic woes
Why do Angels hate convertible notes so much?
I was playing around with the google map API one day when it started throwing very strange errors. Upon further investigation, I found the library URL was returning an html captcha page - not very useful to a browser expecting a javascript file.

Even google screws up simple stuff sometimes. So I think I'll pass on using their CDN for something as small as the jquery library. You're optimizing the wrong thing if you're worried about this.
most certainly the "DO ONE THING" part. very small milestones. the constant progress motivates you.

do one thing. no more. no less. there should be quick 30 minute days where you don't get burned out. save the hard parts for sunday.

also that thing about 'don't pretend to work'... don't sit at your computer with the IDE open, but just dicking around on gmail or the web... either work or don't. don't fool yourself.
Heroku doesn't stop you using Mongo, Redis or S3. They actually promote these things.
Right - and `nm` uses the debugging information to identify the file:line where each symbol was defined. The original scripts used to generate the treemap use `nm`.
Here is something to consider. You have said yourself that as an angel you prefer to follow deals, rather than set the terms. A lot of angel investors are like that. The problem is that the guys who lead the rounds and set the terms are fixing the market.

While there may be hundreds of angel investors out there, the reason why only 10 of them can rig the market in this way is because most of them, like yourself, are followers.

How about the 90% of the other angels step out and actually lead some deals and price them, so that we have a real investment market at the seed stage.
I see. But I wouldn't be bothered about whether my work has "social redeeming value".

For me, it's much more important to firstly earn good money, secondly do something creative, not just typical CRUD applications.

And whether or not a work has "social redeeming value" is highly subjective. I, for one, don't think that Twitter has any bit of "social redeeming value". I can't see how a 140-char limit sentence can add much to our society.
Meanwhile, important already existing programs under DOJ purview like the FBI's DNA forensics department are underfunded and backlogged by at least a year for often time-sensitive cases like missing-persons investigations. Do we live in a democracy or an oligarchy?

See: http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a1039.pdf
Does it matter if the participants have monopoly power over the market? I have a hard time believing Arrington's claim that "ten or so" angels control "nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley". If they control lets say only 50% of this market would it still be illegal collusion?
Ask HN: OSS library to "apizize" your app?
I'm building an open source library that can apizize any function in your backend just by writing an XML element in a configuration file. It will handle not only the response, but also dispatch the requests. You don't have to deal with formats, authentication and client libraries: it's all handled by the library.

Any thoughts?

Thx.
I imagine that happens with a lot of people already, whether or not they're sneaking in 1-2 hours as soon as they get up.
Every single hour you're awake you have the mental and physical energy to watch a movie. That's not true of programming.
I completely agree. Particularly frustrating since I'll read an email on my phone, think of a reply, but need to wait until I get to a computer to send the response for fear of confusing the recipient.
Now, playing devil's advocate and judging by the number of upvotes this comment got -- couldn't the idea behind evercookie be used for good and not evil in some instances?

I'm curious more than anything else. For example, using this persistent cookie as an alternative to having users login?
I can't see that you disagreed with me, & I don't disagree with you either. Something's always lost in these 'revolutions', but we always gain more than we lose. That's why we're switching mediums in the first place.
Not to belabour the point or be pedantic but as far as I am aware, "Lip service" implies a lack of conviction not elaboration.

http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&oq=&langpair=e...
Understood, but I fundamentally disagree with it. Your employees aren't diseased limbs - they're people, just like you, who have families and mortgages and obligations of their own. There's no acknowledgment of that at all in his article.
I tried a few LaTeX templates on CTAN awhile ago and settled on simplecv:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/simplec...

It's fairly boring, but simple to use and flexible. Best, it makes good use of the space on the page without looking too cluttered.
So did Perl 5. The difference seems to be that for the newer Perl features you have to either declare the version of Perl you're depending on or import the feature explicitly.
I work on fun/speculative stuff in the mornings too!

It really helps motivate me to skip that extra hour of sleep when my eyes first crack open, if I've got something interesting to go work or play with. And slowly but surely, stuff actually gets done. :)
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I saw Star Wars on TV recently - god it looks awesome, especially the early desert scene with red sand and gold c3po. Of course, it's probably because they adjusted the colour in later releases (a few times), but still. The added stuff looks gimmicky and unnecessary.

Chewbacca is an awesome name. I happened to need to burp while reading the article, and you know how I made it sound.

Although I'm sure the article is right about the sequence of early artwork and so on, it seems that the final creature was determined entirely at the end, by the practical matter of the guy wearing it, and that it needed to be friendly looking. He does look like a dog. All that remains from earlier is 1. ape-like; 2. bandolier

But he's right about chewie being a non-character. He's great, but just colour. It's unfortunate that there's no real relationship with Han - they 'talk", but there's no sense of anything there. While "side-kicks" were common (eg. watson, tonto, robin), there was always some friendship or connection, or even just meaningful cooperation, which isn't present with Chewie.
I'm kind of surprised that MathWorks hasn't acquired Accelereyes yet. It seems to me that Jacket would be a great thing to either integrate into the core of MATLAB, boosting MATLAB's competitiveness with other tools such as IDL and Maple, or to sell as one of the many add-on toolboxes, leveraging their long-standing relationship with academia to build mindshare among young engineers.
Oracle's "new" kernel for RHEL clone: The real truth
Mac OS X cats vs all Linux animals
"Consistency is the authors best friend"

That's something my Dad (a writer himself) told me when I wanted to write a book when I was young. And it's true for business as well! When I wrote just a little bit regularly (a page or two a day) I got a _lot_ done in a month, but then I started just writing in batches, marathon sessions here and there, and nothing really got done plus I lost wind pretty quickly.

Now I'm working a day job and writing code for another startup idea and regularity helps me, this time I plan to stick with the consistency, rather than degrade into spurts, so that I finish this (unlike the book).
Ruby 1.9.2 beta support for Rapid App Deployment Engine
My heart goes out to all passionate, dedicated graphic designers. Who would do this job? Not I, for all the tea in China.

Not only does everyone think they know what good design is, and let you know what they think is right, they'll be looking at you thinking 'what do we need you for? why are we wasting money on you?'

You need to first justify your existence, then justify your abilities to people who know better anyway. Who needs this grief?
One of the outputs from the YC process is better educated founders who have a lot more guidance in negotiating through a deal.

Even if the deal flow was exactly the same, just having the founders suffering less from information assymetry would be a stone in the shoe of the Angels.

Think of it this way : if YC did all the same things, but also turned founders into being Angel patsies at dealtime, do you think they would be upset about it? I would guess it's the information about how to negotiate, and what a good deal looks like is the problem. I'm sure they love the concept of demo-day to go deal shopping, but would prefer it if the products didn't talk back.
I'm having trouble sleeping. Somehow this isn't helping.
I share office space with Andrew - didn't actually know he'd been at a bank, but I can verify that he seems pretty happy to be doing what he's doing.

I never worked full time at a bank, but I did a summer internship in Goldman's tech division and the work was extremely boring. I didn't really get the impression that anyone on my team was having fun, with the possible exception of my manager. I'm sure there are some tech jobs at the big banks which are fun, but I think they're the minority.
He called out no one. Calling out is when you name someone. At this point it's just rumours.
Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?
/throwaway account

All of our systems (development, live, etc.) run Linux with a relatively complex configuration. We're thinking of issuing our first new hires (all software devs) pre-configured Thinkpad T Series (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series) and only allowing local development on those machines.

We suspect it is possible to get our development system running in other operating systems (OSX/windows), but we have no idea how long set up will take and prefer model and OS standardization.

I realize some 2/3 of you use OSX. Are you particularly attached to the Mac and/or its OS - or would you willing to work with a Thinkpad/Linux development environment?

Note: We're cool with anyone choosing their IDE, GUI, etc. We'd just rather not deal with A) buying and managing radically different laptop models, B) getting packages our system requires working in other operating systems, C) insecure systems (e.g. HD encryption is a must).

Extra question: A more general question is how often do startups mandate using their issued equipment for work? I've seen this done at every place I've worked thus far but am not sure if it is generally true.
this is a quite funny response :)
seeing one person talk about toilet software and make an oversight when writing a 'better' test :)
This is brilliant, now we need someone to write javascript polymorphic engine.
This is how I've been doing it for several years. I may be wrong, of course.

I think that “Me” or “My” should be used when a title of a section (a page or a field) does not contain an action (a verb). It should also be used when a button, link, or title of a page contains a phrase that implies that the user is ordering the system to perform an action. For example:

Field Title: My Company Name:
Page Title: My Main Menu
Button: [ Change My Password ]
Link: Reset My Account

In contrast, I think that “Your” or “you” should be used when the system is telling or asking something from the user. For example:

Field Title: What is your password?
Message: You can always change your settings…
Link: Click here to contact your agent
Message: Your are signed in as:

Whenever I have the option of using one or the other, I go for “My”. For example, if I have the option of using both “Post My Project” and “Post Your Project”, I use “Post My Project”. Why? Because on “Post Your Project” the system is asking the user to do something, while in “Post My Project” the user is ordering the system to perform an action. I think that users like to feel they are in control.
I bought in Edmonton, Alberta. It's not easy to find cash flowing properties. But if you are slow and methodical there are opportunities. Find a system that works for others and try to model yours after theirs. Why reinvent the wheel when you can borrow one!

Pretty much all the properties I have were a little ugly to start. Nothing major just some lipstick and rouge.
I wouldn't work for a business that didn't trust me to choose my own tools. This includes things like locking down the system so it cannot be customized.
I had a well meaning physician suggest a glutten free diet and I tried it for a month. There was absolutely no benefit for me.

A very small percentage of the population is affected by this problem. I don't know if there's a way to screen people first for susceptibility but I would think that would be much better advice than a blanket recommendation. But it wouldn't sell as many books would it?
If it makes sense, I'd have no problem doing it. If I don't see a logical reason behind it, I'd take it as a warning sign that the company wants to control my development OS without cause. If you make it clear in the job posting and you have an actual reason behind it, I don't see any problem.
Is a monopoly even needed? In most fields I thought it was illegal even if only a few businesses in a market get together, e.g. if a dozen gas station owners in my area got together to discuss coordinating price strategy, that'd be illegal, even though those 12 hardly own the whole market. Though there are legal ways to do it if you aren't actually discussing setting prices, e.g. all the local bakers' shops can get together to discuss difficulties in the current market for baked goods, how to better promote the sector, etc., so long as they aren't working out how to collude in negotiating with their suppliers, or agreeing to minimum prices for bread, or things of that sort.
Not to aim at the credibility or truthfulness of her words, but I'm rather surprised Courtney was able to write something that long, let alone with such proper grammatical and vocabulary choices. I thought she's always on crack.

EDIT: I just watched the video of herself getting another tattoo while smoking and miming the lyrics to her new single "Skinny Little Bitch". I stand by my words.
I wake up at 5 am every morning and code until 10 am on my startup then do work from 10 until 6. I also spend the last 2 hours before bed planning and doing any other startup task to make the 5 hours I spend in the morning working more productive.
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WIC is different from SNAP (food stamps).
Is Y-Combinator not considered a super-angel? Arrington says the superangels at the meeting comprise almost 100% of early stage startup funding, but PG wasn't there. What's YC then?
A more interesting way to ask this question to the HN crowd might be: "Is our universe a computer simulation inside another universe?"
I edited the summary to note that we are not (entirely) blocking system customization.
Oracle surprises with new Sparc chip launch
Well, that depends. If they have nothing to do with YC, then you may be correct. But then again it would be unlikely that they would only single out YC by name at such a meeting. Or any meeting. If, on the other hand they are co-investors with YC, which they must be since according to this scenario between them they see "100%" of the deals, then their "collusion" against YC would be a rather amateurish attempt to close the loop between them and a newly-prominent YC, made all the more so now that this "leaked" news item highlights just how much of a player YC is, as per the envy of all these angels.

I don't know. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't. But I find it unlikely that such a group, if they had to name one institution by name at such a risky meeting, would name YC and not, say, KPCB.
The future of the marketplace--dynamic computer mechanisms for outsourcing tasks
Why not make it a fully fledged site.
Bringing It Off The Screen: Inside Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environments Lab
IOS 4.x jailbreakers may get tricked by fake greenpois0n hacks
Yeah actually It would make me save some time when integrating different backend parts together. When it comes to integration it's definitely a mess dealing with different services and an intermediate layer, if well written, could be the right solution.
I know it's a real word. Now explain it to the masses on Facebook.
Ask HN: Quick way to make an A/B testing website?
Do you know of any links or more information to make an A/B testing website? I'm thinking of putting one together, but need some more good links.

Thanks.
If nothing else, it shows that the system works. A right that is not able to be exercised in a pragmatic manner is almost as bad as not having the right at all.
Great article, and it is relevant to my startup. Thanks for the link.