skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting less common now that local councils are actually fighting the claims.

Before suing a local council or the NHS was a guaranteed win, often out of court - so the lawyer couldn't lose and it was worth taking a no-win no-fee.
Now that they go to court a lot of them are demanding the client pay a hefty insurance premium up front - of course that's not a 'fee'.
From his perspective, it's much better to filter out the people who are sensitive about such things right away, by being 'abrasive', than to spend a bunch of time talking to people nicely only to find out they're incompatible with his style later.
I want one of those.
In my case I find myself fullscreening a vm if I can't change to base install. I have too much muscle memory that I can't implement on other os:

Cmd-t new terminal
Cmd-w new browser
Cmd-e new vim session
Cmd-f new file manager window

Then I have my ctrl-shift keybinds for terminator and my vim keybinds. I'm especially unproductive without the cmd-t option available and the terminator keybinds.
Still needs direct messages. When someone wants to message me apropos of nothing they do so by commenting on an answer of mine chosen at random.
Wow, I've been thinking about almost exactly this for a while now. I'll have to give this a try.
If you only look at the set of people who work in white collar jobs, I would wager those who previously had blue-collar jobs exhibit some positive characteristics.

I don't think that the set of all people who have had or currently have a blue-collar job is particularly relevant to the argument, other than as a backdrop for speculation.
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It already does that.
How exactly does Haskell have dynamic scoping? An appropriate monad does not count.
Suppose your lawyer thinks you have a 90% chance of winning - against a neighbour who might run up a $1000 bill for legal fees, the same as you. Then it's worth the risk.

Now suppose you are up against a bank that can run up $10M in fees (or claim their in-house lawyers cost that) - now to be $1000 at risk you need a case that is 99.999% sure before the lawyer's insurance company will let them take it.
The same can be said about benchmarking numeric vs io code. Is it apples and oranges and bananas then? Most programs have a mix of everything. Whether Eurler's problems are a good mix that represent your workload is up to you to decide.
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Bacteria form electric circuits?
Coincidentally (or maybe not), Let over Lambda has the same acronym... [http://letoverlambda.com/]
Why is it bad to cheer for the little guy?
What year was this written? 2000? In this day and age, MySQL queries should be hidden away behind a database abstraction layer, and results should be pulled using a method in an object model, formatted in a controller, then passed to a templating system for display. Echoing tables? Please!
My navigation was:

- home page
- /house
- /info/sensors
- /house/add

I went to the last page because I was curious that you had to register _before_ buying.

At this last page I saw my gmail username pre-populated in the form automatically which freaked me out (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account name was possible) and I closed the page, I did not submit (voluntarily) any info. Then within a couple of minutes I got in my gmail account a welcome email.

I think this is way worse than spam, fix asap.
How long before you guys start getting pulled aside for "enhanced screening"?
I own quickerfix.com
It could be useful for a StackExchange-type site. Email is in my profile
duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1795107 which already has some comments.
No worries Gordon. I was really only looking for an answer to my question. Congrats on your launch.
Very cool, I'm tempted to lurk in one of these rooms all day.

It'd be very cool if the chat rooms also displayed an auto-updating list of related questions to the side. For example, if you're sitting in the Ruby room and someone posts a question to StackOverflow with the `ruby` tag, a link to the question would appear in in this list.

Another cool idea would be a way for people to turn their chat questions into real questions on StackOverflow. Obviously copying and pasting works just fine, but I think a built-in feature could improve upon it. And it might be a way to give people reputation for helping others via chat.
GitHub is making me lazy but I like it
I think he meant Al Qaeda High School.
hookupers.com

lowdef.tv

remailto.com

patchcall.com

see profile for email
Do the WattVision guys have plans to create sensors that can replace light switches and receptacles? Perhaps with wireless mesh networking? That would be sweet :~).
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Exactly. And they also need the dreaded discussion FORUMS....for some topics, they are appropriate.
I never used delicious simply because the first time I was told about it, I couldn't remember where all the dots went. Even after checking it out I couldn't remember, so I just never went back. Life's to short to look those things up on Google every time I want to visit a site.
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Most debates these days are carried out on Twitter, but the platform is ill-suited to the task, and its character limit encourages brevity rather than rigor. Is there a platform for public debate that offers the immediacy of Twitter without any limits on content? Buzz comes to mind, but it is saddled by its connection to GMail. If not, is this an opportunity to build a dedicated platform for public debate?
I seriously doubt Groupon.ThePoint.com would today be valued at over a billion dollars.

Dropbox went on a tear after their domain purchase, but I suppose it's possible they would have anyway (though I know from personal experience it was tricky to tell people about Dropbox and then try and remember the domain).

http://www.google.com/trends?q=dropbox

(Dropbox.com was acquired in October 2009, right where growth turns from linear to exponential.)
Fixing technical recruiting: (...) Perhaps this can manage hiring flow on the company side too: tracking, sorting and archiving resumes; managing the interview/hiring process; allowing interviewers to keep and share notes on candidates.

This is exactly where I am going with job4dev.com. My progress has been slow this summer, but I'm planning to get the resume sorting and interview tracking done by the end of the year.
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What about other forms of harsh winter conditions - extremely low temperatures (including wind chill)?
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The creator of the room can set various feeds which show up as comments in the room. You can do exactly the thing you describe by clicking the Ruby tag, grabbing the RSS feed and selecting it as a feed for the room.
I may be completely wrong on this, but didn't Google try something almost identical and eventually realised it just didn't work, or the user base wasn't ready for it and Wave-ed goodbye to it only recently?

I don't want to bring down your site, but if they couldn't make it profitable that says something to me.

However, I liked Wave, and wanted it to stay, so if you system is good I'd use it, but I wonder if enough people would?

(oh and the rotating comic, totally agree very annoying)
It's looking great in iPhone! How does it look in a Blackberry or Nokia or Android or Windows Mobile? These market share are just as large as the iPhone(i could be wrong about the market shares).
Good for you, spending all that money! How much do you have to spend to get your own feature in Modern Domainer Magazine?
Also "bpython" is useful for exploratory programming in python and is an able replacement for the standard python shell http://bpython-interpreter.org/ The screenshots speak for themselves: http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/ Some of the features I love are:

* Readline-like autocomplete with suggestions displayed as you type.

* In-line syntax highlighting.

* Displays expected parameter list for any Python function.

* "Rewind" function to pop the last line of code from memory and re-evaluate. etc
These are valid complaints about Android, although the one about there being a URL address entry, google page, and google button is way over the top, even if it is a valid UX issue.

But...

http://www.himalia.net/blogs/leovernazza/archive/2007_03_01_...

Scroll down to see the nice pics of author with the Microsoft guys where he starts the post "Microsoft (through Wilson Pais) invited me to talk in the first Architect Forum of the year in Santiago de Chile."

I wonder if there is some MS bias here.
Actually, favorites on twitter have their own API stream now. Sites like favstar now update in near real-time and you can get instant "fav" notifications from iPhone notification apps like Boxcar.
PHP is also good, but if you want to do some heavy integration with service API I stand by my Javascript suggestion. It's not pedagogical, but then neither is PHP.

If you are a little more serious in your desire to learn programming, than you can learn Java. That way, you can go the GWT route when you need Javascript functionality.
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While the retweet button is similar to like (my co-founder and I actually discussed this the day before), I do think that a Twitter Like button may come along eventually. In fact, I think it's even possible for an upstart Twitter client to decide (on its own or with some of the other clients) to implement a Like button protocol, in the hopes that Twitter would eventually adopt it.

Like buttons are great for monetization, so I think it could make sense for Twitter.
Confirmed: I just replicated this behavior.
In practice high level is more complex and quirky then low.

Low level has just a few well defined interfaces. High level has tons, and high level is not flexible either.

An OS will have a C like API not because of C, but because that's how computers work. C was written to copy the computer.

And what I said has nothing to do with GPL vs BSD, I don't think your analogy applies. And I don't agree with what you assume I meant about high/low permit/enable.

I simply said that an OS is made to handle an actual real computer, and it's written that way. It has nothing to do with C, it has to do with hardware.

Personally I prefer a mix - define the low level and allow using it. On top of that make tons of high level helper functions, but always make sure that even if you use the high level functions you are still allowed to use the low level if you want.
Nice, I knew it.
I never knew this thing would sign me in to google without my permission.. and even register for subscription.. WTF?!
Thanks for the fix.

You take Lipitor/Plavix when you are at risk of certain blood flow related diseases (heart attack, stroke). The goal is to prevent these diseases or delay their onset in people with an elevated risk. Isn't that what we mean by preventative?

Vaccines probably also fall into this category. They are more widely used, although not exactly moneymakers [1].

[1] They used to be a small, positive revenue stream. Drug companies are trying to get out of the business now, due to fear of lawsuits by Jenny McCarthy and her ilk.
It's completely dickish of you to assume you know the answer, but you ask a good question. I don't know. That is the hardest part of all this, isn't it? Figuring out what you're going to do to make an actual positive difference in the world. I do feel like calling out the bad when I see it is a start (it's incrementally more than most seem to do, anyways), but I admit that it's ultimately pretty weak. So, you know, fuck you, but sincerely, thanks for asking.
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That's 125K spent on some pretty B-list domains (except 20.com - which is nice even if it fails the ambiguity test.) It's frustrating to read because pretty much anyone here could tell you that 125K can fund a lot of freakin' development time for actual, you know, products instead of names for things that don't exist yet, even as ideas.

On the other hand, Jason has 125K and I don't so WTF do I know.

But I will say that I don't buy into the idea of really good domain names these days being rare as gold dust; I brand a lot of client companies, and just picked up the perfect 5-letter.com on the aftermarket for $79 on behalf of a client. Granted, that was a steal but I've never, ever paid more than $300 to brand a company with a great .com.

YMMV
Someone is adding false information to the spreadsheet, so I will post my names here:

- Cozers .com

- Frawn .com

- Hapse .com

- Huged .com

- Rarsy .com

- CaptionGame .com

- DesignerMonthly .com

- Logolio .com

- DevelopmentContest .com

- DownloadFeed .com

- RSSRevolution .com

- HTML5Framework .com

- ElectricWebsites .com

- MembershipBlogs .com

- Organized .co

- Fitted .co

- SaleDuJour .com

- SwiftPic .com

- WebPConvert + WebPConversion + WebPConverter .com

- http://FollowLists.com (needs Twitter oAuth)

- http://ShortPress.com (needs WordPress plugin development)

Willing to entertain any offers to purchase or proposals from potential technical co-founders. Contact me as soon as possible, thanks. (mark at dotsauce .com)
creates a bad impression for otherwise reputed YC startups..
A definition of "team collaboration" would be good. Again, Google Docs has team collaboration, but I assume you mean something more, or more specific. E.g. does it have per-cell ownership? Like person A controls their numbers in column A, and person B controls their numbers in column B, etc. Are permissions more granular? Is access easier, by obscure URL instead of username/password? What sets it apart from other team collaboration spreadsheet offerings?
Just tried it now and it's exactly as described.

Seriously guys how have you managed to get around Google's protections here? ;)
I would counter (this is not my original idea but I highly subscribe to it) that HN's up-arrow serves a dual-purpose...'liking' an article and 'bookmarking' it for later. There's no other way I can see to explain how articles get 40+ votes on the homepage but only have 5-10 comments on them. If PG would simply add a 'read it later' style link/button to stories, up-arrows would retain their 'like this' purpose and I believe the homepage would have 'better' content on it.

I'm guilty of this myself.... I very often will click an up-arrow if I'm viewing the feed and don't have time to open up an individual article so i can use my instapaper bookmarklet on it.
Your post and the intro video on the page, e.g. "Hypernumbers : the Team spreadsheet...". Also, requests to team members to update their figures in a spreadsheet do not end in sad smilie faces unless it's a team of girl scouts.
Who are the cool guys in the photo on YC's home page?
OK, it's Friday and the mind wanders. I always was curious about the four guys on the photo that first comes up on YC. What are they looking at? Anybody with firsthand experience?
Hah, that reminds me. I own meatlobby.com because it came up in a conversation and as soon as I heard those two words together, I whois'd and bought it.
Most of the comments seem to focus on the supply side, but I think that demand for faster processors is waning—at least at the consumer level. I used to care what speed my processor was. Now I have to check my system info to remind me what I have in my MacBook Pro. Cloud computing has changed a lot for me as a user.

Building faster processors is extremely expensive, so demand has to be a key concern for manufacturers. I still think there's plenty of demand for faster processors, and I'm sure we'll continue to see lots of innovation, but the issue doesn't seem to be as pressing as it was 10 years ago.
This looks like a nice tool to have (if a bit expensive), but seriously, a bug like that is a real deal killer. Having my house appear after clicking a link freaked me out.
You've gotten the impression that the Taliban are nationalists rather than Islamists? Where have you gotten that impression from?
"Sidenote but I'm thankful to Matz for creating a language that makes disciplined programmers able to create highly maintainable code bases"

I agree with that. The "disciplined programmers" part is, however, the reason that I think that Ruby should be a reward for programmers who make it through C programming classes first.

Ruby's a great language, and a lot of fun to program with, but the same characteristics that make it an enjoyable language to use also make it possible for undisciplined programmers to get things done.
i get the feeling that an important concern that prevents soap adoption is the bulkiness of the xml standard that it's based on. i hope that the efficient xml interchange standard will make that concern go away that.

solutions like thrift seem to reinvent most of what's been done with xml schemas and other standards around soap solely on the grounds of performance.

oh and it's surprising that json-rpc is not in this pie-chart. pure rest is not powerful enough to communicate a complex object structure.
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"you'd never really see processors over 4GHz."

IBM released a 5GHz POWER processor 2.5 years ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/
Android makes it pretty easy to use your voice to send an SMS. I use that to SMS while driving. It's not perfect, but it works well enough.

Example: http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/25834585904
Wordpress + Blogger API is still XMLRPC which feels icky to hook up into. :)
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It seems to me to be a type of Begging the Question[1] since the conclusion - 'leading a cult is a good thing' - is implied by the premise 'a cult is a group of people with good attributes'.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
The FJ Cruiser is certainly built to look tough, and it has a bunch of near utalitarian elements, but I'd want to wait 30 years and see how many are still running before declaring that it actually is tough.
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because depending on the developers they might believe in their startup enough to stick with it unless you offer them enough to come to you.
I agree. I, similarly, can't get this idea out of my head. I don't have much to add except that #3 no doubt often informs the gatekeepers of #1. So, consider the actual power of #3.
These are mostly good suggestions, but 8-10 seem a little trendy, especially the reasoning behind #10. I really doubt people will even be using Twitter in ten years; picking a shorter name for your company because it'll be easier for people to RT your links just smacks of social media bubble.
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And me as well.
From what I can tell, up to 1997, the Toyota pickup truck sold in the US was essentially the Hilux.
With few exceptions, the midrange karma scored ServerFault users eschew more misinformation or guesswork than fact. One poster necroed a thread that was 13 months old and posted information that hasn't been true since the early days of Mysql 4.x. I debated whether it was worth correcting the post.

The barrier to entry should be karma < 50 or karma > 9000. Oddly, StackOverflow's userbase is considerably more accurate, but, the median range karma scored user generally has been upvoted and given points that don't correspond to skill or knowledge, but, answers posted by those higher karma users, correct or not are valued more highly.

Once someone figures out how to get people to answer accurately without having to receive the +1 carrot, then you'll have a community worth contributing to. Right now, all you need to do on SF/SO is answer first, answer often and use technical jargon.
I do as well. I can take SMS on my own time, in my browser, and answer thoughtfully when I feel like it.

The advocates of a "quick call" are really quite selfish. It may be quick for you, but it really sucks for me when I'm in a meeting, deep in conversation, in the restroom, or any other situation when my phone tends to ring.

Of course, Scott Adams went into more detail: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/wireless_voice_calls_are_obsol...
Having your house appear? Did they somehow pull your physical address info?
(I'm the author of the article)

There's two things at work here:

1. We're a small (2 people) shop; and
2. Our customers use mostly iPhones (more than 80% of mobile browsers that access our application).

For these reasons, we don't have special versions for any other mobile devices now (of course you can still use the desktop version of the app on the device, which works well on Android for example!).

The truth is, supporting mobile devices is hard work. If you want to support other devices than just for example the iPhone you will either need to provide a toned-down version of your app and have the same bad experience for all users; or special-case and provide versions that use the platforms to their full potential.

We choose to make 80% of our mobile users very happy, instead of providing a boring version that doesn't work so well to 100% of them.
There's http://ad.ly. That's started by some former MySpace/Fox guys. But to offset $0.03 per message, you'd need to get $30/cpms. That's not impossible, but you could be sending your users ads for services they might not want. Ringtones and whatnot.

You're right that email gateways are risky. They're not consistent and they show up as from random consecutive numbers to your users.

I suppose it's not possible to utilize the Twitter API for this?
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The story is very much the opposite in enterprise apps; I can't remember the last REST interface I saw, but we see SOAP interfaces every week, in new apps.

Unfortunately, SOAP isn't going anywhere. It's just not popular with Internet startups. Neither is ASP.NET.
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Dropbox.com was also acquired right after they got a ton of funding, which could also partially explain the exponential growth.

(Not arguing with you, just pointing it out).
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No I meant the demo button. I was skeptical about the idea but seeing the demo really sold me. IMO, I would throw that video out and place a nice big demo button.

The video was cute, but really does not show any functionality, value prop or a call to action. Meanwhile, the demo is neat and clearly shows why this product is worth using.
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Could you use wildcard DNS to avoid the pool issue?
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> anappleaday.com would work just as well, though.

And is already in use.
I didn't read the whole thing... After I realized how stuck on himself he was, I just skimmed it.

Do quirky people really brag about how quirky they are? Do they write essays and call them farewell letters?

I've never yet met a fun person who goes around telling people how much fun they are.
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So I bring a great team and idea, and he brings the domain and funding, and I get "some equity." Except if I have a great team and idea, I can get funding anyway. So really he just brings the domain.

How is this not domain squatting? If Calacanis isn't using the domains, he should sell them.
Seriously? You hope that SOAP survives, and switches from XML to binary XML?

I'm already gearing up to send cyborgs back in time to kill the EXI team members on the off chance that standard takes off.
I think that they are just using oauth and not doing anything nasty. In my case it asked me for my google account password.