skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to datamine facebook (without getting your ass sued)
My views have been based on the facts I've been given. I'm not from SF, until I'm given a reason to believe that the MTA isn't actually following the law, I'll keep assuming they are.

Maybe I should have been more specific before: I'll also apologise if the MTA don't withdraw, but are instead shown to be in the wrong.
1. Keep the investment, assuming the shareholders agreement provides for this. Do not jeopardise your cash position for the emotional convenience.
2. Instruct a lawyer to commence filing suit for breach of employment contract. This usually sobers up aggressive types.
3. Tenaciously and repeatedly communicate this persons breaches to them whenever they accuse you. Do not admit wrongdoing.
In which cities? Everywhere I've looked except NYC it's been fine; NYC specifically is the place that seems to be a mess (I've heard London is similar, but never looked).

The review system does weed out some of them. If you look for rooms in NYC, there's a lot with negative reviews along the lines of, "thought this was a spare room, but turned out to be a hostel". I don't have much confidence that the reviews have caught all of them, though.
Does anyone maintain a blacklist of "nightmare" people to do startup business with?

Seems like this guy is a surefire candidate to be included in such a list.
Thanks.

The more users that report bugs, the better coverage the software will have.
<em>The basic problem is that these new-media companies don’t really have customers; they have audiences. Starting a company like Digg is less like building a traditional tech company (think Apple or HP) and more like launching a TV show. </em>

This is always the risk in creating community based platforms that don't monetize directly. One day you're the hot chick at the party, the next you're that creepy old guy who keeps coming back to said party.
"tips on debugging ajax"

Use a good browser tool (like FireBug or Chrome's Developer Tools). These can show you the Ajax requests and responses as well as any errors.

jquery.inspect is a good jQuery plugin for exposing the structure of JavaScript objects: http://github.com/ssoper/jquery-inspect
As horrible as it is in San Francisco, it's worse in other cities (Boston, for one).
Thanks for the suggestion!

It's possible to do the inverse right now, pick results from a particular source. Like you could search for "+php +facebook source:elance" (without quotes) to get php+mysql jobs results from elance.

You can also specify a budget with "minbudget:[number]" shorthand. It will search for all jobs with budget >= what is specified.

There's a third shorthand that lets you see only fixed-pay jobs or hourly jobs "type:[hourly OR fixed]".

Its all written down here http://www.grep42.com/faqs/. Perhaps I should make it more obvious?

EDIT: Sorry, the shorthand/filter "budget:[number]" should be "minbudget:[number]"
Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords (see last parragraph)
"You can use it to create an <iframe> of sorts that simply loads pre-built HTML files into a div, but that's not all that exciting. If you use something like PHP to process and load data, you can start to make some very cool applications."

The prototypical example for use of AJAX is to submit a HTML form without ever leaving the page (or at least, do something equivalent), for example the vote buttons on forums like, well, this one here.
My standards are a bit different. I use what I like, not what other people tell me I should.

PS: I didn't down arrow you. What's with all the Redditesque down voting lately?
No, not at all. Not any more than having a phone number or email address. Maybe even less.
As others have advised, I would contact a good lawyer asap. And then consider deleting this post if that's possible. Your adversary may find it and use what you've said here against you. If not the details, he may use the fact that you've said it in this forum. Again, a lawyer would be a better advisor on that too.
But Google was hard to build, it was revolutionary search technology that demonstrably better than the alternatives. Digg was more akin to a hot new bar. The value is mostly whoever else is hanging out, not the mechanics of running a bar. Like what haooens with bars, Digg is no longer the new hotness.
About previous ideas:
1) 3 years ago it was a business networking website. Where people could exchange, hold business cards.

2) Second idea was booking appointment calendar for doctors, layers and personal trainers...kinda electronic appointment secretary...
Yep, thats why I only use it as a low-res heuristic. Theres no real substitute for spending time with and individual and really getting to know them.
Linux-Based wireless router patent
I could have gotten lucky. I've only used it in NYC once so far, and just registered for another place.

And it seems that all it would take is one negative review. If I see a "bait and switch" type of commentary, I'll avoid that place for sure.

I suppose people could game this - mutually book each other's place, eat AirBNB's take as cost of business, and just vote each other up.
Critique my project: Reviewing Restaurants by Dish
I agree. I think this is the only way we'll see live pro sports on the internet in the near future.

The networks know that live sports is the goose that laid the golden egg. NFL US TV contracts are worth $3 Billion each year, NBC paid $800MM for the Olympics, and don't forget the Super Bowl commands the most expensive ad rates of any programming of the year, followed by the NBA Championships, World Series and NCAA Basketball Tournament. That's certainly an investment the Networks will protect until their last breath. Until online advertising markets mature, they won't want to do anything that could possibly undercut their revenue. That's exactly why NBC, CBS and ABC blocked access to Google TV, but this is only more true in live sports.

My experience as a TV Producer is that the networks still look at the internet as a worse version of TV: less profitable, less quality and more unworthy competition cluttering the space. They occupy a shrine-like position in almost every household in the world. Why should they share it? They want to use the internet to supplement to their current offerings rather than use it to replace their business model. They certainly aren't going to aid anyone else to do otherwise.

Google TV, IMO, is doomed to "hobby" status unless it gets quality content either better or altogether not available on TV. I would argue that Apple succeeded with the iPod because they created a content ecosystem (iTunes) around the device that no other device had. Content was the ultimate deciding factor in a number of technological innovations: Beta v. VHS, HDVD v. Blu-ray, etc. You Tube alone is not enough.

If Google really wants their TV to succeed, they may have to get into the content business in a serious way. Live sports, as the most valuable programming on TV, is the most obvious target.
The worst is when I reboot to install system updates. Then every program I have open feels perfectly entitled to whine that I don't want to browse web pages anymore or something and cancel my restart command.
I'm not sure I understand --no-ff very well, but if with it you lose the feature branch sub-commits this is why it is not the default I guess.
This is one of those "Ask HN's" where the ONLY helpful + useful answer is: "get a lawyer" and nothing more.

HN'ers all mean well, but few-to-none of us are lawyers. I've seen examples where many well-meaning geeks (I'm one too) have up-voted an answer to a legal question that is actually incorrect or not the best course of action.

Always take legal advice from a lawyer over the advice of 100 geeks. If the amount of money we're talking about here is $400k then you must have had a lawyer involved to do the deal so go back to them seeing as they are familiar (and should have put provisions in for this kind of outcome).
They are rumored to have turned down 130M acquisition. Assuming that was true, then sure he wasn't worth 60M but he would have gotten 15-30M, no? I like how you guys think and am def. more excited by revenue than the other path to riches(getting acquired due to the potential in your company as seen by the acquirer).

And yet, while you may have been "right" in this case, you could have easily been "wrong". What if Digg had been acquired for 130M or 200M? What do you have to say about YouTube which was bleeding dollars until recently but seems like it will go down as one of the better acquisitions of the decade? They had very little rev; lots of investment riding; and far from profitability. And yet Google acquired them for a buncha money.

May be it is not as clear cut as simply taking the revenue just as it isn't as clear cut as taking the valuation from the last round?
Perhaps Twitter is forecasting a future environment where raising cash will be more difficult or under less favorable terms.

That happened at my last company. Management sold a lot of bonds with stock warrants although we didn't need it at the time. The market tanked and we would have been unable to raise additional cash. That bond money kept the company going a little longer.
When you're a VC-funded company, you're expected to operate at a loss. Otherwise you're not making use of the funds you've been given to grow.
Very valuable points, thanks!

Although it's not yet possible to search an exact price range, its possible to search for all jobs matching a certain criteria with a price >= X.

For example, if you wanted to look for all banner designing jobs worth, say $500+, you could search the following:

+banner +design minbudget:500

I hadn't though about the job creator until you mentioned it :) Will work on adding some info about them.

I really see what you mean with Krop.com and sidestep.com. It's a big challenge, fitting in a lot of data in a meaningful way without overwhelming the user.

You've given me a few good leads. I really appreciate it. Thanks!

EDIT: Sorry, this is the correct query: +banner +design minbudget:500
So "Webkit is the new Firefox" doesn't make any sense. Nobody downloads Webkit.

Citrus trees are the new apples.
> Dare I ask, why not?

If you'd like to try this out, you can approach one of the many unlicensed civil-disobedience taxis that hang out around NYC airports, instead of going with a licensed one. The quality and honesty of service is quite spotty though.
How do you know they signed an NDA and non-compete, or are you just speculating? If so, not sure speculation is helpful here.

As it happens, non-competes tend not to be enforceable in most states, although granted it doesn't say what jurisdiction (or even country) this is occurring in.
Lomborg seems to have beat you to it; see his upcomin book: http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Solutions-Climate-Change-Compari...
Blogs with great writing?
I'd like to have a few RSS feeds sent to my Kindle (via kindlefeeder.com if you're curious) but I can't think of blogs that consistently have articles on the longer side that are worth reading. I'm really just interested in reading things that are well-written and fascinating, and not news. I don't want to be kept up to date, just engaged with something that hasn't been thrown together haphazardly.

Any thoughts on what's worth checking out?
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Can I click on a link into Inkscape's code repository and try it out right now?

Comparing this with a desktop app is missing the point.
Wow, those are both really clever and cool. I'm going to check out Yahoo Pipes now.
I don't understand why you think I misunderstand Plantinga's argument. The facepalm refers to how it can be extended to demonstrate much more ridiculous statements than just the existence of God, therefore we can conclude it's wrong without worrying too much about which of the premises is faulty. If you think "the original and the strongest form" is supposed to work for God - increase our credence in the idea of God - but somehow fail to work for awesome cheeseburgers, then please enlighten me why. Because as far as I'm concerned, what I wrote was not a parody, but a completely valid cheese-o-logical proof using Axiom S5 and all these other things.
UberCab Cease & Desist Means One Thing: They’re Onto Something
They have a good project overview page, but one thing I would like to see is links to some apps where this is used.
Because the original poster said so?

We are also asking that the existing non-compete, non-disparagement, and NDA they signed still stand
http://bluegriffon.org
That is twisting my words beyond even the most uncharitable reading.
I've heard the joke before in various forms, most commonly using two prestigious British public schools (Harrow and Eton). I wonder what the original form was?
I'm not sure I like that it makes me pick where I am from a list with one element. I'm also not sure that I like that it makes me pick where I am before it tells me why. That being said, it does add an element of suspense. Otherwise, it's kind of a neat idea. I'd use that in NYC if it had more content. At the same time, I don't know if I'd ever write a review for it. Maybe if you made giving feedback easier to do - like just allowing the upvoting of particular restaurants or something.
There are a few places around $1050, but those are the cheapest places available. Perhaps my standards are high, but I like a place to be in a decent neighborhood, with appliances from the last two decades at least, etc. Perhaps by bay area standards thats picky, I don't know.
At least five US government efforts underway to regulate data and online privacy
This tab based layout for the selection of dishes will break, when you add more of them. Simply not enough space.

Needs a search function.

Needs a google map to get directions/distances. "Show me best burger place from my current position"

If I select "burgers" and then in the list of burger places select on I don't want to have to select the "burger" again in the restaurant view. Program should remember that it's in dishes mode now.
The whole UX has something nasty "circular", where I have the feeling that I must provide the same information several times to get results.
The charitable reading of your words, if I didn't misunderstand, is "many people think that people are sometimes justified in ignoring the law, depending on the situation." That's more or less a truism.

Edit: Upvoted you back to 1.
Well that's exactly my point.

The Mac App Store isn't the game changer some people seem to think (or fear) it is. It could very well be a boon to small developers, or it could have no impact at all, but it doesn't change anything.
I think your well on your way to a workable prototype.

Some things I would add:

Landing Page (http://gustatio.us/):

1. Needs some kind of call to action (what do I do when I land here)

2. Add signup/Login Info to homepage.

3. Maybe add some of the latest reviews to your home page.

4. Site Search

Location Pages:

1. Address / Contact Info?

Reviews:

1. List the username and time-stamp when/who made review.

Also, try cleaning up the URLs to use meaningful permalinks.
EX: /categories/taco
His only way is to get a lawyer, however, I find this post helpful. This can show new comers the problems that they can face with investors and therefore take caution.
Apple products are banned in Bill Gates' house
I think that the answer to the first part of your question ("public face") depends on a lot on the choice offered in the second part "employ/contract/partner/supplier".

Also, to a lesser extent, on the kind of work you're talking about (startup hacker, co-founder, web programmer, systems programmer, open source hacker, IT dogsbody?).

Can you be more specific? Assuming the question is for your benefit, what are you looking to be? If the question is for your own analysis, who are you looking to hire/partner/contract to?
Companies can't just decide that "the law is wrong" and ignore it. They can speak out against it, lobby to get it changed, etc etc, but they can't just decide to break it and hope no-one notices.
improving Erlang performance... by not using Erlang. neat.

next step: stop using CouchDB?
I just found out that Go is a popular game among Clojure programmers. This is how the speakers at the first Clojure conference celebrated the night before the conference.

http://twitter.com/cemerick/status/28359615311
Creating a "telecommute" flag/checkbox would be very useful so people can find international work easier.
every other major city in North America Why stop at North America? It's worldwide.

BUT: The only good thing about taxis in London is that they need to pass a test called The Knowledge (refs below) which means they are able to figure out the best route to anywhere in London on the fly. And if you think this is easy, it's not: the structure of the brains of taxi drivers is actually bigger in the part responsible for spacial memory, the discovery of which led the researchers winning the Ig Nobel prize.

Refs:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehir...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/677048.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7613621.stm

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2003
Facebook to Raise Series E Funding with Apple as Investor
Come on, you don't need any of those (as departments) when you're 5 people. What 5 person firm has any need for HR, accounting, admin, etc. that they can't get covered by outsourcing for less than the cost of a 6th person, let alone another 65 people?
This time the application is way better! YC is improving in application big time. There are still same questions (that is great), but some hard questions are taken away. I also like the idea of video. We know Paul and Jessica and all crew in face, but now they can see us too (heh). Maybe that would be great to upload picture of funders too and stick it to application. But that is up to YC :-)
furnishing or offering or promising to furnish or accepting or offering or promising to accept a valuable consideration in compromising or attempting to compromise the claim

Does "the claim" here mean "anything people were arguing about", or does it specifically mean a lawsuit which had been filed?
Really? Example? I couldn't find one thing here that wasn't embarrassingly juevenile.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jay-Z

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

I mean, seriously?
Bandwidth is all I really want, too, but I don't have good options for it. I'm about 15,000 feet from my CO, so the DSL I used to have was limited to 384kbps, and would flake out when it's hot. Comcast provides something like 14Mbps, and is more reliable than DSL, but still not reliable enough for me to trust their phone service. (I have kids; if I call 911, I want to be sure I'll get through.) I would consider getting unbundled IP from Comcast if it were available at a reasonable price, but it isn't, so I keep paying the $13.95/mo for my statutory minimum cable (just the stuff I could get over the air).

I sometimes get calls from Comcast, advertising their voice service. One time I explained I needed something reliable; they told me they had 93% reliability. And they seemed to think this was a good thing.
Derek Sivers's blog, http://sivers.org/blog
In the case of meetings and the such I do understand the need to have everyone be punctual though, and that should be stated before hand. If you have a meeting, be there on time, if nothing time sensitive is on the calendar, then let people do what they find more productive, within reason off course.

The original poster is asking if punctuality is in general a measure of professionalism. I say generally no, but it can be in cases when punctuality is important. I said its a non issue on perhaps a greater percentage of the cases.

If I hire two developers and one has a knack on getting to the office an hour late every day while the other has a knack of being half an hour early; however the first is always on time with his work, while the second one is pushing deadlines all the time. My fuzzy feeling goes to the one that comes late every day.

In contrast if I hire a support line agent, and he's always late and because of it I have customers not being attended to I mark him as unprofessional and a liability.
Wasn't this news like a year ago?

Edit, yes:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/02/no-ipods-allowed-in-bil...
Simply adding this: A search engine that helps people find work on the internet. (From the about page) or something similar right under the title would make it much easier to get what it is at first glance

Some other feedback: the text descriptions for jobs seems a bit wide and hard to read for me.

I think it would benefit from better text contrast (I find it hard to read lighter grays on white.

Otherwise it looks interesting, though I don't see a startup point other than sponsored listings.
Thanks, I'll put that on the growing list of enhancements :)
I needed to look at Wikipedia to find out what that does, and that its from the creator of Nvu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueGriffon
The name is a bit weird but I'm guessing you're okay with that.

For some reason, the page seems off-center. This might be my tiny resolution combined with the feedback tab on the right.

Love the results page.

I would love to see some of the advanced search options incorporated into the UI-- maybe on an advanced search page, though, so you aren't sacrificing any simplicity.

I would maybe tighten the letter spacing between the g and r, and definitely between the r and e.
Conversational Intelligence
Does anybody know of good articles that describe how new TV content is paid for and how this is linked to pay TV subscriptions. Are Google, Apple and Netflix going to have to go into the business of making new content if they run the traditional networks out of business?
PG's goal is to make money. Period. It may give you the warm and fuzzies to believe that he's trying to find passionate people, but without a profitable idea, the rest doesn't really matter.

These questions matter because PG doesn't want people that don't work together well (which will cause unneeded drama and destroy the company internally), and that they will have the drive to continue on the current project and not give up (there are many people that jump around to 1000 different projects or give up easily). It's merely a way to increase his chances of ROI, which isn't a bad thing.
How is that really any less embarrassing than slapping ads around fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd cat photos?

Either way it's going to sound dumb explaining it to your grandchildren.
I wonder how long we go until there's flip-thinking in the cloud -- "use bare metal, it's retro and might make you faster..." :-)
github (or something similar, but only if used heavily) is the most paramount, I'd say.

By looking at a well-used github (/gitorius/bitbucket...) account you can evaluate someone's:
- communication skills
- code quality
- areas of expertise
- creativity
- ability to see things through to the end
What if they decentralize it even more?

I'm imagining regular drivers (like me) being txt'd when there is a nearby person who wants a ride.

Like hitchhiking but using GPS and money.

The hitchhiker would specify his destination and how much he is willing to pay. The software would know my location as well as destination (optional) and notify me when I'm near him.

Make everyone into a taxi driver.

For added value you could also give individuals special badges and such that certify their driving credentials, and let the buyers decide how much their driving credentials are worth.

Credentials could be on a graded scale:
- Confirmed driver's license
- Confirmed professional driving certification

Naturally you'd have a reputation system where passengers can rate the quality of the drivers, and drivers could respond to the criticisms.

Decentralized taxi service. The biggest hurdle is reaching critical mass of users, which UberCab has achieved. I want to see them destroy the conventional taxi industry (disruptive technology makes me tingle)
Taste buds in lungs discovery could ease asthma