skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hmm, that's a bit unfortunate, there seems to be some confusion. The plans are both the same, it's just that one is monthly and the other is discounted annual. We will need to restyle the page so it doesn't look like they're two separate packages, thank you for the feedback.

To clarify, the high price is per year, the low is per month.
Reading this crap. Wtf
Third-party candidates can't have Presidential ambitions. Not being a major-party candidate would hamstring her credibility in a national campaign.
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Oh, good idea! The double negative is a bit mind-bending, but, as you said, we couldn't say "affiliate links" and put an "X" next to it as that would make it seem like you're missing out on a good thing.

The faces idea sounds great, thanks!
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Someone here put this together: http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/

Edit: some more found at the bottom of http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ
I think you have to measure things with care. I always thought that if worse came to worst, I could always still get a shitty PHP coding job. Things are never as bad as they appear to be. I think the message is to get over the irrational fear of unemployment, and the nonsensical notion that web apps are expensive to keep running. They're not. You need a domain name and a cheap server box. If you already have a laptop, there's even free wifi everywhere. If you think about that for a second, you realize it's a wonder there aren't /more/ startups booming everywhere than there are today.
We don't distinguish between the two, our free plan is resource-restricted, and can thus be thought of as a trial...
I think it's worth pointing out that taking someones code and running it again on the same data does not constitute an independent verification of the original work. Just like scientists don't go using the same lab to verify an experiment, they shouldn't use the same code.

That said, it is often useful to release code for other reasons. For applied areas, releasing the code in the form of a software tool is fairly common. This allows people from the target area, who may not be computer scientists, easy access to the new method.

Code review seems to be nearly non-existent in the scientific community, although it does happen occasionally when one researcher uses another's code base for further experimentation.
Nope, all the pages get cached and you can optionally publish them to get a persistent URL to which you can link from anywhere.
hardware manufacturers will not get a free pass to compete with Apple on price as PC manufacturers did during the exile

Good point. It reminds me of one of the things Jobs said about 7" tablets not being able to to meet the larger iPad on price. It sounded daft at the time, as the screen is surely the most expensive component, but then here comes the 5" Dell Streak at $550 and the 7" Galaxy Tab at $400 with contract.
Are you on the board of Apple? Are you a shareholder?

Then why do you care?

Seriously, why does Apple's profit margin have any relevance to you, a consumer? I would really like to know.

See, I care about relative marketshares as a developer and as a user because that decides application reach, and application availability.

Profit margin of vendors....why would I care? Seriously, why, aside from some pathetic flag waving?

Some of the Android makers make low margins because they are essentially recovering from collapse, at least in the smartphone market. Motorola, SE, LG...was there some proprietary scenario where they would be rolling in loot right now on a proprietary platform? Seriously, do you think that? Is anyone stupid enough to think that?

If Motorola didn't adopt the Android last minute rescue, they would have been done. LG...SE...what option was there for them, given the entrenchment of the iPhone and the network lock in effect of the app market that was quickly becoming unipolar.

And delusions that Apple is immune to competitive forces is the sign of fervent blindness. Even Apple is warning that their margins are completely unsustainable, because no longer do you pay whatever it costs because that's the platform with the Facebook app and the Twitter app and the Foursquare app...but now you actually have options.
Given that we have no way of reliably determining which systems require higher levels of serialization for correctness, I'm not sure we should draw much comfort from this.
Again, there's no incentive. You're arguing that it's not a burden, but you're not presenting any benefit it has to the researchers. If you want researchers to start doing this, then you need to figure out how to incentivize it.
Why should your congresscritter care? At most you represent one vote, and you aren't likely to donate money to them.

No if you want to change this, you have to go after the TSA people, not with violence (as tempting as it is, and as deserving of it as they are) but by totally ostraciseing them: if you work in a shop, you don't serve them, if you are a doctor you don't treat them, if you used to have them over for lunch you don't invite them anymore, if their children goes to your children's school you don't talk to them, invite them for birthday celebrations, etc, etc.

Then maybe the TSA will learn that they too need other people and can't go around being assholes.
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Trust me you're not missing anything at all. If I actually had any regrets is doing the single thing too much and going overboard too many times.
I probably first saw the "fat guy tearing up his cubicle computer" video in RealMedia, but the simple history is that before flash was prevalent there wasn't really a such thing as a "video sharing site." Modems were still the primary means of internet access 7-8 years ago and codecs weren't yet optimized for online access.
I think you have it the wrong way. Every plane I've ever flown on (>100) starts numbering at the front, and you can see the wings are clearly swept downward.
ITU's Definition Aside, T-Mobile Pushes 4G Label In New Ad Campaign
Ugh, why can't this person have a simple comment form? Even enabling all the scripts on the page, I can't seem to post a comment on the blog. So here's the one I wrote...

Have you tried Org Mode? (http://orgmode.org)

I find it totally indispensable for keeping track of all of my Todo items -- and a lot more besides. It has exporters for various formats, including HTML, PDF/LaTeX, and plain text. Rather than storing your data in the inaccessible cloud, it encourages you to store your Todo files locally, but makes it easy to sync them (e.g., with a service like Dropbox). External projects like MobileOrg for iPhone (http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/) and Android (http://matburt.net/?p=94) provide a way to read Org files on your mobile device.

I realize that sounds like a bit of a commercial, but the point as it relates to your post is this: the Org format, which is a plain text format, is already a rich representation for task management. It is used by several different apps, and already has exporters for other formats. You could always extend Org to export to OPML like you have envisioned, too, without too much work. There is a lot of work being done on exporters these days, and I think you would find good support in the community if this was a project you wanted to work on.
On standard Docomo phones? I've been able to browse the internet on a 1000yen AU since 3 years ago. I could also download music. If the link considers 93% of Japanese phones not smart phones, the term "smart phone" should be defined more clearly.
And if you don't want to type it out, just remember "7f12u" and hit up http://www.reddit.com/r/7f12u and click the link on the right.
This is a great post. And it's well written!

I can definitely relate to the sentiments, but I think giving developers a "pass" on their involvement in The Scene (or maybe their own scene) is letting them (us) off easy.

We have our own superficial criteria for who's hot/not. It's what language you write, how you host, how you deploy, how you test, how you data (Yes it's a verb now. You're welcome).

I know it seems like these are substantive issues. And sometimes they are. But ultimately, as long as a technical solution gets the job done, it's fine. I'm not talking about getting the job done poorly. That's not getting the job done.

And as someone who's working on a very un-sexy project (that I hope will be substantive and meaningful to a lot of people outside this community), I can say being outside the scene is a cold place to be.

I'm not really complaining. Nor offering a solution. So take that.
You're describing a value judgement ("enough" privacy) that is different for everybody where the story is describing a transformation in access methods that are the same for everybody.
I took the decision a little too early. I should have checked it earlier that there is no legal way to develop iPhone apps on Linux except (probably)buying OS X and running it on a virtual machine and almost ditto goes for Windows.
Why do people keep insisting on flying under these conditions? Seriously, you can find pictures of pretty much any place you want online, you can have a video call to the other side of the planet for free through Skype, and you can buy pretty much anything you want online.

It makes sense for the photographer, but it makes no sense for most people who fly.
Ask HN: Best Books about Startups
Which are the best books about startups, startup life, stories of the Silicon Valley in the 80s, interviews of entrepreneurs and such?

I've read quite a few but would like some good recommendations. They needn't be all serious, could be fun too, but should be good reads. Most of us would find such books quite helpful, inspiring even.

Here are a few I can remember now. I'll add some more later.

Books

Founders at Work

Coders at Work

Hackers and Painters

iCon: Steve Jobs

The Google Story

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison

The Masters of Doom

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

Bringing Nothing To The Party

Kindly add to the list.

Thanks.
I've been wondering the same thing. I already manage a high traffic site and its enough work having to worry about 1 site, I don't want to spend time in another one. I wish there was a fully customizable and cheap WordPress hosting somewhere that took care of all the security updates. Wordpress.com does not let you create CNAMEs unfortunately. Any suggestions?
John Resig, you are such a crybaby. It isn't your job to tell people what library they should be using. You have your product, let it speak for itself. Nobody needs you to put down other libraries based on your personal feelings. I'm sorry that someone wrote another library, and that people might use it instead of jQuery. You shouldn't take it personally. But you always do. I'd shut the hell up if I were you, you are embarrassing yourself.
Yes, I was not sure what it meant the first time I read it either. Perhaps this is better: Below is a USPTO notice describing how they will make it easier for patents to pass the obviousness tests
"But I've never heard of startups who waited until the time was right and then succeeded."

The reason we don't see that sort of thing happen may be that it just looks like they're slow to gain traction from the outside. Except they're slow because of timing, not execution or other internal reasons. Of course, they themselves probably don't know they're "waiting".
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I run a small site that does this: record people's regrets. http://regrett.com
I'm hoping that this is finally the straw that breaks the camels back and people start to push back on these "security" measures. Not traveling via air is an option for some people but for most when they fly they aren't any reasonable alternatives. Making these invasions a prerequisite to flying means you are going to have strangers looking at you naked regularly or being groping (which I'm presuming is meant to be as invasive as possible to encourage use of the scanners). The alternative to this is turning down a job away from anybody you would like to see regularly, or any job that requires frequent travel or going to college in another state etc. And boy is your life about to suck if you travel with kids or someone elderly.
Maybe the early startups should just be more patient?
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It's a matter of perspective, I imagine, but I don't think the airlines have much power here at all. I think it's reasonable to view US airports as having been nationalized over the past 9 years, so I think elected officials are probably a more-effective vector here.
This reminds me a Steve Jobs quote:

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

from http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/What-are-the-best-Steve-Jobs...
I've got a $20/month VPS at RootBSD, and I snagged a $5/month Linux VPS that was promoted here a few weeks ago (VPS Tree). I love 'em both, as I'm an admin by trade and I love the total control I get. Not that I have a site to really speak of, since I'm kinda stuck in that deer-in-the-headlights phase of someone with a cool idea but can't seem to muster the creative juices to make anything not look like a mid-90s Geocities page.

If you want cheap, I (as a former costomer) recommend you check out NearlyFreeSpeech.net, as they give you some control (a shell). The service is pretty good and the owner is pretty damned sharp. You deposit a pool of money and they drain from it depending on the resources you consume. It's tiered in such a way that it's often a good deal for many sizes of sites.
Needs to have BASIC commands painted on the keys :))
I'm not sure that treating TSA agents like they treat Middle Easterners is a viable solution. Ressentiment is a ruling-principle of the lowest sort.
Actually Marx never asserted that capitalism would collapse, just that it was naturally a boom-bust cycle with a general trend toward ever-bigger busts.
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I think you just have to have a great team that knows when the iron is hot and where to strike it.
Here too, but I guess it's never too late to fix that, right? I'm concentrating on that right now.
I will never use a portable product that doesn't have some type of flash memory slot (i.e. some form of SD), common interface and charger connector (i.e. some form of USB), 3.5mm headphone jack.
I like this idea a lot. Can you recommend a service to take care of e-mail forwarding?
Interview with Buffett’s Biographer, Alice Schroeder
or http://f7u12.com
But who can most effectively lobby the elected officials?
Hadoop lets you run any executable or script as a map/reduce job.

http://hadoop.apache.org/mapreduce/docs/current/streaming.ht...
I regret not seeking out more personal mentoring when I was younger instead of more schooling. It's easier to ask for and get when you're young-- the mentor is more likely to be flattered and more likely to see that taking a young person under his/her wing is worthwhile. It's harder (but not impossible) to do when you're older: you have less time to spend with that experienced person.
A not-uncommon scenario for a post series-A board is a CEO, a cofounder, 2 VCs, and an independent. Any 3 board members can sack the CEO and hire a replacement. To add insult to injury, the CEO seat is often attached to the job, so the replacement gets the CEO seat, and now the sacked CEO and cofounder are left to bicker over one seat.

The board composition is decided by the financing docs, and is one of many things you negotiate in the financing. You're right that you have to "let it" happen (ditto the protective provisions), but unless your round is highly competitive you will probably do that, as the alternative is not getting funded.

Finally, note that the board exists to maximize shareholder value. The CEO's share holdings, majority or otherwise, do not mean s/he is the best person to create value for the company's shares. A board member is supposed to act for the best interests of the company as a whole, not for any one person or share class.

As a side note, this sometimes leads to odd cases where someone - like a VC - will vote in favor of something as a board member, which is clearly in the best interest of the company as a whole, but then vote against it with their shares, which is their right and obligation to do, to maximize the value of their own investment. That could happen, for example, if an acquisition offer was in play that would not meet the VC's goals for the investment.
If everyone will record themselves in every aspect of their life, that will be a lot of recordings. I assume people will watch at least some of them, meaning that people will be spending a good chunk of time viewing these videos. This also is an aspect of their lives, so that means we'll end up with a lot of recordings of people watching recordings. I believe this becomes a recursive loop, as well, so the future's going to be pretty meta. Though I suppose they'd probably choose not to watch those videos, even if they recorded them, so maybe not.
Ugh, why can't this person have a simple comment form

Yeah, I generally forego commenting on any site that uses Disqus and similar comment widgets.
An archive of older open sourced Unices
The problem is that when the money run out, patience won't save you.
Because board seats are often given to new investors as part of term sheet "package". Shareholders can decide to grant a board seat to an incoming VC because they think the combo of the VC's money and guidance will increase the value of the company. That can lead to situations where a majority of the ownership is not represented on the board.
Exportable/importable ToDos would be good. But online ToDo lists with APIs are the future. Like Toodledo: http://api.toodledo.com/2/index.php

Are there others with APIs?
Two small things. First, Cloud Hosting != cloud service. Last, at $5 or $10 a month, it's a pretty good deal to rent a VPS and learn a couple of things along the way.
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Obviousness tests derive entirely from the federal courts. The law (35 USC 103) itself is rather concise (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35...):

A patent will not be granted if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains.

The federal courts have interpreted this sentence into various tests over the years, which are then interpreted further into guidelines set forth by the USPTO.
tl;dr

American education system won't improve until American kids get off their asses and study hard.

All these movies and articles about fighting w/ teachers unions aren't the real issue. Many of those "bad" teachers would be more motivated if they didn't have to babysit lazy brats all day and if they earned a decent wage.

Charter schools mostly work because they siphon off the most motivated kids and teachers. I am skeptical that they help the system as a whole. Maybe they raise test scores but mostly by helping the most enthusiastic kids get higher scores, not helping the average non-charter kid get higher scores.

btw, i am an american who has spent 6 years living in both(South Asia and East Asia), where kids do get off their asses and they don't have complex charter/teacher motivation/reorganization schemes. Why do kids study so hard there? Because there parents beat it into their skulls that they will be dirt-poor farmers unless they get an education.
So if the union members wanted it passed, how come the union members stalled it in coming to a vote?
Any of the above.

Provide a realtime chat if you can, ie like:
https://github.com/isaacsu/twich
Give it a timetable so each project has a set time for participants to chat, (the project in question is displayed at the top of a page.) You can also record chats, and offer multiple rooms.

Maybe a Q&A archive for each project, along the lines of http://forum.twich.me/ or http://formspring.me
Simple answer to this question - most people prefer to experience things themselves, rather than outsourcing those experiences to photographers. Photos and videos don't even begin to approach the satisfaction of actually being somewhere.
Google Public Data Explorer can show a subset of the data: http://www.google.com/publicdata/overview?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
The term for first-money-out is "preference". Preference terms are almost ubiquitous in preferred stock (the similarity in names isn't entirely coincidental).

Participation means that after the investors get their preference out, they continue to share in proceeds ratably. It is also common, but less so.

The short version is: preference WITH participation means "Your money back plus your share". Preference WITHOUT participation means "Your money back OR your share, whichever is bigger".

Brad Feld's term sheet series explains this well, in depth.
It was funny, but no one likes jokes here. I've tried.
"The only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes."

--Oscar Wilde
diapers.com is one of our competitors, and we're currently evaluating the same Kiva system they use in our distribution centers. The initial numbers look fantastic.
Agree that there's luck involved but "waiting" can involve building a product and keeping your burn rate low while waiting for market conditions to be right. "If you are betting on emerging trends it is better to keep your burn low and runway long."

That way when the market's ready, you're in a great position since you've already spent time creating and refining your product, as opposed to someone who waited to start only when they saw the correct market conditions.
Union members didn't stall it, their officials did.
That and, as Chris Dixon said, it's hard to know when these things will be successful at scale.
Good article. But I thought it would talk about the warez scene. When you google "the scene", this is the first result you get:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Warez_scene
A friend of mine has a combination of cloud/hosted setup for his personal site, and I'm leaning towards setting up something similar. Why not set up a landing page on a cheap server (a la NearlyFreeSpeech) and use that to link to your presence in the cloud?
Feel free to add HN Recap(http://hnrecap.com) to any list that may exist. I built it a while ago to help me get daily, weekly and monthly summaries of Hacker News.

It has it's own scoring system, archives and Instapaper support. The plan is to use the data to start a daily podcast quickly summarizing the top news of the previous day in 10-15 minutes.
Microsoft’s Kinect gaming control got hacked already
A good example of perfect being the enemy of the good (or at least less bad).
I forgot the title, that book by the guy who sold one of the first html editors (famous for generating bad html) to Microsoft during the battle against Netscape. Very fun to read.
You didn't mention email, but if you have your own server one nice thing you can do is run something like fetchmail on it to grab your mail from all your other email accounts, where you can apply a uniform set of spam and sorting filters, and serve it up via IMAP over SSL, and if you like also via a web interface.
Brb data-ing.
93% of conversation is non-verbal[1]. Videoconferencing does not cut it, seeing someone's head and shoulders while they are consciously playing the part of "videoconferencer" misses or conceals most of it. For any decision or discussion that matters there simply is no substitute for being there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language
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