skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely would like to control my own company.

That said, my philosophy is simple: Your first company should SUCCEED. You should be prepare to give up control, equity, etc. as long as it succeeds.

That gives you a track record AND money. Think about it. If you had $10 million dollars 2 years from now, and a 5% stake in your first venture, contacts lots of happy people and a reputation for succeeding with your first venture, don't you think you could own the shit out of your next company? Like 100% ownership in pretty much anything you want, with $5 million of your own money in it. You could try 30 different ideas or set up a nice lab.

Wanting to own your first venture is kind of like saying this will be your only idea, ever.

It might sound unproductive, but my advice to fellow entrepreneurs would be: listen to what investors want, and then give it to them. Put together a great team. Find VC firms who like to invest in your kind of thing. Develop just enough to get them interested. Set up appointments. Get funded. Exit with $10m or more in the bank. Do your own thing. Your first business can be all about the $$ exit.

It seems I myself am going a different route, though.
Is there any plans to release a dock for it? One that can pass-through the USB connection for charging and development? I sorely miss the simple dock that the iPhone (3/3GS/4) has for development.
"They are my enemy, and I support any use of state force against them, up to and including lethal force. "

....

really? I'm going to try to think of something to say about this that doesn't fall afoul of Godwin's law. It might be a while.
Though to such people it's just a nice little piece of art.

No harm done.
Forgot to say: Thanks for sharing all your bingo card revenue stats - it's been very motivational! Well done.
There are APIs to play video and capture video from a camera, but for general encoding you may have to do it yourself.
SIP is an internet telephony standard. vonage etc. (but not skype)
I got into the habit of writing literals first from being bitten one too many times by the (absolutely insane!) semantic difference between "=" and "==".

In my day job (working with Java) it's less of a problem, but I switch languages so much in my spare time that it has served me well.
Extrapolating from the newly available Groups to contact for comment section on the wikileaks site. It looks like you can get in contact privately with someone who can get in contact with wikileaks reps via e-mail here;

Leonard Weinglass
weinlen@earthlink.net
+1 212 807 8646
Yea, but what happens when the kids break into the tubes and get into the softening jelly* ?

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeIBd2b_rU
the first one looks like it was custom done for the ad, so it looks more attractive in my eye. the second one looks like it's using a stock-art image that has nothing to do with the text, so it looks cheap.
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Or even in western Europe. My regular household expenses, mortgage, etc, are around $2k and I live in the UK, have a kid, a mortgage, a gas-guzzling car, give my wife housekeeping each week (she doesn't work), and we are more than comfortable. I could even make some big cuts into that.
Great - would have done good to put that somewhere on the main page (imo). Thanks.
The problem is that he's not making the distinction between good secrets and bad secrets.

If you do something bad and covert it up, it's a bad secret because it results in bad things and the politicians involved do not want to be associated with the result. Such a thing musn't be a secret. It's wrong to cover up a bad thing because it's hiding something that could hurt you and others in the future. If the government's job should be to keep the society's justice then it's absolutely necessary not to hide bad things otherwise they're lying. So it's not the government's place to hide bad secrets.

Good things don't need to be lauded (humility) and they don't need to be covered up either. Since it's not going to result in a bad thing and hurt the society then it doesn't have to revealed unless you would like to use the good thing. For example, if private stuff in his life is actually private and not hurting anyone else, then he should be allowed to keep the secret if he decides to because it's his own life.

If there is this principle to tell good and bad in people's activities then it solves his question.
The real history of the personal computer: Radio Shack TRS-80
I think I better understand here. One way to further reduce risk is not actually charge the card until the product is delivered and buyer/seller happy. The initial charge would only be an authorization for the amount to make sure there were enough funds to cover. Either that or do a simple $1 authorization to make sure the card is valid. Either way the actual charge though would not be processed until buyer and the seller are happy.

Also, I would make sure that your terms & conditions on the site clearly outline every detail and protect you from liability.

From the US side I have never seen banks out right refuse as long as your personal/business credit is good and you would qualify for a merchant account under normal circumstances. Most here simply require a greater reserve and/or charge a higher percentage. I do know that Visa has some special requirements such as filing an application direct with them, paying a premium application fee, and then an annual fee on top, but I am not sure about the other cards.

You may want to talk to your bank directly. Go in with all the details, a flow-chart of how the process works, have the website ready to go, and all the details for your company/founders. It is sometimes easier to talk to a person face-to-face and have them understand clearly what you are trying to do. It may simply be that you are not explaining it clear enough for them to understand your business process.
A picture of a face -- of any kind -- might improve results.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/scarecrows-...
I'm sorry if you got the impression I was mocking you. By 'funny' I meant 'strange' rather than 'amusing.' I generalized from my ability to get the problem fixed quickly and finally, and felt surprised that you had such a persistent problem. I didn't mean to belittle or dismiss your bad experience, and would be quite interested to hear from others about which set of experiences is more typical. I'm not involved with or any kind of stockowner in Google or T-M by the way.
I seriously think if you can't enjoy playing with the people you work with, something is wrong with your team.

Personally, I'm an intorvert and just working together with people makes me tired enough to not want to participate in extracurriculum activities with the team, even if it is entertainment.
If it means something is wrong with my team, then something was wrong with my team at every place where I worked.
I do some activities with the team just not to seem too weird - it's not a huge effort and not a big discomfort, but usually I would rather prefer to be elsewhere.
I say the more people employing themselves (+1 or 2 others, perhaps contracting out further work, as well) the better, as we'll then be less dependent on multinational corporations for domestic hiring. We already see what's going on in Japan with Zombie corporations and and the salaryman culture sapping their entrepreneurial spirit.

The more dispersed our workforce is amongst small shops, the better we can weather future economic downturns at least on a psychological level. It'll also go a long way toward Small Business having a much larger say in governance, perhaps even culminating in a Singapore- or Taiwan-style healthcare system with compulsory coverage but price controls and subsidies at the gov't level. It would remove one huge con of owning a small business, anyway.
In that case, pretty easy. Samsung doesn't make it too hard to root almost all of their devices.
Yeah, site is mine...I don't claim to be a designer. HA! Very good point on the design, designer is one of the very next things on my list.
grellas - could you say whether these days founders can open a company quickly with these open sourced documents by YC or TechStars by filling in the blanks, or do they still need a lawyer to do it for thousands of $$? Sorry if this puts you on the spot, but I just wanted to know how much more needs to be done that is not covered by the standard docs.

I am assuming here that the investors are your friends & family and they aren't out to do a high powered negotiation -- just want to set things up correctly and keep going. Are there any specific pitfalls that could happen if one just used standard documents and a convertible note?
Another observation - this is a good example of the value of YCombinator and other similar networks. In this case, some YC guy is negotiating with VCs and needs some information, so he talks to pg, who talks to some other founders, and bam there's your answer (plus the rest of us are a little more enlightened, too).
For one thing, Google Voice sms does not work with shortcodes, so if you want to use any sms service based on a shortcode, Google Voice will not work.
I disagree somewhat, there is revelation in these cables. There is a huge difference between "I know x is true" and "I know that you know that I know ...".

To use an example from Pinker's talk on language, in a dictatorship everyone knows the regime is bad, yet the value of public demonstrations is that you find out that others also know it and then you know that they know that ..., which is exactly why gatherings of people are usually controlled in a dictatorship.
What purpose do the ad hominems serve, except to illustrate your own arrogance? For very good reason, Eco has a large readership and following, and many people will be interested in his opinions on almost any subject. Why shouldn't he publicize his views if lots of people are interested?
What are the steps required today on Linux?
Getting email through spam filters from a Rails App
and who is the judge to differentiate good and bad secrets?
You can walk out with it unlocked, but it will only support T-Mobile's 3G bands.
Just to confirm with empirical evidence, I didn't know about the "fail whale" meme until after seeing this, but I still thought Google's page was humorous and made sense.
The difference between government getting to choose whatever they want to be secretive and an individual getting to do so online is that government controls others whereas an individual does not.

Being able to keep it a secret that innocent people were killed because of a poor war campaign is reason enough to not trust the government ALL of the time. Are there secrets that are important? Yes. But nowadays, EVERYTHING is confidential and the only information we get is the stuff that's too big for them to hide (or they want us to see).
I did and found it somewhat worse than Pendulum and Rose which were both excellent.
I'm not so much. My sony reader is compatible with Adobe DRM. :)
Just say you want a pay-as-you-go plan. They are on their website.

If you don't like it, then just throw out the sim card and don't refill your account. ;)
I guess it is a 3-axis gyro + 3-axis accelerometer so this would enable it as an inertial measurement unit (IMU).

The iphone 4 also has it http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/
It's the principle.

A good thing makes a good result, bad thing makes a bad result. A good thing is something that has enough truth inside it to transmit 'what is' accurately. Bad things have too much falsehood to see the things correctly.

imo you should judge things in the world for yourself after you've seen & confirmed what it is like.

Edit: @hugh3 hope that makes more sense
A good thing makes a good result, bad thing makes a bad result.

That half of what you said is circular,

A good thing is something that has truth inside it. Bad things have falsehoods in them.

and that half doesn't make much sense.
I wish Wikileaks would stick to exposing corruption / human rights violations / warcrimes etc. This release seems only to increase the vulnerability of the USA (not to mention the civillians simply working at these targets) to unsophisticated attackers.
How can you have a discussion with people who not only believe that it is unacceptable to expose government deception and corruption, but who go on to advocate the use of lethal force against citizens of western democracies.

Rarely has an event exposed so clearly the hypocrisies and conflict at the heart of our western democracies.
Dominion is an amazing board game. The best mechanic is the re playability- you only use 10 action cards out of a possible 25 in each game. Which gives you 25choose10 = 3,268,760 possible combinations.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion
Google eBooks Paves The Way For Ad-Supported Publishing
Ackman offers to finance Borders bid for Barnes & Noble
FWIW, i have been using VoIP with my original Android G1 all this time with the SIPdroid program. It works fairly well.
You just called for the murder of an innocent. What exactly is wrong with you?

Obligatory snark: Oh, look! An abused kissing the ass of his abuser!
Seems odd that Google had their big response, but it doesn't seem to be working in the case of his sites (see end of article).
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Granted only a fraction would have paid. This is a tracked, measured accounting. I'm pretty sure that the RIAA/MPAA just make numbers up wholesale.
My secrets typically don't affect a nation of people. I was not elected/appointed by anyone. I don't have a duty to tell you the color of my toothbrush or how I like my eggs. I never promised to uphold the constitution. The government is operating on my behalf and therefore I feel entitled to know how they are operating.
There is a classic work of Weston A. Price "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" exactly on the topic, except that he studied the living people - tribes all over the world, who still do not eat processed foods etc.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html
Ask HN: skirting an API terms of service agreement
So I'm building an app and I'm using this one API.

The API sucks, and the data it gives you is incomplete. I want my users to be able to add data around reference points (in this case geodata) provided by this API, and ultimately stop using the API altogether.

The terms of service of this API stipulate that you can't archive data in the API, but all of the data they provide is semi-public (i.e. if I called around I could build this database on my own).

I don't particularly want to harm the provider of the API, but their information is really poor (except for the geodata and a few other things), and even if I don't archive their info, I need to be able to allow metadata to be added to various geo points.

What are some methods for doing this without violating the TOS?
How could you negotiate a treaty without secrets? Handle personnel issues like addiction treatment? Have battlefield commanders report on enemy positions and their current tactical weaknesses?

Well, I guess we're going to find out, aren't we?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.37086

$16. even charges a second battery. way better than the crappy official cradle i got.

the usb audio feature of the official cradle is cool at first, until you remove the phone and audio stops! mind blowing that something wireless got turned off when you remove the device. then the fanboys here will downvote me because you can enable it in a way that it does not turn off. but then you have to manually turn on, loosing all the appeal of just putting in the cradle to turn it on.
Ask HN:How to get into MIT Media Lab?
I applied to MIT Media Lab last year, application was rejected. I've solid projects on Fluid Dynamics, Image processing, and some of them align with their interests too.
Any inputs on what it takes to make the chances of application really stand out?
-is it the GPA?
-is it ability to publish?
-is it the recommendations?
I was referring to the Dynamo model for EC, not a particular software implementation. That model has next-to-zero traction in systems that handle non-trivial sums of money, and for good reason.

That's not to say it's not great for lots of things. Amazon uses this model for all kinds of stuff, but as soon as you go to checkout your order, you get kicked back into ACID-ville.
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. It's full of ideas about meaning of life, happiness and spirituality and it's one of a few books that made me think differently about life.
CableGateRoulette - Chatroulette for Wikileaks
The Linux-way, for comparison:

http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup

Disclaimer: I've not read through it all and not set up Raid-1 on Linux, but it seems to be a way of setting up Raid-1.
I think one aspect of this is that every NFL game is on a national network. Most NBA, MLB, and NHL games are on local stations.

I think the NFL has the tendency to sign big exclusivity contracts, given that the only way to watch out of market games is through DirecTV.
iPhone supports tethering over bluetooth, no need to carry a usb cable. While bluetooth doesn't allow multiple clients as wifi does, it's more energy conservative (being a PAN, not LAN).

(I had Novatel MiFi, and it run out of battery in ~6 hours if you forgot to switch it off (happened regularly to me). Bluetooth connection automatically terminates when you eg. close your Macbook.)
UI/UX Designer at Peanut Labs
Introduction:

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Description: Web UI/Interaction Designer
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Think you've got the UI design skills to wow millions of users each month? Then Peanut Labs wants to hear from you. We're looking for a designer that can create world class user interfaces that visually amaze but are simple to use.

On the job, you will:
-Be responsible for making sure the usability and appearance of our products are world class
-Play a key role in the visual design of new features launching on the site
-Have significant creative freedom and the ability to experiment with new designs
-Strive for design perfection but love to release and iterate

Requirements :
-Solid portfolio: A history of launching top notch web interfaces
-Passion UI design: You love the world of design and are always keeping on top of the most recent design and usability improvements
-Can-do attitude: Will go the extra mile to launch the best possible design
-Ability to solve design problems, not just paint pretty pictures
-This isn't a coding role, but we'd expect a familiarly with HTML, CSS, AJAX, prototype.js, jQuery, etc.

PLEASE EMAIL RESUMES TO Prosper@peanutlabs.com
Yes, and even without moderation it's not the end of the world if a near-dup is marked; that just puts it into the dup graph for that topic/article/source and then the algorithms for karma and popularity can play with it.
I don't know why this is presented as having anything to do with a Rails App. The application doesn't factor into any of the solutions which are basic 'how to get your email delivered' tips.
My principle, which I developed after thinking too much about it last week, is that if you happen to know a government secret (for a democratically-elected government) then it's morally both acceptable and right to leak it if and only if it reveals illegal behaviour on the part of some part of the government.

It is necessary for the government to keep some things secret. The people who elect and pay for the government generally have no problem with this. The problem is that the government itself is the entity that decides which things it's allowed to keep secret, so various government agencies can do things that they shouldn't and then use government secrecy to hide it. The possibility of anonymous individuals with conscience leaking evidence of this kind of thing, when it happens, is an important part of making sure it doesn't. So I fully support this old-school leaking.
I just think the Rust is just great. Go and D are great too but I really like what I read about Rust.
And??
Oh, yeah, Hacker News.

Where we get to read posts from users calling for murder.
I think this is an accurate assessment based on my own observations. My brother (in his twenties) just told me the other day that the only reason he wants cable is for Monday night football.

The one factor that cable companies can rely on is that they have positioned themselves to be the primary ISP for a good portion of the US population. It will be interesting to watch how/if these companies pivot in the next few years.
* Nothing that I can think of. Immigration is the biggest hurdle for me to do anything beyond my current job sponsor.
* My key strengths are front-end. Javascript, jQuery, CSS
* I would like to create something to come up with a business model.

* Sorry for late reply.
Being able to keep it a secret that innocent people were killed because of a poor war campaign

I don't think it was ever a secret that innocent people get killed in wars.
Yeah, that really disturbed me. Mr. Markham seems like a pretty reasonable guy, a mainline Republican, possibly even a moderate. And he's basically advocating fascism, here.

If it happened in Germany, it can happen here. Germany had Liebniz, Kant, Mozart, Einstein, the Reformation.. no reason to think that we're so much better.

( I really tried to avoid Godwin's law here, but I couldn't. The news debate has rapidly turned from "what is our government doing" to "just how unamerican is this guy, anyways". It's a bad trend. )
I'm dubious of how such a system would stand up during an earthquake. As a member of Civil Defence in a city that was recently struck by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake) it was remarkable how with just a bulldozer any damaged transport routes could be returned to mostly usable condition. I shudder to think what would happen if we had been reliant on something like these foodtubes, image how long a minor displacement would take to fix.
MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments
How common is this, really, though? It's pretty rare that someone actually converts an existing single disk setup into a RAID. It's far more common to add/remove/replace devices in an existing array. These tasks have always been fairly trivial with the mdadm tool. The most sane way to accomplish this under Linux is to create a broken mirror with the new device (device B), synchronize device A's contents to the array with dd, and then add device A to the array.
Congrats on going live and good luck!
SendGrid, Postmark, SimpleGeo, a bevy of payments APIs, SoundCloud, InfoChimps, Factual
You're being very agressively downmodded, but you should have provided a link to prove what you were talking about (I own a HTC Desire, which uses the same touch screen as the N1).

In short: N1 and HTC Desire have major, unfixable multitouch issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0R9tdodw8