skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get a lawyer. Not someone small that you've been using regularly for the little stuff who's never done this before, but someone that has experience. Be careful about this; there's a lot of dummies that put on a show of competence.

Same thing with a negotiator. Are you in a city that has a lot of startup activity? Reach out to a good COO type who can help you conduct the negotiations. How much they get involved will obviously depend on the amount of money we're talking about. It's just not a good idea to learn about negotiations by doing in circumstances like this.

Be careful who you pick. Money turns heads unfortunately, and a lot of otherwise sensible people become complete pricks.
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I am probably one of such users. I would need something like Evernote, but more lightweight. I tried ResophNotes, which basically maintains a list of plain text notes, but that was already too lightweight, since I realized that I need at least basic formatting (bold, italics) to structure the text visually.

I wonder if someone could take Evernote API and create text-only client with more polished editor?
Just make sure you can solve this puzzle:

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

Source: http://www.cartalk.com/content/read-on/2008/08.23.2.html
Actually I don't think you can do everything in those 3 languages, you should try some functional programming and see the difference by yourself. Sure, all languages are turing equivalent, but some of things that are easy to write in e.g. lisp would be really painful to do in c++/java. Also none of them is suitable for replacing e.g. bash as a scripting language.
I tend to aggressively flag stories from new accounts, especially if they're obviously spam or political. Did not realize that I was setting myself up to be ignored. I guess the safe move is to no longer flag stories.
This is the Hacker News Ideal. Your urge perfectly describes the tension of "interesting to me". Now that I think about it, the upvote/flag seems like a simple, elegant social cognition hack. In order to flag you have to go to the comments page. Positivity is made slightly easier and negativity can always be undone even while it take an extra click.

What's the equivalent for comments?
Yeah, given that a lot of Africa's "local leaders" are a major part of Africa's problems I'm disinclined to believe what they say.
The guidelines are pretty clear about this, really:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

Startup-related stuff is therefore explicitly on topic. Making more money seems on topic re: startups.
Growth in term of users?

http://blog.evernote.com/2010/11/10/5-million-evernote-users...
I am convinced there exists a breed of customer who needs to feel a human is in the loop to buy something. I mean, "Yes ma'am, it does make bingo cards." has made me three sales. They're not noticeably pathological customers.

(Those certainly exist, though. Charge more, and they'll mostly inflict themselves on your competitors instead.)
I've been using Ubuntu sinse 8.04, and have seen it progress quite a bit over the new LTS's and updates. You can use all of the os's for different things, like....windows will probably be more music advanced than the others, mac will probably be the same flashy os (linux is not made "flashy", but you can make it do cool styff and make it "flashy"), and linux will keep on upgrading until it is the main os around and microsoft along with mac will be whipped off the face of the earth....is why Bill Gates is worried about linux, because he realizes it. Just an afterthought Ubuntu has only been aroung for oh say.....5yrs maybe 6yrs or so....and it's already competing and about to surpass all the others, and it's free. Lol....not on a "bandwagon", but am pointing out the facts that have been there, just do a little searching and you'll find out yourself. Once Linux fixes the little bugs they have completely or at least a little more, it will be on top as soon as people start realizing it more, like they have been in the past year or so.
Veteran games developer Graeme Devine leaves Apple, returns to his roots
Can you define "hacker mindset" for me?
Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched (using HTML5)
I was a bit curious what exactly this "system load" was. Turns out it's a ratio between the time the browser takes to draw the particles and the frequency at which it is supposed which to draw.

this.tick_duration = 25;

....

this.now = new Date().getTime();

// Drawing...

this.time_to_paint = (new Date().getTime()) - this.now;
this.load = Math.round((this.time_to_paint / this.tick_duration) * 100);
Some angry moderator once ghosted my account. It was very bad because I could not even get any help on the site itself. In the end I had to directly mail pg.
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I just picked my choices in alphabetical order - perhaps the results for the three choices should be aggregated.
Like I said in the parent, "[I am not] trying to imply that anything is justifiable if you need to catch up to the competition"

It is also worth noting that while not paying your rent/employees has an immediate harm, it is not so quite clear if there is an immediate harm with warez software. If my startup downloads Photoshop, did I deny Adobe products a sale if I would just grumble and use an alternative if I could not? You could argue either way, but there would be no clear answer. If I don't give someone money for rent, did I deny them money? Well, quite obviously, yes.
What law has WikiLeaks broken?
Garmin Launches site dedicated to geocaching hobbyists.
Websites require servers to operate, 'apps' do not necessarily have this same requirement. You can certainly create a standalone app in Google Chrome that I wouldn't classify as an extension because it neither augments existing website(s) or the browsing experience.

For example, I was working on a finance management app in Chrome along the lines of Quicken or MsMoney. The 'app' used plain HTML, jQuery and local storage to function and save your transactions. No server is needed in this scenario and I surely wouldn't call this a website or an extension.
We have not seen any attacks on the video infrastructure but we're small fry. Let me ask a much larger site using wowza and get back to you on that one.
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Surely it makes no difference: if you flag too much and you're ignored, you have no effect; if you don't flag, you have no effect.

Why not go on flagging? You might be having an effect.
MIT students prototype improves shopping experience for wheelchaired people
and lsc is assuming in his calculations that he'd be able to attack for a month.
Also discussion covering similar topic ('The 3 Programming languages you need to know'): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1893000
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The article is a bit soft, but Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD works is very interesting at least to me:

http://tmslab.org/faculty/?page_id=15&id=3&add_title=Alvaro++Pascual-Leone%2C+MD%2C+PhD
Downvoting cabals are no worse a problem than upvoting cabals; probably actually less bad. And I think pg said he's running some cabal detection.
It's not WebSockets it's your broken proxy
Star that bit about helping customers get organized (and relatedly, providing ammo for your internal champion, like PPT which he can take right into the meeting where he asks for budget to purchase you): it is some of the most important inside sales advice you'll ever hear.
Because they don't need to.

Eclipse is a good platform that can supports anything they ever need through plug-ins.
I believe the quote is from sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Ask HN: How long did it take to get a good amount of users visiting your site?
I launched a web app in February '10, and whilst it's started to come close to ramen-profitable, I consider the amount of users visiting it to be pretty low: 30-40 unique visitors per day who haven't previously visited the site.

I realise that everyone will have a different opinion of what is a good amount of traffic, but how long did it take before you thought "Yup, it's all going to plan"?

Personally, my knowledge of how to market and bring in traffic is essentially zero; did any of you have one major insight that helped you get to where you are today?
Will Anonymous attack wikipedia on deletion of mirrors
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Original article: http://www.eng.umd.edu/media/release.php?id=71

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8L-ur4masU
Well, you should probably be backing up your whole drive anyway. Even if you managed to put all your data in Dropbox (unlikely), nobody wants the pain of having to reinstall the OS and all their apps.
Renders like crap in Safari.
If batteries are considered unsafe and "explosive", how do we rate gasoline?
It would be useful to filter out Arc-Arc-Arc and Foo-Arc-Arc answers, obviously they are irrelevant
Inflation. More users means karma is easier to get. And there's enough folks out there with 500+ karma to ensure that any deserving comment can get downvoted to the floor.
I've dealt with a couple over two different employers, both had a similar pattern. The same page was being requested over and over, but there was no discernible patterns in the headers.

On the first one, I already had a Squid reverse proxy in front of the servers, so I configured that page to cache and all was good.

On the second one my load balancer was a POS, so we ended up getting the developers to configure the page to 302 to a new page, and the bot didn't follow the redirect.

In both cases, the thing requesting the page wasn't a real web browser, so it didn't take cookies or follow redirects. I ended up getting an F5 shortly after and wrote an iRule to do a cookie check should another DDOS come by, but never had to use it. I was also fortunate that we had enough bandwidth to serve the requests and that it was a resource starvation type attack.
I like your choice of words "lie" as if there is some moral dilemma with framing a hypothetical situation to evaluate the response of a potentially critical piece of infrastructure. As well, for the record, before you jump to conclusions with charged and disingenuous position slanting words like "lie" It just so happens that that single purchase was going to be used to teach my daughter video production. I took it as an opportunity to feel the vendor out pre-purchase.

As for failing to see that lack of pricing structure is indicative of immaturity in a sales organization I can only assume that that lack of sight comes from the fact that you either have little experience with enterprise and OEM purchasing or have never been in charge of contract negotiations, a inflexible vendor can be soul sucking. Negotiation is a big part of volume purchasing and flexibility in pricing structures is mandatory when dealing with such if there is any hope of creating a long term and mutually beneficial arrangement.

To spell it out, a organization that treated a one off request for a discount due to non-conventional circumstances is a company that shows attention to detail, and a willingness to work with even the smallest purchaser to make them happy. If I told him hey I have 75K would he have responded differently? sure he would have, but where is his breaking point when will he decide that it is not worth supporting me due to the money being in the rear-view. Conversely a guy that supports even the smallest customer is going to treat a volume purchaser very well. Judging by this particular vendors response, I saved myself years of headaches by making a small simple request and I am glad I did.

It is even more important when you deal with a small development house, I cannot tell you how many times I have seen large companies held hostage by a small vendor due to lack of maturity in their sales and customer support process. Ensuring that a potential vendor is not one of those shops is imperative to the happiness of my client and is therefore good business on my end. Vendors are free to have as crappy of sales and support organizations as they see fit, but when it comes to my organization I bend over backwards to make my clients happy and I chose vendors that align with that core philosophy.

This particular vendor was within his right to not give me a discount, I hold nothing against him and I don't hold him account for it but I am also within my right to see that as a sign of lack of maturity in his organization and take my purchasing elsewhere. The purchase reflects on the solution that I was providing for my client, and my ability to support the solution is only as strong as the weakest vendors support. I'm not betting my companies reputation on a vendor that can't even put together non-commercial or educational licensing packages much less an OEM arrangement.
Demo: http://batiste.dosimple.ch/sprite.js/test_input.html

I like how he can fall off the ledge into an infinite drop.
Perhaps this is blasphemy, but I...actually like the frames look here. It works, and it makes sense for what it's trying to do, imo.

I'd like to see points/comments in the left hand pane, but otherwise I love it.

(Also, am I the only one who kept recursively opening this story in hnvue?)
The most relevant I found http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/euvin_naidoo_on_investing_...

Though I don't know if is about angel investing, the one OP watched.
That could be a nice command line tool. Please include a Data.Function.on, and find a way to make it useful.

flip would actually be quite useful for me on grep. I often search the some corpus of text, but change the pattern.
As an organisation, afaik, none. But the individuals involved could have: To issue a warrant, they must have grounds to do so - as I said, I very much doubt that the charges against Assange are simply "made up". If they are, he'll be found innocent. The reason most people don't put a principle above the idea that it is foolish to piss off The White House is because they don't have the balls to take the consequences. He seems quite happy to. Good for him. Rather him than me.
Maybe pg's spam controls are just excellent, but it really doesn't look like HN is being gamed too hard. There are the usual serial self-promoter/spammers (the kind that submit everything they post, regardless of quality), but I really haven't seen that many problems. Perhaps we shouldn't be as worried about flags being abused.
I'm asking if I my amateur site, can land me a job, or should I get formal training.
How open are you about what you're looking for? Do you put "applicants should be able to show {Automation skills, Rigour, Debugging skills}" in your job description? Or do you think that an interviewee would be able to answer these questions without prior knowledge?
> At what point is it OK to use a DDOS attack as a form of protest?

The DDoS may be the net analog to a street protest that provokes a traffic-jam.
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Also of note, Evernote has a $45/year option in addition to the $5/month option. That is a 25% discount so the number must be less than $800k.
Startup Quote: Ron Conway, co-founder, SV Angel
You might have a point in just donating to a generic charity but Gates? I can't imagine anything he could possibly have done with that money that could have more impact than what he actually is doing. He's funding research that would never get done otherwise.

Capitalism may be good at what it does, but it isn't the answer to all problems.
As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

- Ron Conway (@RonConway)

http://startupquote.com/post/2151741995
Check out SimpleNote.
Are you involved in web development? It probably is about equal there, but where I work we have a substantial contingent of people who use Python on top of C or C++ for hardware control or who have switched from Matlab to Python, but I don't think I know a single Ruby user.
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That will probably not be any problem, since you're flagging stories that lots of others flag as well. It probably works by checking if you flag completely different from 'most' people.
From what I understand, the government of Singapore keeps corruption low just by paying their officials a lot. The president makes about $3 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore

It may just be an anecdote but it seems like a reasonable system to me.

EDIT: had the wrong dollar amount.
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Evernote is a genius utility that was not completely obvious to me until a few months ago. Here's my take:

You can store anything in it, and does text recognition on photos for later searching. My scanner is hooked up to it - I scan everything and dump it in there. Receipts, statements, bills, correspondence, contracts, whatever.

You can dump any document into it, tag it, put in a notebook, whatever.

It works across my complete tech stack: Iphone, Ipad, MacBook, Imac and web when needed.

Switching to a new computer/device is completely painless. Install the app, login, your environment is duplicated from the cloud. Perfect every time.

I have tried every task and todo system under the sun, as well as note takers, folder sync systems, etc. Instead of worrying about where all the files are, whether they are syncing or backed up, blah blah blah, whether they can connect to another pc to get the sync, etc.

This is a really strong blend of all of the above. You can implement a GTD system if you wish, etc. etc. etc.

All my "stuff" is with me wherever I go now.

I also use omnifocus for project stuff, fwiw. Works across my entire tech stack and syncs really well too.
>Personally, I'd like to see him start a company that would invent a mobile phone battery that lasts for a month and can power an RC aircraft to fly all the way around the world.

Wow, amazing. I'd hate to live in a world where you had a say.

Technology is going to advance just fine with or without Gates. We'll have eventually have batteries that last years or something that obsoletes them all together. Unless enough wealthy people get malaria it might never get cured without heroic efforts like what Gates is doing.

Amazing. Who cares about people dying, I want to be able to play Angry Birds non-stop when flying to Australia.
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So you basically say that human rights violations are OK, as long as the regime in charge is making economic progress?
take two:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986905
Bob, my logic is probably illogical. And my premise may hold only in a limited context.

But how does one logically prove a statement of the kind "X is good" (independent of "Y is evil"). Mathematically (predicate logic wise) speaking, Proof by intimidation, Proof by personal-belief and Proof by assertion / repeated-reassertion don't hold up either.

Consider this philosophy: I am good. Because I believe that to be true. Thus, what's good for me is good for the rest of the world. And anything else is bad. So, I now use my might whichever way to annihilate the bad.

Anyway, (ostensibly) the US has taken upon itself, the role of championing freedom and democracy across the world. There are probably no better beacons than its founding fathers, to guide its actions while playing that role.
I think the problem arises when a physicist is asked to speculate on an engineering problem.
PyPy does have a GIL, but they are optimistic that their implementation will be easier to factor out in the future than CPython's.
The End: Why projectionists will soon be no more
"then you what a pain it can be " - *know
Well, from a candidate's point of view, I think it might be slightly annoying to be told "Hi, we're interested in your CV, but not quite interested enough to actually talk to you. Why don't you take the time to record a video of yourself, and then maybe we'll watch some of it!"

From an employer's point of view, it's hard to see what I'm going to get out of this that I can't get more quickly by picking up the phone and talking to the person for ten minutes.

But maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong perspective. For filling, say, software engineering jobs it may not be all that useful, but for retail jobs in particular it could save a lot of time. Is this person clean and presentable and well-spoken and generally capable of holding a conversation? Well then, this person is 80% of the way to being a good retail employee!

So this is where I'd target it. Besides, if you can land just one medium-sized retail chain you'll already be making a shirtload of money.

Oh, one other thing: I don't like the name. If you were a potential employee and were told to make a video on "replybutton" then the name might confuse you.
> I picked Perl over Python and Ruby because they all really suck performance-wise, but at least Perl has a great community and a great library repository.

I recently learned that Lua is pretty fast, according to anecdote and shoot-out data. I did not like the syntax, when I last looked at it. But I might change my might. I mostly use Python for this class of things at the moment. Though I could see myself use Haskell more.

We use OCaml at work for your first and second category. (We do interface with C, too.)
Causing the scrollbar to appear :-)
What are your current methods for marketing the site?
A taxonomy for the suppression of dissent
That document is terribly dated, and describes nothing resembling modern day DDoS protection.

Nowadays, it's all about routing the target host through a series of high bandwidth/high processing filters to identify and drop the bad traffic. People don't use SMURF (haven't in over 5 years), and most floods are not ICMP anymore, they are mindless HTTP requests from seemingly "valid" looking zombie clients.
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Julian Assange 'should be awarded Nobel peace prize'
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Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
I submitted the application to test drive a Chrome Notebook a couple days ago.

The laptop came this morning. The packaging was very simple: One laptop, one battery, one cord, one large single piece of paper with instructions, and one business card from Intel letting me know that if I cracked the computer open that is what I would find.

I will make a large post tonight after work (5pm EST) detailing my experiences with it and taking lots of photos.

Did any other HNers get one?
I got a site up and running from zero to 600 daily users in 2 weeks. Then again it was mostly black hat stuff.