skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally i think its all about familiarity. Things are easier in the OS you're familiar with.

For me i only use windows for games, everything else is a chore, because i love linux and to me linux is much easier to deal with. Equally however, a friend of mine is a die hard windows guy, even uses IE as his browser and hes a pretty competent computer guy, and while to me thats utter preposterousness to me, it works for him.
I've been reading HN through http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http://... for a long time. Similar full-content feed, automatically processed (so sometimes it's a bit wonky), link to comments page at the bottom.
Profitable W'11 company looking for driven sales people
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We're looking for smart, energetic sales people for our B2B product.

Previous sales experience is a big plus, B2B sales experience doubly so.

Requirements

Be willing to make 75 phone calls in a day.

Be able to work in San Francisco.

Base pay is $24k - $30k / year, depending on experience, plus commission.

To apply, contact throwaway1222@gmail.com . Include your resume and a brief story that demonstrates your sales ability.
IANAL, but in my opinion "open source" documents are great for providing a "guide" to getting your documents in order. They are not meant to be an end to lawyer or accountant involvement. When Fred talks about standardized documents he is not talking about "do-it-yourself" documents, he simply means to eliminate the many different forms and wording that different companies/lawyers use when creating these documents. In this sense each company would essentially be created the same and it would make future financing, etc.. easier on the company and investors.

With that said, there is nothing stopping you from doing this on your own. However, when you start taking outside investment, even in the form of convertible notes, you open another realm of laws/regulations. For example, investors must be accredited, there are tax laws that apply for shares of stock and capital gains on them, etc... These all need to be addressed. Additionally, each state has regulations on the private sale of securities. Even though a convertible note is a "loan" at the time, it does potentially convert into shares of a company at a later date. All these things need to be addressed and failure to comply could be costly.

Lastly, if you do it yourself, you are risking missing something somewhere along the line. It could be more costly to correct mistakes in the future.

The cost of an attorney up-front is much cheaper than years of headache and costly legal fees in the future. If you are at a point where people want to invest money in you, then do them the courtesy of at least ensuring that all the documents are in legal order and that your accounting is handled properly. It can be a lot harder to tell grandma that you just wasted her life savings because you forgot to dot to sign or file a paper.
RIM demos PlayBook tablet
Welcome to the neighborhood! Unfortunately our startup is moving out of South Park in the next few days.. but if you get sick of grilled cheese, some of our favorite lunch options have been: D'urso Deli, Mexico Au Parc, and Centro. At least one person in the office has a Au Parc tostada ($7) in here just about every day.
What? No Kindle support?

What kind of asinine universe are we creating for ourselves? This is what I never understood about iTunes:

1. The world discovers MP3s: music that you can listen to on any digital music player! You know how you can take a tape cassette and play it in any cassette player, and hear music? It's like that! Yay!

2. iTunes sells iTunes music: music that you can listen to on... Apple devices! Wait, what?

You mean I can download digital music from iTunes, but it might not work on my digital music player?

It must be because it's better, then. What's that? There's no technical advantage? I am confused!

Now it's happening again! We have eBooks of various assortments. You read eBooks with eReaders. Unless they're incompatible. How can you tell? Well, it depends on where you bought each of them. It's getting to where you need a damn chart.

We don't make cars that only run on certain fucking roads. Why do we make music that only plays on certain fucking music players?!

I know all about DRM, and the incentives behind it. I know "why" it works this way. I'm just lamenting how stupid it is that we are making things more complicated, and less inter-operable. It's fucking 2010. We're in the future now. We should know better.
Looks very nice. The only annoying thing I can see is that copying the text ends up with word-breaks in the hyphenated words.
Some people cannot be convinced that there is any other form of communication available from a cell phone. :)
Voting rarely works and seems almost impossible in reference to confidential information. We vote people in who get the most out of information being confidential when they want it to be confidential.

Do you get to write laws that the public gets to vote on directly? No. Who does? The government as a whole.

We just pick A or B and then A or B get to choose their vote, which may or may not be the same but often is similar on sensitive subjects (do not offend the main voting demographic as much as possible so I can get re-elected).

Two wrongs don't make a right is a moral dilemma, but sometimes two wrongs are good for society. E.g. 911 was bad, but attacking Afghanistan was a good response and an appropriate one.
Tangential: the expression "road train" is used in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory, to describe triple- or quad-trailer trucks.
The original cited article states:

The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., this week that he does not intend to do that.

So this is a matter of principle: whether the federal government should be able to do this.

Does anyone know if this would allow prohibition of these sorts of activities, or simply withholding of funding? The destinction may not matter in practice (see: the drinking age) but does in principle.

FWIW The obesity legislaton "wouldn't apply to after-hours events". Bake sales at my high school were always held after hours. I infer that they were successful because they often nearly sold out, and because they continued to hold them. (I don't know if they'd do any better without that restriction.)
The worst case scenario is that it makes no less sense than the original Twitter fail whale.

That was a completely out-of-context picture which made no sense, but nobody complained about it. Likewise, anyone confronted with a google books fail whale (which, incidentally, should happen a lot less often than the twitter fail whale, because google's infrastructure doesn't suck) without the preceding context of the twitter fail whale will understand what the page means just as much as they'd understand "404 not found".
You mean it just takes a fixed amount of time to internalise yourself with a new field of study just like anything else? And for programming that lead time is about 6 months to get up to speed?
When operating in the B2B landscape, it's pretty common. Large corporations take time from the first pitch until signature (sometimes >6 months), and during that time you can iterate over concepts based on their feedback. If you are realistic when estimating the probability of signing the deal and thus realistic of taking the risk, negotiate the payment terms wisely (e.g. 50% after signature, 25% on delivery, 25% on acceptance) and manage to survive until first payment, it can be a great approach for boot-strapping.

It helps having a reputation at the first clients beforehand (e.g. due to free-lancing for them, or being introduced by others), otherwise large corporations might have doubts working with a start-up anyways.

It worked well for my start-up, where I felt uncomfortable with that approach also as a first-time founder (it's pretty awkward sitting there and listen to your sales guy promising what-not to the client when nothing is there in fact), but I've learned a lot from him since then :)
It could maybe be switched off (even if requested) once a paragraph hits a certain threshold size. Of course I suppose that could get complicated as the paragraph gets mutated by JavaScript... you don't want to be turning it on and off all the time.
You have two options-- you can submit great stories or you can complain.

Choose wisely.
Like others have said, sports is the only thing that keeps me buying cable, but this whole "cable is dying" argument neglects one main point: the TV viewing experience is still way better than online video. Try flipping through 100 streaming videos as quickly as you can flip through 100 TV channels. Until IPTV or whatever you want to call it can perform as well as cable, and it can't yet, I don't see cable dying.

Mark Cuban had a good piece on this subject a year ago, still rings true:

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/03/25/mrk-cuban:-cable-tv-...
The bad guy in me sees an opportunity to 'googlebomb' competitors using fake bad reviews adding one more layer of complexity to this sort of thing.

They'd then have to figure out a way to distinguish the real bad reviews from the real good reviews and the fake bad reviews and the fake good reviews.

This whole arms race isn't helping anybody. And I wished the arrest would have taken place even if the guy had not bragged about it, but I highly doubt it. Likely there are many more characters like this guy happily doing it to lots of others every day, using their own websites but also on Ebay and lots of other places on the web.

Before you give out your credit card numbers, don't look for just that 'secure' icon in your browser, realize that the bar for getting a certificate, a corporate identity and a website up and running is sufficiently low that a determined scammer will not see this as a significant barrier to entry.

Knowing who you do business with is not enough to avoid getting screwed over.
fwiw, even the term "fail" alone is still pretty subcultural. i don't entirely agree with alanh, but they are definitely right that many of those who understand the reference are letting their understanding blind them.

Sure, but it's not necessary to fully understand the page in order to get the message. An error occurred. Why is there a whale involved? Who cares?

The only people I can imagine who might get confused are people who encounter this while trying to read Moby Dick.
My brother skipped paying a tiny amount like that - he received a letter from a debt collection agency demanding payment of the £20 bill, plus £100 payment for the cost of hiring a debt collection agency. He then payed immediately before it got any worse but his credit rating is still poor many years on.
It goes both ways...
Update: I tried description on top and didn't look as good. Maybe our mind isn't used of thinking so big paragraphs as titles and it was strange. If descriptions where short it would make sense, but now it's just random text which isn't easy on the eyes.

Also tried removing the autoscroll, and it wasn't as good either. The reason is I catch mousewheel over readmes because it was annoying when scrolling through a readme, to have the page scrolling when it ended. So now, if there was no scrolling to the next element, you wouldn't be able to scroll down unless you moved your mouse away from the readme. I hope that makes sense.
LimeWire to close its legal filesharing service
ReWalk exoskeleton on sale in January, for a price you can't afford -- Engadget
Glad to see that I'm not the only one using a printer box on top of a regular desk to make a standing desk. I'm pretty sure if we ever need to use this printer it's going to have elbow dents in it.
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Having read about the same amount thus far, I can safely say that I see value in the reconciliation of these various processes and ideas, especially with the increased emphasis on web-based startups. After all, as the author pointed out, many of Steve Blank's processes were constructed with enterprise in mind.

I'll be making another, and much more in-depth, post about the book once I finish reading it.
Consumer Reports Names AT&T Worst Wireless Service Provider
Tumblr: All blogs are online
It appears to be back up. http://www.tumblr.com/
It's interesting that the whale is becoming the international symbol of "fail". I fully expect Greenpeace to get up in arms about it.
From your question, I assume there would be no big haggling over deal points. In that scenario, if you as a founder are pretty familiar with the pluses and minuses associated with the various early-stage startup investment options (bridge notes, common stock sales, and preferred stock sales), and if you understand securities laws and basic tax issues connected with the various options, the templates might be used in order to save costs. Even then, however, it is not wise, in my judgment, not to at least consult with a knowledgeable lawyer as a double-check on what you are doing.

I think founders get a far better deal on price from lawyers than they used to, and this is in part owing to the prevalence of templates freely available on the web. But, unless you want to fly blind in some pretty complex areas, I wouldn't recommend dispensing with formal legal help altogether.

Specific pitfalls will vary with the type of funding you may be doing but usually they involve securities law and tax issues or just not understanding the range of things that can happen (e.g., with a convertible note, if the note converts automatically into preferred stock at a pricing discount and subject to a valuation cap, all well and good, but what happens if the startup never does such a funding and gets acquired at a premium with the notes never having converted? does your dad or other family member then get his money back with a couple percent interest while others get a 10x return even though he took the biggest risk of all in being early in the game with hard cash needed by the company - this is just one item that founders often fail to consider in structuring the seemingly simple convertible bridge notes - and the issues and contingencies get much more complex when preferred stock is involved).

My advice: even in simple cases, double-check with a lawyer but make sure it is one who will approach the simple funding in the spirit of a simple funding and keep the costs in line accordingly.

BTW, if by "open a company," you mean do the initial company set-up itself on their own, of course founders can but here too they can easily get into trouble by not understanding the range of issues they need to deal with (see, e.g., my comment to a post entitled "how I incorporated myself" from a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924719).
Sweet! The Internet strikes again!
can you my own key?
Not only that, but air drag on the strings too.
What you're describing sounds suspiciously like an abuse by Comcast of their monopoly, to the consumers' detriment.
* Kicked out more bad guys out of compromised networks than usual.

* Grew my main business, had our first year where I've not had a single worry about running out of money (touch wood) in the middle of a serious recession.

* Started building academic and vendor relationships (never thought I'd do that) to develop new technologies and services.

* Did more vulnerability research this year than I have in the last two but haven't published anything public yet.

* Moved to Sales, Marketing, now back to Technical for the time being.

* Took on a business partner and mentor

* Bid for two research grants

* Built up pipeline, wrote more proposals than I have in a long time.

* Seriously damaged my knee in a freak dancing accident.

* Grew a Mo to support Prostate Cancer charities (and raised a few bob too)

* Started a proper non-security side project (http://www.minklinks.com/) - failed to get it into beta for HN November but it will be out before year end.

* Did a whole load of pentesting.

That's it so far, still more things to come before year end though. Hope I pull them off.
Why would I want to flip through a hundred streaming videos? The only reason I'd flip through 100 cable stations is because there's nothing I want to watch on any of 'em... or more frequently there's a couple of things I sort-of want to watch on a couple of them, interrupted with ad breaks so frequent, long, and unpredictable in length that I can't possibly sit through them.

In contrast, Netflix gives me a full HD video of exactly what I want to watch, when I want to watch it, with no ads. It's better even than a DVD, because the DVD forces me to sit through a bunch of copyright warnings, logos for the distributor, and half the time a main menu which wants to show me fifteen seconds of clips from the movie before I can press play.
http://www.ivi.tv does a pretty good job of this, at consistently high quality.

Caveats: (1) It's only for broadcast channels at this point; (2) it's unclear that what they do is legal, but they believe that it is and appear to be litigating this point.
Yes sometimes two wrongs are better for society, see option #2 in my essay. I fully support that option and hope it's used a lot.

But who are you to decide that voting rarely works and take action on that? That's a completely different level than saying in certain cases things are out of whack.

I agree that the system is structurally broken, perhaps beyond repair. But attacking the way its put together is an act of war. A weird little act of war by a small group of anarchists, but an act of war nonetheless. There is a difference in kind between the Pentagon Papers and the State Department dump. One is for the better good where the leaker put himself at the mercy of the taxpayers. The other is a foreign agency expecting no reprisals at all and attacking the government in its entirity, not just one particular aspect of it.

You'll not get a disagreement from me over how broken things are. I'm just asking each of us to pick one of the options. I don't see any other choices available.

If I'm wrong, please explain how I am wrong. Would love to hear it.
Any thought of adding this to the iTunes store's podcast directory?
SUBMIT STORIES

You reach for the moust but it is still dark. You pick up something slightly squishy, it stings you, then eats you.

You are dead, Your score: 6/31337.

Would you like to play again? (Y/N)
But the bars pay commercial rates for cable, which are thousands of dollars a month. Trust me, the NFL is peachy keen with your purchase behavior.
Amanita Design did this with their Machinarium Pirate Amnesty promotion:

http://machinarium.net/blog/2010/08/05/machinarium-pirate-am...

It doubled as a limited-time discount for first-time players as well.
Please ask yourself why. In reality, MongoDB has almost all of the same limitations of MySQL and PostgreSQL, but lacks the production proven record. In addition, MongoDB has very weak durability guarantees on a single server, poor performance for data that is not in-memory, and continues some common SQL/ACID scalability pitfalls (use of arbitrary indexes and ad-hoc queries).

Outside of this, you need to switch the question you ask from "what data do I need to capture?" to "what questions do I need to answer?"
Perhaps it is just me, but does anyone else think Prolog is really just a nicely done language that revolves around the an if-then-else condition? Its basically pattern matching... But consider me troll and argue your stand.
Zynga has its best launch ever with CityVille
I was just trying to be cute (well, in the one comment you replied to). I wasn't trying to be emphatic.
That was the reason given for why Google isn't using naive sentiment analysis for ranking.
this is philosophy you know, not everything is what it sounds like at first!
An e-book's container format is (essentially) orthogonal to whether or not it has DRM.

Kindle uses a convoluted, badly designed container, where everyone else uses ePub, which is an open standard.

Bottom line: There is not Kindle support because Kindle is too picky.
Twitter / @Tumblr: All blogs are online and All blogs are online and we're ...
By your argument, any dealing a citizen has with the government should be fully in the public record, for all other citizens to see. Does that mean you think you should be able to see my income tax return?

As far as your employee analogy goes, employees sometimes do need to keep secrets from their employer. For instance, if I tell my lawyer something I expect it to only be shared with other lawyers who are actually working on my case and need to know it. Just because my lawyer is an employee of a firm does not mean that the owners of the firm have any right to secrets I've shared with my lawyer.

The notion that government employees are your employees is simply wrong. You are more like a stockholder, not an employer. Companies are not required to tell their stockholders every detail of the operations of the business, for good reason.
I wonder why they used the Cortex A8? It seems like the A9 has been around long enough to use, but maybe Samsung's Orion is not really ready or it is a cost / power issue?
No, there's a third choice. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665

[edit: An idea which I wouldn't know about if I hadn't seen it here. For me, HN still is good enough to spend time with. But it has grown less stringent about humor and links to images, which I think reduces S/N.]
I have a friend who works there.

According to him, word of mouth is paramount. Who do you know there?

As he put it...treat this as a the interview. If you can't befriend someone who works there they you aren't qualified.
Jokes are OK, but not when they're not even a little amusing.
Ah, don't think so. What's the point of sharing that, how do you expect people to react to this non-statement.
I cannot vote for the US government. I’m no US citizen.
Have you talked to the api provider and told them what you want?

That seems like step one to me.
True, but blackouts are relatively rare in the NFL, unless its 2009 and you're the Raiders. In fact, the Chargers were about 1,000 tickets away from a blackout earlier this year, and posted this on their Twitter account, and quickly sold enough tickets.
WikiLeaks Situation - TL;DR
> It is possible, you know, to be simultaneously a genius, a has-been, and a blowhard.

There has yet to be someone writing about wikileaks that was not attacked by you in a very loud voice, ad homimen or otherwise, you keep complaining about the volume of words that is 'wasted' on the subject and yet a large part of those words are yours.

The irony of you calling Umberto Eco a genius and a blowhard at the same time does not escape me, especially not after damning him with 'faint praise'.
Like any competitive program, you need to be among the best of the best across the board. The MIT Media Lab has relatively few openings each year ( http://admissions.media.mit.edu/admissions/facts-figures/stu... ) and I'm sure they receive a staggering number of applications for those few positions.
My first guess was that that was intentional. It seemed clever at first, but now I'm not so sure.