skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Portland venture capital is picking up (and we've been lucky to be a part of that). An important note is that most of the money isn't coming from Portland and it's not coming in small amounts. Serious investments are coming in from out of state VC firms.

Dedicated entrepreneurs exist and are making a go at it here - and doing quite well.

I'm wary of most of these organizations, but I do have high hopes for the software startup scene here.
Sydney, Australia (but you can work from anywhere)

We have several positions available at Remember The Milk:

- Systems Administrator
- Software Engineer (Database)
- Software Engineer (JavaScript)
- Software Engineer (Scala)
- User Interface Designer

For full details see: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/about/jobs.rtm
Now mute google conversations the smarter way. The unmute feature added to More Actions on Emails. http://bit.ly/gX0roM
I agree - Apple is a business, and it strives to make money - should it not??? The fact that they have realized that great user experience (which MS is also now making a priority-office 2007-10 is a perfect example)is a form of added value that consumers will pay heavily for is simply a testament to Apple's leadership (NOT just jobs!). Having an unbelievably talented marketing team doesn't hurt either.

My question is: what has Apple done to directly propel the world (particularly the 3+ billion people in the "third world" - impoverished and middle class) towards globalization? Microsoft (perhaps in their bid for control) has donated & sold (or subsidized) millions of products to this group of people. In some countries, apple hasn't even attempted to sell their products at reasonable prices despite the opportunity. Isn't ushering all parts of the world into the next decade as important as creating the next great iOS?
They're actually a public company. But that doesn't matter unless you hold enough shares in the company to make them care the way you want to.
3 years.

http://friendfeed.com/paul/0268007b/how-long-does-it-take-to...
Did Harry Potter's Secret Diary contain a EULA?

I get into a contract with a publisher when I buy their wares?

I have never had to sign a contract when purchasing a book AND I have never not signed (always requred to sign) a contract when renting a vehicle.

Again, physical objects and intellectual property are not the same thing.
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I hear that some carriers will penalize your frequent flier account if you skip the last portion of a journey.
Quoting many people, no need to attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Cool, most people aren't like you, and if they ever do end up like you, then we will have the situation improve. It does not matter what you do, or your friends do, until a lot of people do it.
Without offline support, it's kind of pointless (IMO).
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There might be interesting ways to combine sentiment analysis with other factors.

For example, off the top of my head, combine it with the selectivity of the search word. If the sentiment is positive about a store, then it may be a good search result for a word like "sunglasses" which is associated with many sites. If the sentiment is mostly negative, then it may still rank very highly for keywords/phrases that are highly selective e.g. "decor eyes" while dropping precipitously for the less selective keywords. I.e.: positive sentiment opens up the umbrella, irrespective of how high the umbrella goes.
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Hey, thanks for the reply....
Background: I am a co-founder of Tenacious C (www.tenaciousc.com), and we are developing a tool that presents the internals of C programming for educational and industry purpose....moving to C++ soon. Anyway, we do want to make it a paid app; therefore, we do want to protect it. To what extent? That's what we are contemplating. I was hoping to get some good/generous feedback on this site because I trust this site and the people on it.
Try to find a company that is right for you. For example Google requires programming experience, strongly favors CS education and technical background when interviewing for Product Management positions. I'm sure there are other good companies that value technical skills.
Times tables are useful to have memorized. Memorizing random world rivers and semi-major cities, not so much.
> You'd also be surprised that there isn't much you can
> do to stop it from happening b/c we've been able to
> find ways to get information that is actually outside the
> browser.

I find it hard to believe that you're going outside of the browser if Java/Flash/JavaScript are uninstalled or disabled. Are you claiming to be using 0-day browser exploits to get information from outside of the browser?
I already regret not learning serious hacking in high school and university.

I got lots of A's (and B's), mind you, and I did work on projects of my own and everything, but I really saw it as just a hobby. I was always on windows, mostly dependent an IDEs, and I always thought I gotta be doing something more serious, like gasp oil and gas.

Good thing I'm still 25.

But I really feel like I should've started thinking about doing a startup when I was 18 or 20.
Love to meet Austin entrepreneurs. Send me a note and let's get coffee: LinkedIn is in my profile or marascio at gmail.
Sales Lesson #1 - Value is determined by the purchaser.

See: $300 purses, $250 running shoes, $1500 Business class tickets.
On the "truth is stranger than fiction" front, I got a good chuckle from the monads-in-Perl link http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=620692:

"Anyway, I think it would be worth doing, if it could be expressed readably, but I was not able to figure out a way to do that."

There is some deep irony in monads in Perl not being readable enough for Perl.
Lack of HN features is surely an Arc conspiracy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830171
I'm fond of the Apache License for open source stuff because it grants users the four freedoms without the viral nature of the GPL.

For proprietary work, my employer has always outsourced writing the license agreement to our legal team. Looks like you might have to spend some money.
In case anyone's interested, there's a syllabus: http://people.ksp.sk/~misof/ioi-syllabus/ioi-syllabus.pdf
> German was very nearly chosen for America's national language

Snopes to the rescue once again: http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp
The title is, "Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Take a Look". Snopes does a perfectly good job of making the point that merely "taking a look" will not help you to answer that question.
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6 months isn't enough for what? To build a product and start selling it? To raise venture money? To put together a presentation and pitch 10 customers?

6 months is plenty of time to accomplish a lot. It's enough time to build a product and get non-trivial revenue. It's certainly enough time to prove to himself that he made the right decision.
Mote -> move.
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As an American, I agree with you. I remember the days before this was called "terrorism", it was called "muckraking". I worry that as a country we are so used to tagline/twitter/sound-byte news media that we forgot what actual news looks like. Your Woodward example is a good one. Shouldn't the interest and outrage be about the content, and not the source.

Ugh. We need another Murrow.
Most people don't read licenses.

I really don't think you need a huge legal document, just a short paragraph or a few bullet points to assert your IP and prevent "unauthorized" copies.
Edited so you'll no longer miss the point.
It's extremely frustrating to actually interpret the information in this article and at its linked-to articles.

The basis of this article's claim is that "music purchases" are up by 50% since 2006. Except, even ignoring revenue, a "music purchase" nowadays is typically one song, not one album. In their own words, if an independent artist sells two songs on iTunes, they make as much money as if they sold a whole CD.

But selling two songs instead of one album would be a 100% increase in purchases, not a 50% increase!

The numbers they give neither support nor refute their point; I have no idea whose side I should believe. Neither, I suspect.
I know of the list and have been to a few meetings. When I mentioned I didn't see much going on, I meant there didn't seem to be a cohesive group of entrepreneurs. There are plenty of user groups and other nerdy meetings, but I haven't had luck connecting with other people attempting to get a business off the ground. Yes, PDX has nerds and programmers and people interested in tech, but, it doesn't have many software entrepreneurs to connect with.
You can still use a key with the YC startup replacing keys.
> Thought you should be the first to know.

Good and good luck. Now please tell your fiancée!
I think in slightly simpler times. Value isn't only about function, its about form and also timely availability. Some devices are required at a certain point in time and although an application could replace them it most certainly will not. For instance the simple mirror, you can use an app on a camera enabled tablet (which might even allow some cool things like virtually trying different looks etc) but the simplicity of our current solution is very comfortable.

The same argument can be applied to the scale example pg gives. Sometimes when you are dripping wet, in the privacy of your bathroom, a scale is just perfect. That doesn't mean your scale will never talk to an app that let's you track your weigh-ins, it just means a scale is a dedicated device that people will likely want to keep for the foreseeable future.

But pg is dead-on on many items, as are you. There will be, as has been, a migration of specialized devices to software solutions.

Where the line will be drawn (due to consumer preference i.e. value creation) is up for debate though!
Why do you want to be listed there?

To be honest, I had no idea DMOZ existed until now. The idea seems kind of quaint. It's looks like they're trying to recreate the early days of Yahoo search.
I wonder why they're not doing that.
Get 'em!
Imagine you have a set of people over history, all thinking in different ways, all making statements about the future. There's a good chance that some of those statements will be true, just by chance. If you don't account for that, you will be biased towards people who just got lucky (the survivors).
It's inspiring.
I'm looking forward to "5 Better Ways to Read Mashable." They have more Twitter buttons above the fold than paragraphs with content.
Python Mode in Emacs
Sheepskin boots sale
Sheepskin boots sale is hot here! Whether you are a self-aware fashion addict or a down to earth individual who is looking for warm shoes to keep insulated against bitter cold winter.
It's not a rumor, Jeff Bezos did indeed work at D.E. Shaw & Co. So did quite a few well known people in technology.
I've been to some events of the Haskell community and hang out on the Haskll cafe mailing list. They don't seem elitist to me, and are quite fond of connections to industry. Where do you get those notions?
I couldn't help but fix on these two sentences:

"We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said."

Doesn't this sound like the exact things security people used to say before realizing that they needed to make their mechanisms public in order to ensure their security.
From the sellers perspective, suppose they plan to make $6000. If they price it at $6 - they need to sell 1000 copies, if they price it at $60 - they need to sell 100 copies. Which ones easier?

I've spent > $100 on ebooks or courses, and they've been immensely helpful. I guess it depends on how much you're willing to pay for the value you get.
> completely different from 'other languages'.

It's not too different from OCaml or Clean. (Though, I do miss type classes in them.)
My blog comment to the effect of, "This is policy everywhere, and while customer service could have been friendlier, this is your bad," was deleted. Classy.
...their Giving a Shit gene shuts down faster than a teabagger with a grade-school arithmetic book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement#Use_of_term_...

The implication is that TEA party constituents have no interest in actually understanding the grade-school math necessary to understand a budget.
I think one of the biggest issues is transfer. It's SO easy to get your pictures off the iPhone -- no wires, no computer, dead-simple (hence the Flickr succes). High-end camera-makers would be wise to add 3G/wifi/cloud features, although the file-sizes of high-res photographs might be prohibitive for a while...
This is humor understandable only by programmers, specifically, programmers who have some understanding of Haskell- I would hardly call that thought free humor.
Is that the event put on by the Oregon Entrepreneurship Network? I have been very skeptical about all their events (really, to do anything I need to shell out HOW much? To go to a pub and drink a beer even?). I wouldn't say the idea is doomed. Even if it isn't successful, at least it's something in the right direction.
"Save a tree" with the WWF's new unprintable "green" PDF format
"Thank you - this is the most vapid thing I've seen today not written by a TSA official."

Are you here all week? Do you always get this many laughs?

"And you can tell the difference based on a server log...exactly how?"

If you can't see that googling answers isn't cheating, I'm sorry.
I don't know if they got the memo that paper comes from sustainable tree farms that plant trees. Pretty sure Weyerhauser isn't flying down to South America to chop down virgin rainforests.
There is a political movement in the USA called the Tea Party that included some demonstrations a couple years ago where they waved tea bags and called themselves teabaggers as a nickname.

Of course, teabagging has a risqué sexual connotation so the movement's opponents latched onto the nickname as the proponents dropped it.

The Tea Partiers are known for budget illiteracy, often suggesting impossible or mathematically absurd ideas to arrange government spending. At the lowest levels they suggest that cutting foreign aid and sex education will balance the federal budget. At the highest levels, they praise "courageous" budget plans like Paul Ryan's hand-waving and prayer plan to balance the budget by cutting taxes on the wealthiest and hoping that growth trickles down to all of us and health care costs magically stop rising. In between are the signs waving "keep the government's filthy hands off my medicare," the epitome of Tea Party campaigning this year.

So the story suggests that Tea Partiers have an aversion to basic arithmetic.
I agree that the menu and messaging icon look different but the bluetooth icon is the same as on my phone (2.2.1 FRG83D).
I'm not calling the USA borderline fascistic for this
incident alone, but for a sequence of events dating back
to 9/11.

Actually we got quite late to the postwar Nazi garage sale.
The URSS and the USA[1] got the lot, including the guy who
almost decimated London's civilian population[2].

The best one we could get was Kurt Tank[3].

ODESSA, a former SS officers organization created in 1946
to assist Nazi war criminals, had ramifications in
Argentina. It was mostly backed here by Walther Darre's[4]
family, german companies (e.g. Siemens) and a few
right-wing politicos.

Thankfully, MOSSAD was able to partially correct that black
page in our history in 1960.[5]

Although Peron was quite an intolerant person, he had a
soft spot for human rights and opened the doors to
Jewish inmigrants in 1946. We received 463456 jewish
inmigrants between 1947 and 1951.[6][7]

Also we were one of the first countries to recognize
Israel in 1949.

There is one famous town founded by Germans in 1930,
Villa General Belgrano[8]. Many of their original
inhabitants are survivors from the Graf Spee sinking[9],
although I challenge you to find a fluent German speaking
person there under the age of 80.

If you want to check it out, go during the first weekend of
October so you don't miss their amazing Oktoberfest.

All Nazi related government files have been declassified in
1992, and can be freely accessed. Although they haven't
been digitalized.

After the tenths of thousands of deaths caused by our
last dictatorship[10] in the 70's, we started to develop
a politically liberal, more tolerant and more agnostic
world view.
This led us to be the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage and marihuana, among other things.

Sorry for the excessive length of this comment, just wanted
to dispel some common myths about my country.

Links:
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tank
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Walther_Darr%C3%A9
[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
[6]: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.ht...
[7]: http://www.lavozylaopinion.com.ar/cgi-bin/medios/vernota.cgi...
[8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_General_Belgrano
[9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spe...
[10]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process
Yes - and the judge agreed that with the jurisprudence that the Doctrine of Fair Use wasn't a defence under the DMCA. The EFF were absolutely right that the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions could be interpreted by courts to make it illegal for people to exercise rights under the doctrine of Fair Use under some circumstances.

But that is missing the point of what I was trying to say. The Doctrine of Fair Use is about allowing certain types of copying of copyrighted works for certain purposes.

The Arstechnica article talked about the judge backing down from blocking the 'fair use' defence because he mentioned that the modifications were required for homebrew.

My point is that homebrew does not (generally) rely on the Doctrine of Fair Use - people making and running homebrew games are generally not copying copyrighted material without the permission of the owner. It may be 'fair use' in plain English, but that would be borrowing a legal term with a specific meaning and applying it to a different meaning (this is similar, for example, to how people often use the technical term 'virus' incorrectly to talk about malware in general).
That might be hard to do without getting into some very gross things, but I definitely appreciate the sentiment.
Most of the populace understands wikileaks to be bad, engaged in killing soldiers, letting terrorists escape, etc.

So you're saying most of the populace is woefully ill informed? Agreed.
Fortunately, libel/defamation is against the law.
Here are the stats for a blog that mainly appeals to a Linux audience, but includes tips on various OSS software as well...

1. Firefox 54.59%
2. Chrome 24.02%
3. Internet Explorer 9.18%
4. Safari 5.73%
5. Opera 3.59%
6. Konqueror 1.24%
7. Mozilla 0.69%
8. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.62%
9. SeaMonkey 0.21%
10. Opera Mini 0.07%
11. Uzbl 0.07%

1. Windows 51.48%
2. Linux 40.37%
3. Macintosh 5.73%
4. Android 0.41%
5. iPhone 0.41%
6. iPod 0.35%
7. FreeBSD 0.21%
8. SunOS 0.14%
9. iPad 0.14%
I couldn't get that reg working for some reason. But awesome tip on sdelete!
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You should hit up http://cafebedouins.com and http://opencoffeeaustin.org.
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It will be interesting to see the overlap between those decrying this government pressure to infringe upon the free speech rights of an organization, and those decrying the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United that such organizations are protected by the First Amendment.
Its just like any other iOS accessory. The app is distributed via the App store and the hardware through retail channels.
Pointless how? I love to read feeds while on public transport - where I have 3G.
The point with http://hckrnews.com wasn't to get into a "minimalism pissing match", but to read the frontpage items sorted by time (and archived).

However, I did strive for minimalism and readability as a goal. I'm not sure why you think it is more cluttered than the original, since every item has less -- one line vs two, repeated words and the submitted user's name omitted.
South America is tempting, my only concern is that I have no knowledge of spanish (I took 6 years of french and am a proficient reader).
At "risk relitive" rates, you are going to be charging some people payday loan level rates. Most businesses fail.

This, I think, is the problem with the "microfinance" industry. Either you are losing money on the loans or you are charging rates that make success much less likely for your customers.

I think that if you could scale-down something like ycombinator to handle local businesses, that'd work a lot better. that way the person who needed the capital doesn't end up with crushing debit, and the investor gets a cut only if the business succeeds.
Congratulations, good luck, and reach out often and always if you need a nudge or support. Full disclosure: I've been in the same boat and have been threatening to jump. If you're open to it, I'd love to exchange a few emails.

ps, wasn't there a new incubator recently announced in Austin?
Thanks! BTW, we are hiring iOS developers if you are looking to work on cool tech and help 300MM people world wide live longer healthier lives!
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At least is easy. At most is hard.
Oh no, HN is being promoted on Mashable..
You are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier.
Is gamification the future of marketing?
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Congratulations on making the most important decision of your life and, secondarily, on opening the business. Words cannot express how much better self-employment is than what I used to do for a living.
How does this work? Some kind of DRM wrapper over PDF?
From the research I have done DMOZ helps you with ranking better for Generic Results when you get Listed in their Database.
This was actually a personally test disguised as a blog post. See how you scored:

If you didn't understand it: You're not a hacker and never will be; go get your MBA.

If it upset you: You are a hacker without a sense of humor. You belong in a room without other people. Fed Ex will deliver your circuit boards tomorrow.

If you laughed once: You are an aspiring junior programmer. Keep on working hard and best wishes to you.

If you laughed more than once: You are a seasoned hacker. Nice to see you here.

If you sprayed Mountain Dew on your keyboard: You have that rare combination of understanding both bits and people. You must do great work.

If you are cutting and pasting these gems for your bulletin board: You and I must be kindred spirits. Email me. Let's do a start-up together.
Make non-compete agreements unenforceable there and I would consider moving there.

Now if you really want a leg up on California, also consider make non-poaching agreements unenforceable.
"Looks like you might have to spend some money." lol....yeahhhhh, on that note, what's the best software to use?
Articles fake, jmillikins comment only has 24 points right now, not 38.