skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a lawyer in NY (where I used to work) and the U.K., I also have a company here (in the U.K.). Cost of incorporation in the U.K. is GBP25 ($50), takes 1 Hour max and can all be done online with the incorporation docs emailed to you after 30 mins. Incorporating a Co. is very, very easy here. Bankruptcy blacklisting also only lasts 3 yrs now (excluding students trying to write off their student debt by incorporating and folding - former loophole).

As for E.U. V's U.S. Corporate (chancery) law it all hinges on a thing called 'The Delaware Effect'. In this E.U. this was tested in the European Court of Justice (our highest court) in 'The Centros Decision' where a Danish couple avoided the $4,000 incorporation fee in Denmark by incorporating in the U.K. and opening an office in Denmark. The ECJ ruled in their favour citing the free movement of persons (corporations are non-natural entities having the rights of a natural person).

The U.K. (Corp tax 22%) and Ireland (Corp tax 12.5%) are the Delaware's of Europe due to a rich body of corporate case law, ideal business law and economic climate and lenient laws on corporate responsibility. Your Sarbanes Oxley Act has resulted in a dilution of the Delaware effect and an uncompetitive business environment due to the expense of compliance. Its introduction has lead to London (and the LSE its stock exchange) becoming the preferred place of incorporation and IPO, and in London becoming the Largest Financial centre in the world. More money was invested in venture capital, and more takeover activity took place, in London this year than in the USA in the past 3 yrs. I was a stockbroker for 18 months after leaving law so sorry for the legal and finance lecture but hope this clarifies a few things.

Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Paypal, Dell, IBM and ebay all have their main base of European operations in the Republic of Ireland where they enjoy a 10% corporation tax (as the got in before it went up to 12.5).

Soooooooo, I'm not sure why YC are still incorporating companies in Delaware.
http://beta.jottit.com/
Internet bandwidth will make a terrible currency because historically the price of bandwidth decreases every year.

A much better currency would be energy, water, or refined energy.
Hehe, no, and that's why it's being redesigned. The focus isn't immediately clear.

It's currently a productivity site. You'll say "I'm going to run every day". When you've done it you check back to the site and make a post about it and attach a photo. Your post is shared with everyone else doing the same thing as you, and you can upvote posts.
Napoleon was 8 or 9 feet tall after he got onto his horse. So it is about height! Or maybe drive & passion are more important... oh well so confused.
Looks like a complicated home pregnancy test.
I liked this overview by Guido on Python 3000. I like the changes
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549
They mean Yahoo!.
Who uses a CMS to manage their sites?
Anyone run an open source cms to manage their startup's site? What do you guys use? Drupal? Joomla? something else? any huge downsides to running a cms and not going from scratch?
You can have all the bandwidth in the world but if my P2P's algorithm allows you to download based on your upload then its good. In other words don't confuse the pipe for the water.
What Google Won't Find: Scott Aaronson on the ultimate physical limits of search
What is a Hacker?
Err..oops... I'd been perusing reddit...
You're right.

Fortunately, this site is dedicated to hackers, not 'users' :-)
Looks a lot like infogami, just more broken :-)
http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/

http://HowDoesJottitFormattingWork.jottit.com (same site in theory...doesn't seem to be working, though.)

Anybody know of where you can get more instructions on how to use it?

Handy for throwing together a random anonymous blog, I guess. Ad-supported, I assume?
Apple slaps back at NBC in iTunes spat (Apple won't sell NBC shows)
The Future of "User-Designed"
Nobody makes scathing documentaries about Burger King, Target or Ford. McDonalds, Wal-Mart and GM are the lightning rods for our hatred of bigness. The smaller guy's legal fees are also way lower in relation to their size than their bigger counterparts. If you have an economist login check this out:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E...
Hacking the Physical World
Is it OK to copy terms of service/privacy policy from another site?
What do you think? I see it done all over the place...
Right, I'm sorry, I deleted your site. Why the hell could I delete your site?

edit: It's still there in history to be reverted.
When did you graduate from UCSB? I'm a fourth year Gaucho and the naming is exactly as the article describes. I haven't seen anyone play "Beer Pong" as you describe (although it was featured in Beer Fest).
Bill Clementson: View PDF/PS/DVI files in an Emacs buffer
I'm not familiar with the arguments against using eval. Can you enlighten me as to why it would be a bad practice?
Service Oriented Architecture is your Ticket to Hell
Our website started on OpenACS, and then moved to Joomla. I've also built a large website with Zope/Plone.

All of them suck so bad they make me want to kick someone.

If I were starting today, I'd probably choose Drupal, but I'm sure I'd live to regret that as well. The smart money is probably on picking a "good enough" implementation of all of the individual features you need, and then make them all share session, and then write a custom login and user management page or two. You shouldn't imagine that any of them is a cohesive set of tools with a standardized codebase using a common set of functions.

That's pretty much what our Joomla site ended up being, only with the added pain of having to manage all of the content through Joomla (which is atrocious...give me flat files over that any day). So, I've spent months learning this big pile of code only to end up using it as a glorified session and authentication handler--the more I use the "native" Joomla tools, the less I like them. And it forces horrible URLs onto you unless you build a custom URL mapper for every application and use one of the SEF tools.

Admittedly, I'm not a fan of PHP, and so my discomfort is increased by working in a language that makes me feel a little ill (no first class functions? how does that even happen in a modern language?)...but nonetheless, the more work I do with websites like this, the more I think content management systems are a bad idea unless you're using them for the very, very, very specific set of problems the developer first set out to solve (I can't figure out what that is for Joomla, since it's so painful to use for just about anything, including managing content, but I'm sure there's a core of useful functionality in there that the project was first started to provide).

I'm going to try Drupal for a community site I'm planning for our Open Source tools, but I may end up giving up on that. It's just hard to know how painful things are going to be until you have users banging on it, and you have to dig deep to address problems they find. It wasn't until we'd actually launched our new site that all of the bugs in Joomla, Fireboard, Flyspray (mainly the bridge), VirtueMart, and other components came to light. Many still remain...If I knock out one bug a week, I'm pretty happy (the system is big, and the bugs run deep). Note also, that all of those apps have their own stylesheets and templates--you aren't even getting cohesive styling, unless you build the templates to match for every single application.

My ideal would be if every application out there had a very simple authentication callback interface, so you could tell it to get the session state from anywhere (maybe OpenID will make this a reality). It'd make it so easy to build a full-featured website--and no big over-arching framework needed. You could even use different languages for your apps...
Mmm, I didn't know the history button was there, and it only looks like it saves so many revisions. No biggie tho, I rebuilt it. Not sure why you can edit anybody's site. Could be fun in some ways I guess. Mental note for future, tho: Keep a copy in a .txt file...

And I just noticed...it didn't give a username for your edit. Can it be edited by literally -anyone-, member or not?

--Nevermind. You can set that up in the setting. The defaults are somewhat curious.
"I will solve XYZ problem" is a plan.
One of the dumbest posts I've ever seen on valleywag.
A previous company I worked for split in two, one half took on an online training site project and my half built an online website development system. The half that did the training site all hated me because I code by the seat of my pants, sometimes put out work that needed a tweak or two and I wasn't there because I was just up for 24 hours writing it. They took 6 months designing and mapping out there project, they took another 6 months to build it and by the time they were done they had 3 months of money left to make it successful and thus went out of business while my side is still going strong 6 years later. I don't exactly advocate treating users like beta testers, but if you can`t find any more errors put it out, fix anything you didn't find that gets reported by the users, then move on.
I really should have said Americans hate "The Biggest" rather than "The Big" (see my comment below.)
Thanks you America (and those from the UK) who pitched in on this thread. These are the types of things we should discuss in this forum (I find people chat a lot of sh*t on here, none of it related to start-ups or being entrepreneurial)

I also appreciate that Americans appreciate they are the descendants of Europeans. The word entrepreneur is French after all, so we must have had it somewhere along the line.

I have lived in your country and a couple of European countries and even in Saudi. In my experience and, in my opinion, Americans are entrepreneurial due to historical reasons. Those who left Europe went there to set up on their own and escape the 'system' in Europe.

'All men are created equal'. This one line explains it all (first suggested by an Italian). Any country in the world could create what America has in proportion to its population and size (yes that's a caveat of context and proportionality). It has to do with attitudes and these attitudes are, as rightly pointed out by PG, informed by trends, society, accepted norms and experience i.e. examples around you.

Experience has taught me, sadly in a personal sense, that accepted norms and historical attitudes which prevail to this day are the major reason for this differing of opinions. My parents are not particularly happy with my deviance from the legal profession, a traditionally highly respected profession in Europe. I was good at it, I qualified as a barrister and passed your NY Bar exam with 5 weeks study. But it had no creativity to me, I would create nothing but documents and a name for myself (which dies with me) and I began to realise that I did not measure success by virtue of a persons professional position.

In the USA success is measured by your contribution to society not your position within it or control over it.

I will say no more, I've gone on to long anyway. But hey give an Irishman a platform and expect to have warm ears X or sore eyes as the case may be.
hmm... how about a compromise: release early, release often, keep things as simple as possible, but get those details perfect.
The way I look at it now is that a hacker is the dual of an engineer.

An engineer first makes sure that something is correct, then tries to build it. A hacker first builds something, then tries to make sure it is correct.
"You may spend too much time on the wrong things and no time on the right things."

Aha, now we know what to call that solo quest for perfection: premature optimization.
or like backpack, but with the default permissions reversed (he even stole some copy from backpack)
A Map of the Internet's Black Holes
What's the difference between "adding a feature" and "improving the site"?

I always took them to be the same thing. In that sense, you're either adding a feature or you're stagnating. (Or, I suppose, going backwards.)
The print(x) instead of print x thing is going to kill me in interactive sessions. I can feel it now. It's those little things that get ingrained in your daily work that are hard to break.
I think they're posting from Burning Man, so I would blame this nonsensical post on the drugs.
Hi Andy, I've been put on to a few resources by YC companies (I'm a relentless networker) so am contacting programmers directly) Our current project (Quarrysell.com) does require a part time PHP, MySQL, Joomla, HTML experienced developer. This is because Quarrysell is only the first stage of a greater concept which you will not be able to guess from it right now.

So yes, Quarrysell needs a part time hacker. Our YC application needs full time hackers of course and we would prefer to have them on board sooner rather than later. If you (or anyone else is interested) drop me an email.
Yeah, I don't get why he would want to try with this again. Why doesn't he focus on web.py and promoting it? That would be much more fulfilling than creating a wiki/note-jotting site.
> So you'd better be a Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is a huge perfectionist. However he will make you work 70+ hours a week to achieve his perfection and he will ride you every step of the way to get the best out of you. http://www.folklore.org
I don't see any issue with copying the terms. Most of all End-user agreements and service policy are similar. Pay attention to substituting your company's name :)
> Personally I used to be like this. I would never launch anything, because nothing I did was ever good enough for me.

Sounds like practice coding to me, I am sure the experience you gained helped you write what you decided was worthy of releasing.
What is your alternative; get a lawyer to draw them up? Where do you think they get them from? Only 10% of legal documents are drawn up from scratch. Lawyers have a service called Westlaw. This service allows them to copy entire briefs/submissions made to the court by a lawyer in the past. They don't even need to come up with what to say in court, they just copy the person who was successful in the past. I spent 18 months in a NY law firm cutting and pasting.

IF IT AIN'T BROKE.....

My advice, take it from many websites, piece together the bits you want and use examples from other sites for different ways of saying the same thing. Change its wording slightly and put the sentences back to front sometimes. If it's altered, not in the same format and slightly different it's ok.
I graduated in '03. Interesting, but not all that shocking. I would not be that surprised if there was variance in a given year.

"Beirut" did make a little more sense when we lost all the ping pong balls and had to play with pennies. The copper (and zinc?) flavored beer also provided some extra incentive to win.

Also, I have no recollection of "wash cups" being used at any time.
Right, when the giant man was burned early it was found that it was really put together with marijuana plants. Hence the entire population at the event were confused why they had the munchies so bad and wrote only 'quicky' articles between snacks.
Things I learnt, that might help.

1. You don't have to use SQL.

2. If you are going to use SQL, Find a wrapper that is minimalistic for your current needs. Work with lesser and you will work more but you will also work with more freedom and sanity.

Best of luck friend. :)
Am I missing something, or are the only "free" parts the sectional introductions? I can't seem to get to the actual chapters...or I'm being really slow.
More of an intention.

I somewhat agree -- my first reaction was to append "and then a plan" to the end of the sentence.

But I think the most accurate take on the subject is this:

"I have always found plans to be worthless, but planning indispensable."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

An important distinction I think.
If you were to write Wikipedia today...
If you were to write Wikipedia today using available languages and frameworks, what language/framework would you use? And why?
There would be a couple of problems with that.

- Engineers generally wouldn't want to do it. Adding layers of indirection between them and the customer would make them happier, but also less effective.

- Optimally, the engineers should be familiar with the software internals. They'd have to specialise in one or two products. If they're actually working on the product at the same time, it's less of a problem. But you're still going to need more CS reps than otherwise.

In a startup, the engineers will have more invested in the product, so they'll be more willing to do it. In any case, there's likely to be nobody else. And there's probably only one or two products, so the CS reps can all be familiar with all (both) of them.

I don't think it would be impossible, just hard. You'd need the CS reps to recognise when a problem is more than just user error, to take a good bug report, and then to be able to get a hold of the right person to get it fixed quickly. Which also requires that it can be fixed quickly; this may be something else that large companies have problems with.

(edit for formatting)
So, basically, a pastebin without syntax highlighting?
I know nothing about sql wrappers but I do know whenever I have a scaling problem it is ALWAYS the sql. I doubt if any wrapper will save me from this. As your database grows larger you need to fine tune your sql, indexes, and so on.
Oh yeah...One more thing. The good reputation of SQLAlchemy - is unfounded. Let me explain.

See it does all the basic stuff and so do the others.

Then some relatively famous programmer who is also a blogger wants to do something esoteric so they evaluate all wrappers and eventually find that SQLAlchemy can do it if you are willing to write brain damaging code.

Then because after many many hours of head banging they finally make it work they can't wait to gloat over the sustained brain damage and how SQL Alchemy rocks, so they write it up in a blog.

Then guess what, simpletons like me read the famous peoples blogs, get suitably impressed and sustain permanent brain damage, if we survive we join the bandwagon and gloat too - with good reason, this thing is impossible for humans to use. If we fail, we do what we should have done in the first place, look for alternatives.

PS: Now that I read it again it sounds like I am talking about Ruby on Rails!!
That sounds like copyright violation. See if you can find a legit free source instead.
While the article makes some interesting points about the perceived flaws of SOA, I'm not sure that I agree that they are specific to SOA itself. Perhaps some of them only apply depending on the context of the situation.

His first point with respect to the up-front design needed for service interfaces - how is this any different when creating any public API that other services will consume? This is a challenge for any public interface. If the interface needs to change, mark the relevant sections as deprecated.

The second point with respect to strange dependencies - this could certainly be a problem with disparate services spread across many organizations. Again, I'm not certain that this issue is specific to SOA - it sounds like the author is pointing out that finding relevant documentation about service dependencies is the flaw here. Again, I'd like to point out that this is a challenge for any project calling on other code - documentation could be distributed across many different open source libraries, etc.

SOA definitely has its benefits. Companies such as Amazon.com have scaled successfully because of their Service Oriented Architecture, before it became a buzzword.

The author is correct, though, in stating that a lot of the buzz around SOA is bullshit. This is typical of any method/solution that receives a lot of hype. For example:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...
this statement is so true
The (partial) state of the mobile data market
Just steal some free (= Creative Commons licensed) documents:

http://wordpress.com/tos/
http://automattic.com/privacy/
The "Chuck Norris" of Programming
Why is Python still interesting? Just use Scala.
> "Beirut" did make a little more sense when we lost all the ping pong balls and had to play with pennies. The copper (and zinc?) flavored beer also provided some extra incentive to win.

All the things we do to make drinking fun. I hope I never play with pennies, that just sounds gross (although I have been know to do disgusting things while intoxicated).

It's good to see a fellow Gaucho on News.YC.
Wikipedia evolved over time, as users thought it was a cool idea. Nobody writes a complete project like they might write a function for an assignment because most "functions" of the type of converting one lossless image to another lossless format, or capitalizing all the letters in a string, have already been written for you.

You can't write something that happened at a certain time and place and expect it to fair better. But, if you want to write something in September of 2007, pick and language that allows you to prototype and iterate your features quickly.
f??k yeah it is.
let me rephrase the question then: how would one start writing wikipedia?
Well the two aren't exactly apples and apples. Why do you prefer Scala over Python?
I got two semesters worth of credits towards my major. However, those two semesters are now over and I've gotten my grades. I feel like somewhat obligated to help if he can't find anyone else but I have my own stuff to do with a ton of CS classes assigning projects now.

"manager have lots of connections?" - the project is in a different department than my major so it wouldn't help me.

"Is this industry leading and highly visible?" It's up there.
You're not missing anything. It's just a TOC and chapter introductions.
Great info, thanks for the education!
I'd install and setup CakePHP to run off the public_html folder of my domain name in apache in my web host or server.

Keeping in mind what I was trying to accomplish, I'd show the article at domain.com/wiki/(article_name) if it existed in the database, or an error message if it wasn't found, with a link to create the new page. There would also be a link on top to edit the current page which would lead to a similar form. The form would allow you to save any changes you made.

I think that's the essense of Wikipedia and likely all it had in its first release.

With enough articles, you'd figure you'd need to write a search. With enough vandalism, you'd want to have banning and a versioning system. With a lot of traffic, you'd find a way to make it scale. After becoming an established leader, you could finally force users to register before contributing. You'd want to suggest articles if the user comes to the not-found page.

You'd figure it out as you went along.

Wikipedia didn't have versioning, user accounts, informational messages, spam catching, caching, multiple servers, multiple language support in its first releases.
> We're switching to a model known from Java: (immutable) text strings are Unicode, and binary data is represented by a separate mutable "bytes" data type.

Tcl had that something like 5 years ago. Of course, that's one of the reasons it's slower...
I don't see the equivalence. Some people don't want to the bloat of the JVM, nor the bloat of Java libraries themselves. Some people prefer dynamic typing over static typing (and yes, I know Scala is type-inferred). Some people love Python's libraries and/or community.

It isn't clear to me why Scala is obviously better than Python as you imply.
I thought Americans text message a lot.. But it is still only half of how much Europeans do. Amazing. Untapped startup potential maybe?

What I really want to see is comparable data for Japan. But like this blogger suggests the data is scarce. As a culture, they do blog and text message a lot though.
Anyone know why Universal is being so stubborn? Even Jobs can't work his magic on them.
BandsInTown Adds Social Networking to Tracking Service
Nice essay. A nice moral booster.
I have no clue either...fill us in.