skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree with the pylons love. For any serious app, you have to pop the hood in every web framework, and it's such a relief to find a framework that's actually designed with that in mind.
Startup Advice Paradox
As a business entity, you won't be able to get a personal account
I think it's less deceiving themselves that that's the likely outcome, and more setting that as a goal and trying not to think about the likelihood of failure.
Most commercial bank accounts offer a "nightly sweep" that moves your funds overnight into an interest-bearing account, and then back into your operational bank account. You will find that this is only offered for Treasury Managed services or something similar. This will incur higher monthly fees as well as per-transaction charges, so any benefits you'd get from the nightly sweep would be outweighed by the costs in this economic environment.

Stick with a regular business banking account, preferably one that charges few, if any, fees. Fees will eat up any interest you'd get anyways.
Just one quick comment: a lot of people here seem to be concerned about putting the money in an FDIC-insured account.

I'd say that this isn't a huge concern, as long as you don't put it anywhere particularly stupid. You're running a startup. The chances that your startup will go broke are 80%. The chances that your startup will go broke due to the bank vanishing are 0.0001%. You're more likely to go broke due to your servers being eaten by giant ants.
This kind of questions gets asked a lot here. The common response is "Fake it." Follow reddit's lead and generate content yourself until others catch on. You also might try mechanical turk, though I have no experience with this myself. Also, post a link. You'll get better advice if you supply more detail about your site or the actual site to look at.
I love retro-futurism. Those giant buildings, those bustling metropolises, so often monuments to art deco architecture.
How many big success stories involve people who weren't really working all that hard? Do you really believe that's a common scenario?

Even if they weren't working on it at the same time, as long as somebody's looking when you gain moderate success, you've got a competitor who can use your current work as R&D to catch up — and then they can outpace you if you're giving 30% fueled by pocket change and they're giving 100% with the resources of a millionaire. This might not mean death, but it does mean that falling backward into monumental success is extremely improbable. That's why people say lifestyle businesses are unlikely to yield huge rewards.
Every smartphone company wants to diversify away from Samsung, it's never in your interest to be tied to a single supplier. The big problem with this: Samsung is the best. By far. Until their competitors catch up, they're the only reliable game in town.
I definitely agree that it's become a 'huge industry'. There are people getting huge payments for selling (and accepting) and even more people getting jobs. Of those involved, who's going to say no to that?

I was surprised that they went the airport scanner route since it'll reduce jobs. However, I suppose they've paving the way for more passive invasive technology to be sold and used in more common areas. Profits from hardware, installation, maintenance contracts and training are probably bigger than what exists now.
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Github:FI is already priced at a rounding error for the kinds of companies from which most of the revenue in this space will originate.

How many of these companies do you think have developers using git in the first place (As opposed to subversion or [wait while I assume a look of sufficient disgust] visual source safe)?
How the term ‘computer bug’ was coined.
Reflection of a Young Entrepreneur
SHSH Blobs Extractor? Whats that?
The ages right now range from 10-14.
How Dogma Begets Anti-App Myopia
- I was under the impression that Bell owned Telus or something similar.

- I heard about the GSM network, but IIRC there is some sort of transition period going on right now. Also, I've heard varying reports about it. I wasn't sure if they actually had a GSM network or if people were talking about them not using CDMA for 3G internet.
Sign a few sellers, and give really good offers for them to use your site. Then help those sellers advertise. Do it again. & Again

Keep building the snowball until it's big. It's not easy, but that's one possible one. It should much much easier nowadays with all the social networks, but nothing is easy. Just a lot of hard work and convincing.
Between Blueleaf and BankSimple, I think all of these points (save the investment banking one) are being attacked. Fun note: we share an investor in Sean Park (http://seekingalpha.com/author/sean-park).
L.E is Egyptian Pounds[0].

Mb is indeed 512 megabits per second[1].

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Egyptian_poun...

[1]https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Megabit

1,000 Egyptian Pound = 171.940 US Dollar
1,000 US Dollar (USD) = 5,815.97 Egyptian Pound (EGP)
1,000 Egyptian Pound = 173.114 Australian Dollar
1,000 Australian Dollar (AUD) = 5,776.54 Egyptian Pound (EGP)
That is fantastic.

Annoying adverts? Sure, but countless cool shit, too.
If your definition of "obvious" is a feedback loop, then you clearly have a very sophisticated, very select group of acquaintances. To many people I know, this concept is far from obvious.
This is not how the term was coined. It was precisely because it was already in use that they found it so amusing when the cause of a bug was an actual bug.

I suspect the usage originated with the metaphor of "ironing the bugs out" of something, which is presumably a reference to ironing some sort of bugs out of clothing.
Also, starting anything, whether it's a business or not, will give you exposure to many of the same ups and downs as a startup. You can get much of the experience with essentially zero risk (except to your ego) by starting a social club, student organization, hobby website, or open-source project. Just as long as you make an honest goal of adoption and don't just put it out there with a "whatever happens, happens" attitude.

My first major programming project was a complete rewrite in college of a Harry Potter fansite that grew from 2000 to 100,000 registered users during my time on staff. Relative to my skill level at the time, it was probably the hardest thing I've ever done, and it taught me a lot about the emotional roller coaster and persevering through the lows where I really want to quit.
From the Store Shelf to Home (and Beyond)
Speculation on the next MacBook Pro
I personally despise this stereotype of Americans. There may be more than a bit of truth to it, but I hate it. I try to represent the opposite, and those that I choose to associate with do as well. I also try to represent the best of what "being an American" can be.
I certainly agree with you, though the truth seems to be that the so-called "academic enterprise" seems to be succumbing to the pressures of industry. My university's CS department has begun offering grad-level courses in silly things like "Personal Software Process" and "Topics in Software Management" which, from first impressions of the students, are filled with utter BS.
Don't you think that the whole "tenure track", "up or out" thing has a lot to do with it as well? The academic job search is quite brutal.

(Even further off-topic: my old university has decided that each group can have at most one professor, and that this job will be re-awarded every five years. It's too early to see the effects, but...)
That really depends on where you are - I live in a semi-rural area, 40kms out of Perth, and right on the border of 2 ADSL exchanges. We're not in range for either of them, so we have to resort to wireless internet: $80/month for 3GB on peak, 5GB off peak. There is nothing else available here (including 4G wireless).
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Wow, I feel bad enough about the waste I create with a regular cereal box. Now I will have to seek out an electronics recycler to dispose of every piece of food packaging.
Tech Sunday: Will.I.Am Gets A Job At Intel
Linux Compiler Deathmatch
Entrepreneurs trade having to answer to one particular authority figure for having to answer to many authorities. For many people with authority issues, that's a much better situation. When one person has a problem with you, you don't know whether the problem is with you or with them, but when many people have a problem with you, there's a fairly high likelihood that the the problem lies with you. It's basically more data and less arbitrariness.
When We Left Earth, by the Discovery Channel. Amazingly inspiring.

Dreams With Sharp Teeth, about and starring Harlan Ellison. Very interesting.
I think he said it as a joke. Possibly sarcastically alluding to the standard quips made at Microsoft's expense.

So, in other words, I don't really think the poster implied anything at all in his comment. He was downvoted for cracking bad jokes on HN, not for making a poor argument.
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Exposing yourself to exchange rate risk isn't worth it in this case
Nobody wants to pay taxes on their income. But sometimes we have to do things we don't want to.

Who exactly is being helped by taking away the Paypal option from consumers (besides bankers)?

Presumably it helps the government keep track of your earnings.
The live site is not ready yet. Since, the problem seems to be more generic, I posted the question here.

If the same topic had been discussed in old threads, can you please share the link? I would be interested to read that discussion too!
Me? I'm at Iowa State University in Ames, IA.
Right, and I should probably set up something to auto-snag that stuff where it counts, but having to do that is the sort of thing you have to so for any non-git-based site.

It'd be nice of all those related items were also in a repo, easy to pull.
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More likely it's used to keep track of money earned by people who do their business online.
I recently gathered a few links, mostly to previous discussions on the topic, in a post here that you might find helpful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126209

I actually have a track record of promoting conversation traction in online forums. But I don't know how those principles would be applied to the kind of site you are asking about. I am interested in getting a better understanding of such things in part because while I seem perfectly capable of increasing traffic (and thus membership) on someone else's discussion board where there is already a certain number of members (but discussion is anemic), my own email lists and websites lack traffic (and members). :-/
Credit cards are not difficult to get. Anyone you can create a paypal account and get money transferred into it should be able to get a credit card.
Guys, the future is here.

And I'm not just being facetious. I mean, good lord.
Being a one-trick pony isn't all that bad, if people like the trick. The long term problem that I think Google has not yet had to deal with is the fact that its customers hate it and its one trick.

By customers, I mean the people that actually give it money--the people who buy ads.

I can't think of any other company whose services we use at work that treats us as arbitrarily, capriciously, and indifferently as Google does.
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>>All my comments refer to English AJ, period.

I should also note that you contradicted that also, above:

>>The reason is because you have cherry picked incidents, one from a particularly partisan source, from which to base your claim of a lack of credibility.

If you base everything off the English content, then how do you know I "cherry picked" conecerning the Arabic content??

(I have also no clue about the Arabic content of Al J. I just found a few examples in seconds.)

I've been down voted around 50 times for pointing out inconsistencies like this... I claim that depends on idealists. Sad, but not unusual for political extremists.
We setup two separate business accounts with the same bank. Put 90% of the money in one, and 10% in the other.

Monthly float is transfered from the main account to the second account, and checks/wires/etc come out of that, and incoming checks are deposited into it.

If someone manages to forge a check against your account or recall a check you deposited then you don't get cleaned out.

We were in advertising with lots of incoming and outgoing payments, so the additional work was worth it. Check fraud against businesses is still a big problem, and the law states the party that put in the least amount of effort to prevent the fraud is ultimately liable for the loss (which is you if you are using any type of off the shelf inkjet business checks).
A Cynical Theory: anyone with the power, money and government connections needed to disrupt Wall St. will choose instead to join Wall St. when the option is given to them. Fight the good fight or join the party? Those who aren't willing to make the right choice will be weeded out of the system before they are influential enough to disrupt. Any techniques used by outsiders who try to disrupt the party anyway will be made illegal through regulations, trademarks, patents, contract law or legislation drafted by lobbyists and rubber stamped by well-funded politicians.

I can think of a less cynical and more hopeful view too but I think it's something anyone entering this space needs to be aware of. I don't think it's a technology problem.
No the features list was compelling, it is an interesting site. I just mean that when I first signed on, I didn't immediately "get" what it was about- maybe make the "who's hotter?" example from the 1st screenshot a bit more prominent or larger, because once you see that, the purpose of the site is self explanatory.
This is a very mean thing to say. An unfortunate example of the sort of comment I have in mind when I say that while the articles on the frontpage of HN are roughly what they've always been, the comments are meaner. And worse still, it got net 18 upvotes.

Would you say this to someone if you were talking face to face? I hope not.
If the content/information exists elsewhere but just needs aggregation, you need to massage/import in order for it to be useful to you future users - so take the plunge and import it so that users will find your service useful, even if this costs you some money up front!

If it's a matter of requiring users to generate your content for your site (like www.reddit.com), then definitely as other users have said... fake it.
I read some book some years ago about an American man working in a Third World country. He had hired a housekeeper. One of the things she did was iron all his clothes (including socks) after bringing them in from hanging outside to dry. At some point, he ended up with a parasite of some sort in his back and had to have it treated by a doctor. At this point, he learned that she ironed all his clothes to kill fly eggs that might have been laid on the clothes while they hung to dry. The parasite he ended up with was likely because she failed to kill some of those eggs on a shirt.

I don't know if "ironing the bugs out" comes from something similar. But that's what the phrase in your remarks made me think of.
You are assuming that the company has 0 revenue/profit.
I do think that oil doesn't have its future scarcity sufficiently priced in today's numbers because for most people and especially oil companies and oil-based economies it would be too scary to think about it.

The root of the problem itself is not at all related to capitalism or other economic models. Capitalist countries are no better off with regard to this than other economies.

The problem is related to the fact that in the coming decades the energy needed to pump a barrel of oil will increase, up until the threshold in the far future where it costs a barrel of oil to pump a barrel of oil. And because modern economies are based on the availability of cheap oil, this change will transform or shatter these economies.

It's an universal cost. If it's not about the price of pumping and buying oil in dollars, it will be the time, effort, and availability of oil.

Like you said, serious work on alternatives is only as serious as dictated by the lack of availability of cheap oil. I call exactly that wearing blindfolds because it is about betting entires nations on the possibility that we'll find an alternative energy store or energy source, in time, that allows us to maintain roughly today's standard of living. I would like to see it happen, too, but from the viewpoint of a contemporary man we'll be just totally and ultimately screwed if it doesn't.

What I suggested is that we should take this into account already and not after 50 years when it might not be possible to do really serious work on alternatives. It's really about taking the hit slowly and adaptively or getting it slammed on your face at once.
Facebook the best endorsement of The Silicon Valley Way that exists.
The advertisers will not stop until every person on the face of the planet has some sort of attention span deficit disorder just due to the sheer amount of flashing, screaming, annoying crap that's all vying for your attention on a constant 24/7 basis so that you buy their products. Futurama's 'prediction' of advertisements beamed directly into your dreams isn't a far cry from something that an advertiser might do.
I second the recommendation for Art & Copy. I saw it a couple of months ago and have been talking to people about it ever since.
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I just started a bunch of Django projects because Pylons was discontinued and Pyramid was still called alpha in their docs. Oh well, next one will be Pyramid.
I think the original version of the quote was referring to student politics.
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Company moving off of SVN: Hg or Git?
Anonymous account here as I don't want to single out where I work.

I recently joined a 1,000+ employee company and, to my surprise, I discovered they still used Subversion. When I brought this up with my manager I was surprised yet again by the reply: "yeah, we're supposed to move to Mercurial soon".

I don't yet know why or how the decision was made to pick Hg over Git. It reflects a trend I've seen: I believe conventional wisdom has caught up with the benefits of DVCS's. When it comes to choosing one, Mercurial often wins out over Git. Why? The 2 most common reasons I hear are: windows support and simplicity. I believe the Windows issue is now a red herring - Git works fine on windows. So it must come down to the UI: Git is simply more complicated for most folks to use/master. As a result I believe corporate management often pick Hg more often than the open source community does.

What does the HN community think? It seems like the web has anointed a clear winner (Git). Meanwhile I'm bummed because I prefer Git and I feel it reflects poorly on our engineering team. Tools and tech stacks reveals a lot of a engineering team.

If it were up to me I'd advocate moving to Git and buying a license for Github:fi. Somewhat pricey, but very awesome.

Part of me is now hoping they stay on subversion so I can at least use git-svn and manage my code with git.

What are your experiences and thoughts?
A fundamental bug in HTML5's Canvas?
Might I suggest that Quora's better off without Scoble if he can't think of it as nothing more than a blogging platform?
"Also, many of the changes in XHTML were brought over to HTML5 - which does have an XML definition."

Yea, the so-called XHTML5 that will be finally supported in IE9, BTW.
While acts of enclosure were an old custom in Britain by the time of the industrial revolution, the discussion here was about the effect of those acts at the time of the said industrial revolution, i.e. late 18th century. The last riot that your link mentions ("the Newton Rebellion was one of the last times that the peasantry of England and the gentry were in open armed conflict") happened in the early 17th century.
He's talking about a lack of change in the rate of growth, not a lack of change in the magnitude.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:...

That seems to describe conscription to me. I'm not sure what "part of the social contract" means.
I'm glad you bring up that idea out at the end (by now, few will read it, but that's okay). It pains me to learn that some people in this great country (for cultural reasons?) don't do this. It's a "crazy" idea, but one that works very well in other countries. Latin Americans, Indians, and others will attest to that. I wouldn't call for forcing families to take care of their elderly, but I'd find ways to motivate that because it's simply sad that we have to take care of others' parents.

And yes, the whole problem with our health care system isn't so much that we're paying (we have to no matter what, either by premium increases or footing the bill for emergency patients). The problem is that it sucks at preventing major health problems that later cost more if undetected and not treated early.
Lift's templates predate Clojure, let alone Enlive.
Google's Android NDK (Native Development Kit) had been mostly bare-bones libc (and utility libs) for writing optimized C code to be called from Java/JNI. But NDK Revision 5 (December 2010) includes new native APIs for application framework and system APIs that were previously only available to C code through JNI, such as window surfaces, event loops, and sensor data.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
I think that you might be on to something. There are some disciplines that are much less competitive for jobs/tenure (like accounting). From the outside at least, it sure seems like there is a lot less internal politicking going on.
Funny that in the information era one can learn from mistakes of others, yet many people don't do this.

As someone who lived half of a life in a country which was an experiment on socialism, I wish them luck. And I wish they regain their senses. Quickly.
The wording here is disingenuous.

The RBI (which deals with taxes and money regulation in India) requires transactions above $500 to be reported.

Also, any entity which keeps money and does transfers on demand over a certain period of time is deemed a bank and is subject to bank regulations.

Paypal is not interested in being treated like a bank in India - that would mean paying interest on money they keep, among other things. So they decided to put in these new rules and blame it on the government.
N. Europe:

I have 110/10M (cable-tv network) in Finland for $53.
More widely available 24/1M DSL goes for $46. Usage caps are unheard of in cabled internet.

Cheap, non-capped mobile internet has recently exploded - caps will be introduced. Our biggest telco TeliaSonera has only capped versions since the launch of iPhone (they were were forced and willing to pay extra).
Other companies haven't introduced restrictions, but since Android-based smartphones became popular in 2010 and currently log the most data usage per unit, this will soon change.

Mobile internet is also very popular with plain computers by using 3G usb-dongles, which telcos give free of charge when you sign up for 12/24 months. Typical offer is uncapped 384k for $6.7 or 1M for $12 (actual rates vary often due to congestion - p2p users are a major pain in the butt with 3G networks). These are available nationwide with no geological price differentiation.

In Sweden broadband is quite much cheaper. The government has been heavily involved in building fiber with subsidies, tax breaks and legal requirements to municipal providers. (IT Bill 2000) http://www.broad-band.gr/content/events/docs/Swedish_broadba...