skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have identified a definite pain point. Unfortunately it doesn't yet look like there is enough there for me to choose it as a core business tool.

I look forward to seeing it progress.
How does some corporation that will disclaim liability at the first sign of a light breeze telling you a site is "authentic" trump your own personal judgment? CAs are scams.

Use something like Perspectives instead of CAs:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/perspectives-bette...
yeah but once they've gotten in, users generally don't care about URLs within the site.
I'm over 40, and admit that I don't "get" facebook. I use email, IM, SMS with my friends but I don't even have a facebook account
No argument from me mate, I've emailed them a few times without anything heh. I just assume after a few hours they have 100+ new emails and won't get to yours.
Yes, if you live outside of Toronto and commute in, not if you're in the city.
That is fantastic, but all I could think of was the brainwashing scene from Zoolander:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wleJmrlbsMc
Now Microsoft confirms Yahoo as the data leak culprit
> it works on the same principle as a the 'worm' in Office Space (geek reference) attempting to make very small amounts of money in mistakes, miscalculations and very short-time discrepancies in valuations of financial instrument.

Just to continue this discussion a bit further, how are these mistakes supposed to be corrected otherwise? :)
Do the Whois databases actually try to block spammers? Any idea how they do it? I also wonder if all the websites out there that allow a view into the Whois data, end up caching it (e.g.: http://whois.domaintools.com/mta.me). If then Google and Coral Cache crawl these this data is permanently accessible.
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How do you organize your projects, in folders?
I'm sure I am not the only one, but I have a bunch of apps/games whatnot in development my own projects etc, I try to organize into folder/subfolders etc, but no matter how hard I try in the end I always end up with a bunch of folders open, and there is a mess.

Do you have any neat tricks or tips for maintaining your computer desk / project folders and files neatly arranged?
I only want enough to pay the bills for three months and fly home on the weekends.
Ah yes, I don't think it has any CRM stuff at all. Thanks!
Designing for scalability
Does this work only with iphone 4g? I have a 3g...
There was a report earlier that a satellite phone was being jammed, but I never saw confirmation. Technically, though, it should be pretty easy to do, at least inside big cities. Your jammer just needs to be louder than the satellite by as much as the antenna gain. Given that the satellite is 42000km away, while the jammer can easily be 10km away, the jammer signal has a 70dB "gain" just from being closer. The antenna gain is rarely more than 30dB, and I suspect that any coding gain can be compensated for pretty easily.

Still, more avenues for communication means more hoops for would-be censors to jump through.
We should buy them one and send them to Blackboard HQ.

edit: I should probably disclose that my employer uses Blackboard and my brother-in-law sells moodle services.
We don't need SSL certificates for authentication. I know that when I go to news.ycombinator.com, I'm getting Hacker News.

We need SSL certificates for encryption. With the certificate you get a private key that is used for secure communication between your browser and HN (both ways).

If it didn't cause every browser to show a big, scary, your-computer-will-instantly-explode-and-your-children's-social-security-numbers-will-be-stolen-if-you-continue, using self-signed certificates (ie. certificates that anyone can just generate) wouldn't be that big of a deal. It could open you up to a man-in-the-middle attack, but it's still way better than sending everything in the clear.
The terms appear to be structured so that founders have a long runway and fewer financial distractions leading to better products and better customer development which leads to better valuations and therefore better angel exits. It appears to have all the elements to create a virtuous cycle.

Aside:The longer term somewhat reminds me of the approach Microsoft takes with BizSpark.
Agreed. But you can't blame traders for greed, since all the owners, investors, and companies are also driven by their own kinds of greed, some of which benefit no one else but themselves.
PipelineDeals http://pipelinedeals.com/

Their leads page is really the best I've used.
Being able to pay isn't a very good barrier. Being broke doesn't mean having no meaningful content, and most attackers who can make serious MitM attacks can pay. CAs are supposed to have real barriers (and I think most of them do).

In this case, though, we don't need a CA. PG could publish the key in an essay and we'd just carry it through manually.
There are SCADA systems which use Windows to run some logic/graphical front-ends to the system. Unfortunately, some of these systems are misconfigured in that individual PLC's cannot adapt to changing conditions without first getting confirmation from the services running on the Windows boxes. If Windows crashes, whatever state the system was in at the time persists! It's a shame configuration issues arise in systems like these...
Why not do both (techies and non-techies)?
Interesting product, but I question the ethics of the company: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=7497

There have been complaints about the Adam's quality before ( http://www.notionaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php/1280-Adam... ), and it seems like Notion Ink is cutting corners everywhere they can.

Edit to include: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/24/notion-ink-adams-arrive-t... - over-the-air update prevents Adam from booting.
I am not at a startup, but I use free wiki plan from PBWorks for my personal projects (e.g. organizing a conference)
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Congratulations, you are a very special snowflake, in a bucket of fairly non-moneytizable snowflakes.
upvote for running linux :)
I don't understand why switching spaces frequently is the interaction to optimize. If you are switching frequently, you are using it wrong. I've seen people running just two apps, and using Spaces to switch between them, and it's painful to watch.

I stopped using Spaces after a while. I find Cmd+Tab to be quite good enough.
The difference in appetite for risk isn't a real difference -- you just have to have the proper perspective. Angels only get to buy in during seed or A rounds. Yuri can double, triple, and quadruple down on the winning companies by following on in A, B, C, D, ... rounds.

If the companies don't allow him into later rounds at equal terms with the others on the round up to as much money as he wants to put in the round (up to the full amount the company is trying to raise) then I expect you'll see this experiment end. He's paying for access, for screened deal flow. Angels are there for a different reason.

So is Yuri's money better than another angels? It is better than PG's? No. No way. Yuri's money is just money. If the only thing stopping you from starting a successful company is access to capital you aren't getting creative enough. Taking money from an angel, from PG, gives you access -- to people with domain knowledge -- to people that will help you succeed with more than just piles of money.
Excellent article, sources cited too!
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What Lustig doesn't mention is that sugar is what your brain runs on. Eating too much sugar is not good for actual marathons but it works great for coding marathons.
For b2b you can't beat Salesforce.com. High-rise is a nice contact manager but a terrible CRM.
Best of luck to them. It's quite difficult to convince faculty to switch over from tools they are comfortable using -- especially porting over their existing lessons and modules. Focusing on the UI is definitely the right approach as Bb is clearly lacking in this space. Regardless, the LMS market is long overdue for a shake up.

On another note, many universities already run and contribute to the open source Sakai LMS. It's a Java-based LMS developed and maintained by a consortium of universities. A small to mid-size university can get it running very quickly as a pilot on 1 or 2 servers using Tomcat and MySQL. It's easy to customize and it integrates seamlessly with existing university portals via CAS. Throw in a SAN for user files and it's a very powerful, scalable and low-cost LMS option that is much more usable than Bb.
Really? In Spaces, I can grab a window with my trackpad and then hit my hotkey to go to the next space. In Gnome on Ubuntu, I have to right-click and hit "move to workspace", and in apps with nonstandard widgets (read: Chrome), even that doesn't work and I have to go down to the taskbar to do that.
We just organically added columns as we needed it. That's the magic of using a Spreadsheet :-)

Here are the columns we have (with footnotes):

Name, Email, Company, Role [1], Intro [2], Rep [3], Last Contact Date, Last Contact Notes, Next Action Date [4], Next Action, Other Notes

[1] Profession, job title, info about decision making power, etc.

[2] Who/what/why/when of how we were introduced to this person. Useful if we need to lean on a relationship for follow up.

[3] Which of the co-founders were the primary point of contact for this person. This prevents the human race condition for replying to emails or following up on the next action date.

[4] Only used for soft follow-up values. That is, we periodically check this spreadsheet and handle people in a priority queue style. Hard follow up dates are handled with Google Calendar events & email-based reminders.

Recently, I've begun using Boomerang a lot too: http://www.baydin.com/boomerang/
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For installed applications, I use a launcher to quickly open apps by name.

As for this:
"in the end I always end up with a bunch of folders open"

I navigate my system from a terminal, so the idea of "folders" feels foreign to me. I do have directories (ie. ~/code/oss/) that have many subdirectories though. Having a complex hierarchy seems much less important when you have tab completion.
Xmonad is nice, but Awesome's tags beat it IMO. You don't really have multiple desktops, you have multiple tags. Each window can have multiple tags and there can be multiple tags visible on the screen at any moment. So what you end up seeing is a union between all the windows with any of the tags that are set to be visible.

Awesome is both really minimal and really extensible. By default you don't have anything, and you build it up to how you like it with lua and a couple of libraries that expose bindings to things like desktops and tags.
Salesforce: my opinon is salesforce does everything you could ever want but its very expensive for small companies, and every add on makes it even more expensive

Highrise (My preference): Doesnt have 'all' the features i want, but has 90% of them, is cost effective and a lot of other apps use its APIs. I also find it easier to add data in as I go, where as with Salesforce I was a chore that I alway put off.
Good golly, this couldn't be any more topical right now:

We knew that if fax machines could bring down dictatorships, personal computers could do infinitely more. The Big Brother of the spot wasn’t IBM—it was any government dedicated to keeping its populace in the dark. We knew that computers and communications could change all that.
My college uses Blackboard. Well, "uses" is a strong word... We have Blackboard installed on the intranet, students generally avoid using it.
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> I know that when I go to news.ycombinator.com, I'm getting Hacker News.

How do you know that? That's the whole point of SSL - knowing that you've traded private keys with the right party.

SSL for "encryption only" only works to defend against attackers that can listen to your network, but cannot write to it. So, sure, it defends against some passive collection system, and perhaps against some tools that are designed to just listen.

But, if browsers stopped displaying warnings, so that using a "bad" certificate worked just fine, then I'd bet the tools would just switch to allow cert injection and we'd all be worse off.
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Well, don't tell anyone, but I used to use Outlook with Business Contact Manager. It was great. When I exchanged email with a potential lead or a customer, I could log all correspondence from within my mail app. I didn't have to worry about remembering to forward to some address or have to manually enter the message on some 3rd party site.

I was give a simple "log message" button and it got added to the contact's history. I could optionally annotate it. But it was dirt simple for keeping track of email communication (far and away my most common form of communication).
Well, this is a step above Excel - because it's hosted and can easily allow multi-user edits, but that's about it. So many small companies do this and I guess I shouldn't knock it. However, I can tell you that it doesn't scale well and will lead to inefficiencies down the road. Many of the open source CRM projects are so easy to get up and running that I would think it is worth the time to do so...but I guess I'm wrong! :-(

Many small companies work thousands or tens of thousands of leads, and this spreadsheet approach simply isn't effective (think direct mailers, etc...) to manage the leads and then orders, and more.

Gotta love the spreadsheet though - it's probably the most popular CRM tool out there. Ugh...
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This is exactly what I do, only lower left triggers Spaces and upper right triggers Expose. The 45 degree mouse-swipes between them feel incredibly natural.
Any bets on how long before they are sued by Blackboard?
Google Contacts is not considered a CRM tool so it may not fit what you need. Good luck, let us know which one you choose to go with.
s/everybody/the overwhelming majority/
People fear of losing control of their data, as simple as that. On your own computer you will fear only of a hardware failure or a nasty virus.

On the cloud ... well you are at the mercy of a provider, of a Government or of any organization that can stop you access your own data.

(Personally I use Dropbox for storing some software projects.)
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This is probably absurd (and yes, I've tried most of solutions) - I use SimpleNote (thru Notational Velocity desktop app) to manage almost everything - including CRM.
Insurance is a fundamentally different thing than food and housing, because of the nature of resource-pooling. That's why there isn't a single country on earth with a working healthcare system that relies solely on people selecting and paying for health insurance on a strictly individual basis.

Nonsense - there are plenty of insurance systems based on individual purchases (e.g. home insurance, life insurance, renters insurance). Clearly, your reasoning for why private insurance markets cannot exist is flawed (business interruption insurance also involves resource-pooling).

Moreover, without health insurance, many people die slow, agonizing, and utterly avoidable deaths.

[citation needed]
I think HFT can actually serve to smooth out inefficiencies in the market.

That being said, it can, and almost certainly has, been abused. I am thinking mostly of 'quote stuffing'.

Also, there is the potential for a feedback loop between trading systems that can send prices to levels that are way undervalued or overvalued. I think overall these fears are probably way overblown but I suppose they do exist. Basically, I think it HFT fine but I hope the SEC is catching up technologically to prevent both catastrophic situations in time and bad actors from taking advantage of structural exploits.
TV/Internet services compete heavily. Here it is ATT and Comcast (though in my particular neighborhood ATT doesn't offer DSL yet). If Comcast were to push Netflix to the point where Netflix cut them off, the BOOM mass migration of consumers to ATT. And vice versa. I think the temptation to convert another provider's customer would be too strong for the provider to withstand.

So your are really only SOL if you have only one choice. In which case I'd prefer to do without. Except for Netflix, I could do most of my other online activities fairly well over dial-up.
Sales Force is great when you are small - I went from Start Up to 20 Sales Reps and 5 back office with 42 total people in last few years. Here is the breakdown of what works when and why.

http://www.robinsunleashed.com/?p=106

Great info already with the voting... here is the "WHY"
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> It's quite difficult to convince faculty to switch over from tools they are comfortable using

This statement assumes faculty are comfortable using Blackboard... I have yet to meet one who is. I've had to use it for my TA duties and the expression about running nails across a chalkboard is ripe for a pun.
Would you rather have them spend hours replying to thousands of e-mails from companies they don't want to cover? Or spend the time covering more companies? I know it sucks not to get a response, but that's the way they operate.

My company will never get covered by any of the major tech blogs even though it gets way more traffic than any other startup in the entry level jobs/internships space and is profitable. They don't like writing about content plays, so I've moved on and sought out publicity from other places.
Ask HN: Can foreigners loop wget at Canadian sites, increasing bandwidth use?
Also, will the Canadian government be subjected to usage-based billing?
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>"I can afford to live for several months without any income"

That's an acceptable approach for a startup, because during that time you will develop a product. It's not so sound for a consultancy. With a consultancy, a good time to quit your day job is with a contract in hand. That probably means working your contacts and assessing the actual consulting opportunities will be your second job for a while.

Don't try to sell broke. Once you quit your job, it is easy to get the stench of desperation - particularly with only several months worth of savings and no consulting gigs.
That's a really good question, but I have a feeling no one is going to give an answer either way. Sure seems like it though, I noticed the same thing earlier, when it was only an hour old.
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This is one of the first things I do on any new Mac:

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-wrap-arrows -boolean NO

This disables the spaces wrap-around behavior, simplifying the space to an easily navigated 2x2 grid. You can always get to the bottom-left space without already knowing where you are.

So while it's not exposed to casual users, the author's request is already implemented in the OS.
The limitations of on the number of providers is a regulatory one. Regulations can be changed. The big corporations may have money, but money often loses out to angry constituents.
Rural parts? Where from? Any tech nests out there?
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He's redesigning the arrow keys to map to screens instead of mapping to movement from the current screen.

The solution to a higher problem space (eg. more than 4 screens) are additional unique symbols. So if you want 8 screen use the number pad. etc. If you want 26 screens just map a screen to each letter. etc.
I'll make my point very simple for third party readers.

Socialism != Social Democracy != Socialist Country

It's a matter of semantics but so many things are. I do not conflate socialism and social democracy. One is an 'ism' - the other a description of a type of government. Any government can have elements of socialism, but socialist governments, to me (and others) are ones that are self described as socialist countries. Norway has a currently elected parliament that has a majority of members who identify with socialism, but that does not make it a socialist country. It's not about post-Reaganism or whatever. USSR stood for United Soviet Socialist Republics. That was a socialist country. If a pile of Norwegians want to define their country as Socialist, let them do so.
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Yep.

If this was a real product, this would clearly not be my advice. But it's not. It's just HN. The worst case to an attack here is not all that bad.

There's some goofy YC stuff that happens through this site. If asked, my advice regarding security and YC would not be "make HN more secure so the YC stuff is safer". It would be "get the YC stuff the hell off HN."
I asked pg at startup school about doing an edtech startup, and his answer was something like "Well, schools move to slowly to ever get traction, but if you ever did get traction, Blackboard would sue the crap out of you immediately."

(That said, I'm still planning an edtech startup. Best of luck to instructure!)
No, everyone else is mixing up self-described socialist countries with social democracies, whose ruling parliamentary members identify with socialism as a guiding principle. There is a difference.
Am I a total moron, or is the signup site broken? I've tried my facebook email address, the email address I used to sign up for an invite, my facebook username, and a username of my own choosing, and in all cases, it tells me "Connecting with Facebook is required."
Why? I have never used a CRM (I am more of a hacker than a salesperson).
And how much damage could a hacked moderator account do to the site? This whole conversation seems like a symptom of taking this site way too seriously. The community is very valuable and even important. The site is just an artifact of it.

As evidence for my point of view (and, you can say "you're welcome" if my brinkmanship with this sentence is paid off by Graham promptly enabling SSL, which he could easily do in the process of fixing the far-more-important bug of this site not being served through a front-end proxy), note that next week SSL will in all likelihood not have SSL enabled. That request --- provide SSL --- has been outstanding forever. Does Graham also share my cavalier attitude towards the site?
I think there is some truth in that. Markets in which HF trading occur are extremely efficient in the short term, but the information they act on in the short term is primarily about trading and not information which should affect the long term value of the stock.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis seems to break down over the long term when the market is efficient in the short-term, because bubbles can easily develop - and so genuine pricing information gets diluted by complex emergent effects, destabilising the market (in crop futures markets, for example, this has lead to artificial food shortages, and it probably played a role in the Financial Crisis).

I think a transaction tax is the best way to reduce excess short-term market efficiency; if you have to pay the government a small percentage of each trade, people will trade less frequently and only on better quality information.
4chan has been heavily moderated as of late. Successful trolling, any mention of any news article, any picture of people who appear characteristically Jewish or Muslim, any racist imagery, or using the word "jew" will now reliably result in a ban.

Edit: Many rules that have existed for years but were never enforced are now being enforced. Extremely off-topic posting or posting NSFW imagery along with an on-topic reply will also get you banned.
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http://xkcd.com/386/
'nuff said.