skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing cryptic about floats, block elements and inline elements. But you need to make an effort to learn about them!

People assume that CSS should be easy / that they won't need to learn extra skills - and are then annoyed because it doesn't work in the way they assume it should.

Imo, it's a pretty ridiculous situation - how can a person judge something they don't understand?
You're right. The blogs that oppose network neutrality are far less coherent than that.
Don't get me wrong, the inPulse watch is pretty neat, but doesn't it seem like it should have more than one button if it doesn't have a touchscreen?
I suppose a cloud app is needed which would help us to backup data across multiple/popular cloud services. Chances of data being lost reduce drastically (almost to zero) if multiple clouds are keeping a backup of the same data.
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The only issue with the 555 in volume is the cost of the external parts (caps and resistors) to make it work. Some micros with built-in oscillators will actually result in a lower total part count, making the board cheaper.
As Ryan pointed out the HTML5 document viewer works in IE 7,8, and 9 plus of course Chrome, Safari and Firefox. This covers 94% of Yammer's daily active users, the remaining 6% of IE 6 users are given the option to download the original or marked up file.
> I would think most of them are not exactly scouring Quora for hot startups

wrong keith rabois
From 'F-You' to 'I think your site is very good' (a customer service story)
Ask HN: When to leave a startup?
There are many stories or questions from the entrepreneurs point of view about when to tough it out or when to cut and run. But how about as an employee at a startup? At what point are the warning signs bad enough that its time to pack your bags?

I'm a very early employee at a startup (full-time before the founders were full-time). We have a product and have annual revenues near $500k. On the tech side of things, I love what I do. On the people side, it's miserable. On the compensation side, needs improvement (neither options, nor salary are industry-competitive).

The founder/management team is shockingly incompetent. We are a model example of all the negative traits of founder's syndrome. ( http://managementhelp.org/misc/founders.htm ) There is a culture of blame. The same mistakes happen again and again. Customers are treated poorly (it is a testament only to our niche that new customers keep calling us.) We do not advertise because, as the founder said, "What if someone ordered 100!?!? Then what would we do?"

After a recent $1M investment, they actually said, "Now that we have money, things will be better." Things are not better, but easy access to cash has certainly covered up the worst issues for the moment.

So how about it? When is it bad enough that an employee should jump ship? For what reasons would it be worth toughing it out?
I'm not trying to paint a prejudiced picture though. Hell - I'm not even trying to twist words. The core of the cognitive dissonance can be explained away by understanding for whom Boehner is speaking out for - the providers and their 'basic freedom' to regulate a service as they see fit. Obviously, net neutrality proponents understand the issue differently.
No they don't; they carry on using them for entirely inappropriate things. Like tables for layout.
Probably because there's nothing new here. Controlling physical access to a network is a long standing problem with a wide variety of solutions. As with any security technology, these solutions are imperfect, but the plug computer only brings a couple new factors to the table: it doesn't look like a computer and it is extremely small, so it's very concealable.

Neither of these contribute significantly to your exposure any more than something like a laptop or netbook. Concealment helps protect against casual detection, but many offices are littered with spare laptops that no one pays any attention to any way. This is especially true in IT departments where systems may sit on shelves for days or weeks waiting for repair. The notion that a plug computer may be hard to find once identified sounds scary, but in practice, it's a non-issue. You simply identify the port to which the device is connected, unplug it, then trace the cable back to its termination point. I'm going to ignore wireless, because no sensible security plan involves a WiFi network attached to their private network. You segregate wireless in the DMZ, then allow WiFi users to connect to a VPN endpoint using strong encryption.

Any business concerned about securing their networks has implemented policies like shutting interfaces that aren't in use, and authenticating access at the Ethernet level using 802.1X. Neither of these are foolproof, but depending upon how secure you want to be, you build up security at every layer: physical, Ethernet, VPN, application.
in a libertarian world who owns the cables to your house? How does someone with a better idea/business model get new cables out to everyones house?
James May puts it very nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0IxnxwJSU
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing America that freedom for corporations equates to freedom for individuals.
I'm more worried about my time than my "privacy", so pray you ask me at a good time ;)
There's a third way that works for everybody: defining the market.

So government could simply say there are seven different types of internet service. Perhaps the lowest would be free service that forces you to watch ads. The highest service could be a SLA -- guaranteed bandwidth.

That way there is no regulation, _and_ the market is free to operate, _and_ you can have net neutrality, you only have to pay extra for it. What we have instead is problematic in many ways: the FCC taking control where it was not intended to go, and internet providers purposely obfuscating the issue with individual rights jargon.

This entire boondoggle is because of Congress not acting and the bureaucracy acting in its stead. The blame for inaction goes to both parties, not just one or the other. I doubt very many Congressmen could talk to net neutrality at the level of an average HN'er. They just get donations, pick sides, then spin the issue to conform to whichever principle their base could support.

I'm in favor of Net Neutrality, but it's a devil's bargain. The individual will lose more in the long run than they will gain. Why? Because the forces at work here trying to confuse the market to maximize profits will still exist after a net neutrality law is signed. They'll just go underground and start manipulating the regulators instead of the Congressmen. Then you get the same shitty deal except there's nobody you can kick out of office when it doesn't work. Oh yeah, and you get more government control over the net. We should all remember that the next time we rant about internet kill switches.
Maybe you don't want a larger screen, but some people do.

I've found the 4.3" screen on my HTC HD2 great for reading ebooks during my commute. Download free ebooks from Project Gutenberg in html format and read it in a browser. Can zoom and browser will word-wrap perfectly.

I could do the same with an Ipad, but I'd need to carry a bag for that. If I was going to read a book on an ipad and bring a bag, I might as well bring a real book.
Full disclosure: I am an iPhone developer.

It may not look like it on the surface, but this application, in a small way, is the sort of thing that seriously puts nails in the iPhone's coffin.

When I first heard about the InPulse I wondered how it could possibly work with the iPhone and as it turns out it can't, at least not without jailbreaking it, therefore rendering this sort of application "naughty" if not impossible.

As the novelty of the phone itself wears out the ability to integrate with other devices and use the hardware in new and innovative ways will be severely crippled on Apple's platforms due to the severe limits put on legitimate developers.

I'm excited to see that there is room for this sort of thing on other platforms and I can't wait to see other projects which exploit it.
zipcar is filing for IPO?
I know it's easy to be negative about kittens because of the whole lol cats thing, but a service which provides free, sizable, placeholder images that are more than just gray boxes is actually pretty useful. Remember the days when people used to use "blah blah blah" for all of their text before the copy was in? Now we use Lorem Ipsum. These kittens may well be what we do for photographs in the future.
Please don't call people on Hacker News assholes, even by analogy.

I think you might be attempting to say something quite relevant without intentionally calling the person an asshole, but if that's the case, you ought to have explained it in your post.
University is a whole lot different from K-12 schooling, and which university makes a difference as well. I felt I learned a lot about respect for data, the scientific method, how to formulate and test hypotheses, etc. in my physics classes at Amherst. I learned mostly facts at UMass. I'm not sure I learned anything about what science really was through my K-12 studies.

One of my main beefs with K-12 science education is that it mistakes the results of science for science itself. So kids are taught evolution, they're taught plate tectonics, they're taught Newton's Laws, but they're rarely taught how these were discovered, or the rigorous data-driven experimentation process that's refined them. The scientific method is covered as 6 bullet points that get glossed over in a week, and never returned to.

In many cases, if a student actually does science - they question the recieved wisdom of their teacher, and go off and do the experiments themselves, and report back objectively on the results - they'll be labeled a disruptive student and sent to the principal's. Hell, if the science involves chemistry, they'll probably be reported to the FBI and arrested for making bombs.
We already have high speed rail from DC to Boston. It's very nice (NY to Boston is 3.5 hours), although much more expensive than the Chinatown bus (5-6 hours).

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Route_C&...
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I upvoted you because I agree that this true of many/most conservatives, especially those with an actual political career. But it's sad that this is the case. And it's certainly not by itself a very good argument for net neutrality or government control.
this is the recommendation i was looking for, thanks boris!
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My point was - if creating websites is so easy, why would we need any web-developers? In the best-of-all worlds, it would be straightforward - but in the real world there are lots of things to consider. We need specialists.

You might only use CSS for layout, but that doesn't mean layout defines the full-extent of its functionality.

When creating client-side user-interfaces, CSS is usually used in conjunction with other technologies. Front-end development often makes use of JS, and last time I checked that was a fully fledged programming language ;) CSS can provide a developer with a lot of flexibility - and the fact that you don't understand it is perhaps the main problem.

I think people assume they don't need to actually learn CSS - and get annoyed when they realise their brain wasn't preloaded with the required knowledge :)
great post, i dream of one day moving to the city too...it's been a three year battle =/. you did leave out one thing though, what's your drink of choice? and where the ladies at?
Posterous is acting really slow. This link should be quicker: http://www.getinpulse.com/apps/fbcheckin/
Thanks for your feedback, I am completely open to suggestions and will look at what majority like, and hipster/forkly were an inspiration :p.
Could you expand on what you mean by "saved stories" and how we would send them to you?
Yes. What you're saying is probably because you don't (yet) know what uses can a (simple circuit built around a) 555 be put to.

Back in 1985/6, I built a (simple, ham) radio transceiver mainly utilising 555s, 741s (and some crystal oscillators + other discrete components) with which, I actually communicated with people from more than 50 countries around the world, without spending the cost of international phone calls (which was prohibitive then).

Edit: And long before I did that, other hackers used to do similar - or even better - things. :)
Perhaps 4G wireless is the answer?
Unless, of course, the next iteration of the nano interfaces with the iPhone in the same way..
'Net neutrality' is a plan for government to regulate ISPs.
Ostensibly, the government will only regulate in the consumers interest --- but the egyptian gov showed the other side of regulation (censorship).

He says he is against net neutrality; he is against government regulation of ISPs.

More interesting than anything he said, is the quote "No man can serve two masters". Currently ISPs serve you, but after net neutrality passes they will serve the government.
Ask HN: If Google could charge, how much would we pay?
People like good ideas, but they say a lot of them can't make money.

Google and Facebook are sites most people see the value in.

Assuming either Google or Facebook was the penultimate web portal and there were no viable alternatives, if it decided to charge for subscription tomorrow, how much do you think the average person would be willing to pay to subscribe? Would it probably be tiered?

It seems like a dumb question, but why has it become so ridiculous to pay even $1 for things even when the value is obvious.
I don't think iphone apps are a success because they are a "novelty". They provide functionality in a neat package that was previously a pain to access on mobile. I used to own a Symbian device -- can't imagine easily installing mobile apps for all my banking, for example.

As for hardware hacks on the iphone, square is doing a pretty impressive job with just a headphone jack: https://squareup.com/

And innovation doesn't necessarily require hardware hacks, so I seriously doubt that the lack of add-on hardware is a "nail in the iphone coffin". Chase has a new feature that lets you deposit checks by taking a picture of them. That's pretty innovative, IMO. No extra hardware required: http://www.maclife.com/article/news/chase_mobile_update_brin...
And I really hope "hipmunk" doesn't become a verb.
I don't think the regulation issue is all that important since there are many other countries besides the US. The US is a basket case regarding its paranoia and hysteria regarding nuclear power. The cost of pushing through regulations is not worth it. Besides, energy costs a lot more in other places like island nations that depend on burning very costly ship imported oil to make electricity. That's the place to start, higher profit and the people are easier to deal with. Long after the rest of the world has moved on, its possible that some of the people left in the US, living in caves and without access to electricity, might reconsider and then change regulations on their own accord.
You generally have to. Another guy replied with a few circumstances where zeroconf will broadcast the availability, and vinagre at least supports zeroconf so it would work fine with that. Outside of a LAN or MobileMe tunnel, you have to have an IP address or DNS record. Most people aren't going to set up dyndns, so it'll be an IP address.
For you it's here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=pbhjpbhj

This is from your profile page: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbhjpbhj

Other people can't see your saved stories - only you can. Click on my profile to see the difference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes

I would provide instructions.
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> Citation needed.

Here's a good start:

http://unionsforsinglepayerhr676.org/union_endorsers
I really don't think that is the case.
The whole 'solving a user pain' is only one aspect of product creation.

What about all those businesses that don't solve a pain at all. Isn't that where the real money is?

Twitter, Facebook, SmartPhones, even the internet didn't solve a problem at all. These huge markets where created where the customer didn't even know they had a pain.

Same with Kindle and tablets, and with tablets we can argue that people are buying them at an alarming rate without knowing what they will use them for, and often from what I've seen don't use them.

If Facebook or twitter had taken Steve Blanks advice, would they have created the businesses they did?
I take customer pain with a grain of salt. It isn't the only way to discover opportunities, and it may not be the best.
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I agree. Don't forget that work has begun for a Cassandra driver as well.

Truth be told however, Django and a SQL based system aren't all that bad.

No matter what, it will be a long time before Django gets full 1.0 support for NoSql in any shape or form. That means, 100% Django coverage.
For a moment let's assume that it is indeed in the government's interest to sell these properties.

Why is there a no-bid clause? Should the government not be obligated to try and get the best price it can on a major property sale?

The no-bid part just reeks of corruption - there's no solid reason to have it there. If someone bids ten dollars for a power plant and nobody else comes forward with a better bid, so be it, but at least the process needs to be competitive and transparent.
Startups are definitely emotionally draining, and while I would like to believe in my resiliency, if I didn't have two awesome co-founders there in the trenches with me, I'm not sure I'd still be fighting the good fight (Thanks Ricky and Mark!).

I can't seem to find all of the details about Smart Bear, but it sounds like it was a bootstrapped, solo founder operation (not sure how quickly he hired those 4 people). That amazes the hell out of me. Solo founders in general seem like magical Django ponies with how they're able to juggle and prioritize product, customers, etc. But the hardest part of being a solo founder must be not having the emotional support of a team working till all hours of the morning with you. I know Ray of Ginzametrics has said that his family is a huge help almost to the point where his wife is almost like a cofounder. Any solo founders out there, I'm interested to hear how you recharge/support yourself emotinally.
Working in SF

If you're not an American, what are your options? From what I've heard you're pretty much out of luck unless you have the money to buy (and then renew) a visa.
At the moment, confidential. Google derives a competitive advantage from being fast.

I've toyed with the idea of getting permission to release some of the results we've discovered, in maybe a blog series like what Crockford did for JavaScript at Yahoo. Google also derives a strategic advantage from the rest of the web being fast, and IMHO the benefits of making everyone else fast outweigh the benefits of being faster than everyone else. But I've already got a 20% project that takes up like 50% of my time, so I don't have time to organize something like that. Maybe later.
Yes, if you agree to run all of our saved stories through DirectedEdge's API and show me a personalized homepage.

(Hoping that's what you're doing. It seems painfully obvious that someone should).
It would work, but it would make the results less useful to you. Just as useful to me, though, so I wouldn't mind. I just couldn't feed back the results, that's all.
In this one case perhaps, but my point is that in general, iPhone developers are given "hard" limits on what they can do with the iPhone hardware and therefore other devices will have an edge when it comes to using the device in ways that the vendor (in this case, Apple) could not anticipate.

But to your point perhaps, someday Apple will allow iPhone users to interact with another Apple device in this way but my point is that Android users don't have to wait, and I see this as an emerging trend in mobile software/hardware design that will increase the functionality gap between open and closed systems.
> He thinks (mainly because of ignorance, I guess) that ISPs are competing in a decent approximation of a free market, and that consumers have a choice of providers offering various services at various competitive price points.

No, he doesn't. John Boehner is an intelligent individual. His number one campaign contributor is AT&T.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0000...

He damn well understands the issues. He understands that AT&T wants something, and AT&T pays him a lot of money and AT&T wants a return on that payment. This is not rocket science.
Perhaps so, but the ISPs must serve the consumers; they have no other path to profit.

The alternative is the freedom of government to restrict access as they see fit. And governments money comes from taxes (or inflation), they have no incentive to improve access or quality.
I agree that corporate rapaciousness and Republicans' pattern of serial lying is not a reason to support net neutrality. Net neutrality must stand on its own merits. I feel it does; others obviously will disagree. :) My only point was, it's laughable to think that Republicans are telling the truth about this, or to believe they will keep their hands off the Internet once they have enough power to mess with it again. I believe the recent historical record provides incontrovertible proof of this.
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That's very close to what I'd be doing, although not identical. I could probably piggy-back that work onto my intended analysis. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Disclosure: I know the inPulse guys and I am an iPhone developer. Also the inPulse guys are awesome.

Any hardware manufacturer that wants to integrate with the iPhone needs a special $1 chip and a licensing agreement with apple. Mostly because you are going to use their product names and Made For iPhone graphics. From those I have talked to in this program, its very painless and simple, and gets you extra functionality in terms of backgrounding since the user expects it and obviously trusts the hardware device they purchased. The problem is that this chip makes it incompatible with other phones. (see wakemate as an example).

Apple is not against innovation, and it bothers me when people say that. The correct statement is that they are about control. I use a hackintosh and many apple products. I like that i can do anything with my mac, but my iphone has some limits in place that make sure (if it wasn't on at&t) it will always work as a phone. I had many windows mobile phones and even an android that were buggy or had too much cool extra software that prevented the phone software from working reliably. Consumers get a choice. When it comes to my pocket, I choose apple's infrastructure.
and the HN response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2264517
Ask HN: How do you get your layout for your startup?
I'm begin busy with a startup (for now just in Holland).
My daily life is about begin a developer for a company, and wanting to do something besides my work.
But I suck at making a layout for my webapplication.
I've seen various great layouts from a lot of startups here at HN, buy how do you get your designs?

Are you creating it by yourself? Do you have friends who makes them for you? And do you have any tips for getting me my layout for my startup?
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