skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I'm a libertarian, but if I was I would be inclined to argue the right to an attorney is specifically in place when the government initiates legal action against you. Outside of specific government action you have no right to an attorney -- you can't for instance sue the government and demand the government provide you with an attorney to do so.
And if you're not down with that...
This exchange cements my concerns about AirBNB only being huge if they can end-run the hotel regulatory system.

pg: Did they explain the long-term goal of being the market in accommodation the way eBay is in stuff? That seems like it would be huge. Hotels now are like airlines in the 1970s before they figured out how to increase their load factors.

fw: So I think it can scale all the way to the bed and breakfast market. But I am not sure they can take on the hotel market.

The problem is, the regulatory system (not to mention the neighbors) do not want unlicensed, widespread "crowd-sourced" illegal hotel rooms, and are working hard to block them:

http://www.frommers.com/articles/6912.html

Paul Graham talks about the 'eBay' of accommodation -- but a huge percentage of eBay's revenue comes from professional sellers, which is exactly what will run afoul of regulation in the rental/hotel market.
here is our link: http://www.healthpager.com
I love the succinctness of the email exchange.
I Broke All Six Rules for Finding the Right IT Vendor
37signals have been advocating this for years.
Two files actually, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337813.
Dunning-Kruger is about how a person rates themselves. The A/B/C system is a quick way of explaining things from the omniscient narrator perspective. The A/B/C is not about the self-rating of the person, it is about their real skill. Dunning-Kruger is thus not at all in effect in that saying. If you think you've got a B who is "really" an A, they almost by definition you're coming from the wrong perspective for that saying.

As for the other errors people can make in judging the skills of others, well, that is what A/B/C is about.
How did you get that from the FAQs about the paywall?
Impact Dialing's Lean Startup Model
Myself & Jason (techzing) are both building businesses on the side. Our paycheck come from consultancy. We both lead very fulfilling lives as well as building our side projects... :)
Nuclear power isn't pretty, but it's going to be pretty much a necessity in the coming years. This relatively minor accident has come at a very unfortunate time.
HP and DR belong in the free tier. NYT has a fighting chance of actually having paid subscribers.
I apologize for that. This is pretty far from my area of expertice. I guess a more appropriate titled would be "more efficient than a traditional combustion engine".

Either way thanks for improving my understanding of the system.
Wow, they finally took my advice and changed their layout back! :P
There are gas-turbine powered buses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DesignLine_Corporation

Sadly, they don't seem to have taken the market by storm even though they claim to double to fuel efficiency of a 40 ft bus. Unless fuel prices go up significantly, factors other than fuel efficiency will probably stand in their way (questions of reliability and supply chain are mentioned).
not only regulation.

hotel chains won't be sitting idly while few geeks eat their market.

oh and btw, isn't eBay kinda dead thanks to Craigslist?
Excellent article.

Embrace being a lifestyle business and ignore all the startup noise. Do your best to serve your customers and grow your revenue. You'll never get famous, but then again neither will 99.9% of the people who go the other route.
He ignores that most categories only have 3 or 4 major players and rest can't get enough recognition to be profitable.

Also $10k/month is ok for one or two people, but what if someone gets sick or leaves, a business is not very stable at that size.

Additionally he assumes people want to change the world for monetary reasons, which I don't think is often the case, otherwise you'd manage a hedge fund or something.
There's no average. It's just a target. You don't get $10/k a month overnight. It's a figure that you work toward. Many people don't need that much to live. It depends where you're at. If you need 5k/month to live then you can reach your goal even faster. $10k/month seemed like a good goal for the article that could support most people.
Added "journal = true" to the config and it certainly stops and starts the service nicely now. No more repairs and such, my data is currently query only, so it's mainly "optical", cleaning up locks and such.
And only requires making about $330 a day. This is the benchmark I'm shooting for with mobile apps, and right now with just 2 apps I'm at about $130 a day.
I have written BTrees and B+Trees in Go[1]. I wrote a Top Down Predictive Parser[2]. Currently a friend and I are writing a distributed network simulation.[3] I also maintain a fork of the gobuild project (a build system for go) which I have modified for my purposes.[4]

Written ~10k lines in total maybe more. I like the language. However, it has its limitations.

[1] https://github.com/timtadh/Go-Filestructures

[2] https://github.com/timtadh/tdpp

[3] https://github.com/timtadh/Tecellate

[4] https://github.com/timtadh/gobuild-fork
MIT Admissions to New Students: 50 Things
Gtk+ 3.2 Will Let You Run Any Application In A Browser (Remotely Too)
It's amazing that you can know the accident was minor when it's not even over yet. Seems like you are not really using reality to form your opinions.
That simple ? 10K/month ?

Id love to hear how I can get one of those 10K/month businesses (outside of consulting/programmer-for-hire).

People keep making it sound like it super easy to just get such a business going. How about some examples ?
who read this bottom up? Thats one tip from me

read the last page of a newspaper/mag first
Good idea! But how often do you use sites that need JS? e.g. real estate sites, google maps

Also: can't you just disable JS in your browser, for the same effect?
He deserves to be single forever for using Flash for this site... maybe. But seriously why Flash?
San Francisco to Host 2011 Plone Conference
Boo.ly For Internet Explorer - now available
Yours and the world's as well.

I don't care how fast they claim to be now-- whether if it's true or not. reddit is down at the moment and I've been reloading like crazy for about 2 hours.
I think there's a lesson to learn there.
I have been teaching myself django as my first foray into development and these tutorials have been helpful http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/django , particularly the Django From The Ground Up series
I never even considered that. Perhaps many of the projects that attempted to build open semantic containers for blog data, forum data, etc. were looking for a solution to a non-existant problem. (FOAF, RDFa, etc.)
When Bon Jovi say,

God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: ‘What happened?’ Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.

What I hear is,

Damn kids, get off my lawn.

When new customs replace old customs, the people who grew up with the old customs are often sad that the new generation won't have them. What they're doing is imagining their youth without their customs, but they're not able to put the new customs in their place because they just don't know them. The next generation may get just as much enjoyment out of the new customs.
Make the results clickable when they include a website.
i searched for ncaa results and got:

ncaa.cοm, yοu can fοllοw all ncaa spοrts οn it.

but it's not clickable.
Erin go Brad -- registering Irish citizenship
i m not a apple fan, but this analogy really do justice with the iPad. though there is one major flaw with it - last time i checked, the iPad cant be activated without other computer. you need to connect it to some computer and activate it via itunes. so not really microwave. microwave with DRM maybe?
"There's several problems with the statement made by Jerf. First, there's no control group."

Ah, you're making a critical error, which is frequently made by people. There can't be a control group. This is real life, not a science experiment. It is not possible to life your life in the realm strictly covered by science.

By far the dominant theory from a Bayesian perspective is that the kid had a cough (abundantly demonstrated from evidence), that the thing called "cough syrup" worked as designed, and that once it wore off the cough returned. There is no science here. We can no go back and "rerun" the experiment. The use of science terminology to attack my experience is actually a deep, deep perversion of the principles of science. The tools are completely inapplicable.

Unfortunately, it has become abundantly clear that again from a Bayesian perspective, reading a medical paper about something like cough syrup in toddlers and expecting it to contain Unvarnished Truth is not justified.
Ooops, that should be public not pubic. I suspect that would a very different site.
Mostly we've been advertising through adwords, Urban Dictionary, and stumbleupon.
Really?

I’m quite happy that the world has been moving into another direction. You no longer have to browse your music or photos in the filesystem, you have a dedicated music or photos program. That seems ideal to me, I wouldn’t want my file browser to be a swiss army knife.
It hasn't been re-licensed. It's just not lawful to distribute.
"Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."

Most kids these days also don't know the joy of waking up at 4am in the middle of February to head out to the barn to shovel out the cow and horse excrement from the night before.
There's no average. It's just a target.

uh, okay. then you might want to update your blog before there are 1000s of unemployed web developers building their lifestyle web apps for eternal target of 10k/month.
New web2py RESTful APIs writes SQL for you
Well, to look at it from solely a financial point of view, a room in an apartment is worth much more if you rent it out by the night or week rather than by the year (like you would with a roommate).

Here in my neighborhood, in Chicago, one can find a room for about $40/night; 15 nights and I already have half my rent. So yes, having a roommate might be less work (but that depends on what you consider "work") but I can make more money renting a room out by the night.
I clicked, scanned, and clicked a few more times. I have no idea what OATV is, and I have lost interest trying to learn.

edit: Curiosity got the best of me, and I dug until I found out what it was. Now, should I restart my search to find out what the job description is? I think a blog post isn't the best way to accomplish this task.
Stretching the metaphor even farther off-topic, Mummy's boob has proven itself an even more impressive invention for this particular problem in our house. :)

No (extra) sterilization, no manual refilling, no going to the store to get formula, etc.

I don't expect we'll evolve an embedded display that can run Flipboard anytime soon, however.
How about a charter-school incubator? You probably have to be a teacher to apply. The incubator would provide you with a classroom, and help you recruit some students. If you succeed, then you get to start your own charter school.
Pentagon Looks to Militarize the Cloud
I didn't say there's anything wrong with fitting that mold, only that it's what the media seems to be pushing as the "right" way to do it. Best of luck to you, I almost took the StartupBus out of Cleveland but had to pass due to money.
Still, efficiency is good. It has been a lesser known fact that the standard multi piston engine model is hugely inefficient. Apparently this not only makes it more efficient fuel wise, but it makes it more efficient weight wise (20% less weight = 20% less energy wasted pushing it, not to mention cost and reliability)
The use of science terminology to attack my experience is actually a deep, deep perversion of the principles of science. The tools are completely inapplicable.

I'm not using science to attack your experience. I've tried to say several times, and in many different ways, if it works for you great.

BUT I am using science to say that you haven't made a scientific statement. You've made a statement about your son in a specific instance. That's it. And that's fine. As you say, that's your experience. But that's about all you can say.
Not in the Valley. Not funded. Not an overnight success.
They can probably charge a premium to the short term guests.
"I don't think IQ is the best metric to apply to determine if you're in that population."

Me neither, but I've found that taking fifteen minutes to clearly specify the exact thing I mean has a pretty bad payoff. As shorthand goes, it's fine. This is HN, not a medical journal.

And there's a world of relevant difference between SIDS doesn't exist vs. cough syrup does what it says on the tin. This is another thing that's damned easy to do on the Internet, blur lines between various fuzzy things, but also has no relationship to reality. No, I am in fact not denying the Holocaust by thinking that the evidence suggests that cough syrup actually does work.
This feels a bit too much like a witch hunt... We don't really know the story, it might be a mistake made while half asleep at the end of a long day, it might be intentional... We just don't know

So let's not jump to conclusion... It does nobody good if we start tarring people without having all the facts.

And he did post an apology before deleting the repository...
Aiming vague anger and frustration with a systemic problem at a small subset of people seems to get us in a lot of trouble. (Jews, The Government, Blacks, Democrats, Upper Class, Gays, Steve Jobs, etc, etc, etc, etc)
I think the trusting-strangers thing actually comes down to two questions:

1. The collective level: are there enough people who trust strangers that Airbnb can make tons of money, and help out those people? It looks like the answer is yes.

2. The individual level: are you okay with trusting some random strangers from the internet? I think you probably should be -- people tend toward decency, overall -- and it's possible to change the way you feel about something with a little effort.
Fun fact: Otto cycle has been taken to ~30% efficiency, IIRC.

3.5 * .30 = ???
Every niche has it's own lingo. VC's that need to bring the above message across several times a day just don't want to come across as rude or worse. Therefore they use euphemisms of which the messages are perfectly understood by their peers and which leave them as much room as possible (eg. making it easier to come back later and say "finished data acquisition phase -- we are in"). Classic VC play.

In the end, I can somehow understand, and don't find it 'wrong' or 'meaningless' per se.
Like Craigslist, there's also the "everyone was really cool until someone raped and murdered a client" angle.
SaaS V/s License - Demystifying SaaS
It's not easy. It's very hard. But relatively speaking, compared with building "the next Facebook", it's extremely achievable for a lot of people.
You both make good points.

It is still amazing what they did with what they had, despite the fact that they had more than the average person.

However, there is no denying that they were lucky to have that money in the first place so that they could wait until their company was valued more and they had to give less away to VCs. I wonder how many startups had to give away their autonomy for badly needed cash? A large number no doubt.

From Carl Page's perspective: his brother had not yet sold his startup for hundreds of millions. It is quite a feat that he was able to do it by himself. But if Carl Page did have those hundreds of millions as a possible source of funding, could he have kept his startup from VCs longer and had more autonomy in it, and perhaps sold it for billions?
is it just me, or after they changed the layout, 90% of the users left for reddit, so it would make much more sense if the speed boost would've been 1000%?
Every time I see a "everything will be fine" article, things get worse a few hours later. Please, just sit on your hands, wait, and see.

Maybe Chernobyl wasn't actually as bad as it could have been. Maybe Fukushima is going to be a lot worse than expected. Maybe Chernobyl is in the middle of f*ing nowhere. Maybe Fukushima is in one of the most densely populated regions in the world.

Who knows?

All we know is that there are a few dozen people right now, fighting to prevent what could become one of the biggest man-made disasters in history. Many of them are likely going to die within a few years because of it.
"If every developer was to focus on the very achievable goal of building a lifestyle/micro business – the entire house of cards would crumble."

If that happened, the whole world would crumble, because we wouldn't have any technology bigger than could be built by lifestyle businesses. Anyone who wanted to build a lifestyle business on the Internet, for example, would find that there was no Internet. You wouldn't have servers or routers or clients or backbones or local cable.
Obviously they forgot that bing is part of MS.

MS seem to be working very hard to clean their image. And a big part of it has to do with Bill Gates. However, their products aren't that great: hotmail still sucks, IE9 is a poor implementation of a modern browser, bing is not a serious competence to google and their "live" products just plain sucks.
The real end result for both systems is that the devices just don't get updated. The only difference is that we know that Google has produced code, and MS hasn't released any.

Blame doesn't really matter, because at the end of the day, neither Google nor MS are getting their updates out to consumers at this point. So while Android 2.4(when it comes out) might do everything better than the iPhone, stop world hunger, and cure cancer, it doesn't matter if people can't update their devices to it. They're in the exact same boat as MS.
I've started using it. I've got multiple projects across multiple companies, so wanted to list them out. Not big on having a giant photo of myself though.

http://about.me/jaredcosulich
I posted this before, but I feel it's worth re-iterating: There will never be another Chernobyl. It was a perfect intersection of criminally inadequate design, early-adopter naivete, incompetence, and Murphy's Law.

Not least of which was the fact that Chernobyl had no containment (!!), and was running at peak (3200MW) as opposed to Fukushima Daiichi's 5% capacity (25MW).

A comparison to Three Mile Island is totally valid, but Chernobyl is literally off the table.
Awesome. Like a bird of paradise, your dance has to be unique. Online dating isn't.
> Many of them are likely going to die within a few years because of it.

I don't think we even know that for certain, do we? Seems quite likely but a lot of things about this story end up surprising us.
Indeed, there are many reasons why this accident will almost certainly not reach the level of devastation which occurred at Chernobyl, many of which relate to the Japanese plant's far superior safety mechanisms and dedication of its operators.

However, don't we sell ourselves short with the implication that any nuclear accident of a scale less than Chernobyl is a tolerable accident? Although the radiation released by this latest accident is still well constrained, and the number of persons directly affected is presumed to be rather small, this power plant and very possibly a large section of the shoreline it sits on are expected to become a complete write-off to civilization at large.

A massive earthquake+tsunami at a coal-fired, gas-fired, hydroelectric, and even solar/wind/wave-motion power plant would have wrought similar damage, likely even similar casualties. However, those plants could be rebuilt at the same location, and with sturdier construction.
You can see his full comment if you hover:

"I don't know what to say this other than I apologize. It was an honest mistake and I've taken measures to fix it. I also contacted the originator to see how I should properly mange the license and such. Lets not get to bent out of shape everyone."
"If you genuinely have the spirit of an entrepreneur inside of you, it’s perfectly possible to build a $10k/month webapp business that can set you free."

If you follow Amy's blogging on Unicorn Free you'll have a seen a recent post where she talks about how long it has taken her and Thomas to get Freckle to where they are now - about 2 years (http://unicornfree.com/2011/drawing-back-the-curtain/). Both Amy and Thomas hustle their tails off and yet it has taken them two years and a lot of hard work to get too where they are (not to mention the years before that leading up to it). The point is that there is very rarely an easy route, but there is absolutely a possible route if you're passionate and you hustle. You'll be lucky if you only fail a couple of times before you land on something that gains traction, but you can do it.
"...not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."

So, what he's saying is, Steve Jobs killed the music business because people can now preview tracks, decide "Bon Jovi is terrible" and then proceed to not purchase anything. In essence, Steve Jobs has saved people millions of dollars from buying music they don't like.
Every time I see a "everything will be fine" article

I hardly consider this an "everything will be fine" article.
Like using IE  - turn it into a powerful shopping tool
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ seems good (after 30 seconds of googling, and 5 minutes of skimming).
So you didn't read the article, then?
not to mention more deadly