skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This made him a 23-year-old accredited investor, one of the most dangerous things in the world. Suddenly becoming more dangerous than a raptor, Jules & Vincent from Pulp Fiction, and Predator (combined) he set off to invest some of this capital in startups led by founders just like him (long on ideas, short on experience, but full of energy). Besides, he wanted to live vicariously through these of startup founders — only sleep better."

What a phenomenal paragraph.
I've been using Evernote since October, primarily for straight note-taking (logs of things done during coding, draft emails, records of meetings, etc). I used to use vim + dropbox + grep, but
a) I finally got a decent phone and wanted to get it involved, and b) I was having trouble getting a metadata system that was easy and worked.

Evernote is not perfect -- I rely heavily on bulleted lists, and their (Windows) editor has some weird bugs that I run into with some regularity. But it's definitely made it easier for me to manage and retrieve my own information, which is what I wanted.
Google Launches a Quarterly Online Magazine
<i>Non-compliance due to one gray area or another could force Apple to release tons of proprietary source code.</i>

No, it cannot. Anyone who repeats this FUD is revealing he has no understanding of the issues. The GPL may not be exceedingly clear, but this is entirely an issue of copyright law. Maybe they will be forced to stop distributing something until they replace a component, and maybe they could be forced to pay damages, but there is no mechanism that the GPL could force them to release anything they didn't want to.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bulls...
> Feminism is fundamentally about equality for everyone, not just women

What on earth does this even mean? If I am to take the first part at face value, then they sure picked a bad label for this idea. As for the second part, what would equality just for women even mean?

If feminism means that, all other things being equal, women should have the same rights and privileges as men, then gosh darn it, I'm a feminist! I just wish my feminist counterparts didn't get so wrapped up in these divisive side issues like choosing a particular gender to promote.
World Bank to Launch Web-Based Platform for Urban Development
Ten Things I Learned at SXSW 2011
LA Hacker News Meetup this Saturday
Farmhouse Conf
Unless you really, really need 100 million, no reasoning will make that a good bet. The expected value is 10 million, and since that's what you're putting at stake, you have nothing to gain. Whereas the utility value of a guaranteed 10 million, assuming you're not very rich already, is huge. It's more than an average lifetime of hard work.
The US Census version of "Detroit" is the area within the city limits. It has been "dying" since since the '68 riots, due to a combination of white flight, decline of manufacturing, and subsequent decline in retail, services, and civic engagement. All of which leads to more people leaving -- often going just 5-20 miles, into the suburbs.

In real life, to most southeast Michiganders, "Detroit" is a much larger area encompassing dozens of neighboring suburbs. That Detroit continued growing into the late '90s. The effects of the economic downturn were visible there long before the big 2008 crash (mostly in housing prices and boarded-up storefronts on suburban main streets), but its overall population decline has been much less dramatic than 25% in 10 years.

The "dying" talk is overblown. Cities ebb and flow. Manhattan in the 1970's, anyone? This is a very low ebb for the Detroit area, but it'll come back. All the way? Probably not -- being the central hub of a world industry was a bit of a historical fluke. But there's a foundation of engineers, designers, and other educated white-collar types -- along with the vestiges of a blue-collar middle class -- to build upon.

When I moved to Los Angeles ten years ago, the Hollywood area was a wasteland. So was downtown. Old Town Pasadena was gang territory. Echo Park is where you went to get shot. Now all of those areas -- and many dozens more -- are bustling and in various stages of gentrification.
The commercialization of Marxism - never thought I'd see that.
The problem is too many people, much like about half the people commenting here, confuse that with being an insufferable prick.
SG Mastermind 1: Build from scratch or use existing software?
Dear HN I hope you don't mind me temporarily hijacking 2-3 threads (to use as mastermind sessions) for Startup Guild. No need to vote this up as folks will be arriving here directly from the SG mailing list. (It might actually be better if it can quietly slip off the new section causing as little fuss as possible!)

Dear SG: Should we build the main SG community from scratch, or use existing software?

Hopefully this mastermind thread will resolve this question within the next few days.

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Working Spec (thx Scott)

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1) Forums/Blog Commenting: High lever conversations with the entrepreneur community at large (message board, divided into different topical areas that appeal to different types of entrepreneurs). Process for accepting new members to this community, like verifying their identify and having their posts associated with their real names. I’d also consider walling this off from the public.

2) Private Mastermind Groups: Anyone can create a mastermind group which will have its own private forums. Anyone seeking to join a mastermind group will be subject to a unanimous vote.

a. Include some basic tools to facilitate offline meetings, and (digitally?) signing NDA’s and optional non-competes (each mastermind group can set policies on which docs must be signed)

3) Robust bio pages: Detailed social proof section, Game Mechanic Badges, Give/receive endorsements, detailed bios, ability to follow people’s activity, etc

Note: Game mechanic badges. [$1k/month] [1000/users] etc.

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Existing Software Possibilities (Can they do it?)

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- http://www.ning.com/

- http://buddypress.org/

- http://vanillaforums.org/

- (Know any others?)

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Build From Scratch

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- Who?

- Pay for it?

- Build as open source tool?

- Extend buddy press?

Please chime in, SG needs you!
The 'Hunch Machine': How to Make Better Choices
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That's interesting. How can I learn more?
Developers who use the GPL don't want as many users as possible; they want freedom and users can take it or leave it.
Strict Transport Security - The Chromium Projects
I think it's more tricky than pure management failure. A heavily manufacturing based city such as Detroit was going to suffer this fate eventually; I think the biggest failing was ignoring the warning signs for so long. It's not like people didn't know that the bulk of manufacturing jobs were being shipped elsewhere.

And I don't think it's such a mystery either; as the big 3 go, so goes Detroit (or so it use to be). The hard economic times sped this collapse along probably sooner than people were ready to deal with.

Still I think this is an opportunity not just for Detroit but for our entire nation. Solving this problem is key to moving America back on track - this is not just an isolated problem of 'Detroit'.

If fact, for some time now I've wondered what happens when we automate all jobs out of existence. The writing is on the walls, really, it's not like you can't automate almost everything with enough technology and brainpower.I think in the long run we will become a nation of creative artists - and by that I don't mean purely 'art', but rather anything that needs to be made that others take pleasure in.

Think about it this way - we all have a nearly insatiable desire for new interesting things. And out of all the things we humans do, I think creativity is probably the only area that can't easily (or possibly ever) be automated.

What this means from an economic standpoint I have no clue, but it seems inevitable that we all end up out of 'work' at some point in the future.
As the "Vitorio" who was being quoted, thanks for your thoughts.

However, I think you're too kind to open source, and as Anil Dash commented after my original article, "i find everyone who hates the word 'feminism' defines it differently from those of us who identify as feminists."

Please feel free to read my original article and see if that explains the stance any better.
Google Contact Sharing using Google Apps Script
It's not from a startup but there's an interesting parallel. It's as if Ford had a $10/month plan and a $25/month plan. They didn't see a need for a $15/month plan but they created one anyways and it took off.

The thinking behind its success is likely similar: the highest tier of service often acts as a decoy for the one you really want them to pick... the second highest plan. It gives customers a reason to reject the "luxury" option and settle instead for the middle of the pack option which is only slightly more expensive than the cheap option, allowing them to feel like they made the sensible choice.
Clicked it, it didn't work, gave up, moved on.
There are a couple of well-established advanced criteria like decision coverage, condition coverage, MC/DC to choose from if statement coverage isn't enough.
> (As a sidenote: can I just point out that facebook's API is freaking awesome?)

No you may not. Facebooks API is horrible. I was just implementing the like buttons on my site and realized that they have to be iframes (even the FBXML or whatever its called creates iframes). This turns out a bit ridiculous on pages such as yours (if you put them on the feed page) and mine where you Twitter on the other hand allows you to just gives you a URL which points users to a link to share the page.
By hacked, I suggest that there are loopholes which allow some body/some group to have undue influence on the creation, destruction and distribution of money. In responsible hands, this level of undue influence doesn't lead to negative outcomes, but in irresponsible hands it is disaster.

For instance, where we see hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, it is really about the government gaining "root" access on their Reserve Bank, and "creating" money, while diluting what others already have.

On the other hand, when business confidence is low, people will store their "money" away for a rainy day, but that can lead to people sitting on the sidelines rather than engaging in production. i.e. people are poorer for it.

The other thing about money is it is reputationless. Although governments have a notion of tainted money, or money which has to be "laundered" to become legitimate - when white collar crimes are committed, let us say Enron-style, the CEOs still have money that they can spend and lead a good life. Contrast this with some aboriginal cultures which were moneyless, reputation is very important, and reputation is currency in its own right.

Perhaps the side effect of Bitcoin tracking transactions is that money no longer becomes reputationless. Society can choose to shun money that has a tainted reputation.

I don't really know of any solutions. I'm just bringing this up for discussion.
Jason is the man. He will run through walls and jump over canyons. (HN: he is also #14 on the leaders page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders)

Last year I met with Jason to discuss the project. When he described it to me, I immediately understood the vision and his goals and plan to get there. When he passed me the iPad with the demo, I was sold. Within 24 hours, I committed to be the first investor. I wrote a quick blurb here: http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswi... - Crazy that post was only two months ago.
Measuring User Activity in an Online Social Network (pdf from NetSciCom 2011)
FYI, you are the lead-in to an article at All Things D --> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110323/mac-daddy-serlet...
Red Hat Nearing $1 billion in revenue
Computer Generated Sonification of Japanese Earthquake
It varies significantly depending on the info I mentioned above including your experience as well. Re-read what I wrote carefully, I said AT LEAST $50k. It depends on where you're located as well. Too many unknown factors to give you any valid advice at this point.
Love these guys.

Asked a question on StackOverflow about DelayedJobs and one of them, with a newly registered SO account, provided an insightful answer.
I wonder if perhaps the slump in sales is the cause of slimy carrots rather than the effect. It sounds like they were dumping carrots into the pipeline at a tremendous pace, and it sounds like every carrot farmer has added "baby carrot" tracts to their farms so they could push them out faster. What if there became a huge glut in the market for these overpriced carrots, and they ended up sitting on the shelves longer...baby carrots are freshly peeled and washed and still moist when packed, and the longer they stay wet in the refrigerator, the more slimy they become.

Slimy carrots are unappealing, thus they ended up staying on the shelves even longer and selling even slower.

I buy baby carrots, and they are not always slimy. It's about 50/50, in my experience, and it depends on where I buy them, as well. I travel full-time, so in the past year I've bought baby carrots in a couple dozen cities. It varies widely. Organic produce, including baby carrots, from Trader Joe's or Henry's or other natural foods type markets tend to be better, though not always. And produce purchased in small towns and towns far from big civilization (like in Alaska or the desert or mountains) is consistently of lower quality and not as fresh.

I don't know that "the pipeline/process" is to blame, though supply chain management might be. If they've got twice as many baby carrots as the market wants, and they let them sit on shelves for days or weeks before they hit the supermarket shelves, I can see that leading to a self-reinforcing problem.
Look, I am a libertarian too and I'm 100% with you that government coercion is bad. But running fiber totally depends on a lot of unrelated people agreeing to have their land dug up, and in any practical circumstance that requires coercion.

The government is already involved, whether your bill says "AT&T" or "Chattanooga Municipal". The only question is whether data lines remain under the collective control of the people whose land they actually run under or whether that control is ceded by that government to a private corporation. The difference is who wags the government's tail, not whether that force is used.
Against liquidity
I built a site like this once for a company I wanted to work for very badly. I didn't get the job, but I did at least get a response from them, which is very unusual.
Page Speed for Google Chrome
This is excellent news. It makes me significantly more likely to use disqus for my own projects.
Interview with Neil Patel: "as an entrepreneur you must move really fast" 
This week's interview is with Neil Patel - a serial entrepreneur, founder of KISSmetrics and also CrazyEgg. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.
That's unfortunate, but please don't paint all of IRC with the same brush.

IRC is just a protocol, and there are thousands of IRC networks, each with potentially thousands of channels. It's a really great communication mechanism, so please don't let a few racist trouble-makers keep you off of it.
A challenge to Startup Lawyers from Fred Wilson
Bitcoins still need to be securedly stored, and this is beyond the capability of 95% of the world. In the end you'll have a consortium of "guards" who will offer storage services. If humans in the future are like humans of the past, then fractional banking is assured. If there is an economic boom, then I can assure you that these new "banks" will offer letters of credit, which is essentially a derivative.
Will Samba loose out from this? Are Apple an active developer of Samba?
Rochester, NY is doing something like this:
http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network
"App Store would not necessarily do anything more to push my app than the Internet as a whole does" - I see what you mean here. I would say however that it does provide real distribution, but the onus is still on you to push that further, as with most any other channel.

"You can push an update whenever you want." - Yeah, this was more in reference to updating content, not necessarily the app itself. I think I missed the crux of what he meant, apologies for not making that clearer.

"Apple sets fixed price points, and has rejected apps for price before." - True, but at the same time I'd say their reasoning is spot-on for rejecting based on price. Their concern is the UX, first and foremost, and their policies follow that line (almost) all the time.

"You're saying they no longer require 30% of all profits you derive from sales in apps, even if they had nothing to do with the sale except making the device the software is running on?" - No, they require that price and have done a huge amount to facilitate it. I'd say it is absolutely fair to charge that price and implement most (not all) of their policies. Making the device, the OS, doing all the marketing, researching and testing the entire user experience, providing the infrastructure that makes it possible to even download the app and use it. It is a lot and they have every right to want their piece of the pie.

Thanks for the reply :)
Engineering vs design
I've been on that site a few times looking for grafting tools for a permaculture hobby project. Does your wife's family have any mechanized grafting (for bench grafting) or expanded product line? Nice Magento work, by the way!
My biggest problem was not really with Evernote but with create discipline to take important notes. The only version I tried to use was the Android version, and I couldn't create value using it.
Well, if you go to Oxford you can now get both.

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ugrad/Computer_Science...
There are definitely people working towards this. Allot of 3d printable replacement parts are already on thingiverse but many have to be product-specific so it can be difficult to find exactly what you need. A perfect example is the remote control tab you mentioned which will be different on each remote control.

3D scanners have been touted as a way to solve this (scan your object, print a new one) but I don't think the resolution will be high enough any time soon to print reasonably aesthetic replacements. The real solution in my opinion is to make MCAD easier and more affordable so it's easier to design a replacement then to walk to the store.

FYI. backpack buckles can be downloaded here: http://www.thingiverse.com/derivative:1113
I don't think I said "No one who gets below a 700 has impressive credentials". I was just trying to generalize that higher scoring students are more likely to have other impressive things about them.
Social Networking For Cannibals
The real question is simply whether the estimated longevity of a Blu Ray disc is greater than the estimated longevity of one of the major online video vendors. I'm not sure I'd bet against the physical media deteriorating or drives requiring replacement or upgrades before then - and since it's usually cost-neutral across the form-factors, there's a temptation to bet on software lasting longer than hardware.
I'll be happy to call cousin_it a sexist boy. Statistically, he probably is. And worse, he probably thinks he's too smart to be sexist, and hangs out with mostly males who also feel that way, so their sexism goes uncorrected.

To be clear, in my original post that Trapani was responding to, I called most open source projects "sexist boy's clubs with no facility for mentoring, no respect for design, and mailing lists that are 50% dick-measuring contests."

I also call programmers abnormal, by definition of their being programmers.

Thanks to cousin_it for his defensiveness, which happens all the time, and is an excellent illustration of the problem.
wait until you see what is coming, it's breathtaking. thank you for the kind words.
You can certainly avoid all the tedium of the epsilon-delta arguments while mastering calculus. In fact there were over a hundred years between the invention of calculus and the formalization of the epsilon-delta definition! Calculus was not invented in the same way it is taught, and the early masters of calculus were much more intuitive than rigorous.

For references, calculus was first published in 1684:

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

But the epsilon-delta definition wasn't formalized until 1817:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_...
Having just gone through the entire statistics playlist of Khan Academy (about 10 hours of video) in about a week, I think I can offer some data here. I ran a running instance of clojure next to KA, and I wouldn't go on to the next video until I'd replicated what Sal had done in Clojure. This seemed to be extremely helpful, especially because there are no practice problems for the stats videos.

I think a quick-and-easy way to get feedback is essential. For some lessons there are practice problems, but for others, a student who wanted to maximize learning/minute spent watching video would be wise to at least open up Excel or something.
I bought the DC motor for the second one I'm making at active surplus for $1.95. The cloth was under hacklabs sink in a package of 10 that cost ~ $5, and I didn't use a full cloth. The tape was sitting around, but probably cost about $2 (the one I used this time was taken out of an old vacuum cleaner, ironically enough). The power supply was a fancy one and would cost >$100 but I could have bought a cheap converter for $5. And I used a dollar or two of plastic.

So, even if I'd had to buy everything from scratch, it only would have cost me ~ $15. Since that wasn't the case, it only cost me my time and some negligible expenses. Meanwhile, the cheapest portable vacuum cleaner I could find at the stores I went to was $39.99 + tax...

Also, we're not that far from printing motors. Fab@home has printed metal by dissolving it into a thick paste and others have printed grooves and run solder through them. Once I can print metal coils, I can print a motor... (Some motors don't need an internal magnet -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor)
Stubbing a File Stream, Memory Stream, or Stream
Here’s the class that has a Func setup as a property. The reason this is setup, is so that the stream can actually be stubbed on the ComplianceReportingJob. Otherwise if the Stream was just being used as is, instantiated in the class, or passed in via injection, we still couldn’t get it mocked or stubbed. Especially if the class ComplianceReportingJob is under test.
public class ComplianceReportingJob : IJob
{
readonly ITradeRepository tradeRepo;
readonly IFileSystem fileSys;

public Compl...