skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, that would end with a few small-breasted women suing for discrimination against their right to free expression, and winning. The headlines during that case would be truly Fark-worthy.
Agree. In fact if it were a ~ then we could have a full email address after that thus unlocking the identity from using a single provider.
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There were freshmen as young as 15 when I was at MIT, but as I remember it, they generally had graduated from high school. It's not that unusual to be 17 when you start college, so if you've skipped a year or two you could easily be 15 when you get to MIT (and generally, it's also fairly possible to take some extra classes and finish high school a year or two early.)

I mean, didn't you ever hear of Doogie Howser?
~ means approximately in many places.

I prefer the pronounceability of @ over ~
Or at least in a perfect world with unlimited budgets, that's how it would work.
> For the binary-math confused: a simple Right-Shift by 1 is /logically/ a *2.

Actually, it's a divide.

To me this looks like you're just adding a second layer of hashing. This doesn't make the output any more "random", it just makes it more processed.

EDIT: As a bonus, I think your iterated divide-shifting algebra compresses the distribution to actually make it _less_ random than it originally was. No proof here, just a strong suspicion.
Along similar lines, here are some links relating to actually getting coverage in the tech press (rather than sending nasty e-mails as mentioned in this post):

http://www.martinbryant.net/approaching-tech-journalists-for...
http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/08/four-guidelines-to-g...
http://www.copyblogger.com/irresistible-pr/

And Michael Arrington spent some time on the topic in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUnatPfSgg
I would recommend Wordpress/Buddypress to start. It's simple to setup, has a ton of plugins, and isn't hard to extend. If not BuddyPress, use something else existing. Building your own software from scratch would be a terrible use of your time given the goals you have for the Startup Guild.
If you want to get a taste watch this video series: http://bit.ly/aO1wFm There are a lot of entreprenurial groups and funds that just weren't there twelve months ago.

If you want a more boots on the ground feel attend Maker Faire this summer. I've spoken to some of the O'Reilly folks who were very nervous about last years Faire and were quite simply in their words "blown away" by Detroit in a positive way. Tim O'Reilly compared the Henry Ford museum to the equivalent of the Louvre.

Houses in Detroit are already selling for $1, How much lower can they go? Chinese investors are snapping up hundreds of houses. Locals are even buying them and flipping them to outsiders.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/17/rtr.detroit.opportunity/ind...

You have to decide for yourself if that sounds like a market that can still go lower.
For those who would like to see the discussion on this posted earlier today : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359238
Congratulations on putting in the time and passion. Fantastic effort and I have no doubt something will come of it for you.
Yes. In general any time you want to access the same file system by multiple different methods, the permissions issue gets rather hairy, but from the point of view of an Apple CIFS server, some well considered finesse in the GUI could be a big help in managing that complexity. In the case of OpenSolaris, it's at least worth mentioning that so long as you do only want to treat a file system as being a share for CIFS clients, it does work just beautifully.
picture perfect CV replacements are already getting old
Jobs also started NeXT when he was 30 after founding another well known company years before. My point is age shouldn't be a barrier to starting a company you believe in, especially not the imaginary "30" line.
Thought you might like to know the phrase is "never ceases" not "never seizes": http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_never_seizes_to_amaz...

(Not sure if it was a typo/brainfart/not-english-speaker but figured you might like to know)
I always find these kinds of "résumés" rather awkward. Yes, companies usually like to hire people who are passionate about the product, but it's possible to be passionate in a creepy obsessive way too.
I'm not asking you to clean my gutters for free. I'm asking you to stop saying you'll clean my gutters for free, but sticking in the fine print "$5000 fee required for access to free gutter service."

To drop the metaphor: I'm not saying that you can't license your code under GPL. If you don't want me using your software, that's your right. By placing the code under GPL, you are communicating that I am not free to use the software as I please. That is, again, your right — all I ask is that you be honest about the fact that use of the code is very much restricted.

If anybody using your code is effectively barred from commercial endeavors, then for people who make money off their software, it does not grant them any more freedom than closed-source code does. To say a license grants freedom because you're free not to use the code is just weird.
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For nostalgia's sake (if it's suitable to reveal), what was the original number that Twitter used?
Why do you feel that it's okay to stereotype and demean the OP simply based on the fact that he's a man? You know nothing about him, but you're willing to draw conclusions about him based upon your own predisposition to misandry. I honestly wish I could downvote your comment more than once.

I find your attitude uncannily ironic, given your blog post. So essentially, what you're saying is that sexism is only bad when it happens to women?
Convore may be the best solution for right now...it's super easy to organize a public/private group of people, and the daily email digests are perfect.

When There's a clearer idea of the form the SG is going to take, BuddyPress is probably the best off the shelf solution since it's open source (free & constantly being improved) easy to set up (under 15 minutes now that it's a plugin) and easily customized with themes and plugins.

I've been using it for the past few months on client projects and it's been really awesome to work with, as well as easy to use for admins and users.
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Exactly. There's an existing media ecosystem to support these types of companies that perpetuates itself.
Here's the approximate path of text: http://i.imgur.com/Usrgf.png

compare: http://i.imgur.com/uD9nT.png
(thanks, Samuel_Michon)

The font is okay, but kerning is not good -- you can clearly see it in "VARIO" (IO), and E72 (7).
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You are very very badly informed about what you're attempting to tar Australia with. The "A cup breasts = child pornography" meme was started when a fringe political party with no seats in either houses of parliament made a press release to that effect, which was picked up by the typically loathe to fact check anything Internet. (http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/29/has-australia-really-ban...)

As for comics, I've never even heard of what you assert and presume it similarly false. Child pornography in this country is defined differently in different jurisdictions, however the word "minor" is used in all of them. Comics depicting 80 year old pensioners getting steamy would never fit those definitions.

This kind of low-quality meme regurgitation you have displayed has no place on HN.
Yeah, but I think we need to step back a bit and think about what's working here. No one can improve in design or copywriting overnight. So she pulled a different level with brilliant self promotion that's getting real results. It makes me think I should stop tweaking the pixels on version 1,367 of my logo and look at the bigger picture. Like her, I want the work I'm doing to be noticed. In that category, she's kicking my butt, and I think I could learn a thing or two from her approach.

I don't think active applications are innovative or quirky. But I do think that they are effective (when done right) and I hope they have staying power. The resume is long overdue for a bit of reinvention. But you are absolutely right: the site must present work tailored very specifically to the company you are chasing. It has to do more than mention them by name. My biggest critique is that I think she should have put some of the effort into a proposed redesign of an instagram feature. Some piece of work that would help them imagine her contributions as an employee.
On the other hand ~ has been used to indicate a signature.

A trailing colon would be the obvious choice when addressing a statement to someone, but that doesn't work as well for the Twitteresque usage of flagging a username embedded in the middle of a string in a machine-readable fashion.
Great write-up. I expect to be using Tout in the future.
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Yeah, I read his posts - its what inspired me to have give it a try. That and somebody who posted on HN, saying they had a passive income stream from selling their holiday photos as stock.

'Staged' photos of people in various situations do sell better. People are always looking for photos that illustrate different abstract concepts, such as "income protection" or "brown nosing with the boss".

In my case though, I was looking to make some money of the photos I already had, which apparently were not that suited for stock. I don't doubt that if I invested time taking photos that were betters suited, I could make a little money. But from my early experience it would seem that too much effort was required for too little pay off.

To throw out some totally made up numbers, it was like; for every hour of effort invested in my grafting tool site, I could increase my monthly income by $2. For every hour invested in stock I could increase my monthly income by $0.10 . It quickly became obvious where I should spend my time :-)

I would guess that for anybody who can code, the numbers would likely prove similar. Therefore I would not recommend stock photography to the HN crowd.
It's great seeing all of these commands and shortcuts, and seeing that you know a lot of them. These never cease to be useful.

Even though it seems simple to someone who knows Linux, you can always impress marketing/business people by flying through Linux with these helpful commands, shortcuts, and tips.
Right. Support is one of the strongest use cases. GrexIt also covers you if 3 months down the line this guy leaves your company, or you have one more guy to augment the support team, who needs to access the history of discussions or support requests.
What do you think of http://www.ning.com/ ?
Howdy HN, I'm co-founder at Catch.com and I would love to get some feedback or answer questions about Catch Notes.

We are a bunch of hackers trying to make it easy to capture and find what is important.
I'm not sure it directly relates as Google and Facebook don't generally have the "choose from the following plans" kind of revenue model.
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The article is correct in the insight part, however it misses(or doesn't state explicitly) the fact that insight comes from the definition of the problem, what you are trying to do. Every concept is a solution to a problem, and to get the insight, my approach is to go through a list
What am I trying to accomplish (this is where visualizing comes)
What are the other ways of doing it
How does this method work, and why
Why is this method better then others
*Where will this method not work.

After this solving any problem in the problem set is a piece of cake. Reduce the problem to subproblems, check applicability of the concept to the subproblems, apply the method, enjoy the result.
You don't mind hiring someone who clearly has her sights set on a different company? To the extent that she even registered a domain name professing her personal interest in said company?
> I read a great interview (maybe a co-founder of tripod...?) who went through the evolution of search engines over a decade, each time saying that it was too late to enter the field, and playfully finishing with "[of course, now with google, it really is too late]". I've searched and searched for this but can't find it - anyone recognize it?

Well, I guess it's not too late to enter the search field, then.
Well, not exactly sure, but for apples (also triggers her allergies) organic doesn't help.
All of these she had no reactions when she lived in France.

Guess we should try the organic carrots some time.
Trinity - Distributed Graph Database from Microsoft Research
He sums it up very concisely in the very last paragraph:

And also that I think that prosecuting as "child pornographers" a 16 and 17 year old who were legally able to have sex, because they took a sexual photograph of themselves and emailed it to themselves is utterly, insanely wrong, and a nice example of the law as blunt instrument.
Keep in mind the date (and origin) of the paper -- expect some vocabulary mismatches.

In particular: "run M, in a general form, with unknown values of variables" would probably be called abstract interpretation today.

(I'm only fudging because I haven't read the rest yet myself. :)

Edit to add something I forgot to mention, but should: There's a(t least one) useful PDF of slides in the repository from the originally linked project.

I did go through that, in something of a hurry -- it walked through the rewriting of a naive function to append 3 lists [ app3(a,b,c) = app2(app2(a,b),c) ]into one that executes with a single pass.
While it doesn't look great to the eye yet, I'm pretty sure @gte910h@twitter.com vs @gte910h@github.com would work to point out the user on the site.
Wow.

As someone who has actively tried to make the Linux community more inclusive, it really hurts when someone who is on the same team makes a blanket attack that includes you.

Just because it_boy and I are male and in software, we automatically aren't allowed to have opinions? You can throw out the word "statistically" and dismiss us just like that? Wait, remind me again what the definition of sexism is?

I will happily agree with you that most FOSS projects "have no facility for mentoring or respect for design". (You're surprised that a community created by developers is going to value developers over designers? Really?) I really don't understand the "sexist boy's clubs" or "50% dick-measuring contests" comments.

If I'm being unfairly defensive, then help me out here. Here's the archives for several FOSS mailing lists I'm on:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.t2.devel
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/
http://java.net/projects/lg3d/lists/interest/archive (Kind of dead now. Browsing by month on a list that only gets a message every other month is a pain, but blame Oracle.)
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/

You could probably argue that the BLFS mailer has a certain amount of dick-waving going on, but I truly fail to see how any of them are "sexist boy's clubs". If I'm wrong, can you point out where we are being unconsciously sexist? I can see lots of ways that the above mailers are intimidating to outsiders in of both sexes, but that's hardly sexism, is it?

If and when I see sexism, I'm happy to call it out--I don't pretend that it doesn't exist, but I really don't see that it's as prevalent as you claim.
The flipside is that you get coherent oplock and sharemode locking with NFS and local accesses, reasonable ACL/identity management solution across all protocols, efficient support for file change notifications, etc. For these reasons I consider the in-kernel solution to be far superior feature wise as well as performance wise.
Oh, you actually had an Apple II, my condolences :) The //e actually had disk drives (although I also had the tape deck experience thanks to a TI 99/4A). Anyway:

> I had to read out of scrappy library copies of Byte and Compute magazine. There were hours of trial and error.

That's a great way to build persistence. Many kids lack that skill.

> All of this information was right there on the computer. No more trudging down to the library or throwing away my money on thick technical manuals and trial-version compilers.

Mm, I remember library trips. Taught me how to actually look stuff up. I agree, when I first got Internet access, being able to download DJGPP changed my life.

But on the //e, I learned how to reverse-engineer. Taught myself assembly by reading hex/assembly listings and via trial and error.

I agree modern systems make it easier to learn. But the Apple //e made you learn.
Wow, it’s a small world! I've tried to convince them to make bench grafters, but unfortunately they feel the market is too small and won’t pay for their R&D costs. They are more interested in making tools where they can get an order of 1 million pieces, to sell at Wallmart.
I think compilers today have much better error messages, and you can always turn to sites like Stack Overflow and Google. Back then, if it wasn't in some undecipherable manual, you had to figure it out by trial and error.

When I first learned to program, I recall struggling with run-on loops. I'm not sure if that is even really an issue with modern compilers. There wer things that it was just hard to figure out.

Today, I can just go to Google.
Are gas prices really that high?
The learning curve of vim was pretty steep, but once over the hump you get some massive benefits. That said, I bet I'm only using 1% of the available commands.

Going back to Windows makes you really appreciate the speed of bash, vim and grep.
Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments
Namesake is awesome - like the best of Twitter + Quora
> "it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule amount of profit they'd make from this app."

unless I'm mistaken, it was a free app (with no ads), so they made no money off of it.
Fixed, actually. Thanks, GitHub!
It actually sounds fairly promising. Maybe I read it wrong but didn't like the implication that clients would need to manage and handle connection and routing issues? Maybe that's just part of the fun nosql party.
I can appreciate the etymology (assuming you are getting this from UNIX) but it's definitely unnatural to read.
Wayne, seriously thank you for the faith and being an awesome friend all these years. Everyone here would be lucky to have him as an angel.
"Insight" as used by the author is just a fancy (and misused) word for understanding. "To succeed you can't just memorize the formula; you have to understand how it works." Is that really such an insightful thing to conclude?

The most valuable part of the article for me is where he points out that a lot of hard-working but unintelligent students write copious notes without ever doing the mental gymnastics to understand what it is they're writing down.
"... There are few filters online. That means that just about anything that gets typed into the little "comments" box gets posted. ..."

Stood out as something that could be looked at. Search allows you to find things. Filters block what probably shouldn't be there in the first place.
To this I say, "good riddance." Samba is a pretty horrible implementation of a pretty horrible protocol. It was originally built by systems administrators, so I'd say that the system is more "accreted" (like a stalactite) rather than really designed. Samba is incredibly hard to extend and maintain and the primary developers are more wankerish and ideologically motivated than commercial vendors would like. Primarily for these reasons, but also for licensing reasons, EMC, NetApp, other storage vendors, Oracle, and now Apple have all switched over to private implementations. I believe Sun's effort started long before protocol documentation was available from Microsoft, but the Samba developers do deserve credit for doing some incredibly painful reverse engineering, even if that reverse engineering is sometimes incomplete.
I'm going to suggest you get financial security first, then create a small passion project in your spare time. If that passion project gets to the level of revenue of your day job then flip.

This is how I started my career in fact: doing IT consulting while I started my companies.
Bad comparison. Yours was an extreme case. Requiring semi-recent versions of autoconf and automake (in addition to any other dependencies the app has) is not unreasonable. They're not "esoteric tools." Neither is the need to run autogen.sh instead of (or before) configure.
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Apple's filesystems already support native NTFS ACLs, so I expect that the permissions issues will be no worse than current NTFS/POSIX interop, which is indeed hairy. The best you can do is support the POSIX case very well and the all-ACL case very well.
Why do people think programming has anything to do with solving problems?
Eric Goldman (blog.ericgoldman.org) did a number of roundup pieces around first amendment defenses against prosecution under the CAN-SPAM laws, and the one of the arguments set forth by the MPAA in its defense of the DMCA was that its commercial speech rights were violated by people who could use DECSS(sp?) to unencrypt their DVDs and just watch the video content without the commercials. I'll see if I can find the case id and post a link.
Nice idea, but not a valid test imo. Maybe it is a good test about whether you are cut out to be a salesman or a shop owner.

I thought entrepreneurship is more about changing the system than selling something.
> "It's pretty clear that nazism, racism, gaycism and other hateful applications shouldn't be allowed on the Apple App Store."

Yes, exactly. I'm not sure if that above statement was an attempt at sarcasm, but it's completely true, they shouldn't be allowed.
Pretty cool. I like this part from the FAQ regarding phone support: " We do not outsource our support overseas or employ low paid, unqualified support staff."
Id smuggle a mobile phone into my jail cell and trade bitcoins from a nice warm bed with 3 meals a day.

Making bitcoins illegal would make them worth more as drug dealers and pimps would value their qualities more.

tl;dr bittorrent.

Hows shutting down piracy working out for you ?
Just fyi, it seems to be overloaded right now. Cannot load plug.onswipe.com. Kills my site in a normal browser too, not just on the iPad. Is that the expected behavior?
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> Bitcoin (or vanilla gold-backed money) does not
> prevent FRB per se. It just makes sure that FRB
> will be very limited and will usually go down with
> a bang fairly soon.

What you say makes sense. Since Bitcoin has the same properties/faults as gold insofar as FRB is concerned, why is bitcoin interesting?
As hackers we like to think that, but aren't there also successes by hustlers willing to hack?
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Yeah, but doing something because it pisses you off instead of because it's right is the mentality of the lynch mob and the totalitarian gov't.

I think its crap we don't have gay marriage, I think Exodus is laughable and a bad idea, but I think the idea they should be censored even worse.
Or that you're a designer not a copywriter. You know. One of those two things.
Online anonymity is free speech. That's why it's so uncomfortable.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. -- Learned Hand
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