skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Corporations don't kill people because they are not legally allowed to"

That's one of the most provocative things I have heard in a while. I have to make a comment here. Please forgive the intrusion. (I haven't read the entire thread)

Corporations are businesses. They provide the best service or product to people at the lowest price.

How could you keep a market interested in your product if you were killing people making it? Do you think some kind of secret trade-off where corporations got to kill vast numbers of people secretly in the middle of the night to keep prices low would actually work for _any_ corporation? If you were a CEO, would you gamble the entire corporate stock on it?

It's the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, not reality. Business is based on good faith, trustworthy contracts, and the moral and physical support of all concerned. You can't just start whacking people and expect any of that to stay around. That's not reality. Yes -- you could sell a dangerous product. But that's not killing people. It's a different thing entirely.

As for "engineering government" to work for you, I assume that's the main part of your thread. I'd simply ask that you do a LOT of reading on engineering government to work for people. There have been a lot of people doing a lot of engineering, so we have a lot of history to read and learn about.
Dammit, I wanted to invent that! Sigh.
If you don't need to be elastic a VPS may be cheaper than EC2.
Gruber: Raining on the OpenClip Parade
Reads better then The Republic
why run solaris at all when there is only 2 remote holes in the default install of openbsd?
Anyone who pays any attention at all (let alone whose job involves investigating) wouldn't have made the mistake of calling YC an incubator. That just seems careless to me. I keep wanting to give Saray Lacy the benefit of the doubt but it's getting harder and harder. :/

At least she wants to talk to Paul about it. Anyone who does will realize that they've been generalizing YC incorrectly to at least some degree.
I stopped using ebay a long time ago. You can't find any deals on there any more. + now the difference in cost on the "deals" is so little, that its not worth it to take the risk of dealing with a possible scammer when you can deal with an actual company and have the added protection you get from using a credit card.
A warning for any young entrepreneurs considering a lemonade stand
I Can't Believe My Eyes: Conforming to the Norm
How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it
Are you in the Bay area? I think I can contribute some help;
I have a lot of friends that are looking for a space like this. Gabe and Andrew (from Kirkland North) and I have been hosting these dinner parties that attract quite a few people: the secret seems to be good cooking. I could cook for a few 'fundraising dinners' to get the ball rolling (for, say, a deposit on a lease), though I don't think I can be a main person on the project (have a lot of hardware hacking to do...)
This is very cool! But I sort of think hebrew should have been given a bit more prominence - it's the original version of the document after all.

Most of the translations are translations of translations, not direct (and some are even 3rd generation), which will hurt analysis if you don't know which the original is.
You can still use a credit card with eBay.
There's also a difference between an established company taking funds and kids without any savings raising $15,000 so they can put together a prototype.
Simple: They make money on the listing fees.

Lower the prices, increase the volume.
Ask HN: legality of re-using publicly posted material
I recently set up a site which collates After Effects expressions and scripts (http://xscriptorium.com). At the time of building I conceived only of one scenario: the person submitting an expression is also the author of that expression. As it turns out, the community has come up with another scenario: posting expressions that were written by others. Now, that obviously makes this site a lot more useful when it comes to collating this content but I'm wondering what the copyright and etiquette issues are? A lot of this will, I guess, revolve around where these expressions are sourced - a lot of the time expressions are posted on the After Effects mailing list, in answer to requests for a particular expression.

So now I'm wondering what I should do? Is it legal?

Any feedback would be appreciated.
Bran Ferren at IDF: Storytelling beyond cartoons
Developer creates copy-paste tech for iPhone
I guess we've lost each other, then. In my opinion the ideas in the manifesto are the best part of anything that has had the agile label slapped on it. I guess you don't get anything out of them, but I'm not sure why not. If you want to try to apply them to things that they obviously don't apply to, like writing RFPs, then yeah, they don't make any sense.

In many cases you DO have a direct choice on which of the items (column A or B) to focus your efforts on. You can tell your developers to focus on writing code, or write control gate documentation. You can spend your time as a manager working on procuring the next new silver bullet tool, or on hiring, retaining, and working with top talent. Now there's nothing that says you can't do both, but you certainly have a choice on how much time and effort to spend on each.

As far as a sales slogan goes, yes, the manifesto is the headliner for the books and coaches and everything else that costs money in the writing and consulting world that is selling methodology silver bullets. But you can use the ideas in the manifesto without spending one thin dime on any of that stuff.
If you know that you won't need it until a certain date, you can just shoot the data into space, speed it up relativistically, and slow it back down a few seconds later--the data won't have degraded any, but the rest of the universe will have ;)
Difficult CardSpace Experience
It's self-defeating if the end result is drowning out the unique and used items that attract eBay's core customers.
> it uses x before its defined

Duh, noooo, really ? Have you ever wondered what magic causes this snippet to compile:

struct foo
{
foo() { bar = 1; }
int bar;
};

In other words, C++ is perfectly capable of handling forward references. Parser can simply postpone evaluating decltype() expression until it reaches the end of the function declaration. That's hardly a compiler "rocket science".

I'm guessing that the real reason why they ended up with this ass-backward syntax was to try and achieve some consistency between these two cases:

auto <variable>;
auto <function>;

Was it worth it ? IMO - hell, no.
Unfortunately not.. I'm in Melbourne (Australia).

I love the idea of luring people with good food though. :)
I read an article that blue light can cause delayed sleep. Apparently, it interferes with the evening release of melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep. The article speculated that the common perception that hackers are night-owls could be caused by staring at a monitor with blue backgrounds, etc. I don't know if its true.
Ask HN: Idea for startup: Comment Tracker
So I have this problem:

I write a lot of comments on the web. But its hard to keep track if someone has replied back to my comments.

So maybe you hackers can come up with a solution?:

Maybe make a firefox toolbar that tracks all of this and alerts you in real-time whenever someone replies back to my comments.
If everyone could find out such knowledge about everyone else on a whim, would people stop being so paranoid about the question, and all others like it?

I see privacy as just a way to protect oneself in light of an unequal balance of informational power. If this imbalance were corrected--if everyone instantly knew everything and anything they wanted to know--a form of mutually-assured destruction would ensure continued politeness, or as the author put it, "dignity and respect." We would simply stop caring about such things--gossip is a non-issue when everyone (metaphorically, mind) lives together naked in a brightly-lit room, and speaks in sweeping motions and loud voices.

In a privacy-less world, the senator would simply reply "yes" or "no," but the question wouldn't have been asked in the first place, as it wouldn't be especially inflammatory--anyone could know all they wanted about anyone else's sexual habits, and so it wouldn't be at all interesting, or even at all intimate (once the novelty wore off, of course.)
From the article:

Or you can have one on earth, if you want, acting as an additional node in the distributed archive. There are still two disks available from this prototype run. Currently, for all its high techness, each disk is hand crafted, and so they have a corresponding high hand-crafted cost: $25,000. Contact the office if you are interested in caretaking an archive of all languages.
Sounds like a good opportunity for someone to come in and make an auction site that doesn't take 70 steps in order to sell something.
You'd sell your soul and push cancer onto kids for $10M? Seriously?!
"The emission time of the laser pulse light is on the order of a nano-second (10-9 sec). Our device uses 1 pulse for each dot to that the human eye can recognize plasma emission by utilizing the after-image effect, and enables a 100 dot/sec display."

Still not quite ready for prime time. 100 dots/sec isn't enough to make a display, but rather, a skeletal dot array.
Or I could just upload it to google amirite?

The real problem here isn't backups. It's archaeology. Keeping the data you want is easy - just about everyone in computing is working on some version of that.
Every time I see the title I read it as:

Jerry Sentenced to Push Vista for $10 Million
I don't think you understand just how poor poor can be.

I haven't had health insurance for almost 10 years now. I do not regret this at all, nor do I see any point to paying any money at all for a high-deductible policy in which the insurance will only become useful in the most extreme -- and unlikely -- of cases.

Health insurance companies put a lot of effort into coming up with ways to not cover your bills, and for that privilege, you are subjected to seeing only the professionals that the insurance companies have "blessed", no small fraction of which aren't taking new patients.

I would never do business with any company that treated me that way, and health insurance is no different.
One Question: Where can I buy one?
Probably because when somebody donates tons of space and bandwidth to you, it's rude to argue with them over their choice of OS.

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype
"A "wiki" which is basically an editable website that allows people to easily collaborate. You can use a wiki from anything to organizing a camping trip to replacing your water cooler discussions at work. See some more uses of a wiki here."

If they don't know what a wiki is, they probably don't want to create one. Secondly, if you must keep it, make the font bigger and easier to read. I had to zoom in it just to make it legible.
Well put, and this is a great article. I use Ruby, and I don't consider myself a fanboy. I know that Ruby and Python are roughly equivalent in most ways; that Java and .NET are better than Ruby for some systems; that the web is run on PHP and Perl; and that there are more powerful languages out there.

But man, I really enjoy Ruby. I find it expressive, powerful, and beautiful, and I enjoy going to work in the morning, especially the (rare) days where I can write code from start to finish. Does that make me a fanboy?
Brief script for extended git submodule status
great!

can't wait for this to launch.
What's in a [domain] name? Would a reddit by any other name smell as sweet?
Thinking solely of the impact of the domain name for a given company name, consider the following:

Suppose the company name for some hypothetical checkers afficiando site is "King Me". What are the relative merits of the following domain name choices?

kingme.com
king-me.com
king.me
king.me.com
kingme.net
kingme.org

Presuming the venture has profit motives, is the choice of domain name at all relevant to the likelihood of business success?

Assuming one of those domain names were available in the primary market, and your first preference were domain-parked on sedo, what would you be willing to pay at sedo?
One thing I found out about zoning "laws" is that they are basically made up (as in pretend). Just about any senior official at City Hall can scribble a variance for a property and that's the end of it. It often doesn't even require a vote. Its who you know that counts.

Little Katie and Sabrina just need to wait for the next town council election to roll around and give a lil'-sumin'-sumin' to the right candidate.

That's how we do it in these parts. (And it sucks IMHO)
I've always granted you honorary membership among the ranks of the bold Silicon Valley investors, Fred (you're also smart and good looking, and I bet you can cook, too). But I'm glad to hear that some (at least two) YC companies are getting funded in Boston, since pg doesn't seem interested in moving the SFP to the valley.
Not much with the language directly (though Ruby owes a lot to functional programming). But the Ruby culture puts emphasis on learning about these sorts of things.
Biodiesel Breakthrough
What you should know before starting a doctorate...
BlackBerry Bold vs. iPhone Web Browser Showdown (vid)
Best part:
"He was a prankster, but because he didn't boast, he only got caught once in high school. While spending the night in a juvenile detention facility as a result, he taught the prisoners how to take the electrical leads from the ceiling fan, wire them to the jail cell, and shock the guards."
The new Brazilian Internet surveillance
Woz sure is definitely my greatest inspiration, simply because he is a engineer to the bone, a lot easier and sensible to connect with him than Jobs or Gates or any of the other tech giants. I went to the talk by him when he came to visit Cisco a few weeks back, and it was really awesome. A true hacker.
Frequency around 20:00 - 2:00 should have been one hr. My bet is it peaks at 01:00.
One word: Emo
World heading towards cooler 2008
"1% of facebook is worth hundreds of millions"

Yeah, but 99% of facebook is worth tens of billions by the same logic, so hundreds of millions isn't really that much anymore.
I've seen this strategy with other journalists. Write a story, get a reaction directly from the main person, rebut reaction... rinse, repeat. Oddly enough, it's also the formula for trolling.

Therefore, like trolls, the best thing for YC to do is to ignore her.
Sweet. Finally real 3d. Was getting tired of all of the "3d" displays that turned out to be lcd projectors on half mirrors.

One word of advice. Don't stick your hand in it to see if its a hologram! :)
"... The intent of OpenClip is fine. That there’s been so much coverage regarding OpenClip in the past 24 hours shows just how much demand there is for inter-application copy-and-paste. But developers would be foolish to adopt a framework that only works today because of a loophole in iPhone OS 2.0 that is already closed in iPhone OS 2.1. ..."

Protects users from nasties, protects Apple. Evil in good ways and bad.
you mean, like, paper?
The first joke - thoughtful irony (the plumber prides himself in being covered in shit - but is it worth it?). The second is very uniquely Russian (I only kind of get it) - somehow, vulgarity with a good comeback is funny. The third makes fun of overvaluing superficial social status (being in the aeroplane industry), which I could see as an internal stereotype of Jewish culture.
Are you sue that 'unique and used items' is the core of ebay? I have a feeling it's not anymore.

Plus with categories and search, I don't think they'll be drowned out. It's not a physical store - there's no space shortage.
I am 21 now. I switched a little over 2 weeks ago.
"1% of Facebook is also worth hundreds of millions (at least)."

What valuation does she give Facebook? Even the most outlandish valuation ever given to them (one nobody sane would use for anything) puts 1% at 150m.
Delicious for Firefox sync lagging?
anyone else experience a recent noticeable lag on the firefox plugin?
If you encourage or openly tolerate the sharing of copyrighted materials, that is considered illegal and you can be sued for it. To be safe, discourage such activity. Instruct the community to post their own scripts or scripts they know to have been shared in the open - and then trust your community members to do the right thing. In a large community, you can't possibly police everything. So follow the YouTube example. If a developer or lawyer claims to own a script that one of your members is thought to have illegally posted, censor the file and inform the member. Ban repeat offenders.
You could use the y.XX domain to secure the naming you like (e.g. del.icio.us) supposing the first order-name (yXX.com - e.g. delicious.com) was taken. Then after getting enough users, testing, and funding: you could then afford to buy it out from whomever owned it or is squating on it.
Not really. From the sound of the article, Ebay is moving away from complicated, unique, one-off auctions precisely because there isn't a huge opportunity there.
http://wiki.co.mments.com/Introduction
Do you mean "fatalism" (a general acceptance of fate) or "defeatism" (a certain pessimistic variant of that acceptance) ?
Dead on with "pretty much take her interviewees at face value." I'm described in the book as "not willing to work for stock" (re: digg). Not sure who made that up, but she made no attempt to verify it with me. If she had, I would have told her that it wasn't in any way true.

There is a paragraph in the book where she talks about "founders' mythology" that I guess functions as a disclaimer of sorts. It should have been included on the dust jacket.
Maybe not drowned out, but from what sellers tell me, there's a good chance that low volume sellers just won't be able to afford to continue selling on eBay because of the new fee changes that favor BIN pricing. Those are the types of sellers who generally sell 'unique and used' items -- so variety may indeed decrease on eBay as a result of these changes.
...and postscript, leading to Adobe.
I see what you mean: a copy is always in reference to something else. When possessing (a physical object), it exists in its own right, is its own psychological center.
http://co.mments.com

http://commentful.blogflux.com/

http://www.cocomment.com/

I've had limited success with all of them -- but I also haven't tried any of them in a couple of years.
Nice piece, but I would go even further. I've heard of dropout rates of 80%. The person writing it is a tenure-track professor, and doesn't even get to the possibility of being denied tenure.

Anyway I'm one of those dropouts. If a Ph.D. counts for little outside academia, an ABD counts for even less.
Thanks for the interest -- we'll be launching soon so keep a lookout on HN
That's impossible, since you can't edit the XHTML behind a Squarespace site.

Do you mean CSS?
A copy ... remains one step behind.

True for startups too.

When imitators win, it is because they grasped the heart of the idea, and grasped/did it better/differently.
I was at that talk too. Pretty full house.
How I got started programming
Finishers Wanted
Don't Copy a Design — Steal It http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283094
Co-working spaces are a good suggestion. They seem to be used by fairly entrepreneurial people and might be a good way to meet potential co-founders in areas that are still growing in terms of startups.
I'd like to see how fast it can be done in Wordpress as well, if this is really going to have any meaning.
Can anyone explain to a layperson what produces the actual "glow" in thin air?

The best I can do on my own is that the laser beam(s?) is(are?) focused on a point and briefly converts some of the air at that point into plasma, which glows? (on its own? because of the laser?) How hot does that get?
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sure it is comparable. Basic use cases and users are the same. They have a brick and mortar system. Yours is electronic. Comparable like snail mail and email.
Does a new ycomb company require vesting for all the cofounders? If so is it the typical (4 year vesting, 1 year cliff etc) terms?
I felt that What is ScribbleWiki and "Simple Wiki...." say pretty much the same thing. You may wanna look into that.

Also in general its a good idea to keep all three boxes Red, Yellow and Green header one of the same dimensions (height is different in your case)

I think consistency is generally great to have
As the Apple computer's designer, Wozniak got employee No. 1. "Sometimes I go into an Apple store and say 'I'm an employee, I get a discount.' They say, 'What's your number?'"

Woz was the one who created Apple, machine was way more important than ideas to sell it. Apple II pretty much started the "Computers for Normal People" revolution.
How to fix Rails helpers
Does WSGR work with many YC startups? I had heard that they've lost interest in most early stage web stuff, but I was wondering if they were more likely to work with YC companies since they clearly work with YC itself.
Building Ruby on the N810
Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched
Something straight out of star wars

Though all this 3d jumble, with the new Aurora concept browser and all...I personally feel its nice but too much. I can't imagine reading YC News in anything other than 2d.
Thinking you're great is not a bad thing. If it keeps you from listening to and learning from others and improving, then it's a liability.

Ruby and Python have some prominent, very polished programs. This needs to be maintained and even improved. The audience-facing part especially. Have responsive, slick looking, featureful GUIs. Anything less, and the user prejudice will be that it's the language's fault for being non-compiled and therefore somehow backwards and slow.

Note that I said user prejudice. Not programmers. You need to pay attention to the PR received by end-users, even though it's not terribly deep. It still counts for a lot! Why do you think car companies spend so much time thinking about how they're going to bend sheet-metal? Usually, little of the motivation is aerodynamics. The biggest part is making sure your product looks good.

It doesn't matter if you'd be the most talented in the room, if you look so ratty they don't even let you through the door.
If anything, they're rearranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
It is the case for me, but only because I have so much during the day, as a high school student and an athlete. Otherwise I wouldn't push my body like this because its not good for anyone to stay up like that. I just can't keep myself away from making cool things though ;)

Guess that stereotype fits me at anyrate