skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use "monetize" as a superset of "sell", in that "sell" is usually taken to imply a direct payment by the end user, whereas "monetize" also provides for indirect payments like ad views.

You are allowed to decide not to give my application permission to access the internet; the Android Market actually forces you to review the permissions my app requests before allowing installation. The piracy here is that the Cyanogen mod pretends to give internet access, but lies to my application (by lying to the app and pretending that the internet is just unavailable for the moment.)
Super fair question. Frankly, it's unlikely to ever be a big deal. Font design and choice is always a game of small details and your desire to spend time and effort on it depends on how much you care about small details.

For an art director doing print or web design, each and every single detail is vital. They are attempting to ship something as close to perfection as possible. From this grows a fantastic font market where artistic craftsmen have learned to honestly, subtly insert comfort, exoticism, 70s appeal, honesty, clarity, or any of many other subjective emotions into just a few pixels difference in the shape of letters we see all day every day.

But yeah, honestly, when coding, that stuff isn't going to kill you.

At the same time, there's a huge market of experts who have often released free monospaced fonts using the accumulated knowledge of the craft described above. It's easy to find fonts which solve the obvious problems (li1, oO0, mn) and possible to find ones that solve less obvious problems (textual color which can reduce reading stress, condensed fonts which can pack more into a line without feeling cluttered, larger x-height which can appear more inviting).

'Monospace, next question?' is really 60% of what these fonts can give you. 'Modern monospace, next question?' is probably 95%. The last 5 is just there if you care about it. Like usual, the last 5% is 500x the effort of 'Modern monospace, next question', though.
Glad I'm not the only one who actually likes blocky bitmap monospace fonts for programming.

I wish I could say why though. It just feels nice and computer-y. Maybe the pixels remind me of bits.
Read this survey paper, particularly the very basic RSA attacks:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/RSA-survey.pdf

and ask yourself how comfortable you feel about directly using RSA in any context other than encrypting a randomly generated (semantically void) binary encrypting key under secure padding.
I can kinda understand Office. Tons of commands, you grew up using the menu bar to access them, etc. It's hard to change.

But for browsers? I'm genuinly curious what menu bar commands you're hitting in a browser on a daily basis. There can't be that many. Grouping them all under one menu button to simplify things and free up screen real-estate isn't that big of a deal.
After all the JS template libs disappointed me, I found a great one: ICanHaz.js
Dell's XPS-15, the world's thinnest laptop. If you exclude other laptops
XKCD tooltip is causing people to edit Wikipedia
It seems that today's tooltip on XKCD (Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".) is causing people to edit Wikipedia articles - not for correctness - but to break the loop to "Philosophy".

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=history

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&action=historysubmit&diff=430824661&oldid=430824276

http://xkcd.com/903/
No vice is as bad as advice :-)
icanhazfwends.com
This is probably the best advice.
If you're doing all your own code, then non-fixed may work.

If you're on projects with other devs where there is an in-grained fixed-width coding practice, it may be very hard to suddenly go non-fixed.
And this advantage goes to smaller, leaner companies who are not hobbled by policies handed down from on high about who can and cannot be hired.

Laws making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of employment status would only help the organizations who are not already doing it.
Clickables:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&ac...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathematics&ac...

http://xkcd.com/903/
All good ideas. Thanks so much.
There's actually quite a lot of little details that get speculated on in SEM. The fact is, until you test it yourself, you won't know for sure. One interesting thing about QS for phrase and broad is that the QS you see is not the real QS; it is only the QS for queries that match exactly to your keyword. The real QS is weighted appropriately, based on impression distribution.
Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
Google should implement basically everything that is on CM. They should just hire the freaking team already.
Google Said to Plan Mobile-Payment Service Unveiling in New York
Black Hat and White Hat Hacking with Lisp (2006)
If ClearXchange really works without a separate account, it could be compelling. Wonder about the implications of Metcalfe's law though.

There are a lot of "me too" money transfer services out there: PopMoney and ZashPay are two more that come to mind.

After a quick evaluation of ZashPay, I wasn't impressed. No T-Mobile support, US only, can't send to/from Oklahoma(!), restrictive EULA, terrible UX.

PayPal is still compelling for this type of payment, as P2P payments can be made with no fees, as long as they're sent from a bank account.
alter your build.prop file
I've heard plenty of terrible ideas, and I've also heard plenty of "great" ideas that are doomed to failure because it's patently obvious that the person presenting the idea is incapable of seeing it through to fruition. In either case, I think it's my duty -- as a friend, a colleague, an adviser, or in whatever capacity -- to be honest without being a dick. It can be a fine line.

People are always going to be seeking validation, and I think you have to accept that as given. Some measure of "Do you approve of what I'm doing?" is always going to be baked into these sorts of conversations. Some folks ask it outright; others merely dance around it or imply it. Either way, politely acknowledge it and then move onto the practical advice.

To that end, I think practical advice can be given. The trick is, as the author suggests, not giving unverifiable advice on the viability of the concept, but rather, teasing out how well the presenter has thought things through. It's a Socratic form of "advice." It's not about poking holes for the sake of poking holes, but about challenging the person to think about all sides and ramifications of the problem he or she is trying to address.

Some of the best advice I've ever received on startups came in the form of what, at the time, I'd considered "pushback" from would-be investors, friends, or mentors. It took some healthy distance from the ideation/pitch phase in order to receive the wisdom for what it really was. At the time, man oh man, I hated hearing it. But in retrospect, I am glad I did. Some very smart people saved me from some very stupid moves, and I owe them my eternal gratitude.
If you're willing to work 100+ hours for your idea, work 40 for someone else and 40 on your own, and save money until you can take a few months off. Sell everything you have and move to somewhere with good internet and low expenses. The outskirts of a university town are a good place to start.

It is possible to live on less than $1000 a month in much of the country. This will extend your runway.

Wait, is that "not feasible?" Why not?
That is a critical point. The ad branded the name "Orville Redenbacher" as “Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn.” This is easily confused with "Orville Redenbacher's Gormet Popping Corn" which is a popular brand (see http://www.orville.com/) with a less intuitive name, and which a good number of kids have, in fact, eaten.

Thus this is more evidence of ads causing brand confusion than memory implantation. And underscores the importance of an insight that is already in trademark law - that people will easily mix up a brand that is similar to an existing brand with the existing brand.
Compared to what? Leading with an offhand remark is nothing more than sensationalism.
Yes but local laws can supersede state ones on this. ie it can be legal in Modesto but illegal in SF.

SF Definition of a Dispatch Service:

Dispatch Service" shall mean any person, business, firm, partnership, association or corporation that receives communications from the public regarding taxi service for the purpose of forwarding such communications to motor vehicle for hire drivers, and shall include any owner, manager, employee, lessee and any agent of said service. "Dispatch Service" shall not include any service through which the public is able to communicate directly with Drivers, and shall not include any effort on the part of a Driver to market his or her services to the public.
I'm a little lost, perhaps I'm not explaining my problem too well. I really appreciate your assistance so far, and I'll try not to waste too much more of your time or space in the HN databases.

If you have a quick link about your first paragraph, that would be appreciated. I'm not sure exactly what that means -- I understand what you mean bygenerate an AES key via /dev/random (gives us nondeterministic key), then encrypt the data with AES. However, why would I use a symmetric encryption system rather than a private/public key pair? With a priv/pub pair, can't I encrypt the data on the server but not be able to decrypt it?

Again, thanks for your help. I'm not actually storing passwords -- those I properly hash. The problem is that my data app has a requirement to collect SSNs (and they need to be reversible, although that can be offline at a later date). Oddly enough, the data requirements only state encryption is required for that -- most of my colleagues are using symmetric encryption with the passphrase stored on the server itself! I was just hoping I could build a system that would be able to encrypt the data, but not decrypt it (the decryption would be handled by another machine not available to the public).
there aren't enough cabs in SF - people aren't using cabs because they can't get any. only way to get cabs more business is more cabs.
Tech startup valuations are on the rise, but salaries for their CEOs are not
Use GPG to encrypt the SSNs. You'll be fine.
Battlefield 2 uses Python as well.

The Unreal Engine uses a rather slow language called UScript for all the level scripting.

They don't do any real computation with it, its more used for descriptive purposes and small conditionals.
A ‘Noah’s Ark’ for the Next Big Tsunami - Japan Real Time - WSJ
This is the middle-class trap. In reality, kids from middle-class families are squeezed, because they are ineligible for most financial aid / scholarships and dont have enough money to go to college on their own.
Someone should compile a list of companies that won't consider unemployed applicants. Perhaps with enough bad publicity these companies will change their policies.
It's a bit more complex than a simple #ifdef.

In-app purchase is the way to go.
Note that the software's EULA comes into play, as well. It could very well have a clause that disallows reverse-engineering or decompiling altogether.
FRONTLINE - WikiSecrets - The inside story of Wikileaks.
Good point on the expression.

However, that implied permission doesn't extend to you reposting the same code on your web site.

I wonder if the technology changes this. Here is what comes to mind:

Is it okay if in my copy I provided an attribution to the original author? How extensive does the attribution need to be? Is "raganwald wrote this" sufficient, or do I need a link to the original location? If it is a link, do I need to actively ensure the link is still valid, just in case you decide to change the location or stop publishing? If, after publishing your code once, you decide to retract it, can you force me to retract my attributed copy as well? What if my copy is a picture of your code? What if it is an iframe?

And thank you to everyone for these kinds of answers; I think a lot of people have a number of strange opinions and buy into various myths with regards to copyright. Hopefully my questions have covered a good enough number of scenarios to help translate the legalese to layman's terms.
Wait, 100k downloads and you're making $100 a month? Those numbers don't seem right to me... Still, nicely done:)
That is the thread of this that I would pull if I had a spare platoon of researchers to send into this territory. How distinctive a memory is "implantable"? As it is, I guess we will just have to wait until someone else does that work.

Speaking of... is there some good way to get notified when a paper is published which builds on some known body of work? Like can I get an email digest updating me if any of a set of papers are referenced in new papers?

Addendum: Yes... "Track Citation" on JSTOR does this (if one makes an account)... I doubt it does a pretty digest that helps me remember why I wanted to know about the new papers (what question about the original paper I was interested in having future research nail down), but it will have to do for now.
The Problem with Youtube's Copyright Dispute Process
donating a quarter million for him is not a substantial capital commitment.

Most of his donations were the maximum allowed by US law.

I wouldn't even call Thiel's goals fundamentally political

You don't work with the National Review, the Cato Institute, and consistently donate (and to only one political party) if its not fundamentally political.

he's trying to shape society and throws money at things that he believes will bend it more to his liking.

Umm, yeah, that's what all politicians are doing. My point is is that he's working through and with the conservative political system to make this happen, as their goals are aligned.

Take someone like Salman Khan, OTOH, who is also trying to make a big change, but seems to be taking a much less political approach.
Thrift and ZooKeeper
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This app should absolutely cost money. We're talking about selecting a home for the next 12+ months at a cost of at least $1000/mo. (in NYC, anyways). What is $1.99 for an app that's going to help us compare and make the best choice?

What other app offers this service? Apartments.com app is pretty weak. Any others I'm unaware of?

Nestio may be a nascent company with plenty of room for more features (I hate the copy+paste URL workflow, I wanna search right in Nestio!), but the features this app will offer are worth money, and should be treated as such by the company. At least try to cover the cost of developing the app itself, if nothing else.
Taxis are state-sanctioned cartels in many cities. The number of "licenses" (medallions) is capped to inflate the revenues of existing businesses. In San Francisco (where Uber's legal problems are), the quota is ~1,400, and there's a waiting list more than 10 years long to get a "license".

http://www.medallionholders.com/medallions.html (n.b. this is cartel-funded propaganda)

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-01-27/news/cabbies-cry-foul-ove...

It's exactly what it looks like: they've criminalized competition. You get prison for "stealing" business from union thugs.
Now I just get a loop to quantity and mathematics.

It is still pretty cool that all articles can trace back to mathematics.
I think it is more that someone is now selling a purpose-built software solution to brute force iPhones, that governments and other interested parties can buy.
Jailbreaking iOS - How an iPhone breaks free
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163234
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Office Hours with Paul Graham
What percentage of people are on Twitter? 
We all know twitter is becoming more popular, but how many people is actually using it? Here are some articles that discuss this topic
C'mon, stop writing Java for Android
Facebook Adds “Subscribe Via RSS” Option to Pages
You can directly download the video file at http://ustream.vo.llnwd.net/pd14/0/1/14/14928/14928956/1_819...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
How do I pm or email you?
I just updated my profile.
Most welcome; you just made my day knowing you got a boost from it!

2 days made so far and it's not even noon :)
I don't know about that. I'm seeing more and more content made freely available for sharing. Take a look at some of the artists on Bandcamp, for example. These are mostly younger people, and plenty of them make their music available for free (thanks Petrychor!).

I honestly can't think of a time when I've seen a younger person strongly defend copyright, but that could be my bias.
Completely agree, that's the font I love.

I tried Inconsolata briefly in my xterm window but ... I don't know, I didn't like it. I guess it's a subjective thing, but I dislike anti-aliased font, I prefer the crisp look of my fixed bitmap font. :-)
Go Data Structures
Have you explored http://catchafire.org/ ? They have an interesting volunteering model. I've seen them demo in the past and was impressed.
I think the question was whether there were sites which stripped you of your copyright privileges, not of your copyright. I've argued elsewhere in the thread that these services cannot strip your copyright. However, if you give a license to a website to profit from your content, I think we can agree that the website stripped you from your copyright privileges (at least a big part of them).
SF Definition of Taxi:

"Taxi" shall mean a vehicle operated pursuant to a Taxi or Ramp Taxi Medallion that is legally authorized to pick up passengers within the City with or without prearrangement, of a distinctive color or colors and which is operated at rates per mile or upon a waiting-time basis, or both, as measured by a Taximeter and which is used for the transportation of passengers for hire over and along the public streets, not over a defined route but, as to the route and destination, in accordance with and under the direction of the passenger or person hiring such vehicle.

"as measured by a Taximeter", "for hire over and along the public streets"

Because TCP's are legal in SF, and Uber can prearrange trips in a legal fashion using them, and there's no special law that applies to Uber only, in theory Uber should be able to operate legally.

Technicalities like whether the trips are fully prearranged (pick-up AND drop-off) might come into play, but these are details they could fix.

IANAL, but from what I've seen, If ordering a TCP via the internet is legal, ordering a TCP via the internet using Uber is also legal.
How Much Authority Does Steve Ballmer Have?
Not to belabor the point, but none of the three things you listed are unique to you. They're the same three things that every other entrepreneur that's looking for an engineer or CTO is saying to prospective candidates.

None of these three points say anything about what you bring to the table that the engineer couldn't find anywhere else (ie, domain knowledge, partnerships, distribution, etc). Once you figure that part out, you won't need the NDA, because it would be a bonehead move to try and build it without you. Not to mention, your likelihood of success will go up dramatically.

Just my 2 cents...
No, crowd source this.
When I was unemployed, I spent a chunk of the time writing an open source project. I put it down on my resume as "Hobby project to hone skills in Ruby, Javascript, and HTML5 Canvas" and it ended up being the best demonstration of actual work I could share with my interviewer.
As problematic as the method in this study may turn out to be, I'm afraid their general claims about the confabulated/reconstructed nature of episodic memory are pretty valid, and have been extensively studied over the years due to their relevancy to the legal system in the area of eyewitness testimony.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lost_in_the_m...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reconstructio...

And more generally:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eyewitness_me...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Episodic_memo...
On that matter, I had a list of bad practices in HR that cause most of the problems here:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2082332&cid=358...
tl;dr;

"Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed"

"Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background, and also allow users play from Spotify’s library of millions of songs through Facebook."

"The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said."

"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."

"No money is changing hands with this partnership"
Not all - there were a good handful of routes that were leading to Philosophy - then all of the sudden a coworker noted that Mathematics was looping - so checking the history I saw people are making edits. The possibility of edits being made to the Science chain as well as Language and Law related chains is possible - all to break this possible loop.
Yup - link-bait and clearly untrue - Android is the best mobile platform I have come across to develop for. They all (well perhaps not Phone 7 yet) got good points but for a dev team Android rocks.
While I agree with the headline I think his specific advice - not to give people feedback on their ideas in the conceptual phase - is bullshit.

When somebody asks me what I think of their idea, I start by highlighting several things I like about it, then discuss a couple of the challenges or risks, and try to make suggestions about useful next steps. People almost invariably find it valuable -- and often tell me later how much even this short conversation helped them.

Conversely, I often ask people what they think of my early-stage concepts, and their responses are almost always useful. Even if somebody just says "wow that's a great idea!" without really thinking about it, I can continue the conversation with "Cool, what do you like about it?"

> Your ability to predict the future is no better than his.

Really? It's not like I have a crystal ball, but after doing startups and strategy for 25 years, I've seen quite a lot of patterns for success or failure, and learned a bunch of techniques for making success more likely. What's the matter with sharing that?
Finally a Sensible Discussion of California's Planned High Speed Rail System
"...it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."

I guess I assumed since Facebook is based in the US this meant that Spotify would be available in the US too, but on second thought, I'm sure Facebook is big everywhere.
Thanks, I've stopped messing with the current site, gonna rollout a entirely new one very soon.
You're recommending COBOL as more maintainable than Rails? I don't know Rails, but I find this very hard to believe.
Most memories in life are trivial though, so any findings are still useful.
In many cases, you cannot copy the entire thing without permission, even if you provide an attribution. The doctrine governing this case is subject to interpretation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Not aware of any existing services but during the recent tornadoes in AL, I was wondering why someone has built a google map/twitter mashup that would allow tweeting a sighting and either allow the person to specify the location or use the device's GPS readings. An account could be setup (@tornado_bot) and a service could pull the coordinates from its tweet-stream. If you follow it and are nearby, it could notify you of the danger(via direct message). Also, a way to specify possible direction and speed would be really beneficial.
Yup.

Also, doing business in your home state is automatic. Working there = doing business there.

Filing an LLC in another state without actually doing business there is useless.