skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. for one-offs yes, but if you noticed serial content appearing on sites a, b, c, and d, then you can just poll them as a set periodically until you see which sites consistently originates it.
I recently moved from NYC to SF. While I'm sure there isn't much love for Comcast here, either, I had a much better experience with them than I ever did with Time Warner. I called Comcast the day I moved in and told them I had my own router. They told me to connect it and it worked...I had internet access! After dealing with TWC for 10 years, this seemed like a miracle. It's sad how low my expectations had gotten. TWC would insist on sending a tech to your apartment (I won't get into the appointment time windows they propose and deliver on) to connect two cables before they turned on your internet. Anyways, this letter brought back some bad memories.
I think he misses the biggest advantage - after college most people don't have a family and kids and mortgage to worry about so they can devote a huge number of hours to their work, and the risks are much more manageable. Why waste that at a large company where the effort cannot be rewarded?
I'm not a big fan of bitcoins, but if there's anything I would want to buy with them, it'd be a donation to the EFF. Somehow, that just seems to fit together in my mind.

I hope they review what they need to and decide to put the donation link back.
Apocryphal? You couldn't be bothered to Google? Just one item:
http://gothamist.com/2006/07/21/lucky_bag_opera.php

>>>I argued that passively advertising infringing content on eDonkey isn't entrapment.

Oh sure it is! If the file had been properly labeled, the person would not have engaged in the illegal act. Just looking for illegal files is not yet a crime. Most everyone who's used Google or any other search engine would be in jail. People browsing YouTube for clips would be in jail.
I think you are definitely onto something, although it's a temporary mindset.

I've worked at a startup for exactly the reason you describe as type #2. Consider it practice for my eventual startup (when I will join #1).

But after graduation I declined going back to the startup world and choose path #3. I did this for a very specific reason: stability while I save up some money to let me do #1.

But I disagree with your use of the phrase 'risk everything'. There is almost no way to 'risk everything' at graduation because you have nothing. I thought about going straight to #1, but it would have required living at home with my parents. Instead I moved out and got a job. If you are living at home and being supported, you are almost risking nothing. If your startup fails while your living expenses are $0, you haven't fallen at all.

The risk for someone to jump later in life is far greater. You have savings people can come after if you go bankrupt. You have bills and responsibilities. You truly are risking something. Living with someone else's support right after graduation really isn't risking anything.
I'm always amazed by the number of new entrepreneurs who have no understanding of the legal risks when they start their company, especially with co-founders. You need an enforceable agreement in place, and yes, it should not cost $9,000.

Those who know me know that I started offering an equivalent online agreement (the fancy term is "virtual incorporation"), which you can check out at http://foundrs.com

I continue to recommend it to all new developers who can't go straight to a Delaware C Corp.
They started out with User Mode Linux actually, before Xen even existed.
Ah video files and such. ok.

Can you not get better internet at home?
like respectfully, respect the respect the other person is giving to you , comprende ? :-)
That's not the value of the bitcoin, it's the value of the cryptographic code which has been open sourced. Anybody can fork it and create its own "Webcoin", but there's no intrinsic value in any forked instance coin, beyond the publicity that allows early adopters to cash in.
Why not take the oldest as the original and leave a little form for authors to tell google when they move their content?
Finally, someone speaking some sense on this issue. I don't doubt that harassment happens to women in the tech field...it happens in every field. But, being an engineering student and now working in the tech field it's been eye opening how advantageous it was and is to be a woman in tech in many ways. I don't have any hard feelings about it. I appreciate women trying to make it in a man's industry by being capable and taking advantage of the fact women are mostly absent in the field.

Your points are valid and well articulated. I appreciate something being said about the lack of women that isn't just complaining about it, but instead sees it as opportunity.
Why not to join a startup after graduating:

1) Leverage (lack thereof): When you work for a larger player, you have established yourself as a person that the firm found acceptable. Having a big name company on your resume means that you were accepted (and lets be honest, for however bad people describe working at a large company, there are enough people who want to work there that it lends credibility). I've had countless offers just handed to me (ie joke interview, sometimes even just offers on the spot) based on pedigree.

Addressing his argument about "cashing in chips", it comes when you decide to start on your own. Just mentioning names of my former employers or work therein automatically confers a sense of legitimacy, and I've noticed that my phone calls are actually returned (try A/B testing this)

2) Cash upfront: The ideal ideal solution is to bootstrap your own startup. Unfortunately that means you need to have enough cash to bootstrap.

To defray the obvious argument, I will break down the chance as follows:

- If you are going into a startup, you are taking the chance that the startup will do sufficiently well that your equity actually has enough value to compensate for the lack of salary (and that's not necessarily within your control)

- If you are going into a company, you are taking the chance that your lifestyle won't scale to meet your income. If it does, you won't have as much flexibility when you do want to do a startup.

The salient point here is that, with a company, the result of the gamble is completely within your powers

3) Relationships: You build relationships with hundreds or thousands of coworkers, on top of the umpteen companies you interact with on a daily basis, who have other skills that may be of help later on. I still call on some former coworkers and others for help with certain things they were strong in, and vice versa. It's hard to build that rolodex at a startup.

I probably could write a point-by-point rebuttal to the original post
Your other points I can't comment on, but the deflation argument is absolute bunk in terms of small, non-durable goods (groceries, electronics, etc), but when it comes to houses and other big purchases (cars, etc.), it absolutely will affect purchasing. You can already see evidence of this now. Houses are at the lowest point in prices that they have been in decades, but people still aren't buying, and they won't until there's some indication that they won't ever be this cheap.
Bitcoins are a bubble commodity just like anything else that rapidly rises almost entirely because of speculation. In a sense the Bitcoin market is a lot like the current gold market, both are enjoying a massive boom fueled by demand for the product without any commercial reason to back up that demand, and the inevitable result of this is that values will at some point begin to plummet. The difference between Bitcoin and gold though is that even after gold plummets it will still retain highly respectable value, whereas when Bitcoin falls it's entirely possible for it to be completely devalued as a product.
Non-technical co-founders are for more than lunch delivery
There's a website that shows you how much money you've received, from whom, and how much you have now? Wow, the public nature of bitcoin had never sunk in until I saw that.

It's like my wallet is open to everyone!
The problem is that you're relying on users of twitter to specify the correct hashtag, which will significantly decrease your SNR. You should collect entity information on the actors and characters the show is about and do some intelligent associations to help separate the wheat from the chaff.

Otherwise, great job on sucking down some tweets and parsing hashtags into verticals. I also think the design is simple and clean. What's the tech stack?
Yea, I am aware of the cover up culture. And yea, I still remember the Google tax evasion story. Clue: Google is not the only guilty party.
But that's not reasonable. Its just ignoring the privacy/anonymity value of BTC. Again, we can argue about the monetary value as compared to dollars, (especially given the tradeoffs-- i.e., convertibility to established currency, places to spend, etc) but that's real, practical value. You can't simply ignore it.
DIY newspaper using Twitter & Facebook
The problem is that even the most astute principals can't do anything about their bad employees. They can only trade them off to other schools (and what do you think they get in return?).

Once a teacher has tenure it is almost impossible to fire them... and they know it. The concept of tenure in general isn't necessarily an issue, it's just an incredibly bad implementation (only takes 3 years! come on!).
His story involves contract review. You should get contracts reviewed.
Why do you think 3400 USD is a low price for a kidney?
I was under the impression that restaurants tend to operate on very thin margins. Is this not actually the case, or is The Melt expected to be an exception, or is it expected to overcome this with large order volume?
That's not how their market works. They need to keep enterprise (which requires backwards compatibility) and consumer unified if they want to throw their weight around the way they need to (particularly with hardware vendors). This may not be the right strategy, but it is theirs and I see that as much more entrenched than even the most legacy features windows.
Looks amazing. great viz: http://www.trulia.com/crime/#!san-francisco-ca/13/37.77096,-...
Show HN: Every Criterion Collection film available on Netflix streaming
For people who want to watch great movies, Criterion is probably the best curated list of films. Makes a nice foil to the similar list of IMDB top 250 Netflix movies that was posted a few days ago.

A quick project. I once went through and did this same list by hand, but the data changes pretty constantly, so I opted to use the Netflix OData API for heavy lifting.
As I write this, the value of bitcoin is at an all-time high. I dispute that this article has actually "killed" bitcoins.
It does go away later in life, but I personally think 2 years at a job is not a bad idea (of course I am biased because that's what I'm doing).

You certainly want to take advantage of the low cost of 20's living. That is definitely a big asset. But if you can save up some money working first, that really extends your runway. I can have that cheap cost of living for 2 years while making a real salary, and save the difference. Now my runway is quite long.
I mean, it's not that Nokia was only going to be releasing three devices before 2014, it was three MeeGo devices. I guess you could argue one/year is too slow to keep up, but they were going to continue to release Symbian phones.

And I'm not sure if much of that "hardware freshness" is really what's getting Android market share. Are there (sizable numbers of) people buying a phone because it has a 3D camera?

It may have made sense for Nokia to ditch MeeGo, but I think I was actually intending to mostly complain about how they got themselves into the corner.
Django on Heroku running with Celery
So, it appears Google is serious about +1
Wanted to discuss this issue with other YC'ers... it appears that Google is very serious about the +1. In fact, if you were in Google's position and you wanted to compete with Facebook (someone, whom I believe the only true competitor Google faces right now) -- what would you do?

Well, your power is in your search... so.. if you want people to use the +1, you tie it to search results ana make sure that people know the +1 DOES influence your ranking.

Anyone else seeing this?
Backwards compatibility with linux clients probably isn't the top priority of Skype now that they're being rolled into MS, but I suspect embedded deployments on handheld devices might still keep them from deprecating.
I meant we're looking for high risk, high reward startups (with an implicit claim that the biggest winners will seem very risky initially). I've heard beta used, possibly inaccurately, to describe that sort of volatility. Is that not right? Since you actually worked in this world I'll take your word for it. In the meantime I changed beta in the article to variability.
Totally wrong. I write this guy off as clueless.
>the hospital at which the surgery took place was not qualified to perform the procedure

And I'm sure it's still open for business...
On Grooveshark though, attribution to the artist is actually unavoidable.
A Review of the New Backtrack 5 Operating System
You can create a new Bitcoin address for every single transaction you make if you wish.
Gruber would only link to this story if the boy had sold his kidney for something Google related.
yeah, the author of the blog post said the stuff he has came from VEST. so it's basically a POC based on the code released 2 years ago. if you google it there's a blog post by some other random guy who made a python plugin and some POC code from that stuff too
It's a marquee founder trying to explore how to better involve technology in the restaurant industry. Not nearly as bizarre as the press apparently loves to paint it. This is borderline link bait.
to say they aren't held to professional standards is a joke.

Sample non-professional behavior:

--- quote [1]

A video [2] posted on YouTube titled "Teacher's Union Gone Wild" claims to capture New Jersey teachers ... using racial slurs and joking about tenure. The undercover video was ... recorded during the New Jersey Education Association's leadership conference this summer.

... Another woman is shown playing a video game laughs that taxpayers are paying her to play it. Another clip shows people sarcastically talking about tenure that it is a "joke" and teachers can do almost anything without being fired.

--- end quote

[1] http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/teache...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqQTIQhn5A
> and the savings costs associated with invalid markup
> (bandwidth, time, etc.) are very easily enumerated.

Please, enumerate. I guess you are not aware that a lot of things you consider invalid are actually allowed in HTML: unquoted attributes, tags omission, etc. This was allowed even in HTML4, HTML5 gives us even more options there.

Say, how would invalid markup help http://kod.as/lab/valid/ be even smaller? Sure, that is pretty meaningless document, but take a look at a source and you will see some stuff that can be applied to normal sites. It's valid:
http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fkod.as%2Flab%2Fvalid%2...
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkod.as%2Flab%...

You could remove DOCTYPE (which is very short compared to HTML4 or XHTML versions), but then you'd throw your browsers to quirks mode, and that is a pain. The whole purpose of DOCTYPE in HTML5 is to force standards-compliant rendering mode, that's it.

And it only looks that browsers have little problems parsing invalid markup. Making sense of tag soup parsing (and making it consistent) was one of the major tasks for HTML5 people.
Be a wage slave for yourself or be a wage slave for some fat-cat CEO. HMMM tough choice ;p
Gmail Hackers, Believed to be Located in China, Phished Victims for Months
I don't think there's any "logic" required. If we could argue that breaking TOS were already a criminal offense, then we wouldn't need the bill.
Yes, I was agreeing with him that it came across that way -- and disputing his claim that anyone expressed any negative opinions about him.
OMG. A generic hashtag like House must be a nightmare. Good thing you're not doing Canadian TV shows too. There's a cop show just called "King." I ranted in a post about how search engine-hostile that title was.
Suppose you need capital to commence on some enterprise. You'd like to borrow against and/or sell a share of future income. How can you convince a bank[1] to give you money, if the bank's money is already producing a healthy return just sitting in the bank's vault?

In an inflationary scenario, money is declining in value. People with a lot of it are actively looking for ways to put it to work, otherwise they'll end up poorer. But if the money is not losing value over time, and is in fact appreciating, what incentive do they have to put their capital to work? They need much larger returns on investment to make up for the loss of their existing risk-free return.

[1] For bank, read anyone who could lend to or finance you.
By that Apple would subsidise a dangerous/unhealthy compulsive desire from the sounds of it. If they wanted to do Good, they "should" rather finance some therapy about life values to that kid.
He didn't make any claims about the national average, he was making a claim about his district. So his stats were pretty dead-on. Dummy.

If you'd like to learn something, suburban school districts are typically way cheaper per student than urban ones, which is why his number is lower than the average and urban ones tend to be higher.

Even for a national number (which you fudged from your own link, heh), that's a phenomenal return on investment, no private schools are nearly that cheap except for catholic schools, and they have an unscalable labor model (cheap nuns aren't in infinite supply).

Supporting public education and the profession of teaching as noble causes that benefit everyone used to be mainstream in this country. If it makes me a fundamentalist now, that's just one more sign of our decline.
I go to restaurants to get things I can't make well or easily myself...grilled cheese is neither of these things.
This isn't responsive to either of my comments, and I'm not sure you read the original story either, since the defendant in this case did more than simply search for an infringing file; moreover, I'm not sure you've researched how entrapment works, since you'll find police interventions far more intrusive than "listing a file on eDonkey" have survived entrapment claims.
It's at the intersection of a lot of things that people here find interesting. It's potentially a way to make money (some say ponzi scheme), it has a tech component, there's a anti-government component, etc... so I do believe a lot of people here do care about it. I mean I keep reading the damn articles too...
i have seen even funnier (or say worst) situation where they called a VPs and asked him to select the people to layoff by the end of the week, the VP fought back trying to save jobs of the team members but somehow management forced him to pick maximum number of members whom they then laid off on friday --- come monday they gave pink-slip to the same VP... the person was stunned !!!

they didn't laid-off VP for fighting back but it was pre-planned & scripted by HR.
It's interesting that in 2002 he wasn't using any revision control at all. Was that common for open source projects at the time?
yes, that.
I've seen a lot of desktop-based video editors that were a lot harder to use.

Kudos to YouTube.
I mean that if you were to buy a bunch of gold it is treated by the IRS the same as if you were to buy a bunch of wheat or crude oil; not as if you were to buy a bunch of euros.
Heroku releases its “Celadon Cedar” stack into public beta
I think the interesting thing here is the tech development angle; online / mobile ordering and delivery service. I'm sure that it's agreed at Sequoia that the restaurant chain idea is just a hard testing ground for the technology.

The tech is what will be worth the money; the rest of this is just sort of the press being slow.

That said, I do really like the idea of a mobile-integrated ordering and delivery system for the restaurant industry, and of course, fast-concept food is the right place to test it.
Founder Uncertainty is Inevitable
I would imagine some of it is lower bureaucracy and a bit more freedom.

Problematic students exist in private schools and are often backed by serious money. I wouldn't make the generalization that behavior problems are only found in poor people.
This is really all too common. You always hear politicians say things like "Well I'm not familiar with that issue specifically...so many pieces of legislation pass by my desk I really can't review them all." It's true that you can't expect one person to comprehend every issue at a deep level. But politicians shouldn't be rubber stamping things just to build up enough "credits" to get their next piece of legislation passed through.
You have to wonder if this company will succeed when on America's next great restaurant, the restaurant veterans passed on a similar idea.
None of his arguments are invalid save the "early adopter wins" scenario.

On every other count he either misunderstands current banking systems, bitcoin, presents a pseudo-argument, or some combination of all three. Honestly, except for the early adopter winning part, the whole thing reads like a shill post designed to do nothing but defame bitcoin. He even calls it a scam. By that measure The Fed is the biggest scam that ever invented if you look at who receives the "printed money" first. They are the "early adopters" in his "bitcoin is a scam" analogy. And they are still in power. So does that really make it any worse?
Milton Friedman disagrees and measures inflation relative to output in his book on monetary phenomena [1]. Since you're an economist (right?) I'd be interested in why you think he's got the wrong measure.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNAhXe2pz1cC&lpg=PA196&...
Yes, the interview I mention in the first sentence of the post was the Charlie Rose interview. When he asked how we were doing, I quoted some numbers based on a back of the envelope calculation that turned out to be way off (an underestimate, fortunately).
Right, the cost of surgery would probably dominate the cost of receiving a kidney transplant. But that's really what health insurance is for. I guess I should have said "if other people were selling kidney's", the exact price doesn't matter very much.
I've used this for two minutes now and have no idea what it is. Is it Tweets for shows? How is it different from me just searching for the show's name?
I'm not sure you can start a new currency from scratch, and succeed, without extreme volatility. If it increased in value by a steady five percent a year it'd still be worthless in twenty years. The low volume is a function of it being new, not of it being a bad idea.

Aside from that, I thought this was an excellent rebuttal:
http://www.reddit.com/r/NonAustrianEconomics/comments/hputj/...