skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with much of this for two reasons...

1. The bubble for already funded companies burst in the 90s but that didn't dry up funding. The truth is a wealthy person's best bet in a down economy is a small startup. Because the potential upside is so much better than any other investment. A company like Y Combinator can literally fund hundreds of startups and as long as at least one has a significant payday at the end Y Combinator still comes out on top.

2. The problem with borrowing money now, as an American, is the dollar is falling and most people expect another round of Quantitative Easing which will almost certainly exacerbate that. It usually doesn't make sense for a startup to borrow a significant amount of money in a currency whose value is dropping. Because you only get so many funding rounds and you don't want to waste them by not getting enough money to buy what you need. Which is what happens when a currency's value drops after you get the funding.
Ok, I waded through your link. If you're claiming to substantiate your claims, you should substantiate your claims.

[2] has Howe narrating what happened in the riots, not him claiming to have organized them.

And [1] is about how a rioting case against him was thrown out.
> You should include the cost of effective insulation/sound-proofing.

My cost was under $100: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=sennheise...
is this a trick question?
I hate that mantra.

Personally, I got into this because it's the only way I know how to live. I'm not happy unless I'm building, it just so happens that makes me an entrepreneur.
Any feedback on the design, ideas etc. is much appreciated. This is my first project that I feel I can make it into something feasible so... finger crossed~!
As someone who could easily be described as "right-wing" in the USA, I'm curious how Germany would describe someone who is for limited-government, individual liberties, and reduced entitlement spending?

Or, also in the scope of "American right-wing," how would Germany describe someone who injects Christian morality into their politics?
Was MLK a professional race "victim"?
Agreed, put your resources toward a much better user experience as opposed to preventing people from accessing your content.

DRM is something you have to constantly bandaid as people break it, and it's always broken quicker than you can push out fixes for the most part, so it's just futile.
Timing attacks. If one of the strings is supplied by the client and the other string is a secret, a comparison that exits at the first mismatch is faster. The client can try every value of the first character until it finds one that takes longer, and it knows that that one is the first character of the secret. It can repeat this with the second character, and so on until the entire secret is known.
I know that sitting is bad for you, I just couldn't imagine people standing all day instead. TBH after running around at home after my toddler I enjoy going to work to sit on my butt, heh :)
It's the blackouts that kill you in the US. You can't watch your local team over the net because of that and most (all?) local games are broadcast on cable only networks. I fell really bad for the people in Iowa. They're blacked out from 5 markets.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/MLB_Black...
I am very well aware that there is left wing in America, it just isn't represented in any meaningful way in political system in my and many others' opinion. Can you bring counterexamples?

Here's an article that is shaping my opinion on the matter from very respected "progressive" James K. Galbraith:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151949/how_obama_is_neutrali...

P.S. if you disagree, I'd appreciate explanation about what exactly.
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Reddit.com/r/ycstartups anyone?
Beware of schemes that claim that your participation in them will help change the world but which come with no money attached. One is only capable of doing great good if one is also capable of doing great evil. More simply: to do a lot of good (not just a teeny tiny bit), one has to be capable of something that affects real world, ergo one has to be powerful. Capability is closely linked with power (and, in a Western society, the closest measure of power is money). If one cannot easily turn his or her work into money, one should question how much capability for real change one has.
It doesn't follow that just because the stock market dips that funding for startups will suddenly evaporate. Most venture funds are investing money that was raised from limited partners years ago.

And at any rate, most VCs go on vacation during August, so if you don't close your round by August 2, all bets are off...until September 1. This happens every year.

A good counterpoint to this sky-is-falling is Dave McClure's quote in the Wall Street Journal, in which he says that the market dip will change his investment velocity not a whit.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/08/08/early-stage-i...
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For me, the sound isn't the problem. It's all the movement in the corner of my vision that distracts me. No amount of noise cancelling head phones will help that.

An office on the other hand means that no coworkers can distract me, unless it's intentional
I was expecting a similar experience to this on my desktop as well. Loved the web app but wish the store was also optimized and didn't just dump me onto the main AMZN site ;(
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Aha, thank you! :)
This is just plain disturbing (also, does not require a bunch of clicking)

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the...
I'm sure it's entirely cultural (I've lived in two very distinct cuisine cultures) and thus entirely irrational, but I like to eat living things from saltwater much better than things from fresh water. Crustaceans tend to be oceanic, while insects are terrestrial. That difference makes some difference in my thinking about them.
I'm on a laptop with two monitors. I don't need a workstation, I need a place to put all this stuff down.

(I do also have a desktop. I don't know if the monitor is plugged in - I do everything on it via command line. It's handy for VMs, as other people mentioned, and other semi-work-related things.)
I grew up in Michigan.

If you want to see some of the prominent architecture that has been abandoned check out this site:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/

If you drive down Woodward Ave. to go to a Tigers game you get the sense you are in postwar Germany in parts. Some of the highrise buildings have facades on them so they look like functional buildings from the baseball stadium. However when you walk around the back side, the windows are blown out and they are abandoned.
Lots of good changes! I like the standard of prompting for installing Chrome Frame for IE6 users. Gives them the option of installing the Chrome Frame or still getting to the content!

And very interested to try out normalize.css...
Yeah, I've noticed that when I'm in LA, and while I guess it's annoying for most people, a cheap VPN could bypass the issues for anyone at all techie.

(I've never really been that fussed when out there, if the Dodgers are playing at home then I'll be at every game, and if they're away I just don't watch, there's better things to do during a short trip to LA than sit in my hotel room.)

Blackouts are basically MLB's way of saying to networks "yeah, we want to monetise this area, but we'll put blackouts in for you so you don't lose customers", right? In which case I would expect there to be a point when MLB decide they can afford to piss off traditional media and remove blackouts - though when that will happen, god knows.
What exactly qualifies as "leading NoSQL database company" ?

I've been lazily waiting for a NoSQL solution to be deemed 'the winner' by the tech community. Then I won't waste time learning the 'wrong one'.
Exit are a left-wing group trying to steer people away from a right-wing group. Tolerance doesn't come into it. From the perspective of the left in Germany, street-level and youth movements for right-wing groups are a real problem. And this is a practical, pragmatic action.
I was hoping for a bit more cleverness... that's (at least very nearly) just a combination of:

location= | combined with
location.href= |
location.assign() | location
location.replace() | location.href
-----------------------------------------
location.reload()

and things that mean exactly the same thing. As others here have pointed out, why no meta tags? Form submissions? Surely there's another way or two as well. The lack of creativity in this list is rather astonishing - if it were sorted, it'd be merely annoying because of the blatant repetition.
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This is one of the most unexpected, but welcome, reactions to anything I have put on Hacker News. Thank you wonderful HN people.
Great news, I've been really liking Couch and this means it sticks around much longer.
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Let's just kill any cells we think are infected by a virus. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm curious especially about things like chickenpox/shingles that stay dormant in nerve cells for years. Kill them!
That's not even an ad hominem, I don't even know what this is.
Not all Starbucks shops accept mobile payment yet. To do it, they have to re-fit their POS computers, the roll out has been taking almost a year and it's still not complete.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who likes the normalize.css technique.
All of Colo4 in Dallas is down.. Rimuhosting, KnownHost amongst others.
Review my app-MediaPlus:move,edit,delete etc. with videos and media on web pages
There are opportunities even when the tide goes out, even the chance to find things on the beach which the sea has left behind.
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I share your and Pheter's take on the "issue" but an answer to your question can be that it makes people believe they are smarter.
Congrats to Damien Katz, J Chris, and the other founders.

Damien's all-in story to build CouchDB is inspirational:

"This is a talk I gave last year at RubyFringe, about the whole process of me and my wife selling our house and living off savings to create CouchDB."

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465653
Try the Herman Miller Mirra, it's a lower chair in their line but the back structure makes it far superior to the Aeron.
Hands up if you were especially careful when commenting on this post?
dave mcclure says no recession?!?!? well, that settles it
"Do What people want" is the important piece of PG's advice to startups.It would not have got to the front of Hacker news and 112 points as of now unless hackers wanted it. Hope PG ends up making what we want.
The US has been great for the industry. They subsidize it more than the UK, which is almost entirely socialized and free.
"And at any rate, most VCs go on vacation during August, so if you don't close your round by August 2, all bets are off...until September 1. This happens every year."

I am not sure why you feel there's a need to make an unrelated assumption when, if you actually read the well-written techcrunch article, there's a reason why Mark said that - it's related to funding certainty and economics.
What I always find a little bit suspect about these posts – especially from FogCreek – is that it's really, "The Price of Dev Happiness As Long As You Define Happiness The Way Your Boss (Me) Does".

I prefer sitting cross-legged with a 13" laptop on a mat on the floor. I've had most of the things mentioned in the article and prefer my mat on the floor, thank you very much. But I'm just a random example.

More of what I'm getting at is that individual work preferences and your own brand of "happiness" goes beyond choosing your own keyboard. There's always something a bit smug and one-size-fits-all about the FogCreek posts about their work environment (which honestly sounds like it'd make me go absolutely bonkers).
How is it different than xargs -P?
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I downvoted your post because it didn't really make an argument; same as I'd do if the post was a typically reflexive blaming of "insurance companies" or "greed". I don't think hearing either the left-leaning or right-leaning soundbytes on medicine yet again is useful to anyone.
I don't think 'insekten' would work and in the end people will find out. Why not try to put a positive spin on bugs? This will cost time but any other way will too.
Sure - Spah is intended to act as the V in your MVC. I'd probably just use Express for the C and Mongoose or similar for the M.

I find that stitching my own framework from quality open source components gives me a bit more flexibility than Rails (rails user since version 0.7) and lets me get closer to the metal when I need it. Your mileage may vary :)

And no, you're definitely not retarded.
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While "on" sounds much more natural to me, I think "in" works as well. But definitely not because on and in are interchangeable.

You can simply say: "He let loose his temper." so...

It is poor form to sleep in a meeting.
It is poor form to scream in a meeting.
It is poor form to loose your temper in a meeting.
The entreprenuers who are determined and flexible enough to keep going through the crucible of winter may have an even better opportunity to succeed than they did in summer.

http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
Clean desk. Priceless.
Haters gotta hate. Congrats to you guys.
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I was talking about perception average person receives from media, not my personal view on the matter.
The price of Hacker happiness: an old calculator or other programmable device.
I HATE these chairs too. However, someone recently told me that they come in different sizes, so maybe mine was just the wrong size for me. I've also heard that what seems comfortable might not be best for you too.
Well, there's always http://nehe.gamedev.net/ or http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/glsl-tutorial/
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I go to a largely agricultural school, and that's actually one of the programs they have. Legumes are both nutritious and fairly easy to grow, so are great for small farming communities where protein deficiency is rampant. Animals are used for their products like eggs and milk to sell at market and not used for protein. I'm not really poor, but legumes are much cheaper than meat and have extended my own budget, so I think it can apply for families in America as well.

I mostly agree with what you said, with the addendum that poor Americans do have the tendency to buy cheap, bulk process foods for the same reason they wouldn't be able to afford "Seaweed, legumes or whatever". I'm not saying that families who need to save money for rice do this, but families with a little more money seem to always have alot of processed food.
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See Muphry's Law: http://www.editorscanberra.org/muphrys-law/ :)

edit: Why can't I use an apostrophe in a URL? HN seems to be stripping it out, so couldn't link to the Wikipedia page without a crufty "%27" showing up...
The UK NHS is "free at the point of delivery" - not "free".
Sure, you can do that in certain parts of LA. But you can see these ruins almost everywhere in Detroit. It's really one of the most depressing cities I've ever been to.
This IMO is something that Disqus or Quora or similar systems should jump on - automated techniques for knowledge base quality management. I can see taking some of the existing essay grading software, combined with something like these captchas, being used to produce customer support knowledge bases from input from technicians and discussion forums.
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It's not that big of a deal. I wish he would just say whether or not his company has a relationship with Starbucks, and if it does, why he made such a strong claim of no-affiliation-whatsoever to Starbucks on his project page?

Here's a screenshot of the cached clients page:
http://i.imgur.com/PgccX.png

Nothing wrong with free coffee, or sponsored free coffee. And not that much wrong about doing a hobby project that relates to a professional client. But appearing to hide evidence of that relationship seems to be what has caught people's interest:
Wait, didn't winter start in '08? I could have sworn Ice Giants came from the north and dragged down the towers of the Lehman Brothers.
I agree. I think this would be very useful. I have submitted a couple of my projects for feedback from HN and in both cases received no comments.

I am not whinging about that - my projects might just be deadly dull (A Social Network for Ogglers of Desiccating Colored Emulsions after all probably won't set the world alight).

But there is a small chance that someone might have felt compelled to give some feedback if there was a section of the site dedicated to this.

I also personally love seeing the weird and wonderful ideas people come up with for projects.
>For long-term, archival purposes, this system might make more sense. I'm not sure what other systems are out there that can estimate a 1,000 year lifespan (at $1.50/GB). Then again, imagine trying to find a DVD player in 1,000 years.

Yeah, the article was a little shortsighted for not recognizing that the use case here is not for avg Joe's, but for cloud providers and enterprise datacenters that want better data archival systems. Avg Joe's are going to be migrating to cloud storage, be it Spotify, Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music, Apple, Dropbox, Spideroak, whatever. Those companies are big potential customers for this, depending on how compelling the M-Disc's cost and replacement rates are vs whatever is currently state-of-the-art for archival.

I am not a data archiving expert, but it sounds like there are two threats to data stored on media - intrinsic entropy and extrinsic factors like EM, UV, heat, etc. The test they did sounds like it compressed many years of the latter into 24 hours, but is it possible to simulate the former?
While true, it's not -too- necessary. There's a pretty good set of insects that are already 'palpable to the western palate'. Grasshoppers/crickets when stir fried pretty much tastes like crunchy chicken (at least that's my 5 year old memory of it).

Also, it's pretty clear that the 'western palate' is super open to change from social pressures. You guys seem to love raw fish now.
It isn't, and that's not at all what he said. As he said, your post didn't make an argument. Your first post was inflammatory without substance, and this post is inflammatory combined with a strawman. Yes, on HN that behavior will get you downvoted.
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Oh crap. I caught your joke about pope-approved condoms the other day, but this time you had me going.

I found this puzzle both entertaining and educational. I guess that means I'm not qualified to post here ;-}
I'm an alum of UofM.

If graduates do stay in Michigan, it's to continue working or studying in the Ann Arbor area. Only a handful do find jobs in the metro Detroit area (mainly engineers and consultants), but that's a trickle opposed to the flood.

Detroit's premier college is Wayne State University, and I can not speak for its graduates.
Voice over WIFI is doable with Android. The latest update to my Vibrant installed the feature.
Its funny that in 2008 - we see posts like "RIP Good Times" - http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/r-i-p-good-times-one-year-l... - and yet nothing - fundamentally - came of it. I'm sure Sequoia's companies left that meeting - scared, sacked a bunch of employee's, cleaned out the closest - and the VC's were happy because the capital lasted longer ensuring no more dilutions for themselves and a "trimmer" business even if it was not required. VC's love to blow hot air because it's self-serving. "OMG da world is ending - raise cash now". Of course, many go out and do this [for whatever reason] and get hit by lower valuations [VC's +1 up]. VC's have already raised their HUGE current funds - most in the vicinity of 500m+. So how does any of this affect VC's ? They want more "bang-for-their-buck" and by getting lower valuations, they get higher returns and larger management cuts on exits. I'm not suggesting this is a flaw - it's capitalism and the opposite side of what a start is doing in trying to get larger valuations.

Seemingly, the fundamental problem that exists in the United States is that the debt level has been never ending. The spending mentality of the U.S. government since Regean, Bush, Clinton [not so much], Bush and now even Obama [in my view - cleaning up the mess] was never one of fiscal or monetary conservatism. I'm an Aussie - our country doesn't have hardly any debt [queue smart-ass arrogance smirk]. Good fiscal and monetary policy ? Not really - as much as our politicians love to think so - it's just not over promising and over spending for political gains. "I'll give you tax-cuts of 5%" - "I'll do 10%" - "I've just discovered I can do 15%!" and so on it seems in the US - then the whole country argues about whether tax-cuts are better or worse or giving the wealthier socioeconomic bracket more money is better or worse. I don't premise to understand the entire US Financial or Political system - I'm merely an international observer. What you can observe - large socioeconomic cuts to fundamental social welfare results in those scenes unfortunately unfolding in London. You rip apart societies most vulnerable social fabric and it's not going to respond happily.

To suggest we are heading for another "dot-com" boom - at least in my opinion - is totally unfounded. The internet is in another era juxtaposed against the 2000's with widebroadband adoption and reliance. IPO's are not finished when they are based on real fundamental revenues and profits underlined with good talent. Any rational investment is unpinned by this - Facebook would still raise a huge IPO - because large financial institutions still have huge funds available to them and see the rationality of the investment. Similar to other business' that have real revenue and real values.

Solid business basics win as per Warren Buffet "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful". Convince investors to be greedy in the current climate and nothing matters. You'll win.
Their prediction sounds accurate to me. A few years ago my friends and I checked out the old DPS Book Depository. After walking around, we decided against going inside. Later that winter a frozen body turned up in the elevator shaft.

While there might be hope in some new downtown lofts with development spreading outward, the neighborhoods surrounding Detroit are just plain scary, even to drive through.
I agree. That's the problem with quotes and mantras: they are a oversimplification of a much more complicated reality. But I find that as long as you don't forget the forest, having some highlighted trees does help you find your way.
My university required my resume to be in HTML for applying through their system, so I used to have everything in one HTML file with irrelevant sections just hidden with CSS.

(I also exploited the ability to link external CSS to make a script that tracked everyone who viewed my resume, with a reverse DNS on their IP.)
I really like $CDPATH, but there are tons of sloppy scripts out there that assume "cd $FOO" has no output and break when $CDPATH is set. Drives me nuts.
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