skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this--its tough to get good light during winter. I'll grab one for those colder months on the horizon.
I would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.
Agreed -- people love to complain and rarely share kudos. But there is also a lot of middle ground. First and foemost, The Addressory is not a review site. We offer no quantitative ratings. Rather, we are a forum where people can share information.

The goal of Addressory is to give you more data so that you can make an informed decision. If a property were to have many negative comments, it at least provides a datapoint that would prompt you to ask questions to the realtor or landlord prior to moving in.

Those questions asked above are all relevant and, we hope, become topics of conversation.

Lastly, those looking for a shot-in-the-arm answer may not find the Addressory very useful. Those who perform due diligence prior to renting or buying will find this data valuable.
Diego, that's really nice. Thanks a ton for sharing these step-by-step process. Doing this stuff may seem easy to americans, but when we are down here in Brazil trying to figure out all this things can be extremely time consuming. This will definitely help many of us save a huge amount of time.
It's impossible to anonymize location data, because location data is actually better at identifying you than your name (unless you have a very uncommon name).
He works at Relic: http://twitter.com/#!/kenpex
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Related:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tata-to-launch-nano-homes-...
Who knew that using other people's inventions with out paying them could result in a loss of share value.

If you dig into the dataset you can see that patent trolling drastically increased after 2005, given the stock market trends over that period it's not surprising that companies would lose a lot of value after a litigation event in a market defined by lack of confidence.

Also, as the case progresses the market will price back in the EV of the litigation, how do they account for that? A lawsuit is big news, a technical maneuver in court that absolves a lot of liability may not because of the complexities involved.
Does anyone know if it is hard to physically disable an OnStar system? I don't have a car with OnStar; just curious.
I meant if it's a remote deactivation they are doing. They probably keep a way to reactivate it. It would be interesting to know if anyone has tried to cancel and reactivate.
It's kind of a two-way thing. If they're investing enough time into telling me about them, what projects they have and what's exciting about them, what the environment is like, what hardware they use, what they do after work, whether they have any employees using Dvorak †, then sure, if what I'm hearing sounds good, I can devote half a day to them. But on the other hand, I've had a company administer a test and then a coding exercise with contact via email from their secretary, and maybe I'm spoiled but I'm not doing a multi-hour task for you to earn the privilege of talking to a person involved in development.

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The main issue that I have with this specific issue that RMS is making an ideological argument that I don't feel is realistic. He states the following:

>Putting these points together, we can tolerate non-free phone network firmware provided new versions of it won't be loaded, it can't take control of the main computer, and it can only communicate when and as the free operating system chooses to let it communicate.

The problem here is that the phone component needs to be able to override the rest of the OS to receive a call. To suggest otherwise is a pretty huge potential privacy issue... would you want every application to have access to the phone firmware?

In addition, the phone firmware exists to make the phone actually work with a specific carrier. So it needs to have control of the microphone, the speakers, and the radio in order to function. That requirement exists in both a closed implementation, and a FOSS implementation. Therefore, a FOSS firmware implementation still has the exact same potential issues that RMS raised-complete control of the hardware, the ability to restrict the user from doing certain actions, the potential of using the device to spy on people through well obfuscated(or buggy) code, etc.

Some of the more malicious uses are mitigated by a FOSS implementation, I will agree. However, I don't think that RMS has a solution that actually solves any of the issues that he raised.
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I have thought about this before, and I can confidently trace it back to two causes in my own life.

1) This was happening even when I was a developer and not just an entrepreneur. It is because when you are working on a problem, you want to reach a "save state" before going away. So you can pick up where you left off in the morning. Sometimes you think the "save state" is just an hour away and it turns out to be 3 hours or more. Basically you have the context in your head NOW and it's annoying to have to serialize it into something and unserialize it later. You want to at least finish a subtask. As a result, the "bedtime" of a developer is indefinite, unlike in 9-5 careers where you can clock out and stop thinking about things.

For entrepreneurs, this is a smaller problem, but for developer-entrepreneurs, it is a combined problem. The entrepreneur might be puzzle-solving at night as well, and doesn't want to have to serialize/unserialize in some arbitrary state. Also their brain gets used to problem solving and can't stop. Kind of like this: http://xkcd.com/356/

2) Now, the second reason is that we are probably young, in our 20s or early 30s. As a result, we came out of a college environment and late night partying is important to younger people. Late night anything, because one again, that is the time that young people have for themselves and they don't want to put a definite curfew on it. You can be more irresponsible earlier in life, drinking and socializing until late. In addition, many young people have to study in college and aren't gonna get fired if they don't show up at 8 AM to work, so once again we have this "I don't want to put this book down until I've finished the chapter" thing.

As you get older and have a family, if you have to wake up early, then your habits will change.

I also have a theory that young people have ALWAYS been more nocturnal than their elders, who become morning people at 70 :)
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o objetivo do IBEG é formar e capacitar o aluno com alto nível de capacitação no desenvolvimento de projetos e pesquisas, além da capacitação de recursos humanos
I agree. The term 'large economy,' when applied to the average person is an irrelevant term. For the average billionaire it means something, but to the average person (in our case, the average internet/mobile user) it means nothing. These old economic indicators do not measure the actual economic conditions in localities. Local economies have to be robust - that's the true sign of a progress.
I did start a business. But I should state that I learned how to interview and hire for years working for other people.
Yes, that's a pretty good description. Or if you don't feel like paying, you can also browse designer profiles for free and just contact them directly.
What if Walmart called you at home?
"Unfortunately, the rules for money fill books. If you're an American, you're probably unknowingly violating a list of federal laws as long as your arm."

fixed that for you.

(To be fair, I believe this is true in most if not all industrialized nations; I enjoy being a US citizen and while I do have problems with some of the laws, the overall package is such that I'd rather continue being a US citizen than the alternatives. Still, if you have income from anything other than a regular job, you need an accountant.)
I see. Let's say we completed the study of a new field, neurophilosophy, where we learn precisely the neural mechanisms for how and why we generate the philosophical questions we do, and why we find them "interesting," and why we reason about them the way we do. I don't think that would convince anyone as to why classical philosophical arguments bear no merit. I never bought into the fundamental category division, but for the first time, I see the issue clearly. Then I am flabbergasted as how to even conceive bridging the gap, my mathematical intuition tells me it is nonsensical, and that we must throw away the non-physical category--but is that like throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

This is very tricky, and my arguments above on religion don't appeal to my last few posts on "philosophy before 1859," but we digress. Thanks for the back-and-forth!
If I didn't already know the difference between Macport and Homebrew, this article wouldn't have explained it to me. The explanations from HNers above are much more informative and to-the-point.
I can relate to this post. Specially around Slow and Argumentative. These are cloaks in which faux-smart people hide under. I had experience with a developer who would not want to lift a finger until he absolutely knew that the feature he was about to build was assured unquestionable success. So we would gather some data to figure out users predisposition to use the feature, and still nothing. in the end he would not experiment and we fired him
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People are voting me down, but I was not making a loaded statement, I'm honestly interested in knowing the difference how it differs from state licensing agencies in the U.S.

For instance, since Facebook is a Delaware corporation, here is the state of Delaware's Business Registration and Licensing:

https://onestop.delaware.gov/osbrlpublic/
I'm of two minds about this. As a Nymwar veteran, I naturally see this as a problem. But lots of people don't, especially outside early Internet app adoption groups. Adding scale may make the problem less pronounced by dilution. Privacy seems to be less concerning outside this group as well.

But I don't know how it will play out.
I think they renamed the DVD service so that it allows them the flexibility to sell it off at a later stage, I dont see anyone mentioning this but it is quite common for businesses to sell parts of the business to gain cash to pump into their future expansions. In this case it makes sense to put 100% into streaming.
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There will always be problems. You think USA does not have significant problems ? You think Europe does not have significant problems?

I dont think any country at any time was "perfect" and I dont think the headline is conveying that in any form
Danish citizens born abroad have 4 years, between the age of 18 and 22, to elect to keep the Danish citizenship, which requires renouncing any other citizenships they might possess at that time (no dual citizenship). If they don't wish to be a Danish citizen, they simply don't make such an election, and it automatically expires at age 22.

Is that true even if they don't have dual citizenship (i.e. are they still required in that case to explicitly elect to keep their Danish citizenship between the ages of 18 and 22)?
Yea, that one is particularly bazaar. It's probably gone now. They just crop up and vanish randomly from what I can tell.

Duly noted on the best practices advice. I should have initiated with an example.
If Linux powers such large chunks of the Internet and many other systems, is this not an issue that would ultimately affect every human using such technology? All those companies who have signed, including Amazon, are paying an extra amount, no matter how small, and ultimately it affects how the end user is charged, right?

Or am I reading this all wrong?
I know for a fact that OnStar provides incriminating information about its users to the police. For example, if you are in a wreck and you sound intoxicated, they will inform the cops. (I've heard police talking about this on scanners).

Given their enthusiasm for ratting out costumers to the authorities, I would be concerned.
but just because you notice it's missing doesn't mean you'll know where it is or be able to get it back
It seems "simple" when you read it, but it must have taken a lot of time and effort to gather and do all this. Thanks for sharing!
I`m waiting for the next post.
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This is the wave of the future; sharing data. Unfortunately, the way the model currently works is that our data is collected by others and used by others. We need to define a framework where can establish sovereignty over our data, decide how and with whom we wish to share it, and finally, be able to capture some of the income derived from the use of this data.

I might be OK with OnStar selling my data, if I get a piece of the action. Otherwise, what's the point? My job is not to further enrich these companies after I've purchased their product/service; they are making use of what is currently a free resource, my/yours/our data, and it's high time we started charging them for this privilege. They are essentially capturing economic rent, and it's really my income that they are capturing.
Adding a meter to the GPS location of where my car starts and stops at the end of each day still tells you where my house is.
So when your latency goes from 150ms to 300ms, you'll know who to blame.
Perhaps he's hoping Skynet will mistakenly eval() its inputs when scanning him into the human work camps.
Great guide!
The Skype number is a great tip.
Can't wait for the next one.
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Same here! I uhm'd and ah'd for ages before I finally got mine. It's a pretty standard tribal design on my left upper arm, and I still really like the way it looks :) No special meaning, though people ask if it has a meaning whenever they first see it.
Google will suspend your profile, not your account. So GMail should be safe.

See last item of: http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
Launch Rock deserves to have its paying customers stolen.

I've tried to use them for two landing pages in the past and never received a single piece of correspondence or any response on twitter.

>> Customer service.
I don't follow your logic there. If you don't trust Google with your GMail account, why is losing it such a risk? Use a different provider or host your own mail if that's a serious concern. If you do trust them with your mail, then why don't you trust the same decision makers with your friend list?

It's pretty clear to me that the account freezing thing was a mistake, and one acknowledged by everyone, including Google. It won't happen again, at least in that form. Facebook has made similar goofs, and both companies will screw other things up in the future.

Honestly, this seems like after-the-fact reasoning. You've decided to cheer for the Facebook team, and went hunting for an argument.
Thanks for the Pro-Tip! Now I know. :)
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e.g. v1 of some key scalable infrastructure

Just so I understand: You're always willing to trade intelligence and experience for someone who produces more, for essential key components of your startup. So you would hire a less experienced person who writes more code over a very experienced slow developer, do I have that right?

All that does is trade the short term risk of not having as much developed with the long term risk of having a broken system. It means you're potentially betting your business on someone who isn't the best, just because they seem more productive.

In summary, you risk making a Friendster instead of a Facebook.

Let me know if I misunderstood your point.

I hire on both: smart people who get it done. And getting it done is relative. Unless you're in consulting, velocity is almost never the issue compared to correctness, so a smarter, slower person is sometimes the right choice. A member of my team took a long time to come up to speed, and is now kicking ass and making the right decisions to keep things on track.
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I prefer the original. I got the email as a customer and felt like it did a decent job for what it was trying to do.
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iPad support is nice, but it makes me wonder how many people regularly take photos with their iPad.

Edit: Looking more carefully, it looks like their isn't an iPad specific UI.
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In a discussion[0] in the early days of G+, I said:

My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, and not willing to invest time into figuring out all the nuances of FB. So I was really surprised when, after trying Google+ for a few days, she said, "I think this is really going to make my family closer."
I don't know if there's a better measure of success for a social networking service than that.

Since then, she's continued to intermittently use Facebook, but has become something of a G+ evangelist to her friends, which I've never seen her do before, at least not for a tech product.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751696
Like the idea of focus on a single core progression for a startup. Very much like the list of Gotchas and Edge Cases. My favorite:

>5. Getting Test Users. I often hear people rationalize a PR push as the only way they can get enough users to test product market fit.
...
The solution isn’t PR, it’s go to some events and make some friends in that market.

"Go to some events, make some friends."
> I probably deserve some blame for not paying enough
> attention

Well, I have been annoyed by this before as well. While I would not blame you for not paying attention, I will blame you for something worse: using the same password on LinkedIn that you use for your email account.
Google did not have a warchest of patents until they purchased Motorola's mobile division.
If that was the only rationale than the T&C could call it out specifically, rather than allowing for sale to any third party.
what is bad is you using the same password for your email and linkedin account!!
One of the fastest ways is to ask about something they had to "fix" (use the word "fix") at their last job, or some problem in a pet project that they just figured out. This will sound like poetic license, but really good programmers have a light that flares when they start talking about that. They immediately are back in the trenches, telling about how they couldn't figure out some nasty recursion error or some server problem that was untraceable. Usually their hands start getting animated; they loosen up.

I couldn't care less about the problem OR the eventual solution. I couldn't care less if he used an open source module to write some new code last week or if he thinks CouchDB is super amazing.

What I really want to know is how they think.

When you have a programmer who lives in code, he (or she) swim through problems like they are physical objects. They find passion in killing bugs and making code more efficient. I can hire a hundred people who can recite what the Gang of Four is or write a bubble sort. I can't hire guys who care about whether their own code can be improved.

But this is just one way. There are lots of ways to tell.
This letter is genius. If Netflix had sent it out I think it would have averted the entire crisis.
hahahah we both posted the same comment at the same time! Kudos
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now that's a great testimonial!

the first time i read about LaunchRock, i thought the idea was cool. the second time i heard about LR i thought it was odd but I couldn't put my finger on why. then, a while later, i saw someone say something like "why would i want to advertise for a site that i can't use yet, and am not sure i like?" in reference to LR. that stuck with me. KickOffLabs doesn't force anyone into anything questionable like this.
In Northeast Minnesota (and in many other low population density states, I'd imagine) you can buy land for well under $10k/acre and many counties have no building codes in effect.

But if you're trying to do this for $10k near a major population center, best of luck to you!
Companies get sold all the time. Maybe someone at OnStar realized that this is a realistic possibility in the next couple of years. Maybe OnStar wants to found a shell corporation.

I have seen such wording in a number of other TOSes so far, e.g. by Google [1]:

If Google becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

[1] http://www.google.com/privacy/privacy-policy.html
When they split the revenue without having a 'combined plan' discount, I was pretty sure the DVD half was going to die. They were just planning for it. My theory is that they are going to sell it before it stops being profitable... But keeping it as a separate company allows them to let it die without it taking the whole thing down, if worst comes to worst.
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That is incorrect. Name policy violations can result in your Google+ profile being suspended, but nothing at all will happen to your Gmail or other services.

Gmail accounts only get shut down if the user is a spammer, or under 13 (blame the law), or some other extreme circumstance like that. Having a non-"real" name will not cause that.
The rapid growth of Google Plus compared to Facebook isn't really a valid comparison. When you are the number one site on the Internet (probably #1 or #2 email provider too?) and you add a new black bar to every page letting people know about your service, it's no surprise you gain X million users overnight. I agree with your thoughts that it's too early to count G+ as a failure just yet, but something about their rollout did cause it to lose steam. Most of my Facebook friends are aware G+ exists now... they just don't know why they should check it in addition to Facebook. It's the same problem any future search competitor has to Google, you have to be an order of magnitude better for people to switch.
I 100% agree with this. Sometimes it is the wrong manager or the wrong environment which makes a productive person less so. In this case the person and their manager either need to work it out, or the person may need to leave the team, group, or company and find a home where their talents can really shine (or, if the manager does this to everyone who works for them, hopefully their manager realizes this and fixes it).
I dislike this advice. The best way to show that Americans aren't dicks is to say you're American (if asked) and don't be a dick. I've made a few friends abroad who weren't going to talk to me at first because of the stereotypes about Americans.
Maybe Dart does not require HTML/CSS.
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Really!! in 2 mins you would determine if someone can code or note how would you do that.
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OK...like many countries with big population...there is significant income inequality. 400 of the richest americans have more wealth than 150 million americans.
Getting back to your point ->
So how should that affect the fact that India is about to be the 3rd largest economy?
This title should be changed to "Lean Startup Distilled". Direct and to the point about being Lean.