skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first Internet connection was a 56k dial-up connection out of, and I kid you not, "Bryan's Auto Supply" in the next town over. A quick Google search found them again. http://www.ebryans.com/

More though, I remember the fist fights between my older brother and I for who was going to get to use the connection.
A lot of the time small fonts are a pain, though. I liked the look.
Code monkey think maybe boring manager want to write god damned login page himself.
I think the point is that the government extended border searches to mean searches within 100 miles of a border, which is pretty ridiculous. It seems like it was specifically designed to include the most populated cities in the US. The ACLU is claiming that the border search exception in the constitution shouldn't hold this far away from the border.
A better name would be "4th Amendment Free Zone" but they're going for as much shock value as possible.

The crux is DHS announcing they can have border agents search anyone without probable cause 100 miles inland from the border.

It's one of those legal issues where the executive crosses the line and it takes about five years for a case to wind its way up to the Supreme Court and sanity to be restored in a ruling overturning the daft policy.

Apparently it's happened in California; federal agents were just pulling people over and searching the cars over objections.
http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/2353544/all-you-see-is-t...
Boy, "better educated than previous generations"? Give me a bloomin' break.

There hasn't been any seriously good education in this country (except at a few places like Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, CA and the two St. John's campuses) since about 1880 when the good Dr. Conant (president of Harvard) decided that science trumps all, and started heavily diluting what was a fairly decent liberal arts education.
Ask HN: How are your startups weathering the economic crisis?
I was wondering if there is a large effect on startups due to the economic crisis.
Medicine has the advantage that it sometimes works.

So does faith healing.
As far as I could tell there's not much there.

We're going to be authoring our own software. We'll open source it once we're done, but we're not going to let partnerships slow us down in this phase.
Btw, if you're interested, here is a good comment thread on the intellectual origins of modern architecture: http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/03/dear_national_t.h...

An excerpt:

FvB is on the right track, I think. It is not the style itself, but the interaction between the style, the culture and the political system, that created the problem.

Perhaps modernism is so successful because it's so hard to do well. It's a classic academic fuck-you: create an unsolvable problem and then solve it. Can you build a beautiful building out of flat, bare concrete? I can. Guess my SAT must be higher than yours. Pity about that, poor chap.

It's pretty easy to see how this essentially repellent attitude can thrive in a New Class world, where academic accomplishment is the only legitimate form of social status. It's also easy to see how the emperor's new clothes syndrome developed, and so many second-rate buildings, in which the subtle elegance was so subtle as to be nonexistent, got built.

Innovative architecture doesn't have to mean ugly architecture - just as innovative furniture doesn't (always) mean ugly furniture. But as long as architectural decisionmakers are juries and committees rather than eccentric, Randish corporate tycoons, Dilbert is here to stay. Playing by the New Class rules gives us New Class buildings - the architecture we deserve.

An extreme theory, but after spending a lot of time hanging around academia, I'm inclined to agree.
The more of these warez/porn hosts that die or weaken the better...
Original startup is dead, but I think that's mostly because it was a marginal idea, my cofounder quit, and without my cofounder, I didn't have all that much passion for it.

Thinking of doing a new startup, in a more clearly-defined pain point with more immediate profit potential. But I'm seeing how job apps go in this market; I need more time to scope out the market and do some prototypes anyway.

When this crisis was first starting back in 2007, I said that "recessions force honesty upon businessmen. The marginal businesses get flushed out, forcing people to focus on useful stuff." That's as true now as it was then, even if my own startup was one of the marginal ones.
I personally know a few people worth 5-50 million and they are giving most of their money away either right now or when they die. So at least on a personal level that is not true. Those that I know - are not in the tech industry and they are not living on the coasts. I think this changes the mindset a bit. They are normal successful people.

I think you'd be surprised how many executives and owners give their money away. I'm talking about executive management in fortune 1000 companies and small business owners. The ones that aren't in the limelight and don't have anything to prove. They choose their most meaningful causes and make a difference there. From my experience most of successful people I know are responsible and understanding of their success and wealth.

Now that doesn't mean there isn't a small minority that are a bunch of jags - but it does mean the silent majority is exactly that - silent.

[EDIT: Wording]
If your friend wants to write, why doesn't she just start doing it? Is there some evil force preventing her from creating and selling content?
Yes, do this if you have a steady job and you plan to live comfortable when you retire.

This is a path to comfort, not a path to wealth. So it's not for everyone.
Sorry, but let me get this straight. There are people out there that buy stocks before contributing to their 401k's? Aren't 401's tax deferable? Aren't normal capital gains taxable?

This is about as dumb as putting money into your savings account before paying off your cc debt.

Math. I suppose it's not everyone's strong point.
Box.net iPhone App Gives Users Access to 1 GB Storage in the Cloud
The Baby Boomer Generation ends in '64 according to Wikipedia, not 1960. Though many people consider it actually finished in 1963.
HTC P3470 Smartphone
HTC P3470 Smartphone is one of the most fascinating mobile handsets, which has been released in the market recently.
BTW, how is (1925 - 1942) the "silent" generation? Alan Ginsberg, my favorite poet, who wrote 'Howl', one of the greatest epic poems ever, was born in 1926. In fact most of the beats probably fall into that category. They can hardly be called "silent".
On Selling Out
Facebook called, and they're flattered.
Maybe they'll provide free platforms for developers to live test their code changes.
isn't this just another route that enables hackers, pirates, and spammers to thrive?

don't we need the ability to identify malicious internet users so we can punish them? it's all well and good to talk about "the federalist papers" but what if the "authors" of said documents had the ability to tape them all over your car, bang on your door at 3 AM wearing a mask and throw a stack of them in your face when you answer it and run off, or hijack your TV feed and display them instead of your regular programming.

anonymity sounds like a nice liberty until people start exploiting it to screw with other people's lives.
Yes, iamelgringo's reaction does seem irrational but I can relate.

I've been dealing w/ a knee injury for a year+ and recently decided to bite the bullet (it's expensive!) and have it checked out. (Being an bootstrapping entrepreneur tends to have the side effect of having less-than-comprehensive health insurance) When the results of the MRI and X-Ray came in I found myself rather disappointed that there were no tears or fractures. I guess I just wanted a definite answer to why my knee was messed up so I could put a rehab plan into place and get back into running and mixed martial arts. Hearing "Don't know what's wrong. Rest it" was rather frustrating.
Garriott’s $30 million space adventure ends
Actually T-mobile is an iphone carrier in Europe. I'm sure they would offer the iphone in the US if AT&T didn't have an exclusive deal.
Yes; but what would you call the industry as a whole, do you think?
Poll: What is your professional status?
Working, but not at a startup
Unemployed =/
The Law(?) of Accelerating Returns implies it will be enormously much harder to predict from now to 2100 than it was from 1900 to 2000. (Or that a linear prediction will be enormously much less accurate).

"we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate)" - http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1
One could call it so far the closest thing to a true Marxist revolution.

Workers in control of the means of production.
April 8th. "New"?
I hope MS continues to think that way, it will only make them irrelevant sooner.
"Free Agent Nation" or the Physics of a Career in a Downturn (from 2001)
Generation Y by birth, though I feel like I can appreciate aspects of each generation listed. 90's indie music had a big influence on me too, and my parents are Baby Boomers (yes, they had children late in life). Perhaps I'm transgenerational?
Free Agent Nation Laws of Career Physics

Law 1: Independence is the best hedge against a downturn.
Law 2: When times get tougher, quality counts.
Law 3: Free to be you and me? We've got to be you and me.
Law 4: You're on the line. Where else would you want to be?
Law 5: Up isn't the only direction.
Law 6: Bigger isn't better. Better is better.
Law 7: Forget survival of the fittest. Think Golden Rule.
where's the option for working, but soon making a startup? :D
What's so bad about selling out?
You have picked an interesting niche within a large market of professionals. I assume you have done your homework re: competition, present options for solving customer problems, and therefore demand for your product.

There are many market niches that are presently underserved by current businesses. Do you really think Craigslist, Ebay, and Facebook will still be the only solutions for their users in 20 years time? I highly doubt it. Smart entrepreneurs find a way to snag users from sites with proven appeal by creating a unique spin on what the market leaders do.

For example, a startup in France (not yet in the States, hint hint) operates an online marketplace for specific, high-demand categories of goods such as electronics (ie Iphones) and digital cameras. You can choose what you want to sell for, but the price must be 50% below retail, regardless of the condition of the item. So- specific goods at 50% or more below retail is a unique sping for an online marketplace that hasn't yet been done in the States. There- I have just released one of my startup ideas. Anyone want to have a go at that one?
working, but leaving to work on a startup soon
With a name like "helveticaman", I guess I'll take your word for it.
actually, someone in the comments said this is already being done in japan. (Results may vary)

I think he had a better idea of 2001 than those old looney tunes cartoons.
IMO chrome is overall ahead as long as it's the only browser with a separate process per tab. (Its memory management is a nice bonus too.)
Doing consulting and freelance work but leaving that all behind next month to pursue my startup full-time. Crazy times ahead ;-)
Five Years (doing mostly PHP) is Enough
Valley tech giants love Obama more than McCain
in my case, the timeline for "leaving to work on a startup soon" is hopefully within 6 months. or maybe i should just take out a loan?
Will Apple sell a $99 iPhone next year? Yes.
"We were collecting a few billion messages a day (which seemed like a lot at the time)"
i remember when i ditched AOL in favor of free internet..

altavista was my preferred search engine.

*netzero, lycos, altavista were some of the people who offered free dial-up internet.
Why not just have income be considered the sum of all the money you've made in a year? 100k salary with 25k stock gains would give you an income of 125k and that's just taxed normally. Why should capital gains be treated differently at all?

Also, just simplify the entire thing and have a simpler tax rate. It may also be interesting to see what happens if the party responsible for what tax dollars are spent on is not the same party that decides the allocation of the money. Group 1 creates a list of priorities A, B, C but voters then get to choose the tax dollar allocation.
Anyone know the advantages/disadvantages of Scribe vs. Syslog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog)? Is it just that Syslog dies at scale?
Startuply: Job Market Holding Steady … So Far
I find it a pain in the butt, but I have no better ideas.

Well, I have, but they rely on more than I can code and I can't see myself convincing others of their value.

I think there could do with being a much better instant messenger for small businesses - something like a cross between a wiki with a desktop client, an instant messenger, a voice messenger, a tasklist, and that program that lets several people edit a document at the same time.

A sort of project management app that is nothing at all like Microsoft Project. A kind of virtual desk that you can all jot notes on and is fast and responsive.

With a nice interface it could be a kind of intray/outbox/message passing/task management/project management system.

As you can see, it's not very well developed idea, but the pains it would address:

- Email is crummy for keeping multiple people on track. Lots of redundant forwards, tendency to large trails of messages

- Instant Messangers are fiddly to open, find someone, open a conversation, type, wait, annoying to the other person to be interrupted.

- Wikis are useful but using them in a web browser and with several people working on it, they're clunky and sluggish.

- There's no good way of asking questions and getting answers in a central way. e.g. I email Alice and ask for details of X, her reply is in my inbox, Alice emails Bob and his reply is in her inbox, Alice forwards to Eve who forwards to me, my reply is in Eve's mailbox, she forwards with comments to Alice...

If that could be centralised, a central per-project question repository...

It could be so much better.
I wouldn't be surprised - there are numerous assumptions in American culture about how things have "always been" that are only really accurate from the post-WW2 era on. The GI bill led to substantially higher college enrollment, which in turn had a tremendous influence on pretty much all white-collar jobs.
I suppose my writing really only addressed the upper echelon of my peer group. To be sure, there are examples of Gen Y'ers who carry an air of entitlement with them and are not justified to do so. I think every generation of people probably has a sect of people who could be described this way. What was so offensive about the article in the Journal was how it characterized all Millenials as entitled, spoiled kids. I think most readers in this community (of all generations) are probably hard-working, entrepreneurial, get-things-done type of people and that's why the "Trophy Kids" article didn't resonate well here.
Yahoo Beats Google at Paid Searches, But Only Because their User Experience is Worse
A new study from Compete finds that Yahoo! actually leads Google when it comes to paid search referrals. But far from being good news for Yahoo!, the study actually highlights all of the things that Yahoo! does wrong.
Interesting niche.

One comment on the front page - I think it's great and clean, but I think it undersells what you're doing. The "highlights" that you have (linked form the pale buttons at the bottom) are very compelling arguments to try your startup ... but they're hidden one click in.
A lot of strawmanism going on. It's not that taxation prevents entry-level entrepreneurs from starting businesses. Rather, taxation represents a misallocation of capital. If a company or person loses an extra million dollars to the government, I promise you that the money will be converted into dust [1], or handed out to failed businesses [2], or spent directly on tyrannical activity [3], or redistributed to pressure groups, or any company or foreign nation with a good lobbying firm or PAC, instead of being allocated responsibly.

[1] Literally, via TNT.
[2] AIG, Goldman, Fannie, GM, Ford, etc
[3] The TSA, the FCC, the CIA.
"The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before." Mmm... I love that.
It's quite interesting to look at this from a cultural point of view. Most interesting to me is the assumption that the transportation of today would be just like the centralized system of then, only bigger and better. There's been such a massive movement toward individualization over the past century over the past century that it seems completely natural. We've gone from semaphore towers transmitting a few messages over a single line for the central government, to a few telegraph operators sending and receiving scores of messages for corporations and individuals, to citizens renting standard-model telephones from AT&T, to owning one of a bajillion landline phone models and having cellphones with customized ringtones as a personality item. While anyone who's seen a horse -- heck, anyone who's ever walked -- is familiar the concept of a transportation device that moves according to your whims, it would have taken a great deal of insight to see these racing curiosities called "automobiles" as a potential return to that model in an age where increasing progress in transport was synonymous with expensive machines incorporating more and more advances the only conceivable way to make their use efficient was to make it centralized. (I've heard the first subway line in New York changed a three-hour trip into a 10-minute one.)

It's just like how most '50s and '60s sci-fi ('70s, even!) foresaw computers as becoming ever-bigger, ever larger undertakings. I know Isaac Asimov, in his 1958 (?) short story "The Last Question," had computers initially growing to hundreds of square miles for a few centuries before taking a sudden leap down to the size of a family-owned ship, before transitioning again to the centralized-model of having galactic and universal computers, even though miniaturization happened along the way. If he made the connection during that time period that miniaturization would happen continuously rather than discretely and might cause individual-owned computers to be present for a larger chunk of history, he made it in one of his hundreds of short-stories I haven't read.

Of course, it is expected that we will, not too long from now, reach a fundamental limit on component miniaturization and revert to building larger, centralized computers, which highlights that we should not conceive of the old model of centralization as wrong, just wrong for the present time period.

Naturally, people back then conceived of advances solving the aging problem, but it's interesting electricity was conceived as the vehicle that would deliver it. They foresaw miracle inventions, and assumed it would come from electricity, just as we assume future advancements will come from nanotech, or biotech, or Ajax. It was their buzzword of the day. While it's much more reasonable that de-aging will come from nanotech or biotech since it's easily conceivable how those would create a relatively straightforward mechanism for achieving that, I think we'd do well to remember this example if we start to point to anything well-known today as the solver of more diverse problems.
Use your computer
Papyrus!
About 55% of startups fail within five years. Ok, so there's obviously some risk in starting a company.

How likely is a 22-year-old to find a job, even at a stable company, where there's a 45% or better chance that it's still worth going to work in 5 years? Not very. Most people get pigeonholed or down-tracked; not everyone can be "protege".

I'm 25 and on my fourth "career". I recognize that no single effort or job is going to deliver better than a 50% chance of liberation and success, but I have a hell of a lot of chances, and I've learned a lot and made great friends in each of my three cycles. I don't fear losing a job-- done that, bounced back-- but stagnation is terrifying.
What's up with this "war of the generations" you have in the US? It seems to me you have terms for every possible obscure group or phenomenon related to cultural differences between parents and their kids. Everyone blames everyone for something: being ungrateful, snobby, fickle, controlling, etc, etc. It's worse than anything I have ever seen. Seriously, why?

It's paradoxical that some of your age groups blames a younger group for things they themselves did when they were younger. How can you complain about the work ethics of your grandkids when you spent five years high, wandering around at rock festivals?

American culture baffles me in so many ways. Someone should write a book about all the major cultural directions and conflicts in the US, but it would probably be a massive read.
That's similar, however the Segway RMP is using mecanum wheels.
'"Awareness is growing, and more students are interested," said Thukral, who in 2004 became one of the inaugural students in USC's graduate program for video game development. "Computer science can be fun."'

That seems to imply that the fun of CS comes from it being about a fun topic. That's a very disturbing sentiment to me, one all too common.
TraceMonkey was the fastest engine two months ago, now its SquirrelFish Extreme.
It's been done.

Apparently these videos are very impressive compared to current forklifts(or so I've been told by forklift operators): http://www.airtrax.com/
Dec 1981 I guess I'm XY too.
Student, startup(ish)
Yahoo Previews Its New Application Platform
and im about to buy a macbook - so it will jump even more :)
401ks often get a company match as well, which is a wonderful thing.
When I started my first company I’d never even heard of capital gains taxes

Granted, but I guarantee that the limited partners in the VC firms you might consider for funding are very familiar with the tax structure in the US. If you raise the taxes on investment income, you effectively reduce the return on venture capital funds, which reduces the amount of money VCs will be able to raise, which reduces the amount of money available to entrepreneurs.
I think Evil would be omitting them from google search results altogether.
Maybe it's different in the US, but in my experience in the UK game industry we had a shortage of decent programmers. We couldn't care what university you came from, as long as you could code, you got in. Of course, most graduates can't code, regardless of whether they did compsci or a game-oriented course. (I taught myself before university and I have physics degree and had no trouble getting a game programming job)
A Vision of Students Today (& What Teachers Must Do)
Thanks for including the second part of the title. I just hope Google keeps acting like they do even as short term earnings pressure mounts.
From Contact Form Experiences to Control in Modular Innovation
I'm a big Cuban fan, but I was surprised and a bit disappointed when he made this statement (and I'm also surprised to see Matt defending it). I agree that many entrepreneurs don't consider tax rates when starting up (at least not consciously), but for any given rate there is a marginal entrepreneur who is just over the threshold for starting a company. Mark is so far over that threshold for current rates that he reaches the erroneous conclusion that taxes don't matter in general. I guarantee that there is a rate---whether 90% or 99%---at which even Cuban would throw in the towel, by quitting the game or (more likely) fleeing the country.

Taxes hurt entrepreneurship; higher taxes hurt it more. Denying this just increases the likelihood of more taxes.
If fewer people "program" any more perhaps it is because more people "script" then ever before.