skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A baby in New York will condemn you to a life in the suburbs, cutting years off your absolutely necessary $20 martini nights at the club.

People in New York have fewer children because:

1. We marry a lot later. This is one of the few cities in the world where it's not stigmatized to be over 30 and unmarried.

2. The housing situation is, indeed, shitty. It's not as bad as you say, with the condemnation to suburbs that you depict as inexorable, but having kids will accelerate the outright theft of your savings by the property-owning class.

There's a constant stream of urban liberal editorials/articles on red state teen pregnancies. I think it's because at some level liberals are freaked out about being out-bred by such a wide margin.

This "constant stream" of articles exists for a reason. Religious conservatives are trying to push their social model on us. We're pointing out that it doesn't work well even on its home turf. This isn't about "chastising the hicks". The victims of the red-state family breakdowns are, obviously, people in the red states.

This is why Palin and her family freaks out a lot of liberal women SOO badly. She's a stark reminder of their infertility.

Although I'm a man, I'll point out that Palin scares anyone with a brain. This has nothing to do with fertility. 1. She has an extremely narrow-minded view, which is completely inappropriate for someone running for high public office. 2. She stands for everything that is consumptive ("drill, baby, drill"), self-indulgent, mean-spirited, wrong and stupid about this country. 3. Although she was picked to rally middle-of-the-road women, she failed completely at that... but is great at stoking the lowest common denominator bottom-feeders, as the people who show up at Palin rallies (racists, paranoids) are loathsome.

New Yorkers don't despise people who choose to have large families. We despise those who do so irresponsibly, and we despise the very rich who have large families to show off (a Manhattan/Boston phenomenon) their means, such as Mitt Romney, because of their effect on housing prices... but we don't have a knee-jerk animosity toward people in general who choose to have four or five kids.
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Sounds like you read one of my other threads ~
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=346832

And, yes I totally agree.
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What is so bad about his comment? Writing "interwebz"?
Tesla > 23andMe

Nothing against 23andMe it's just not going to effect the world in the near term the same way Tesla has and will in the next few years...

Give the award to 23andMe when it's actually effected our society. As of right now you can already get tested for any number of genetic disorders... and you and your significant other can be tested before you have kids to see what sort of risks you may have. I just don't see why 23andMe is that different. Maybe someone can explain what makes it great?

Meanwhile the Tesla is beyond proof of concept. It's fast, handles well and can be recharged enough to make sense if you are commuting. It's a real contender for those that drive Porsches, BMWs, etc to work. Add in their future plans to create new models that are more affordable and roomy.

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I think I knew about that and completely forgot about it.

I just don't pay as much attention to the spam problem as I once did a few years ago--it seems to be reasonably solved for me. I got over 600 spam messages to my primary address yesterday, and only 3 made it to my mailbox...and all I do is run SpamAssassin with almost entirely default settings and auto-white/black listing (which is Bayesian). Now, the primary things that motivate me are making the system more efficient with regard to resource usage, rather than more effective (though being more effective is also good). Some of our customers still seem to have problems, but I've not really figured out why SpamAssassin works so poorly for them and so well for me.
Don't leave. What if your startup does not work-out, what's your backup plan?
Interesting tips.

Here's another way to give a really good presentation, but with lots of movement/action happening on the screen: http://vimeo.com/1925542?pg=embed&sec=1925542&hd=1
(1) Linux != Gnome or KDE

(2) Options = Freedom

And X is loosely coupled (hence no single point of failure). MS Windows is tightly coupled architecture (hence single point of failure) for your computer.
Google + OpenID = FAIL
Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates My Man
Although warned by Greg that it’s a bad idea, Chris starts to help the football team with their homework as a means to socialize with the cool kids. As a result, Chris ends up failing his own exams.
It's 6.25%, actually.

http://www.danskebank.dk/Dansketoprente
This is a sure sign of a sociopath, which explains a lot about my most geeky friends.
89 way to kickstart your grammar, etc
list() isn't a function, it just looks like one, just like array() looks like a function but isn't. There apparently wasn't enough syntax to spend on making things like this less ambiguous, but now we do have \ as a namespace separator.
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Tangent on the length complaint:

I felt that way when I first started reading his stuff, but now it's kind of a relaxing thing. The writing style just pulls you through, and at the end you feel like you've learned something of significance. It is a nice break from the more hectic style of reading I do online. At least, that was my experience after reading his post on the properties pattern.
I'm usually in front of a computer, so I have an emacs buffer or notepad open that I can quickly alt tab to and jot something down.

Then, I can search it all if needed.
5.3 # Consider taking the SCJA or SCJP exams

WHAT?!
$ echo "
this is a text
it will be appended to file 'note'
don't forget double '>'
otherwise you override
" >> note
It's adding an extra layer of work which is unnessacary unless you're handing templates to people who really can't do PHP. If your designers are working on the HTML use Smarty tbh.
I'd say check it out - to read - but don't use it. They've got some interesting things in there, like OpenID implementation that's worth a read.
According to The Next Web (see this post: http://cli.gs/MM0aab ), "Dick Hardt, an important OpenID supporter, also confirms that Google is NOT compatible with OpenID". They link to his comment on TC.
if you release open source you should never complain if somebody users your code, as long as the use is legally compatible with the license.
I just need this off my plate. Even when the workload is light my partner doesn't like the idea that my concentration isn't fully directed at our business. We've had many open conversations on the matter and we both agreed it would be a good idea if he bought me out.

If he was interested in doing something else, then we could set this up as a passive income generator, but he's not interested in that
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Tracking Weight and What You Eat with Twitter
I've been modded a bit around on this, does anyone care to elaborate on whether this is a sensible method?
Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com
We launched http://futuretweets.com the day before yesterday. It's a small Twitter app build in Django that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

I'm really interested in what you guys think of it (design, functionality etc)

Cheers!
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I'm still young and cost of living here can be 15k/year. I can afford to take the risk right now.
Though it sounds catchy. I dont think the last statement is true. Google is(was) known for its less marketing budget, comparing it with any company would seem the company overspends on marketing.
Divide and Conquer: Open Source and SaaS Take on Enterprise Software
Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?
PDC 2008 thoughts so far (a marketing failure?)
Visual Studio IntelliSense available for jQuery
It looks like someone got a hold of the PR template Microsoft sends out to the "journalists" with the beta software.
John Doerr:  Ten Ways Not To Lose Your Shirt
Good idea. Thought of the same

Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.
Twitter squatting
Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use?

Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...
Barbarians at the Gate 2.0
Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link
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Don't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.
lack of diversity in type of ideas

news site: http://reddit.com

geolocation on cellphones: http://loopt.com

form builder: http://wufoo.com

server administration: http://virtualmin.com

electronic components: http://octopart.com

Etc, etc. Lack of diversity? It seems like these ideas span the whole range of Internet startups.
No, it does not have to be a game. We're just focusing our initial affiliate marketing on games because of the higher engagement.

The type of sites you mention will work well too. Send us a note through the Contact Us page on the website and we can help you figure out how much you could earn.
Why has it always a certain number?
7 Tips To Get Rich.
15.4 Ways To Get Smarter.
89 Ways to Kick Start Your Hacking.
28 Secrets To Be Whatever.
Don Syme's presentation has some nice code comparison, showing FP advantage. I hope that the videos will be published like last years.
"Expect staged payments
The buyer will usually pay 50% on completion (signing) of the contracts and 50% on successful transfer of the domain name(s). Make sure to start the domain transfer process the moment the contract is signed."

This is not quite the normal way that it works. In the last 12 months I have been involved in two major UK web acquisitions and, actually, the way it works is that a couple of % of the transaction value is kept as a retention for a full financial year after completion. This is in case of something going wrong (whatever that might be), the buyers will have a pool of cash big enough to sort out whatever is likely to happen. If everything checks out ok, then that cash will be released.
I found the video well worth watching, communicated to me much better than the bullet list. Some great points, esp "everything is renegotiable in this environment".

Re: (4) Defer unnecessary expenses Alternatives to MS Office have been good enough[1] for a while, but there has been no impetus to switch. Now there is...

[1] e.g. I've started using OpenOffice 2.0, and it's great. I'm sure it lacks some features of the latest MS Office suite... but honestly, Word 1.0 pretty much had the features I needed. The video mentions Google Docs, and a co. that uses it for everything.
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Comments are on a per-line, per-commit basis. No aggregate per-file means that readers are less likely to follow a thread.
The Next Generation of Microsoft Office | Office Live Team
Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship
I'd give 23andMe the nod over the Tesla because the former, at $1000 for the basic kit, is accessible to just about anybody who's interested enough to save up for a while: it's a disruptive technology. The latter is more of a high-end curiousity for those well-off enough to indulge in it, it's an incremental increase in both performance and price over previous electric cars. I'd love to trade in my BMW for a Tesla, but it's a 12 year old M3, and to get similar performance from an electric car I'd have to pay ~8 times as much money. That's not disruptive or revolutionary.
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Frugal Google Cuts Perks
Yahoo, AOL in due diligence on combination
Simple its as valuable as he wants it to be. If the company has filed suit and went to court they have already spent $25,000 or more just to file the paperwork. He should ask for the world and slowly go down from there.

In a prior job the company I was with renamed itself. The branding consultants and executive management found the perfect name and started moving forward with all the changes. Then they asked my VP about the websites and such. Of course the name was already registered. After approaching the domain owner about the name he requested $50,000. After haggling the domain owner happily took $20,000. My VP was actually authorized to spend $5 million to acquire that domain.

Point of the story, obviously want that domain badly so your initial amount should be painfully large. Just keep reminding your friend how (s)he felt the day all the legal paperwork was handed to him.
First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated
Well, take the risk if you wish, but why don't you just invest money in hiring people to make the product for you? Divide your time in half between both jobs, with a clear agreement with your partner that you will only spend half the time.

I just don't think that if you are a single person trying to work alone on an app that is aimed at the YC demographic that you will produce anything spectacular. When you work with other people, you'll tend to have more diverse opinions. And you will learn to juggle your responsibilites in a way that will train you for running a real business.

If you are just sitting at home alone working on your idea for one year, it's an entire year out of the 60 you got gone.
Creative destruction in the digital value chain
UML is a language to facilitate conversations about design and architecture. It's about collaboration, communication, and consensus.

People try to make it about another C -- Control. This is the whole MDA, MDD, etc scenario. In my opinion, it's not there yet -- for some of the reasons outlined.

Instead of having such verbose criticisms, it might be better just to use the language for what it's good for and ignore the rest. Life is short.
this is neat, i just used it on MAKE for a daily sub code discount. i'd like to have a feature where it can do a count down... for example each day the tweet could say...

there X number of days until Y ... blah blah

handy for events and other things i'd use it for.
23andMe genetic testing called top invention
U.S.-U.N. relations: an interesting site
Ok, here's my little rant...

I don't get this whole using a verb as a noun thing. It's stupid and when people use the word "fail" like this in all caps it makes them look stupid. Reddit is filled with trashy headlines like this and it's ridiculous. I may be alone here, but I would prefer a slightly higher level of discourse than what's over there. I can understand common grammar mistakes, but I have a hard time understanding why a person would choose to write or speak in a way that makes him look like a fool.

My other gripe is that this user, "thenextweb", only submits stories from thenextweb.org. Again, I may be alone, but I think that if you can't rely on your readers to submit links to your blog and constantly have to plug it yourself then it's not worth reading. We are not here to generate your ad revenue whenever you want to submit one of your own stories. If it's truly worthwhile it will no doubt make it's way here on its own.
There are any number of measures of aesthetics, but here's one to get you started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versification

It's about poetry, but all of the devices of poetry, including meter, are useful in prose.

This is one of those arguments that can't be won outright, but that doesn't mean some opinions aren't better (better reasoned, better informed) than others.

FWIW, I love Yegge's essays, but they ain't literature. They're too careless and breezy on any number of vectors -- more like a better than usual newspaper feature article. You know, something about the local Pumpkin Festival or whatever.
Nice looking site! However you also have competition from http://tweetlater.com. I hear that's what most people use for scheduling tweets at the moment.
And pchristensen is taken. Thanks for giving me the top too late, networkworld.com.
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It is just another line item for them in terms of cost, so don't be shy.

Remember that if they are going to use the domain for marketing purposes, they will be spending millions upon millions of dollars in advertising; so even $500K or more for the domain name is not a big deal to them.
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On a sort of sidenote, what is raganwalds claim to fame? I see the name popping up everywhere, but I'm not really sure what he does in particular.
23andMe isn't even an invention, it's an innovation at best and even that's a stretch.
Regarding the "FAIL" critism: FAIL is not just a word but a meme used on the web to describe something that went wrong. History of the Fail Meme: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1306942/memes_help_k...

About the Submit criticism: I also submit stories from other blogs and not every blog from TheNextWeb.org. Only stuff I think works for the Hacker News Community. But I will be more critical before I post links to our own blogs from now on.

Thanks..
We didn't make it. We seriously believe we have a strong aplication: experienced people (developers), revenue model, an advanced demo, and already very very good reviews from other people.
I am sure now that YC looks at two things basically:
-a team larger enough to have at least 2 guys working full-time until Demo Day (we had only one)
-younger coders (20-28) at most. We are 29, 31 y.o.

If you don't have those two things, you probably didn't make it in this round, since it was more competitive, even if you had a demo and your solution was very interesting.

Needless to say, we will move forward faster than ever now.
Most of the negative things I got in life turned out to be positive later if I look backwards. I hope it's true with YC rejection too. :)
She had enraged the entire left almost instantly. There was no analysis done, and once she had proven herself a 2nd rate intellect, the rage had turned to joy.
Learn more about the guy here:

http://reginald.braythwayt.com/
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I don't think that an hourly rate is going to do much to the price here. It's got to be measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions if they were willing to sue for it.
"Sorry for bringing this up"

No you're not.
Hah.

And the very next entry in the index is "marriage problem". :)
Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56
Developing a homoiconic entry in a distributed fashion.

How awesome
Hmm... It appears Wikipedia has stolen his list and filled in all the links, over the course of the last eight years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms
This is why PG likes to know usernames during the the funding cycle.
Startup Equity Distribution
How do we know if we made it? I didn't receive any email. Though I did receive a call from a blocked number last night, but I didn't hear it ring and no voice mail was left. Maybe... I doubt it though.
"have an alibi..."

...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."
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I don't get it. Honestly, what is his point? This seems like common sense.
A new winner for the most mystifyingly dead post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348571
Be sure to check your spam box for the email. Mine went there, strangely.
For great finance reads, read this and Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart.
Haven't read it, but on a similiar theme, I found (high-quality) images of G8 ID cards on Google Images (with special embossed string). It wouldn't be hard to make one and get into the summit.
Rumor: Scribd.com running out of money.
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According to the Bank of San Serriffe website (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html) I should be getting one of those "Certificates of Deposit to the Bank of San Serriffe" sometime (for 0x$1.20)-- I'll post a scan when it arrives.
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If JeOS (Just enough OS) only runs in virtualization, I'd tend to think of it more as NeOS.
Minimal ubuntu includes gnome? That is way overkill.
Anectoda: yesterday it snowed in New York as well. Last year at this time it was rather warm, until winter cold came suddenly by early november.

The article cites public polls as a source of information regarding global warming. Reminds me of the sequel of Dog Ville, where the time is decided by public voting, with terrible consequences.
Darn it! I was able to ignore this problem until Knuth brought it to my conscious attention!

Come to think of it, this also describes my approach to algorithms. ;) Darn you, Knuth! I used to be contented with bubble sort!
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> "It turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached."

dude...
I certainly wouldn't cash mine, but I wonder about Thorsten Dahlheimer, who appears to have racked up $2635.52-- now that's worthy of some major props.
Favorite:
"From now on it will be kudos, not escudos"
"It turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached."

/facepalm
You mean: be well informed.

Fear may motivate you to get informed, nothing else.
A lot of people have been funded who were older than you guys; so I seriously doubt that's part of their criteria.
Usability and web standards are practiced for good reasons. This form ignores all of them.
Ω Gregory Chaitin's Research Autobiography (Founder of Algorithmic Information Theory)
Does anyone recommend Barbarians at the Gate? Useful to startup founders or another big business story?
I think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)
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Seriously, what dunce would cash one of those?
It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP.

Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, as every self-confident startupper does, we truly believe into it and are sure that it will hit the Web, gain several billions and finally takeover both Google and Apple, so that every investor-who-ignored-us will kick themselves thinking of missed profit...

... but holy, where is that email?
When tipjoy launched, Mark Mayhew ( http://markmayhew.com/ ) claimed http://twitter.com/tipjoy for us, and gave me the keys. It was really nice.
I wonder if people are flagging YC rejection emails as spam out of spite.
Good idea... Thanks!
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You can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)
It might not be conventional but if you stuck this form in front of someone that had never used a web based form before I think they'd find it quite usable.

As for ignoring web standards have you looked at the markup? It's compliant HTML5: http://adactio.com/journal/1524/
still missing mail as well. you get google and apple and i'll take amazon and ebay. deal?