skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty trite. I think everybody understands that NDAs are uncool with the cool.

And it's true that the NDA can look pretty stupid when you're some random hacker guy who hasn't done anything and you seem to be taking yourself incredibly seriously with these contracts and agreements of secrecy.

But so what? If you think you're idea is good enough for an NDA, then ask for one. If you're wrong, you'll find out soon enough. But if you're right... the NDA just might work out for you.
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I'm always confused how people can comment on an article they didn't read.
I highly doubt these guys are doing any recommendations stuff that I am targeting.
It's been interesting to see the progression of Apple's pricing strategy. Up to that point they were always expected to focus on the high-end of the market.

Two things changed after the iPod 1) they successfully began competing on lower price points as well, eventually capturing 75% or so of the MP3 market and 2) they began releasing products that undercut previous products, think Apple TV and iPad.

The big question for Apple's future is whether they will be successful in competing on the low-end of the market or be pushed back to the high-end only by Android and others.
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When will the video be available?
Mr. Bloomberg, please continue full speed ahead on technology innovation in New York.

The statement that the day is coming that people will not remember that New York was not the #1 tech hub in the world goes beyond just achieving #1 status. Your belief that New York could outpace Silicon Valley at such a pace demonstrates that you either really don't understand the level to which Silicon Valley is established, or you misspoke.

Techstars coming to your city is the equivalent of five movies being filmed in New York and declaring that Hollywood was soon on the way to being the second city of movies. Cool your ego, and maybe you'll have a shot at establishing yourself as the #2 tech hub a generation from now.
You have to follow your heart. I graduated high school early because I hated it too. It is never to early to start building those relationships and the valley is the place where age doesn't matter. Many of the very successful people are self taught and just followed their passion. Don't listen to me or anyone else, you have to do what is right for you with the information that you have.
Look at how Apple's stock price got a short pounding this week because they "didn't meet analyst expectations", citing a fall in iPhone sales.

People were waiting for the new phone to launch. Apple moved nearly USD $3,000,000,000 in product in a single weekend just after the quarter ended and before the earnings report. And still, the stock got sold off.

I've heard that Apple tends to underestimate their earnings, and I'm starting to wonder if Jobs played the 4S launch date just to screw with market analysts even more.
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Use Safari. The video doesn't seem to be loadable in any other browser. It WFM in Safari and iOS Safari. Other browsers say "Check back soon."
Wait, what the hell? This is open source? How do you make money? This is amazing! I'm switching over to it right now.
Here are the official CBS YouTube links for those that prefer that method:

One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jqSK8Qv4ZY&feature=chann...
Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXcfDN6L9d8&feature=chann...
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My friend Bob heard about a company trying out new toasters that makes the test customers sign an NDA before using the toaster.

That may seem crazy but I assure you almost nobody out there knows what those toasters do. And the people who do know aren't talking.
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The only reason I am even considering an LLC for my one person software company is patent trolls.
Perhaps it's only obvious to me, but unless a corporation has great products that customers want to buy, the long-term shareholder value can only fall. Customers buying a corporation's products is a prerequisite to profits at said corporation. Isn't that what shareholders want?

If a company goes bankrupt, pays penalties, has bad press, etc because executives can't take a long-term view, how is that good for shareholders?
Interests and Hobbies seem to be boilerplate resume sections too, but no one with any significant experience should include them.
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If you watch it from an iOS device and you have Apple TV, you can Airplay it to your Apple TV.
Correct, but the survey has to have some option to specify non-belief so I think it's valid to include it as a choice. It's like saying: "Religion: none" and null is technically a valid value in this case.
Open-source doesn't have to mean non-profit. I make money with premium accounts -- accounts are free up until 64 feeds. Also, feeds are updated more often for premium users (but only for feeds that they are the sole subscriber, otherwise they get the collective benefit of multiple subscribers).

Sure, folks can host their own copy of NewsBlur and keep it up to date. But it's a PitA, and I have 7 servers happily chugging away fetching, parsing, storing, and retrieving feeds for you. Hosting is worth is a lot.

The main idea behind open-sourcing the code is so that a community can develop around the API, new features, and user-contributed code. I've had a number of pull requests and issues found in the code thanks to NewsBlur's many talented developer users.
Interests, hobbies, and education are what you put on a thin resume to fill it out.
Thanks, Cory!

What do you mean by "better as a blog"? It's currently presenting the most recent entries (like a blog) and includes category links (like a blog). I'm curious what ideas you have.
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Code is not prose. The layout rules that apply to a written article do not (necessarily) apply.

I prefer code that can be quickly scanned, and hard wrapping at 80 columns (IMO) doesn't facilitate this.

If someone doesn't like it, they can turn on text wrap.
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I much prefer to have vocals in my music, so my solution is to listen to songs in a language I don't understand or no language at all — Faye Wong, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Rós, etc.
At a guess, they toast bread.
Preference is given oddly to Snow Leopard and iOS devices.

From page source:
/snowLeopard url/
var slURL = "http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11ajdjnvkjnd10weoihf23...;

/* non-snowLeopard url/
var nonSlURL='http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/oct/10oiuhfvojb23/checkba...;

/Windows url/
var windowsURL = 'http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/oct/10oiuhfvojb23/checkba...;

/iphone url /
var iphoneURL = "http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/oct/10oiuhfvojb23/memoria...;

/ipad url*/
var ipadURL= "http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/oct/10oiuhfvojb23/memoria...;
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I did. I dug it out last night and charged it up. It's still working great. It's got a bunch on my music from 04-05 on it, quite a nostalgic commute this morning.

I think e big hurdle for Windows users back then was the FireWire requirement. Not many PCs shipped with FireWire.
Phone numbers and addresses are fast becoming like email addresses. In the same way that you can assume putting your email address into any website form that requests it will eventually result in spam, putting your phone number into any phone or your address into the database of any service provider will eventually result in a "leak".

We are to the point that to maintain any semblance of privacy, you need at least two email accounts (one you don't mind getting spammed), two phone numbers (one you don't care about facebook and others tracking) and two addresses (a mailing address/box service and your actual physical address).
I have a laptop as my only computer, and I would love to eliminate its largest flaw relative to a desktop machine. Not to say that you're wrong, just that I think there's a market for something docklike as more and more people have only a laptop.
Titles are bullshit. At some companies almost every salesperson is a VP of Sales, Western Antarctica (or whatever) -- it's a free way to make customers feel important.
Judging by the pictures, they started under cover of darkness where they wouldn't be found out until the project was nearly finished.
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Plotted against years in business would give me a measure of where I am based upon my experience.
Back when the demographics worked, Paul Samuelson said that Social Security was a ponzi scheme. Yup, Samuelson with a Nobel prize in Econ.

However, there are a couple of differences. Ponzi schemes are voluntary and you only lose the money you put in. Neither is true of SS.
Kids are not miniature adults with the same ability to reason about and process data as adults.

Correct, which is why you walk them through the process the first few times. Your approach is to hide the information and hope for the best.

But that is something kids grow into

No, it is not. Reasoning is a skill, and an understanding of human psychological impulses and drives is something that should be part of a child's upbringing. This can and should start as soon as the child's old enough to read or watch TV.

Oh, and, really, you think you can tell me I've made terrible mistakes as a parent when you know nothing about me but a few sentences you've read on the Internet? You feel good about that?

Sure. Your kids are eventually going to be voting on what information adults can and cannot have access to, and it sounds like you're not preparing them to make decisions I'd agree with. So I'm objecting as strongly as I can without crossing any lines.
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> The problem is that the government rescued the banks with public bailouts, at a time when a true capitalist system would have put them out of business.

Umm, the bank bailouts aren't the big problem. They turned a profit, and since the subprime crisis was mostly due to govt action....

The big problem is the other bailouts and subsidies. They're never going to pay off.
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I'm cautiously hopeful about Ninefold, but keep in mind they had some serious (multiple day) downtime a month or so back. I'm sure they'll get on top of their operations soon enough, hopefully before Amazon becomes the local gorilla-in-the-corner in the local market...
The purpose of a corporation is not to maximize shareholder value, per se. It’s to allow a group of people to work together under a legal framework, which includes things like public offerings of stock. Shareholders can buy into that for whatever reason they want.

(Also, this article makes business theory sound frighteningly simplistic and divorced from markets. I hope I am wrong.)
The challenge for Apple here is to maintain both the 'premium' cache while remaining competitively priced.

As this article states, they've done very well in marketing the Air. Everybody seems to be comparing Apple's $999 11" Air with competitors 13" products. The 13" starts at $1300, so the competitors are often priced $300+ less, with the exclusion of the Samsung Series 9.
Yeah, clicking the corners is key. I was clicking in the middle, or close to it and wondering why nothing was happening.
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On a Mac, you can have the QuickTime app open this URL:

http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11ajdjnvkjnd10weoihf23...
Your sentiment is clearly well-meant, but that course of action just as well could result in a disaster as it could a happy outcome.

From a data aggregation perspective, it is (unpleasantly) fascinating to me that a programming choice in an ostensibly opt-in social networking database has resulted in a public bulletin-board discussion of what could be perhaps the most private part of a person's life.

Examples like this are the perfect answer to the dangerous nonsense propounded by the "anonymity needs to go away" crowd. Not everyone's life is or should be an open book.
I did the same thing! To save the reader the work:

IDC predicted in 2001 that the mp3 player market in 2005 would be around 18M devices. In 2005, Apple alone sold 31M iPods.
It was posted and discussed yesterday too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146466
If you ever start your own company - trust me, you'll be extremely interested in maximizing shareholder value. You may also want to satisfy customers and build amazing experiences but as the owner of the company, you will also care very much about the value of your shares.
"I prefer code that can be quickly scanned, and hard wrapping at 80 columns (IMO) doesn't facilitate this."

Then you shouldn't hard wrap at 80. Subject to any agreements with your team members. :)

I'm just speculating on why some people recommend to break at 80, which was originally the length of a physical punch card and so has nothing much to do with readability in and of itself. Fundamentally, 80 is likely just the most likely common denominator (MLCD).
This seems like markets 101 (and I mean that as no dis to above commenter, but as amazement that so few companies get this).

Apple worked like markets are supposed to work. That Apple was exceptional means that there is still a lot of cruft to be cleared out.
Although I agree with this article, I would take it one step further and say that the reason for a corporation to exist should be to improve society as a whole. Society grants corporations certain expanded rights and protections (more now than ever) because we believe it is a net improvement to the world. We should therefore expect certain behavior. If a corporation damages the public at large for the benefit of a few shareholders what have we gained?
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Yes, but Linode oversells their machines more. You get what you pay for.
No dis taken. :)
You must live in a low cost area, because you're overestimating the rent in high cost areas.

I live in New York City (Manhattan, even) and believe me, you can get a one bedroom for less than $2000 a month (in Manhattan, even!). And certainly you can't put the entire state of California into the "expensive" category.
Oh, sure, the two questions were actually sort of unrelated. The "I can't be arsed" factor is pretty high on this, so I'd probably get an account rather than set my own thing up, but it's nice to know that I can if I need to. To clarify, the open source version has everything the premium account has, correct?
You seem to have misread the link you have given. It is, in fact, known that almost all numbers are normal.
> The porcelain, however, is incoherent and riddled with special cases.

Really? I'd ask you "Such as?" but I don't think any individual example is sufficient, since you say "riddled", so many examples would be required to illustrait your point. Individual commands may be conceptually overloaded, but overall I've found the interface to be quite consistent internally.

I've managed projects with both Mercurial and Git and have found that Git is consistently easy to use, where as Mercurial is very easy to use for the common case, and downright frustrating to use for advance cases.

The bottom line is that Git's UI assumes you know what you are doing. For the average corporate developer, that means that Mercurial is probably a better choice. Since Hg is optimized for the primary use cases. Git is about making simple things simple and complex things simple. Hg is about making simple things easy and complex things possible.
This may sound odd but it worked for me:

Rearrange the room you work in. Spend a day cleaning and rearranging the furniture of your room. I moved my desk from facing a wall to facing outdoors and the small change in scenery helped me be more productive.

Sometimes familiar environments become stagnant. I personally like to see change around me because it invigorates me (which is why I can't run on a treadmill).
Something which has always disturbed me about the community is the macabre fascination with funding and exits.

Obviously these are healthy steps in the progression of some businesses, but at times it seems HN focuses on them to the exclusion of whether a startup actually contributes something worthwhile. It is probably arguable that those things represent a reasonable proxy for the value created (or expected to be created) by the business. Then again, there are plenty of funded (and acquired) business models which are based on cynical exploitation of the less-educated for the benefit of the business owner, at a net cost to society as a whole.

If an SV entrepreneur-type is more focused on getting funded or making an exit than creating net value to society, I think it is fair to draw ethical comparisons with the WS banker-type.
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Poll: for US people, What is your compensation?
Responding to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3147885 I wanted to put this to a poll. Note that, for those who recently quit their jobs to do a startup, vote based on your compensation from your latest job.

I am aware of the various biases in the question :)
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Let's put it to a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3148005
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The mechanics are similar, but the motivations are different - in a Ponzi Scheme, the numbers need to keep growing to keep paying out ever-increasing amounts, otherwise people will abandon the scheme. The payouts from Social Security will go down (or inflation will eat them, or some other equivalent) if less gets put in; but it won't kill the scheme. Young people will still put money in, because they have no choice.

Social Security isn't a magic pot of gold. Nobody believes it is. It's welfare that's designed to give more welfare to the people who contributed more when they are able, and less to the people who didn't contribute.
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Yes, it does, but setting up a premium account for yourself is not automatic. You need to know how to read code to do it. Here are the relevant Python commands:

>>> u = User.objects.get(username='StavrosK')
>>> u.profile.active_premium()

That will flip the premium bit on your account. Perhaps I should add that to the self-hosting documentation.
Likewise, I've been cold-called or cold-emailed by many a "senior recruiter", but never a "junior recruiter" or even simply a "recruiter".
> It's this type of wording that can give life to stupid ideas such as 'you can run a business without making a profit'.

It is stupid.

The point here is, I think, money is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. And such an idea has been spreading.
Yea, the problem is that "shareholder value" is defined as stock price, which is flawed.
I wonder if it is by trading machines running algorithms.
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This kind of poll would be more useful if you made it bi or trivariate. Years experience is an important tie-in, and highest level of education could reveal interesting trends.
"... What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? ..."

Scott McCloud wrote a whole book explaining why, "Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technol... a quick summary: he's trying to redefine & elevate comics from being mere cartoon strips in newspapers or the plastic covered, pulp superhero "comix" you find in dingy comic book stores to a higher art-form through new technology & imagination ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html
Well, the first generation iPod wasn't compatible with Windows and a FireWire port was required. The second gen iPod came in two versions: one for Mac, and one for Windows. iTunes for Windows came a year after that. It wasn't until the third gen that iPods became compatible with USB. In the fifth ten iPod (end 2005) that became the only way to connect an iPod to a computer. By then, the iPod provided more revenue than the sales of Macs did, but those saw enormous growth as well -- which is largely attributed to 'the halo effect'. [1]

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/26/apple-has-moved-on/
A bunch of short clips, out of context, with refutations cut out. Pretty much all of them engaging in the logical fallacy called "argument from ignorance". Pretty much all of them pre-supposing their god's existence.

Lame.
Ah, thanks. I'm assuming the admin interface will also work? Regardless, I have found my old Newsblur account and will keep on using that, I'm a far cry from 64 feeds anyway (I think I only have one or two unique ones).

Thanks again for a great product!
But sometimes the value added is not morally obtained. Western countries derive a lot of value from resource rich countries that are impoverished. Unfortunately that value often times comes at the expense of great environmental and social damage done to these countries.

Chasing profits for the sake of profit without regard to morality is bad. As a famous saying goes, the love of money is the root of all evil. It's not true in every case but the spirit of the adage is true and society ought not to forget this.
What I get from this interview is that Steve Jobs was a self centered control freak. That eventually died because of it. Not sure why anyone worships this man.
Planned economy has been attempted in several countries. Their death record isn't exactly shining.
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> you can get a one bedroom for less than $2000 a month (in Manhattan, even!)

Some might think you're including Harlem, Washington Heights, etc. I pay <$1600 for a 1BR in Murray Hill (midtown).
I suppose the first $1000 could be justified as a wild investment into curiosity and possibility, depending on whether or not his business could easily afford it. A little bit of that risk-taking every now and again can pay off, if you have luck or insight.
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Those who think the bank bailouts aren't the big problem may want to read this famous article, "The Great American Bubble Machine"[1].

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...
I can only dream of achieving so much such that when I die, I can have popular bands play at a memorial event for me. That aside, I strongly suggest everyone watch the segment where Ive spoke. It's quite touching.