skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even watch to the end?

The alternative he proposes is not communism. At least, not in the top-down governmental-controlled sense of communism tried in Russia, China and the like. He's not suggesting the end of large companies, small companies, or companies with outside investors (shareholders). There is no reason why startups could not exist or flourish if organised along the lines he suggests. In fact, startups would probably be the best place to try implementing his ideas, to show if (that?) they can work.

Neither is it overly political. He has a go at Republicans and Democrats alike. Maybe a bit more so at Republicans, but they do make themselves easier targets w.r.t. rampant 1%-centricism.
That's true, though the difference doesn't matter to me that much as a user.
I agree, but what makes his writing so good? What's his secret sauce that makes it so readable?
I think dhh just threw a lot of traffic at Curebit. Would be good to find out how many more users Curebit got today.
In the U.S., you can make a contract to sell just about anything in the future. Sell away. Unless its people, don't sell those. Or financial instruments; don't sell those either without filling out the right forms. Just know that if you don't deliver what the contract says, people generally want their money back.
Gotcha. Honestly I probably picked "silly" to get clicks ;-)
Is the tweet war in the article real? Sounds way over the top for what is simply a landing page. I suppose they didn't make millions out of it. Kind of makes you sympathize with curebit (but a good opportunity to get to know them).

PS. the Rocket logo thing dhh is referring to is a stock image, i 've even used it myself! http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-5418738/stock-vector-retr...

PS 2: Is dhh always so irritable?

PS 3: Reminds of the oatmeal vs funnyjunk situation, but much less civil http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2
Of course. As far as I'm concerned, you'd need a very good reason not to use UTF-8.
OMG, that's really really stupid. (1) It's incredible stupid to just copy sites, (2) it's retarded to keep references to files hosted on other servers and (3) it's incredible retarded to tweet to dhh "chill dude", imo a huge lack of respect & social feeling.

YC has to look out, a few more of these stupid incidents and the YC brand will lose it's golden shine.. if you 're a 16 yo. kid you can make this "mistake", if your a YC company with $ 1.5 m in funding you can't imo.
Exceptions are always possible. If you can make the arguement that it is the case, then by all means. That would be the point of negotiation. If I call you on a discrepancy and you have a proof that you have specific expertise that are worth the difference, the ball is then in my court to evaluate if we want to pay for it and if it is indeed worth it.

However, even if I determine you're worth it, I will counter with a trial period and say (in writing) that you will get your top offer when and if you prove your worth to me and to the company. I am curious to know how would you react to that type of counter, if you don't mind sharing.

The original comment, though, lead me to believe that the poster does this as a rule, asking for 120% of the top and expecting to get 90%. And while it is often the case that these hiring managers do play the game, I am merely drawing the attention that there are people out there like me (albeit probably not very common) who are not going to look favourably at ridiculous salary requests.

I can't help my gut reaction. I do, however, make room to change my mind and if there is meat behind your request, I will readjust my thinking. If I catch you in a bluff, however, because you think it's what you're supposed to do...outcome - not so good. :-)
I have huge respect for my team, don't worry.
Innovation Accounting
> Don't they have a PR guy or something to shut them up before they say things they might regret?

Have you not heard of 37signals before this?
Munin Monitoring -- Temperature
This is really well done and funny. You missed one... https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-Browser...
If I hadn't blogged personally 10 years ago, I'd not have been approached to write a book for Apress. Without that book I wouldn't have launched the professional blog that was my main source of income for several years (more than the book was!). Without that professional blog, I wouldn't have got the podcasting gigs or launched the weekly newsletter which has now turned into 5 profitable newsletters and has just helped me become co-chair of an O'Reilly conference.

This is not to brag but to show the "chains" that can happen by putting yourself out there. It's totally unpredictable but increasing your "luck surface area" has amazing outcomes. Also, consider Jeff Atwood, a similar chain arises.
Brainstorming Doesn't Work
They are not a 'normal' startup. With 1.2M, they can hire designer from Asia which probably cheaper rate compare to the state. Looking at the founder respond on twitter, He clearly have no idea about design and how web works.
The night is darkest just before the dawn. Are you sure you fail?
Interesting that the iOS download is .5mb, which is the lowest I ever remember seeing. And probably 50x the size of the original version.
True, but changing the little checks to little middle finger bullets would have been a much more elegant method of retaliation.
WYSIWYG is to web design what paint-by-number is to painting.
Interesting. I am not sure about others but I have always had ideas outside the "work box".
Perhaps, but definitely not from a technical perspective. They're often going to be the simplest. A good WYSIWYG tool would make iterating on the design much easier.
Figure out a way to buy her out or whatever needs to be done to get her out of the picture, how can someone take a year off as a startup founder? That doesn't make sense.
Most sites aren't going to be demoing a bunch of different fonts like this. They'd likely pick one for headers and one for copy.
Are you referring to bona-fide journalists, or the advocates with cameraphones?

I got stuck in the middle of our local occupy grop as they broke up and did a spontaneous march through rush hour traffic when I was walking to the bus. The newspaper and other reporters were clearly distinguishable from the mob, but there were plenty of wannabe "journalists" broadcasting from cameraphones. Those folks were more like PR flacks than journalists. I saw similar stuff in NYC as well.

I'm speaking from the perspective of my experience. If cops somewhere else are cracking the heads of reporters (vs. participants), I'm not aware of it.
Honestly, most people that I run into don't really understand how Google+ works. Basically it is the same poor, unintuitive UI that we've come to expect from Google.

For example, how does a new user really learn what a circle is? And how does someone recognize what each input control is when sharing a post (at least one input box has no hints at all). I've personally seen people completely baffled by their first experiences with the product.

And it seems each "update" just adds more tedium and complexity. Volume for circles is a necessary evil, but it should have been done in a much less intrusive and time-consuming way.

Google seriously needs to rethink their entire UI strategy.

Eg, why should I have to set a volume for each circle? Couldn't they figure out a better way for me to provide hints as
There are severe issues disassociating files from their native character set when you start dealing with east asian languages and the large amount of existing systems that you are dealing with. Forcing everyone in the world to use UTF-8 is not a legitimate option: it's great if you don't already have something more powerful (like MIME), but it should not dismantle existing known/working setups.
don't explain it! you are killing the fun...
An honest question (and thank you for not using the term stealing!=)), but you listed 4 reasons. Just curious about where it crosses the line for you. If someone does A, is it still a grey area? Is it because of B? C? D?

Personally, I see it as A. B, C, and D merely exasperate the situation, but without A, B, C, and D aren't an issue.

Of course, the follow up is if it's because of B, C, and D that it isn't in a grey area?
I am fairly certain that this reflects the wishes of the audience.
I don't know if there's more context to the quotes in the article, but DHH comes off as an annoying dick.

My startup uses CSS we bought off of themeforest.net.[1] Using it certainly doesn't require more design skill than copying 37signals. Is it original? I really don't give a damn, and neither do my customers.

[1] ...and subsequently had to reimplement nearly from scratch, because people with great design sense seem to be incapable of creating solid, structured CSS. Thank zeus for Twitter Bootstrap.[2]

[2] Even less original than "stealing" someone else's design.
A lot of people here are only referring to them ripping off 37signals' design. They ripped more than that.

http://yfrog.com/oejp7cp Curebit vs. Kinoma

Sharebooster's logo is stolen directly from LaunchBit: http://yfrog.com/odx67yoj

No one can defend the theft of a logo.
We just got the same comment on the Kickstarter page. Here's my response: Thanks for your comment. Yeah we thought of that too, and thought that it might be necessary to solve the problem of how it detects you and not your partner. But, through testing we found that the partner problem is easily solved by almost any nightstand placement. Also, regarding having an extra module, that adds a lot of complexity to the design and adds cost. Plus, I wouldn't want to have to check to make sure the remote module is charged and make sure it "pairs" with the iPhone each night before bed. Also, we really wanted a nightstand charging dock anyway. That way, your phone has a dedicated place to go home to every night and get charged. We are hoping that people will like it enough just for being a charging dock, and the IR sensor with the smart wake-up is an extra feature that we can expand upon in a number of ways. Well anyway, those were our reasons for doing it this way. But we do appreciate your feedback, because we are always trying to think of ways to make it better.
Wont this hurt potential startup websites? Also, couldnt you still visit the offending website directily? In addition, if the keyword stream was blocked wouldnt Last.Fm be screwed from potential visits?
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I don't want to sound cynical, so please respond. I'm willing to see both sides the issue. I have known some great people in HR, as well.

I worked for Intel. Their HR is a nightmare. Be careful about telling them anything (more than what you are legally obligated).

When they get pushy, push back. Intel has deep enough pockets to handle a little push-back from their employees.
Novak Djokovic vs Rafael Nadal live: 2012 Australian Open final.
"And no one in Northern California addressed this issue, or led a charge to start paying for content."

Netflix? iTunes? Amazon? Hulu?

Once a cheap, frictionless, legal method is available then most people are happy to pay for content. Netflix, for me, is "better than free" as it cuts out the hassle, time and legal risk involved with less legitimate methods of downloading.

There's plenty of precedent for companies who try to do this, but the labels and studios are doing their best to make it as difficult as possible to innovate in this space.

Doesn't Ycombinator actively dissuade music-related startups because licensing is essentially impossible for smaller companies? Sure I remember reading that on their site recently.
So what are the first two fonts? That's frustrating they're not named.
In addition to the four-square article above, Edmunds has the fascinating account of a writer who went undercover as a car salesman. It includes the four-square technique, and tons more:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...
The author read Steve's biography and came away thinking Steve was some kind of superhero. He argues Steve used his weaknesses along with his strengths to become some kind of miraculous management guru, successfully motivating his top talent despite being "prickly".

That's not the same book I read. I was a big Steve supporter, but I've lost most of the respect I had for the man after reading his biography. The book I read showed an immature, volatile, rude and cold man who had more luck than he deserved. Sure Steve was smart, and he was by all accounts charismatic. But at the end of the day, he wasn't a very good human being. Steve acted like an impetuous child. He was an orphan who in turn abandoned his own children. He sounded like a terrible husband and an even worse friend. His management style to me sounded like that of a three year old. Screaming, crying, pitching fits and generally caring only about himself.

I think the author is giving Steve too much credit for the way he handled his top employees. There were plenty listed in the biography who left, disgusted by him. If Steve had even an ounce of empathy for others, I imagine he could have gone even farther than he did.
there is a good article by Ben Horowitz to this point. http://bhorowitz.com/2011/02/23/is-it-ok-to-hire-people-from...

what happened here is much bigger than a deal that goes between two friends who run a startup. it by all means seems like collusion by the overlords to ensure the minions are kept where they are to 'serve' them ( a minor exaggeration). Parts of this story is revolting, like firing and making an example of the recruiter who poached a google employee.This sickens me and is surprising , probably cause, I am not cynical enough..
A good question is how does this get fixed? Why are we still tied down to this arcane system that has been finely tuned to exploit it's own customers? Why is it so hard to start an honest bank?

Seriously, how do we start non-exploitative banks? I would love to write software that helped make it happen.
Also, regarding the aesthetics, maybe we can round the corners a bit more on the final design. Do you think that would be enough, or are you suggesting an entirely different shape? We probably don't want to change the whole shape, since our Kickstarter backers are going to want to receive what they saw when they placed their order, but we could probably make a few tweaks here and there. We haven't bought the molds yet. If the "look" of the product ends up being a big concern for everyone (or for Apple), we can easily release multiple styles once we get our funding and get into Production. Thanks again, this is something we didn't expect to hear.
Distraction Manager Idea
I have an idea for a plugin that would help manage distractions by tracking the websites you visit, and then charging you every time you open a site that wastes your time. For example, if I visit Facebook, I would be charged a penny. If I clicked on any page on Facebook, I would also be charged a penny.

You could set a certain amount of page exemptions for specific sites (ie I could read 10 Hacker News articles a day without being charged), and you could set your own price for each page click (if you're wealthy, you're probably not going to care about a penny and may instead want to do 5 cents or more). Basically, the structure of the app is completely in your control. You can even turn it off or on depending on your schedule.

My initial thought (and only basing this on me so far) is that this would be better than apps like SelfControl because it wouldn’t be completely denying the behavior. With SelfControl, I get pissed that the app is telling me what I can and can’t do. With this app though, I would still have complete freedom, it would just be coming at a more apparent cost.

Proceeds of the app would just go to me. Rather than feeding a charity where you might feel “good” about yourself in spite of wasting time reading worthless crap on the internet, it should be an additional incentive that you’re just feeding me, the selfish developer.

It seems to me like this community would be the target audience for this type of thing. I want to get an initial sense though if people are receptive before I build a test version and see how users respond. So what do you guys think? Would you use it, or is it addressing the symptoms of distraction moreso than the problem?
I've only been using Chrome for a couple years, but when I try to use Firefox or Safari now, I inevitably start typing searches into the address bar. Every. Single. Time.

I don't think I'll ever be able to use a browser with two text-entry fields again.
At first at thought "He-Man on HN?", then after reading the article I had a good laugh as it brought me back to the good old days as a child, and now how have complete understanding of how cheesy He-man really was but sadly didn't see it until now, yep ignorance is bliss.
Feel free to change the prefix passed to the packages you install by hand. /usr/local is the default used by almost all packages I am familiar with, if for example you want /opt you have to modify that yourself.
Related to this, what are good book authoring tools? Or at least the ones you use for writing stuff that can be exported to pdf, html or printed out. I'm talking things in the line of Tex, Docbook, etc.
> As someone that writes HTML for a living I couldn't imagine using a WYSIWYG editor.

You can't imaging using any existing WYSIWYG editor. I would argue that using Firebug to make changes, see them in real time, and have the code auto-saved is just begging for a good WYSIWYG editor. Image if a WYSIWYG editor could create decent markup and css and provide perfect cross-browser support for all relatively modern browsers. You still couldn't imagine using it?
In a month, everyone will forget this, and Curebit will be well on its way to success. Disagree? Just look at the AirBnb stories (Craigslist spamming AND the user getting her house wrecked). Move on.. nothing to see here, just drama and egos.
I think Adobe is working on something like this. Though Dreamweaver leaves much to be desired, I think what their working on is something completely different. Plus, the announcement that they're committed to HTML5 is more or less a hint of this. My guess is that it's something like Adobe Flash Builder, but instead of Flash, it outputs HTML5.
The stand-alone app seems pretty popular, but we really don't like the idea of putting the phone under your pillow or on the corner of your bed every night. The charging cords are never long enough, you may not hear your alarm, and the system may not pick up your movement properly. The iDreamSaver solves all of these problems, and it also provides you with an extra charger and a dock, so you have a place to put your phone every night before bed and you don't have to worry about charging any more.
I am not a Photoshop wiz, but isn't it a lot easier to change a pixel offset by 2 pixels in text than in photoshop?
"try try again"
> we bought

There's the difference. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523402
They systematically ruined people's lives and systematically reduced market pay. They rely on paying market wages and site that in their negotiations. I was able to make 40% more at the other company. The only other side should be removing all HR employees and rehiring. Someone should have been a whistle blower and any and all HR people at those companies who did not say something should be ashamed of themselves.
The display face is Abril Fatface and the body is set in Open Sans.
On a related note, there are tons of gems like this out there, and there are a handful of awesome sub-reddits dedicated to keeping lists of them:

http://csbooks.reddit.com

http://physicsbooks.reddit.com

http://mathbooks.reddit.com

http://econbooks.reddit.com

http://eebooks.reddit.com/

etc.
He's not pissed off at elance
https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/163363094834319360

Also interesting: https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/163190258593304576

I think this cooled down a lot quicker if Grant had made a better reply. DHH didn't start out by calling them scumbags. (See his twitter feed)
Robot Simulator Evolves Neural Nets that Paint and Use Electronic Drugs
Another rss reader, I'm so happy!
Cellular Automaton uses Two Million Neurons to Learn to Read Brainfuck
Apology to 37signals
You can change where packages are installed using some make.conf flags. You can then install the software anywhere you want. Your users will need to add the new path to their PATH and you'll need to set some flags in rc.conf to pick up the new rc.d path as well (so software installed through ports gets auto-started).

Then again, when you install ports you as the sysadmin are installing those by hand ...
You can't really include Hulu in that list since it is based out of LA (souther California) and was started by "Hollywood" via the TV networks.

Also, while it does match the spirit of what you are saying, most of Amazon is in Washington state rather than Northern California. (Not sure where exactly the video team is based.)
In what way is the world a better place when you have to reimplement the design from scratch - as opposed to a world where anyone can copy a design (assuming some credit is given)?

Sounds like the latter world will free up a lot of resources for more useful creative work.
From Paulo Coelho's blog:
(http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-b...)
"...Nowadays, I run a ‘Pirate Coelho’ website, giving links to any books of mine that are available on P2P sites.
And my sales continue to grow — nearly 140 million copies world wide..."

Chapeau and a great lesson how to do things:

One other way: We should stop accepting the labeling of sites with termini that create negative soundings with the Vogons of the Entertainment industry and instead play their game against them by using terminology that they are more familiar with. That will also make some of them actually read critical material.

In this case how about "agile communications on literature" or "active user engagement with the content" or maybe "community building beyond consumption" (Sorry for the high levels of nonsense but the best way to beat an overly strong enemy is using their weaknesses and their weapons against them.)
Caveat: I take almost nothing personally, but I feel like every now and again someone will accidentally let something slip in a joking or casual context that you should take personally. A criticism they would normally be too polite to say, for example.

You have to be able to identify them among everything else in casual conversation that should not be taken seriously though.

Also, to be clear, I don't mean "take offense"- I mean, treat it as actionable critique, for example.
OpenID in the same category of IE5.

Ouch.

That hurts.
"""Are you referring to bona-fide journalists, or the advocates with cameraphones?"""

In a free country, should it matter?