skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember going to a start-up event a year or so ago at the ORRICK (orrick.com) building in downtown San Francisco that showcased a few start-ups. I remember they had pamphlets out promoting the services they could provide to startups. I don't have any direct experience with their services though. I also remember reading about a lawyer here that focuses mainly on start-ups but his name escapes me at the moment. I'll try and dig it up later.
"However, the word Adult actually means being of a certain age, and perhaps you would like to assume that everyone of that age has that level of maturity and prudence."

It is pretty common usage to use the term adult to imply maturity, responsibility, etc. For example, when Apple was hemorrhaging money in the mid 90s, there were a lot of jokes about them needing "adult supervision," in spite of the fact that the people working there were above the age of 18.

"I think what you really mean is that adults ought not to o these things, and if they do these things, they are defective in some way, and therefore don't count."

I think he is simply saying that people can freely make whatever bad choices they want, but they also must be allowed to freely experience the direct consequences of those choices. Pretty much the standard libertarian viewpoint.

"As proof of this, I give you George W. Bush."

Another example where "adult supervision needed" jokes were made. (When Robert Gates came on board, for example.)
You have a point with the manuals, however my mother calls Dell support regularly, and uses the Microsoft online help stuff a lot. My sister has used AppleCare support a few times as well. My wife uses the iWork help application and tutorial app.

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My prevailing attitude is to tell folks to use OS X on the desktop and linux on the server, regardless if they are a hacker or my mom:)
I understand his meaning, but this kind of a boneheaded thing for a CEO to say.
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I have a hunch that Lamarck will eventually be rehabilitated.
Or htmlize.el (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Htmlize ).
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"A stable solution will effectively put the decision of how much to borrow in the hands of someone else: Banks, Governments etc. not consumers."

Subprime crisis. National debt.

Are you SURE you want banks or governments making decisions about credit for consumers?

And that is the problem: a loss of financial prudence and risk assessment faculties from the very bottom of our society to the very top. Consumers, banks, governments, all making the same bad choices at every level of society.

As Pogo said: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
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Setup a Google BLog Alert with the keywords/phrases that relate to your product. Every time someone talks about it,contact that person and tell them what you think of their article (be honest) and shamelessly plugin your application. They expect that and they need the stories.

Affiliate marketing. I can never promote this enough. Sign up for PepperJam, Commission Juntion or Sharesale and pay only when you make a sale. Or pay for sign ups.

If your product may interest businesses, then cold call. Or warm call (email then call). Even if your product is free, you can find a few enterprises that may benefit from using it. Call the top dogs, decision makers and tell them how your "new blog/app" is the ISHT and they oughta to stop working and check it out.

Be agressive. Passively.Luck is a "myth" for most people. If someone says no that means "not right now". Keep pushing every other week.

Repeat. If something works, repeat it. Exhaust it.

Try and try more. There is no set way to market or sell. Try everything you can. The beauty of emails or phone calls is that you can be anything you want and anything the other guy/gal wants. "Be water", Be a chameleon.

EDIT: IF you could be more specific about what you do, you could get better advices from readers.
Yes, they are:

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/speakers
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/

I remember seeing videos of Yegge's and Munroe's talks. Yegge's is worth watching.
1. Yes, there is a huge open source revolution on the server side, but not on the consumer desktop. My mom doesn't know or care if the web servers serving up pages are Linux or Windows. As a server-side developer, I've seen and been a part of the big shift to open source OSes, software, tools, etc... However, if you're talking about consumer desktop OSes and apps, there isn't one yet.

2. I haven't worked on an iPhone app. Not really my area. Sure Apple could be more open, although they obviously see reasons not to be, and that their right. However, I'd argue that they're generally more open than most of the widely used competition. You might wish the iPhone SDK supported multiple languages, but compare that to developing for the Motorola Razr, or the Blackberry? I think Apple is doing pretty well. Obviously not as well as some folks would like, but they're running a business and trying to ensure profits, quality, low support calls, all that stuff, and I respect that.
No, your not storing your memories in the cells that you use to have children. They are suggesting nerons are using their DNA like a message board to store information, but it's specific to each cell. I suspect like most processes in our cells DNA is involved, but what's changing is the wrapper around the DNA not the DNA's code.

Edit: think of DNA as program code, and what's wrapped around it as RAM.
It wasn't worth pointing out unless you are insulting the intelligence of new business owners/people who use this service. They should know by checkout that the service is not absolutely free - the details are splashed all over the main page.

I would imagine the Myspace/Facebook teens would have difficulty skimming the entire page, but surely not the people who are creating new businesses in our country. If they are, then that is sad indeed.
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Ask HN: If I bootstrap, does my current company own the IP for my work ?
I have an idea and want to develop a prototype for it on weekends/nights. However, I was wondering if my current company would own the IP and if that could cause problems later on ?

Any advice on bootstrapping, things I should look out for before starting this ? It would be great to hear some anecdotes about bootstrapping as well.
corresponding video...

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Jay-Z/videos/254047002
I wrote a post about just this.

http://stakeventures.com/articles/2008/11/12/is-the-time-rig...

US lawyers are too focused on the traditional hourly model. We all need lawyers who can think and work in an agile way similar to what we do.
Where do you live?

I'm guessing not the United States. Yes, it has gotten that bad here.
I'm 26. I started shovelling snow when I was 10, in 1992. When I was 13 I started mowing lawns.

My parents never told me to go out and mow lawns. I wanted to. It was the best thing I did for myself in my junior high and highschool years.
And the companies that do have the cash in the bank, cross your fingers and pray that your bank doesn't go bankrupt.
It all depends on what agreement you signed with your current employer. (If you didn't sign anything, which is unlikely, the IP is all yours.)
Have you signed any such documents?
The Computer History Museum is really cool! I highly recommend geeks check it out if you are in the area .. especially if you can catch some of the demonstrations/tours.
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Registrations open for new .tel domain
Of course. We are humans and we should know the possibilities are endless. Infinite wisdom is the human mind.

For example,

He could build a legal information website that answers legal questions, actual lawyers on the website and students talking about issues - a legal network for attorneys.

Then there's the Legal Discussion site where people can contact lawyers over the Internet (webcam, phone, chat) for advice, and a registered and verified lawyer gives it to them over the phone for a fee. A lot of people may have simple legal questions they can ask, and commit to a lawyer for full services later.

What about a yellowpages targeted directly to Lawyers for advertising on the Internet? There are thousand of law offices out there scattered over an immense distance of population that can connect to them better if they advertised on the Internet. The Akron, Ohio lawyer doesn't want to rank for "lawyer" - he'd rather target his town. Charge em a fee for advertising (SEO and search engine marketing) and charge another fee for a website, and another fee for maintenance.

Business ideas come out of the thin air. Execution lies in physical movement.

Go do it.
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Actually, the fact that we have a layered government (local, state, and federal) makes its more resistant to corruption. During the vietnam war, a federal investigation of New York's Drug Enforcement Squad eventually landed 2/3rds of the force in front of a grand jury.

Corruption at the local level? Make it a state case.
Corruption at the state level? Make it a federal case.
Corruption at the federal level?

this is where it gets tricky. Ideally another "branch" of government is supposed to serve as a check or balance against the others, this is not always the case.
Just a quick note, but I was surprised that I had to delete the "City or Zip Code" text inside the search box. Would be a bit of polish to make it clear whenever I click on it the first time.

Also, as mentioned by alex_c, the front page seems very static, give me something that's showing the most recent activities/postings on the site perhaps.

And finally, I even read your about section, and I'm not entirely sure what it is you do, and why I would be interested. You may want to review your about text, share it with people who have never heard of your site, and ask them to describe, in their own words, what it is you do, and to give you an example of what it might be good for. If they don't answer well enough, you'll know you need to revise your description.

I agree with most of the other feedback as well.

Good luck with it.
Thanks for the recommendations, but I'm actually looking for an editor written in javascript to embed in a web site that allows some nice code editing (chiefly auto-indent).

Offline, I use textmate, smultron (both os x), vim.
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Read up on the double slit experiment in QM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

"it is easy to account for the interference pattern that results by assuming that electrons that travel in pairs are interfering with each other because they arrive at the screen at the same time, but when a laboratory apparatus was developed that could reliably fire single electrons at the screen, the emergence of an interference pattern suggested that each electron was interfering with itself; and, therefore, in some sense the electron had to be going through both slits"

PS: "it has been shown that large molecular structures like fullerene (C60) also produce interference patterns." which suggest at some level you could get the same result when firing planet's though a double slit experiment.
Summary: Local news sources are going down the toilet.

Meanwhile neighborhood blogs are popping up all over the place.

Let's build memetrackers calibrated to the peculiar rhythms of local news that will give you an unvarnished, fluff-less picture of what's news in your city right now, who's linking to who and where you can read about it.

I've been running a crude test version for a few weeks now in Chicago and on a day when the top story on the Tribune's web site is about how to sleep soundly at night, the memetracker showed that every outlet in town and a few blogs had covered a stabbing on the west side. That story was buried on the Trib's site, and was much more interesting.

Thoughts?
Is it worthwhile to file an LLC in a state other than the one I reside in?
Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook
Not at all! It's honest and has no risk of actually discouraging anyone from trying Twitter.
Amazon iPhone App Lets You Buy Anything You Take a Picture Of
This is a gray area. If your personal project overlaps in any way with current or potential future projects that your employer might undertake, be very, very careful.

I presented one such idea to an employer I worked for, and they actually created a "quitclaim deed" saying that they weren't interested in taking on the liability, and that provided I didn't use company time or facilities they didn't expect a cut of the profits or IP either. But most employers aren't that cool.

Many employment contracts have a clause saying that the company you work for owns any ideas you come up with related to your work while you're employed there. Make sure you take a look at your contract to see if it has such a clause.

The only situation I could think of where you could probably let it slide is if your project is totally unrelated to what your company does. For example you program DSPs for a living and your side project is a social networking app.

As for anecdotes, I haven't worked for that employer for ten years, but at the same time my side project is still in its infancy. Fortunately the technology has advanced in the intervening years to the point that it is actually practical, so hopefully I'll have a prototype done soon.
It's really only for those with trademarks that can afford to pay the large initial fees every year. They know if they release it to the general public, there would a huge rush of people getting many valuable domains, and not giving the .tel operators the same revenue the big companies can afford.

Great cash for them.
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the problem with local news is that there really isn't that much of it. Most of it is very mundane, that most people really don't care about.
My friend Ryan seems to have found a niche doing just that: http://www.thestartuplawyer.com. You might want to reach out to him.
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What worked for us was to get in their face as content, not as advertising. If possible, develop an API that puts your content or functionality in and on the outlets your non-techies frequent.
For ImageJ packed with scripting languages, see Fiji: http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de . Provides Javascript, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, and Clojure, although the latter is not a scripting language despite behaving like one.
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Samsung I780 is a new launch by Samsung, which is especially designed with infinite number of features to target the large segment of mobile users.
I think you probably have different definitions of determinism. Or are thinking of different aspects of it. Or are talking about different models of QM.
This is great advice. To share a data point, I first became aware of Weebly because of a mention on HN. Some months later my wife, wanted to create a website for her business, and asked me for a recommendation. As you can guess, she is a happy Weebly user now.
> I'm not sure that even frequentists know what the rules are for being a "frequentist".

I take no particular side on this debate, but that seems very unfair. The point of frequentism is this: Suppose we want to determine, say, the constant G of gravity. Suppose that 1000 groups around the world perform experiments to measure G, and then use frequentist statistics to compute 95% confidence intervals for G. ~950 of the groups will compute intervals that contain the true constant.

There are many advantages to bayesian methods, but none of them give you coverage.

Your point about not being able to say anything about the true value is technically true. The reason is that frequentists believe that one should avoid making such statements.
There is a local boutique firm that does that where I live (New Counsel - http://newcounsel.com), and I think it's worked well for them. As an entrepreneur, I really appreciate working with good lawyers who understand small startups.
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna_visit.html

;)
I think the key thing here is the difference between marketing materials and facts. Marketing materials may be going for a certain tone or theme that may not coincide with fact. They exaggerate a little. They take certain liberties when describing a product or use common figures of speech that are not intended to be taken literally. Marketing materials are intended to be the hook to get consumers interested.

Take alcohol or cigarrette advertisements for example. There's always a guy out partying with a bunch of hot women. Are we to believe that if we start drinking cheap American beer or smoking we're going to have to beat the girls off with a stick? When a car dealer tells you a car is a pussy magnet is that supposed to be taken seriously? Of course, those things _could_ happen, but they probably won't.

I guess the conclusion is that marketing materials are all about the possibilities but not necessarily the outcome that should be expected from buying a product. And right or wrong, marketing materials are clearly not held to the same standards as something purported to be fact.
I am having trouble picturing an agile legal methodology. Release early and release often is pretty much the exact opposite of what I would want in legal services...
In a word, no. The reason is that if the bayesian does a really crappy job of specifying their prior distribution, the posterior will be completely inaccurate. On the other hand, if the bayesian does a good job, getting intervals as you describe will work much better (e.g. be smaller) than confidence intervals.
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Awesome, I'm in the Twin Cities. I may be in touch with these guys soon. Thanks for posting this!
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"Income from a non-terminateable contract with a solid business is "better" than 10.000 private users paying $5 by credit card every month."

From a financial security POV, I'd much prefer the 10,000 private users paying $5/month, because of the law of large numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Say you have two companies. One has 3 customers with non-terminable contracts, each of which pays you $1M/year. The other has 50,000 customers with at-will contracts, each of which pays $5/month. Revenue is the same in both cases, $3M/year. But if the first company loses 1 customer, their revenue is instantly down 33%. The second company would have to lose 17,333 customers to be in similarly dire straits. Unless they're a blatant pyramid scheme (like subprime mortgages or dot-coms), the chance of that is much less than the chance of the first occurrence.

My perception may be colored by dealing with hedge funds, though. Hedge funds tend to "blow up" instead of reducing spending - you rarely have to worry about them stopping usage of your product, but you have to worry about them going out of business entirely. If it were 3 irrevocable contracts with GE, Wells Fargo, and Coca-Cola, I'd be much less worried.
I signed a document about any "inventions" I do being the property of the current company. Would the new company / project count as an invention ?
The reason the banks had problems was the need for them to keep a fraction of these loans. Once the default rate increased they where unable to make new loans and at the same time they ended up with a lot of bad debt and because the loans where bundled they did not end up with a house which could be sold.
Depends on where you reside. Some states have different tax/fees.
So the game Assassin's Creed was correct..
I like this a lot, but I'm not sure I understand the title.
Tell the truth: who really uses a different password for every service they try?
I have one really difficult password I use for the tools I use daily. I have a few passwords I use for testing (girlfriend, cat, 1234567, qwerty, etc) and that is about it. How else am I going to manage all these services? What about you?
How about letting me download and read a book?
An incorporate for free website seems like one really nasty way to commit identify fraud. You get the complete identity information of people who probably have a good amount of money to milk. (What type of people incorporate, but then again what kind of people would use a free version?)
I don't think the iPhone's screen would be good for books, but it sure would be nice to have AmazonMP3 and Amazon Unbox. Doubt that Apple would approve it though.
Thanks for the advice. I did sign a contract but I am not sure if the scope is limited to my work related to what I do at the company.

My current company is pretty vast and it's not unimaginable that they could come up with a similar product but it's highly unlikely .. even more unlikely in the coming years.

The other thing is that I don't know if the project will take off and I don't wanna discuss it with people at my current company yet.
So useful and really presented well. I'm looking forward to her new book.
Thanks pg. I guess it all depends on the fine print of the contract I signed.
I have five different passwords that I'll rotate through. Sometimes I retire a password and replace it with a new one in the rotation. Speaking of I need to do that with my email one pretty soon.
I've read this a few times now. Informative writing here.
How often does it happen that a rule works for thousands of years, then switches polarity?

I'm not a historian, but as far as I know from reading various books by Drucker, large corporations didn't exist for much of the last thousand years. In fact, I remember he made the point that looking at the turn of the last century, even the largest business of that day would be considered small to medium by today's standards (and goes on to ascribe that to a lack of management knowledge - it's impossible to manage a huge corporation without management).

If "larger is better" has only been with us for a hundred years, it may well slink back into the shadows sooner than we think.

I think the order in which this will unfold will be highly dependent on what kind of business you're in. Car manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to get small any time soon, at least not until we have perfect simulated models of the human body to get rid of all the human trials, and until we have instant, near-free manufacturing processes available to all. By the time those happen, it seems unlikely that "corporations" will look like they do now....
i have a set of passwords that are all very similar but slightly different based on a scheme i cooked up, to make them easy to remember.

i'd probably be screwed if someone figured it out.
Future economies will be made out of more, smaller pixels.
It's actually a matter of clicking. The screen is smaller, so there is less on any given screen -- but given this limitation, the rest if fine.

Look into an app called Stanza for the iPhone. I've been using it since it has been around, and it is wonderful.
"But large organizations will probably never again play the leading role they did up till the last quarter of the twentieth century."

I suggest retracting this statement. What idea do you have of how the world will look 50 years from now? This may be remembered as your "640kb will always be enough" quote.
I have a few fairly complicated passwords for stuff like shells, emails, and bank accounts. For other services and throw away accounts, I usually have a constant word I use (i.e. if the login is for a game, it'd be 'videogame') and that follows by a hash i calculate of the service's name in my head. So you can do something like add every other letter's value (a=1,b=2,etc) or number of characters in login url divided by value of last letter.

This "hash" is fairly simple for me to calculate, frees up my memory and will not overtly compromise all throw-away accounts if one of them leaks.
i really do use a different password for every service i sign up for. here's the downside: i keep all the account records in a simple text file. i keep meaning to try out one of those password keeper apps, but i haven't yet.