skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legally speaking, that's backwards AFAIK. If you don't give people a license, they are not allowed to do anything with your code — full copyright protection is something you have to opt out of, not into. You might say that putting it on the Internet and encouraging people to use it is an implicit license, but you're on thin ice at best if you're depending on that unwritten license. I doubt most legal departments would even consider the suggestion. Even if you really, really trust the author, someone could acquire the rights to the code later on and sue your pants off if you don't actually have a valid license. Would you be able to successfully argue "But this other guy posted it on the Internet, so obviously I'm allowed to use it as I see fit"? IANAL, but I really doubt it.
There was a great comment in the VB comments about how the ads are more distinctly targeted--and that makes a lot of sense and is reason enough to pay a bit more per CPM, but in no way should it be a 100x type situation that is going on. Oddly enough, there was a post the other day featured on HN about how not to get into "local" because of issues like Small Business Owners were not likely to adopt-- I can't help but think part of the reason there is this apathy at that level is because all of these titans of this industry are sucking their early adopters dry with reckless cost demands.
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I'd hire a high-school dropout if he/she can convince me of their chops. Degrees hint at your capabilities, but a degree is not necessary to be a talented developer, not does having a degree guarantee that you are one. In the grand scheme of things, I don't much care about where you went to school or how you acquired your skills. Attitude, outlook and work ethic matter more to me.
Yeah, I don't see any reason why tmpfs would be faster than hitting in the page cache (since that's what tmpfs is). Also, AFAIK tmpfs memory is swappable, so it isn't even guaranteed to be in RAM.
I just went through the same transition. I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco without my wife and 2 year old son. After driving down every other weekend for 6 months they're now up here with me.

If your son is anything like mine he:

1. Will not understand why you're not there no matter how much you try to explain beforehand.

2. Will not like it one bit (I think my son was clinically depressed the first week).

3. Will eventually get used to it (It got easier after the first month but still not something I wanted him to get used to).

And if you're anything like me you:

1. Will be tired all the time (Spending 12 hours every other weekend in the car staring at cows takes its toll).

2. Will feel guilty all the time.

In the end I'd say the sacrifice paid off since I'm able to spend much more time with him now than I was able to in L.A. Also, thank God for Skype.
Why is this comment being downvoted?

I don't agree with this user either, but it's so much more constructive to explain why you're downvoting things than it is to just downvote them and not say anything.

As for you georgieporgie, good on you. I for one appreciate it when people explain why they're downvoting me.
Services like these have been around in Europe for at least five years. Glad to see the US is catching up.
well this really cool
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Obscenity is not in question...Only utility.

You'd be surprised how significant the precision of wording is in law. And I would be surprised if lawyers didn't seek to have this very point litigated.
It's definitely possible to only clock in 8 hours at the office and be successful, but I know mentally the startup is with you 24/7 and that alone can be quite draining.
> Farewell Stack Exchange

When I first saw the title I thought "Oh no, why is Stack Exchange closing down?"

Maybe the title should be changed to the more accurate "Jeff Attwood quits Stack Exchange"
Impressive (but not surprising if you know him), that RMS has positive words for RMS with respect to the usage of the word "hacking" (the topic at hand), even while reiterating his opposition to Facebook as a product. A baser would mind would fall back to an ad hominem attack:

Also classic RMS to say "support for the campaign" as though Zuckerberg is consciously following RMS's lead.

"I’ve been campaigning since the ’80s to correct the mistake, made by some journalists, which took ‘hacker’ to mean ‘security breaker,’" Stallman said. "I appreciate Zuckerberg’s support for this campaign."

Stallman continued, "As [Zuckerberg] noted, hacking is not good or bad in itself. It can be done in activities that are good and in activities that are bad. In the case of Facebook, it is bad."
It would be too simple to split a company into a subsidiary that owned and monetized patents and a parent that made real products.
I think failure as a goal is total nonsense and another one of those ideas that's become popular but is just bad advice. Failing teaches you what not to do. Instead people should be learning from success. Do your homework, put out something based on educated research and focus on what is working and repeat it. Learning from successes gives you something you can use again and again. Learning from failure gives you a one time lesson in what not to do which is far less valuable. There's more than enough information floating about on what works that people can easily access and fit to their needs. Even people with completely revolutionary ideas that have never been done before can benefit as lessons in marketing, design, and coding techniques apply to everyone.

If you've ever met an Imstant Millionaire you'll notice they don't learn from their mistakes. There's always some excuse and enough blame to put on everyone but themselves. In the end they always end up pursuing another bad idea in the same way somehow convincing themselves that this time it'll be different. I've come across a bunch of these people and often they're working on several doomed ideas at once, going about each the same way.

As for the legit hacker I really wonder what they really learn. You may be perfectly right but if I put myself in those shoes my mind works in a way that if my 30 day app failed I'd blame it on bad design, not enough buzz, or somehow blame my code for not being objected oriented or functional or maybe I just didn't use the right framework.

Now, despite my disagreement with failure as a goal I think people with that mindset are much better off than others. The problem is the people I'm talking about don't have this mindset. They simply read about how someone else did it ans think "me too! I'll do it too!" with no understanding that what they're reading about is either a stroke of luck or was built by someone whos had the right plan and mindset.
what is all of this about
Why are so many people conflating non-obscenity and "useful art"? Very odd. It's not obscene (wink, wink, sure whatever) but you would have to delve into the lower reaches of willful stupidity to claim that "Anal Creampies 5" is "useful art" and therefore suitable for copyright protection.
Because your shares vest gradually over time, so that by the time you get to year 4, you're well over 75% of the way there.
So an attribute used in tandem with others?
Another problematic aspect is that someone may be very good at formulating an answer but requires the use of internet resources e.g. google, other SO answers. This coincides with your face-to-face example.

Such a talent would have its uses, but may not be as useful in certain situations as someone whose answers may be slightly less quality but composed without exterior information.
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Question is completely unrelated.
Blue Grotto in your mock up. it is in malta right?
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Startups are marathons, not sprints; It's about making the right decisions most (if not all) of the time when building, hiring, marketing, etc. Fatigue and exhaustion mean bad decisions; There's plenty of research to back this up:

http://likesbuildingthings.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-know-many-...

People who are willing to take the risk of founding tend to be workaholics by nature, but you don't need to be a workaholic by nature to be a founder. It's bad for you longterm and it sets a poisonous precedent for your company culture.
All money issues aside, 4 years is also around the time you tend to get really sick of working on the same problem with the same codebase. And that's an outside bound, when the problem and codebase you were working on were both good ones. The wall gets hit even sooner if you're working on something less interesting.

All IMO and IME, of course.
> vBulletin may be good software for discussions,

You know, I really think it's not. It may have been in the '90s, but the times have changed and it hasn't. Sites like HN and Reddit are much better software for discussions, but I'm sure these forms are just temporal as well.
I will be surprised if it continues at all.
This problem annoys me a lot. I have a KVM switch and switch between Windows and OS X a lot. Every time I switch from Windows back to OS X the mouse behaviour is noticeably different and a moment is spent self correcting the mouse and quickly relearning it.

I have tried a few different mouse acceleration fixes/apps but still can't get it to feel right. This article explains why nothing I've tried works well.
Wouldn't iCloud already cover this?

I'm also thinking the "I"m getting arrested" app for android would operate similarly.
Another gem! Here's hoping sama opens up his space again.

I think the most important thing in your quote isn't even how to get into YC per se – since is this really relevant to only a tiny fraction of companies in the world – but how young companies can decide whether their team is likely to succeed at the startup business or not.

The factors that matter are the factors that Sam mentions: people with a track record of being smart, effective, and determined.
so have you ever found the perfect one then let that person slip out of your life i did it sucked
I think it's almost obligatory to link A Colder War every time this story comes up:
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

(Warning: Creepy.)
The stock vests over time. Four years isn't the typical time for stock to vest; it's the typical time to be fully vested. Usually it's 1/4 per year for 4 years.

Vesting doesn't just protect investors. It also protects cofounders. Suppose you start a venture 50/50 with a buddy. After a year, he leaves, and three years later you've bootstrapped the company into a $100m business. Without vesting, your cofounder would still be entitled to 50%. With vesting, he would get 25% of 50%, or only 12.5%.
i never thought a 15 year old like me could feel this way
I think it depends on which demographics in the UK and which demographics in the US you happen to be talking about...
He also hopes to determine the exact time the video was deleted, which could substantiate his charge that it was deleted while under police control.

Is this possible? As far as I know most cameras just delete the file from the storage medium, and there is nothing in the storage medium which could be used to determine this.
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Just wait a couple of months and you'll probably be able to pick one up on the cheap from people looking to offload something sitting around. These are a lot less powerful and have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing. It also doesn't help that the main selling point (accelerated graphics) will be shipping as a binary blob.
well i love that word you use shit
You are arguing the question of value...The Constitutional clause she is referencing is really speaking on 'utility'.

Just a nitpick I know...but I suspect that is the strategy this woman is hoping will get her by.
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Flash in gone from my computers. I think I uninstalled it last Aug, but almost immediately had to reinstall for the online Stanford AI class, but I removed it after the final.

Flash will be around for a few more years, and it certainly was needed for the past several years. However, as a sort of "dog fooding", I would encourage developers to uninstall it so we can help build a better "HTML5" web quicker. YouTube has html5 support, for example.

In short, a large number of people exercising the HTML5 web, and addressing its shortcomings, would definitely help accelerate the move to HTML5.
Looks good, but what should I be learning from this?
I had the idea for this when seeing the following website:

http://www.debbiespenditnow.com/

which heavily uses jQuery for blatant racism. As an open source developer, I want a way to prevent people or companies to use my work for such things.

It also reminds me of Gnutella's license, which is modified version of the GPL made to prevent military use.

It might be a bit idealistic, but it's better than nothing. I am also not a lawyer, so feel free to comment/fork the gist.
Good call, Jeff. From someone who made a similar decision not so long ago, you've made a very good decision.

As was explained to me with my own family: your job/company/career will never hug you back.

I used to approach my career with the standpoint of figuring out how to manage my time to wrap my family into the schedule. Now I do the opposite -- I figure out how to manage my time to put my career around my family.

Interesting thing I've found: I'm better now than I was before. Making a family investment decision, for me, has paid off in spades.
I would have to know more about the study to know if this is meaningful. When people see something novel (to them) they often think they prefer it to whatever the old thing is simply due to the novelty. But they might change their mind if they were actually forced to use the new method for some time.

Case in point: touchscreens replacing dials and switches in cars -- cool right? So flexible! But no, in reality they suck and you can't use them at all without becoming a danger to yourself and everyone else on the road. Physical dials and switches are way better because they can be controlled without actually looking at them. But this is something that takes a while to become obvious to people (in fact, car makers are still fucking this up).
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Congratulations Kalvin, Randy, Jason, and the whole team.

You're a super-talented bunch with honorable motivations to make a dent in the world. I know you'll do great things!
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Dude, you saved my day. Thanks for sharing.

Lifes complicated. In some ways I am aware that being in the US for 3 weeks at the time is not optimal, but who said it had to be.
Can't wait; I want a slow ARM test machine for my code. This will be perfect.
I went to their bootcamp a few weeks ago, it was one of the most fun, inspiring and valuable Saturday I've spent in a while.

Cheers to them for organizing this (for free!), and I hope they do it again (and if they do and you're in the Bay Area, you should jump on the opportunity!).
I just read this article in what felt like 5 seconds, then I looked up at the clock and 5 minutes had gone by. I looked at my girlfriend and said, "How many of the words did I just read?" and she said, "All of them".
The simple solution to this is to buy used gear. I avoid sweatshop produced clothing by mostly buying used, and I've recently decided to avoid buying new technology. We've hit a point where a faster computer doesn't make as much of a difference as it used to for many many things. vim doesn't run faster on a i7 MacBook Pro than it does on an four year old MacBook.

Sure the person I buy the used gear from will probably use that money to buy a new system, but the older it is, the less I'm contributing to their purchase.
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My impression from having followed Winer's blog since slightly before the time he and Adam Curry bootstrapped podcasting, is that Scoble and Winer go way, way back, and were (presumably still are?) real-life (not merely digital) friends. So, factor that in. I would bet Winer is basically on your side, fwiw.
Vesting of shares does not necessarily imply that you give anyone the right to fire you. For example, a company with several founders might choose to use vesting even if they never take or need VC funding, to deal with the case where a founder voluntarily chooses to leave early on. And while an arrangement with a VC could potentially grant them the ability to fire a founder, it doesn't necessarily have to, and I've seen plenty of cases where the founders did not agree to such terms (especially in cases of VCs signing on with well-established companies).
> YouTube has html5 support, for example.

Not for videos with ads such as most successful channels.
Ask HN: How do you make a simple to-do list app in PHP?
Hello HN,

I need your help. Too often, my to-do list grows out of control. So out of control that I haven't logged into Wunderlist in months because of fear. I have tried many to-do list apps out there, but the story always ends the same way.

I have figured out exactly what I need in a to-do list app, but none exist that do what I need to my knowledge.

So I want to build it. I don't want to make a full-blown app, I want only to make a small PHP script that does what I need. I do not want to work with databases, please.

The idea is this. A single page with a max number of 7 tasks that will automatically delete after 7 days with the option to save 1 task indefinitely. A max number because having to pick and choose my tasks is more like real life where I have to pick and choose my time. Other apps give me unlimited tasks to do in a finite amount of time. Automatic deletion because, if I didn't get it done in 7 days, it probably wasn't that important to me. If it was really, really important, then I can save one task for as long as I need.

Sketches of the general visual outline with annotations:
http://ge.tt/9cLrqGD

I'm not looking to start a company with this idea, just trying to get my life and to-do list under control. I realize this isn't a support forum, but I chose to post this here because I thought a few of you on here might like the idea, maybe even enough to run with it yourself.

So here is where I need your help. I could really use a list of relevant things to look up: PHP functions, scripts that do parts of what I need that I could piece together, etc. I'm looking to make this as bare-bones as possible, no log-in, just something that is functional. I'm not asking you to write this for me, I just need a place to start.

Thank you, HN. After I finish this, I'd be happy to share the script with everyone here so maybe they, too, will no longer be slaves of their to-do list.

Thanks again.

-Benjamin
Given the popularity of porn, it seems to me that people have a pretty common use for it - it should fit the idea of being a 'useful art'.

Porn is even referred to as being 'used'. "He uses porn". Fine art isn't referred to this way with respect to consumers. Someone wandering through an art gallery isn't said to "use Rothko" (though another artist may have their influence described this way).

anigbrowl has also pointed out some things that are obscene - actions which intentionally injure others. Rescission departments in insurance agencies are a better example of obscenity than porn.
At FUDCon last month, Chris Tyler from Seneca College gave a presentation about the Raspberry Pi. I don't remember his exact quote, but he said that the vast majority of the die space of the chip was devoted to the GPU and it was best to think of the chip as a big awesome GPU with a tiny little ARM core shoved in a corner of the die, almost as an afterthought.

Given that, it certainly is a tragedy that the GPU is completely undocumented.
Yah, thanks for giving me the exact words, no cure. I think the cure only rely on the person's will power to be well.
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Yes, iCloud might. However, Apple is a large corporation that might be persuaded to take down videos. I'm not saying they would, but in a scenario like this, would you trust Apple (or Google for that matter) as the sole host of your video?

I think an option to upload to a public service (iCloud, YouTube, etc.) would be one viable option, but personally I'd still want the option to push it to some random server of my own choosing and control as well.
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I think that's going to be tough. Mostly because startups are generally moving full force on whatever their project/server/app is and don't have time to trains someone with no development experience.
I think the advice is intended for products you build for users, not products you build for clients. The right strategy depends on who your customer is. When you find a ripe market, you'll discover that your customers—i.e., the users—just want a solution, even if it isn't pretty. When your customer is the client, then you're selling to him, not to his users, which means you rationally should care less about the product. This can be painful, which is one reason why many startup founders prefer to avoid client work.
I find this metaphor interesting, because in a marathon, you run the entire time. At least if you want to win, or even race competitively. You might not be sprinting, but you're running at a hard pace until the finish line,
The FCC set no limit on the number or power of terrestrial towers. In hindsight, that was shortsighted of them, but the licenses are there. It is only the GPS interference
These ... have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing

There are always a plethora of USB NIC's.

Me, I just want a cheap low power mailserver. Perhaps if XBMC works well enough, there's that too.
Why is Jeff retiring?
Couldn't he simply semi-retire?
work only 2 days a week and the rest of the time with his family?

I think he was exhausted...

maybe this books is worth a look:
The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for YOU
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Enough-Company-Creating-Business/d...
So in agile terms, besides splitting down the work by user stories it can also be split down by function (make it work), design (make it beautiful) and last performance (make it fast). Quite a natural approach to prioritize that order depending on what stage the project is, early, mid or late. It requires a continuous refactoring but in the business man's point of view it's rework. But the end result will probably look more like a second generation product rather than a first gen with mediocre function, design and performance.
Ask HN: What cool companies, products, and features originated at hackathons?
Let's compile a list. If possible, it'd be interesting to know how long it took to build the first prototype, how many people were involved, and if possible, to see what the prototype looked like at first, compared to what it grew into later. Otherwise, just some names and links is enough.

I'd like to organize a hackathon among friends later this year. Would like a litany of cool projects that started at hackathons, to cite as evidence that great things have been started in a short time with few resources and a lot of passion.

Also welcome: examples of great things that have been built in insanely little time, period. For example, Tupac's last album was made in 7 days from writing to final production. The White Stripes' "Elephant" was made in 2 weeks.