skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still a nice resource, but it's been posted many times before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598773
Why do you think they pay 10% of the face value of debt. It's pure harassment vs payment.
I just have to ask, how did you find this?
You don't have to support YC's favorite spammers to land a short-term place. There are some month-to-month apartments in the city (e.g., Landmark, who I'm using now, basically wants a pulse and a credit card for the rent) and motels on the peninsula with weekly rates that are about the same as renting a studio but with utilities, parking, and cleaning included.
I'd say the first social network I ever saw was Prodigy in 1991. AOL also had social networking features, as did Yahoo! and MSN.
Yes, generally.

Unless they're going to actually take legal action against you, the generally correct thing to do is send them a polite letter, not affirming the debt, requesting that under FCPA all communications be in writing.

If it's <$10k, the odds they'll do anything are exceptionally low. If it's $10-100k, it really depends. >$100k, maybe there will be a lawsuit.

Child support, tax debt, HOA dues, student loans, secured debt, etc. are all different, but unsecured consumer debt (credit cards) is really unlikely to result in effective collection actions.

Assuming you have money, you should pay the original creditor in full in exchange for getting the entire thing removed; then, provide documentation of that to the collections agency, which then can't report on your credit (or, show it to the credit bureaus if they don't respond); FCPA covers all of this in detail.

If you can't pay, it's probably not worth paying the collections agency.

(This is of course not legal advice; I'm not a lawyer.)
Man who works in giant lab extols virtues of giant labs. Film at 11.
"They’re probably just trying to cash in on your youth and optimism."

I find this about most companies, especially in silicon valley. Just look at Google or Facebook. They get 20 somethings right out of college and work them to the bone on a salary (IE: you don't get paid any extra).

Sure, you can go home at 5, but you most likely won't get a promotion when everyone around you is working until 7 or 8.
I wasn't damning all hackathons. I coded through the night many times before I had a family.

I simply said "Think twice. They’re probably just trying to cash in on your youth and optimism."
This is the main problem I see. It's easy to do this with credit card debt, but there's no point to doing it with credit card debt because the borrower can default with essentially no consequences.
It took me a long time to find this thread as I couldn't remember exactly what the discussion was about and parsing old emails and chats finally revealed it.

This remark by codyrobbins - discussing the 'I could care less' idiom - is perhaps my favorite HN comment of all time. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042

This thread (a couple parents up from that one) provides the appropriate context. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853100
Brilliant. Thanks for making this app. Downloading now and I will tell my friends about it.
Some people dodge Student loan debt by leaving the country. Think about it, owe 400k and it may seem vary appealing.
I'm just not entirely sure how someone can be taken advantage of at a hackathon. Are you implying that someone will steal their product? Or that they'll somehow be convinced to give up a large % stake in their project by someone who can't code? Again, an example of a hackathon where this has happened would be great. Besmirching the name of hackathons in general is wrong.

As for hacker mansions, the post you linked to opens with "Like the idea of living/working in a Palo Alto hacker mansion?". If the answer to that question is no, then the likelihood is you wouldn't apply to this job.

I disagree with your assessment that this ad is "clearly written by someone who thinks they can throw material things at a Developer and then get them to work 20-hour days for three months straight". From my perspective, they're offering an amazing summer experience for the right candidate who wants to work with them. This ad is clearly not aimed for experienced developers, but rather young folk who are looking to get experience in the startup community.

Let's not forget that employment is at will, so if someone is not enjoying working at such a place, they can leave at any time. I, for one, know a bunch of people who love and thrive in such environments. As for "20-hour days", that's just a number you've thrown out. Who's to say you couldn't have a great work/life balance at a hacker mansion?
How did you integrate it with github? Do you have a git client in the app, or are you only using the github api?
> If it's missing a package, write a formula.

That's exactly the problem. I don't want to write formulas. Just as on Linux I don't have to write RPMs - I just download them and install them. Yes, I can write a formula. Yes, it is not hard (in 90% of the cases). But it takes time, and I don't have extra time for it. And it takes learning yet another thing, which I don't need - and I have enough things to learn already that I do need.

I don't want to spend mental energy on it - I just want it to work. Linux achieved it, to a great degree, and Mac OS X still didn't.
I pay more like $200 a month for a significantly more expensive car in Palo Alto. I have a clean driving record and a mainstream insurance policy. You should get competitive bids!
Show HN: Forest Requirements, an iPad app I built to manage requirements
On that note, I really wish commenting was turned back on for HN job postings. I understand why they were turned off - people trying to expose anonymity for instance - but since they left, I feel like I see worse and worse postings, with little repercussions - or at least community feedback - to the companies who post...
I wonder how many of the second generation Asian students flooding Ivy League schools come from poor, non-English speaking ethnic ghettos? I'd guess not many. All the people I knew who fit that description in college went to good high schools. How good are the high schools in Chinatown?

For what it's worth, I wouldn't want to live in Chinatown either. Or any of the White non-English ethnic ghettos that used to exist a few decades ago.

I think calling people "bigot" happens too quickly. We should show some restraint.
Apps like this make the iPad+keyboard a useful development tool.
They've never heard a girl called a "butterface", I guess. e.g. "She looks good (from the neck down / from behind), but her face..."
I really like the handwriting font. In my mind, it sets this app apart from the drudgery of the email and to-do list apps on my phone.
I'm not sure if you would call it "gaming", but I use twitter to get beta testers for all of my apps. If you have no money for marketing, it can be a great tool to get traction.

The trick is to not act like a spammer and only try to target people that are in the demographic of your app.
That is a feature, not a lasting competitive advantage. What if you could address issues from your phone? Whats the barrier to entry to that?
I live downtown and haven't been murdered yet.

There are plenty of relatively safe neighborhoods in Oakland: the Central District (where I live), Jack London Square, Lake Merritt, Claremont/Rockridge, Temescal, Piedmont, etc. East Oakland is where the crime is generally centered. Generally, the closer to the hills or the lake you are, the nicer it is.

Best advice I can give if you have any doubt is to ask a local police officer.
Disagree that he's been stabbed in the back. He was stabbed in the front.
I'm pretty sure the basis is "You don't own a car? You some kinda communist?".

Large corporations don't react well to things that are unusual. Only 8% of US households do not have a car[1]. 1/6th of those are concentrated in New York City alone, home to just 1/38th of American households and the only American city where fewer than half of households own a car, the rest are scattered throughout the country, with smaller concentrations in various other urban areas.

Statistically, Americans have cars. I'd lay decent odds that if alister were in New York, though, he wouldn't have had any trouble.

[1] http://www.bts.gov/publications/highlights_of_the_2001_natio...
Actually i just learned node a few months ago. If you want to ping me personally i can go through it with you step by step since theres a couple of things you have to figure out and its a bit difficult to remember them through a simple comment.

If youre interested leave me a contact email or whatever in reply.
While I do agree with a lot of the points here, I wonder if perhaps recent advances in technology (particularly those that might be considered platforms for future innovations) are making the idealistic "Garage Inventor" more and more realistic. It probably still requires a big lab to create new technologies or new branches of science, but nowadays anyone with a laptop and some money for web hosting can create something that reaches millions of people. Although that's entirely different from what Edison, Hewlett, and Packard were doing, I'd argue that it's still within the realm of "innovation". (not to say that every website is particularly innovative, just that the possibility is there.)
Please. Continue downvoting, it makes you right. Don't dare tell me why I'm wrong, especially when it's apparent that sbuk was missing the point as he didn't even know what MHL was or that it uses the same port at the USB host.

Sorry for questioning the genius of Apple following NIH policy. I won't question them in the future or wish they would go with industry standards and interop.

The 'v' button does not mean, "I disagree". It doesn't mean "This makes my opinion right over his, without needing to justify it". Assholes.
Newer? Are you aware of the 50-year history of semiconductor and defense companies in the area between Palo Alto and San Jose?
I had the same problem. I eventually got a place by (a) having a good offer letter in hand and (b) agreeing to sign a two year lease. Oh, and I had already agreed (along with a few other applicants) to an extra $100/mo over the original price quoted on craigslist. It was the 2 year lease that tipped the balance for me, since I assume anyone who didn't have the credit history disadvantage turned that down flat.
> While it is expected that the patent would not stand up to legal challenge, SES intend to de-orbit the spacecraft in order to collect the insurance payout.[7] If this attempt had been successful, the extra use of fuel needed to correct the orbital error would have significantly reduced AMC-14's originally expected service life of 15 years to just four.

Am I reading this wrong, or is it saying they would have killed the satellite anyway, even if there was no patents?
Ask HN: How can I get started with an open source project?
I am sure lots of you are involved with one or more open source projects. How did you get started? Did you start the project or join in?

Thanks,
What was the chrome extension you used to block distracting sites? That would have been sweet if you could have included that link.
The code should be made available. It doesn't actually have to be distributed with or "attached to" the product. The option to post the download link elsewhere or available on CD for media cost only.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989800

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3994054 <- This has the discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996020
Are you being facetious? Where is your information coming from?
You're missing out on a potentially happy medium: Small offices of up to (for example) four people. When you're all working together on a project, the communication is likely to be relevant to everyone in the small room. Better than being out in the open plan where unrelated people are having discussions that might be interesting, but are really just distracting.
Could I have some of that cheese for my sandwich?

You don't know them, I'm fairly confident. I don't know them. Almost no one here knows them. The single and only reason this has any relevance is because of Facebook, IPOs, from which a natural discussion is pre-nups, etc. Or are we to all pretend that we're pals?
The patent in this case is simply getting the blame for a failed launch, as an excuse to collect insurance. This is like blaming a smoke detector patent on a building being burned to the ground to collect insurance. "We couldn't afford smoke detectors because they're patented, and we're in a lawsuit with a manufacturer"

It has nothing to do with the patent and everything to do with collecting insurance.
Interesting connection: The Point was founded by Andrew Mason before he started Groupon.

http://www.thepoint.com/doc/about
Why yawning is contagious
It's not true, ideas are never patentable, they have to pass the machine-transformation test. When the trajectory is applied to a machine it becomes patentable.

It's the application that is patented not the idea. The trajectory alone is not patentable as it fails to meet the machine-transformation test.
You can be taken advantage of simply by participating. Hackathons that are tacked on to events are a great example: they're simply a way to sell more tickets. I've been guilty of this in the past on shows we've done (Twitter's Chirp conf, etc).

Can good things happen at these hackathons? You bet. That doesn't mean Developers shouldn't be careful though.

As for "20-hour days", that's just a number you've thrown out. Who's to say you couldn't have a great work/life balance at a hacker mansion?

The whole point of a "hacker mansion" is to work 7 days a week for three months straight.
OSX 10.6.8 still has Python 2.6 as the system Python.
Is Gross National Happiness something that can be measured?
Contrary to your point, the 19th century was a deflationary period and there was massive wealth creation and innovation. Inflation is not and was never a lubricant for social mobility.
I get the gist of the submission, but "Satellite killed..." is a bit sensational. The AMC-14 is alive, albeit under DOD ownership:

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/amc-14.htm
Genius. I've been looking for something like this so will buy shortly! Make it universal so that I can use it on my iPad, the device that I use for apps like this.
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Driver liability is primary. The owner's insurance only comes into play in case the driver isn't insured or it doesn't cover full costs. That's the standard at least.
Owner of solar-powered home fights neighbor's trees - 'right to sunlight'
The world does not have an energy generation problem. The world has an energy transmission problem. Fossil fuels are an easy but suboptimal solution to the latter. The premise that this has anything to do with environmentalism is absurd.
I have to sign up by hand? Google? Facebook? Twitter? cmon... its like 10 years ago.
From the patent abstract:

A method is provided for using a lunar flyby
maneuver to transfer a satellite from a
quasi-geosynchronous transfer orbit having a
high inclination to a final geosynchronous orbit
having a low inclination. The invention may be
used to take the inclination of a final geosynchronous
orbit of a satellite to zero, resulting in a
geostationary orbit, provided that the satellite
is launched in March or September.

That part about March or September is surprising to me. What is special about those months?

Note that this patent is about a technique involving a lunar flyby for setting up an orbit around Earth. The period of the Moon doesn't fit evenly into the year, and so things that depend on the position of the Moon relative to the Earth tend to occur at intervals that cause them to drift through the calendar year.

What would be happening here that is tied to the year?
Internships in the Us pays 3000 to 7000 per month vs Gsoc which pays 5000 for 3 months.
Congrats at your comment id! Maybe you'll get a prize from pg :)
You should think of adding the use of `with` context managers.
This is likely to be built into web pages
One role of hackathons that I haven't seen mentioned here is they provide a way for developers and API makers to interact. For developers, it can helps them learn about different APIs in person by interacting with technical people from the offering companies. For companies with APIs, it helps them get developer mindshare, first-hand experience with how developers use their APIs, and offers the possibilities of having demos they can show future customers.
The VM is irrelevant, C compilers can call each others code, why can't code from one C++ compiler call code from another?

It has nothing to do with the VM and everything to do with the implementation of namespaces/calling conventions being 'undefined'

It's insane.
Anyone got screens? The website shows up as a blank screen on my tablet.
Well March is the Spring Equinox, and September is the Fall Equinox and that would be my educated guess as to why those two months are special.
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Fun with conspiracy theories
Spend 1 hour per day away from computer - Schmidt Says
ah, nice to know. I thought the closest thing to a personal computer before the Apple I were the micro computers, the size of a room.
Great point, it is an interesting extra dimension to the digital divide. Consumers vs producers.
You should add the word "web" to the title. There are many other kinds of caching.
Show HN: I'm selling the rights (& code) to my iOS app. 
Hello world,

About a year ago, I wrote and released an iPhone application called Swish. Swish is a client for the popular, professional graphic designer community called Dribbble.

Swish has a 3* average rating in the app store, and has had (tens of) thousands of copies sold. The application is now free, but has plenty of potential for monetisation.

I am not looking for a lot of money for Swish, maybe just a few hundred dollars - much cheaper than the development of an iOS app!

Here's a link to Swish in the app store, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swish/id405736013?mt=8 :)

If you're interested, feel free to email me at me@joshualeetucker.com stating your interest! :)

Thanks all!

Josh
I didn't see the face until reading this comment, but now I can't un-see it. Very subtle, reminds me of the hidden right arrow in the FedEx logo.
One (space per engineer) is much more controllable than the other (pay per engineer). Hence it gets controlled.

You've got to cut what you can, not necessarily the biggest expense.
I couldn't agree more. I have been to a Startup Weekend last month and it was horrible seeing all the "biz guy" trying to vulture all the hackers to work on their MVP for 54H for FREE. Some even went home a 9pm and told the hackers " you are going to work all night on this, right ? " unbelievable...
The world _will_have_ an energy generation problem.

If it was so absurd then there would be environmentalists who would argue for nuclear and thorium reactors.

That is not the case.
Clickable: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swish/id405736013?mt=8
If they, i.e. the rest of the company outside of the IT department, don't know how much better things could be with something smaller and faster, then it really does not matter.

Oracle has had companies locked in for decades. And they have developers locked in. They are like Microsoft.

Maybe Github and more open source visibility is the beginning of a change.

It is exposing what Java really is: to some observers it is a bloated mess.

When we have internal corporate use cases of Java being made public like this, more comparisons of doing these tasks in other languages can be performed by people outside the company, and I have no doubt we will see some benchmarks done. And we may see that Java is slower than other alternatives.

Peer review, via putting things in an open repository, might be a powerful force for improvement in software.

But if I were Oracle, Microsoft or another company that tries to lock in business customers, which only promotes its own software and does little to advance the state of the art (or even actively inhibits it, e.g. killing OpenSolaris) I would not be too happy with this trend.
Regarding two of the German words: I don't know if I have ever heard somebody using "Backpfeifengesicht" recently, but I have heard the english term 'fist magnet', which I think is pretty much the same. And "Waldeinsamkeit" is a word I have never heard before and I do not see how this is "handy" (as the post's original title suggests).

If you are really looking for good words that don't exist english, you should read Douglas Adam's "The Deeper Meaning of Liff"
I'm guessing here, but more than likely StayFocusd: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laankejkbhbdhmipfm...
But if you read the patent it's just about a method, not some application - how could that possibly pass the test you mentioned?
Well, I certainly hope you're right, but I have my reservations about small businesses, particularly those run by young, inexperienced people, scaling in order to employ others. I do think that the recent trend of staying "at home" longer may help with this. Also, if we can get more affordable housing in areas populated enough to support commerce, things might improve a lot.
Well, like so many other things, it's field-dependent. :-)

If you're working in software, you don't even need a garage: a dorm room or studio apartment, a laptop, and a few thousand dollars to pay for web hosting, will fill your need for physical equipment. I think that one of the great achievements of the past few decades has been the invention of an entire field of technical endeavor in which the base costs are so low.

But not all innovation is in software, and it's good to get a reminder that most fields have substantial equipment materials and equipment costs. A lab doing electronics, biotechnology, energy research, and many other totally necessary things has much higher requirements.

When I was doing microfluidics work in grad school, I was doing some of the cheapest microfabrication research out there. All I needed was a continuous supply of photoresist ($800/L), some decent-quality silicon wafers ($200/pk of 20), access to a high-resolution transparency printer for masks ($150/print), silicone plastic for making devices ($50/lb), and a good fluorescence microscope ($50,000 or so). Oh, and access to a clean room with about $1,000,000 worth of equipment, but that was shared and I don't know what our "rent" for access was...

Edit: costs estimated from the Internet and 2yr-old memories, but I think they're pretty close.
The mechanical press existed before Gutenberg, too. All he did was create a new kind of press, using (as you rightly point out) mechanical presses for oil. He also used oil in his inks. Still, there is little distinction between movable type with Chinese characters vs. Roman letters. They are still movable bits of type used in printing presses. The Chinese and Korean versions simply required more bits. Gutenberg definitely made the technology into something used for mass production, but it's undeniable that he did not invent the printing press.
In other words, the techniques these anti-piracy outfits appear to be using to prevent people from sharing copyrighted movies could be illegal. If that is the case then the movie companies who hire these anti-piracy outfits may be complicit in cybersecurity crimes.

I'm sure the DoJ will be handing out indictments in the very near future. <sarcasm/>

It's unfortunate that the only data that really gets protected in the US is Hollywood's.
Show HN: iPhone app for keeping track of your stuff
Legal blabber aside, the tone in the article is infuriating - standard US media fear-inducing lawsuit crap. Instead of reporting on the legal hurdles or debating the consequences they just want to send a message that it's "dangerous" to engage in new business like this.
And that is what this post is about. Looking hard enough.
Yeah, I guess my typing went into "lambda mode" since it was a one liner.