skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm using jing by techmsmith too.
in addition to allowing you to create and save screencasts, -it hosts shared images and videos, providing unique urls
-you can write write on screengrabs

its a freemium, but i have yet to need the -mium.
It's like some sort of idiot poem: (replace , with line break)

there wuz an air bubble,
in the air plane,
so that caused the plane,
to float,
thank god that ,
that air bubble wuz ,
there or the passengers ,
would have froze in the water,
Why protect the body when his head is right out in the open? Even the glass shield they used at the inauguration appeared to leave his head hittable.
Congratulations.

Northern California probably has a stronger network of homeschoolers than greater Boston as well, although both places are all right in that regard.
Normally I would be inclined to agree with you. But judging from the OP's comments on proggit and here. You can see a smack of arrogance around his posts.
Oops, yeah. Not a bug then :P
I gave a talk today about my past experience, and someone asked me what the key quality to bring to a startup is, and I blathered on about "determination," because that's what popped into my head ... After, I realized that there was a slightly different word that actually captured the experience better. Fear. It's the best motivator of all. Perhaps it's the real reason startups thrive in the environments like the current one - because they have no choice.
I think that the "ess" should only be added when sexual distinction is being communicated as well. Off the top of my head, I can only think of it coming up for very feminine nouns, such as "temptress" and "mistress." "Waitress" is still doable but discouraged.
I love seasons. That's why I live somewhere that skips the shitty ones.

-Daniel Tosh
true, but I think I would be getting defensive after a witch hunt like this
Is time for an Arlington YC meetup?

I work in Arlington, and live just one town over. Yup, Ruby. An Arlington meetup might be fun, I never seem to be able to make the Boston Ruby events in Cambridge.
Peeling Scotch tape emits X-Rays
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I was also thinking of maybe doing that Folding@Home stuff.
I'd remove the need for a log-in to vote on games. Regardless of 'abuse', which should be relatively easy to monitor, if someone feels particularly passionate about up-voting, perhaps they should be able to express it.

Considering a large percentage of individuals who play such games are likely underage, who would want to log-in and, essentially, confess to their crime?

In my experience, sites like this which are 'cool content' driven depend heavily on equally 'cool' design. Perhaps consider design overhaul, find a friend good with web design?
I was planning to go with a five o'clock one. But Trevor can by now do a pretty good PG imitation, I believe.
One interesting point is that any constitutionalist strict enough to claim that the oath must be taken verbatim would pretty much be claiming nullification of every presidency. The oath as written doesn't include an allowance for the insertion of the President-to-be's name. It also doesn't include "So help me God," though since that falls after the oath it probably matters less.
Not appropriate for HackerNews :)
For all of Hollywood and video games' obsession with head shots, the head is very hard to hit. From what I know, most training is to shoot at the chest, the biggest, most dependable target.
So is this a grep/diff/sort/awk/etc man saying that IDEs tend to suck?

It's nice to hear it from Kernighan, but it's hardly surprising. IDEs do suck.
What color scheme did you use? I find myself loving the dark vim themes.
I thought the legal question was interesting.
congrats. happy for you both!
I work for FreshBooks, and I second this motion. :)

But in all seriousness:
1. Expect to lose money on your first couple projects.
2. Treat your first 10 clients as if they had a 1 in 2 chance of becoming a major deity.

I'm not exaggerating at all here. Your first clients will know that they are your first clients (or should know) and they will spread the word if you are good. Be good. Be extra good. Be extra super cost saving, awesome customer service, really nice guy, ran the extra 3 miles, good.

Also, stay organized. Make notes about every expense, every 15 minute block billed to client. This was my huge burn when I first started doing my own thing. I figure I have wasted about 4 or 5 grand not being organized. Change orders that didn't get billed because I was "too busy" to keep records tax refunds lost because I could have written off that business meeting lunch. McDonalds has a saying "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean," well apply that to your personal business: "If you have time to breath, you have time to get organized. Actually, just make sure you get organized, even if you don't have time to breath."

I would also, personally, find a really good accountant. I know some good ones around Toronto, but if you have a good enough network you should be ok. Accountants pay for themselves, seriously.

As for lawyers - in my experience you shouldn't need them. But I'm not you, so ask your accountant.
Take/learn from designs.

Though theoretically it could be used to steal designs also... I mean that already happens today but it'd be easier.
i was going to say the same thing about winchester, ma... minus the walk to the redline.

no answer to the weather issue, however.
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No professional sniper would ever aim at the head (Oswald notwithstanding). Given the very long range that a sniper would have to cover, and the resultant drop and wind issues to consider, aiming for a small, often rapidly-moving target such as the head would be a mistake.

The chest area overall not only moves more slowly, but also presents the "center shot" target for a sniper that he'd try to hit.

As for the head being left 'exposed' by the glass enclosure, consider that for a sniper to hit a target in the head, he would have to be on higher ground (e.g. a building) and have a clear line of sight. Sniper rifle ranges being what they are (the longest confirmed kill was at 1.42 miles for 35 years until 2002, and is now only about 450 feet more), you can be pretty sure that all relevant buildings within that range have probably been checked. If you consider the shooting angle involved, his chest area is at a much greater risk from somebody standing a reasonable distance away, maybe with slight elevation.
But that multiply really fast. Like mitosis in 2 seconds.
2 of the 4 presidential assassinations have been head shots, including one from range on a moving target.
Cambridge is doing better. My son is in the first grade at a public Montessori school here in Cambridge, and it's stellar.
You're American then?

Waitress is still very much the term in this part of the world.
I quite agree with Mr. Veldstra, and would add a few things.
1) Clojure isn't always fast, but it's fast enough.
2) When you need more speed, you can always write Java code and then trivially call into it. No need to worry that you'll be trapped by performance issues.
3) There's no need to get rid of your current Java infrastructure or code base. Clojure works WITH that code base, not INSTEAD of it. This will give most CTO's a warm, fuzzy feeling.
4) Clojure can easily and safely exploit multi-core processors, something that's about to become an issue. Given how difficult it is to make multi-threaded Java work correctly, this is a big deal.
5) It's going to make your developers a lot happier, which can produce a competitive hiring advantage. And the kind of developers you get are likely to be sharper. Given how dramatic the differences between developers can be, this is an especially important and (I think) underappreciated point.

As for CL, I think most CTO's will have a single question that's foremost in their minds: if Lisp has been around for half a century and CL for about a quarter of a century and they still don't have a good story for GUIs, sockets, and a clean-up language, why is any of that going to change if OurCorp starts using it?
I think he should have attributed more importance to regular expressions. They don't even get mentioned, beyond being implied by grep.
Alas, I don't think I will ever apply now. I had ideas of trying in 2-3 years, but I can't live in Palo Alto. I'll just figure it out on my own. :)
http://paste.lisp.org/display/74007

let Right x = paramTree [("a[x]","b"),("a[b]","c"),
("a[b][c]","d"),("bc[de]","f")] in putStrLn (drawTree x)

{ "a" => { "b" => <conflict>, "x" => "b" }, "bc" => {
"de" => "f" } }
Can someone provide a link to the reddit article he mentions at the end? I'd like to know what old, unfinished idea might still be useful.
The gap between #1 (Silicon Valley) and #2 (Cambridge) just got bigger with this news.
Congrats! Good luck, have fun.

As someone who has happily chosen to raise her children in Cambridge, we all do what we think is best for our kids. Suburbia is not for us; Huron Village is about as suburban as I can stand. :)
My experience with Northern California is that it rains pretty well every day from December to March. Not that those few days when it doesn't aren't glorious, but people oversell the lack of winter. I think the best part of the climate is the fact that it's not insanely hot the rest of the year.
No, its not. No one is selling Android, they're selling the G1. The iPhone can't outsell Android because it's freely available software meant to run on a multitude of devices. You can't compare a single device to a platform that is currently only available on one device. If you're basing your decisions as a developer on this information, you're missing the big picture.
That's all true for the article I linked directly, but the problems are greater than just the lower ad load.

The value of a la carte viewers is lower than the value of scheduled viewers[1] and more importantly, the internet is not designed to assure successful video delivery[2].

He even proposes a mechanism[3] for fixing the economics of video distribution - by intermediating the cable companies(!), for whom a marginal viewer has no cost, between content providers and customers.

I'm truly not a Cuban fanboy, but I think he's got a point on this one.

[1]: http://blogmaverick.com/2007/07/09/metcalfes-law-and-video/

[2]: http://blogmaverick.com/2008/03/28/internet-video-vs-digital...

[3]: http://blogmaverick.com/2008/07/14/the-way-to-save-internet-...
I thought it was more because Lisp is "that language which will make you a better coder which I need to learn some day, but never actually do".
Ummm, why is this news? President GW Bush wore a bullet-proof vest to throw out the first pitch at the start of the last baseball season. And many other times, I'm sure. It's just good common sense for a US President to do this.
Not just 7 languages, but "and more..."
This is how I would approach such an issue with php. This assumes it would be run through eval or written to file and included. Obviously to make this valid php I would replace { with Array( and } with ) -- but I decided to stick to the spec above for arguments sake.

$parsed = str_replace('{', '{"', '{'.str_replace(Array('[', ']'), Array('" => {', ''), $string)) .str_repeat('}', substr_count($string, '[')+1);
I learnt to program in an IDE, and was born and raised in a Microsoft environment. My entire computing experience has been dominated by Microsoft.

But now I'm learning Unix-commands just for the fun and romance of it.

It may sound shallow, but one reason I want to learn Unix is because it's somewhat "mysterious" and all the cool hackers I know use Unix.

And many people I know in the IT world who can get things done often turn to Unix.

Thus, this article re-inforces my motivation to learn Unix -- the operating system of our ancestors.

I should note that it doesn't mean I hate windows. In fact as I learn unix commands I am seeing more and more that Windows was born out of Unix and is a "distorted" version of unix. But Windows feels like home to me. So I'll likely always use both: Windows and Unix.
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There's also Factor, which is pretty much becoming a postfix Lisp.
It's really a story about breakage. It happens that a politician was involved, but it's not about politics.
VisiCalc was written in Arlington. Tipjoy's there too.
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I was curious, so I checked. At worst (Jan, Feb) it rains about as much in other places in the US. It just seems horribly rainy because the weather the rest of the year is so sunny.

http://pics2.city-data.com/w3/prc2321.png

http://pics2.city-data.com/w6/sun2321.png
Emacs is also the default editor for Clojure. There's an Eclipse plugin coming along but I think it's not ready yet.
That does not seem shallow. That seems a very good algorithm for discovering good new things.
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I love the serendipitousness of HN, this link is currently the next one down from this: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/logo-desig...

Summary: bad idea.
Unfortunately I am not in this class, but I am a PSU IST student. It's nice to see some other IST people here.
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So What ever happened to Paul's article that Cambridge is a hot spot for start ups? I guess this means that there is a spot for someone else to take yc's spot in the Boston area. Anyone know of replacements?
A raincloud must have followed you around! Even though that is the heart of the 'rainy season', in SF, about half those days have no measurable rain, and even those with rain are often just a few hundredths of an inch.

Here are historical records for downtown SF:

http://ggweather.com/sf/daily.html

(2005-2006 was especially rainy; was that when you set your 'norm'?)
And without the generalities?
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Within a season. The east coast has four seasons; California has two: a 9-month warm, dry season and a 3-month cool, wet one. Seeing rain during the dry season is always a surprise, and people complain how weird the weather is. (Of course it does happen a few times, but always accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth.) During the winter, light rain a few times a week is permissible. And it's still not actually cold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate

When I moved out east this year I was shocked that nobody here seems to know what the weather's like on the west coast. I suppose that's because it's never covered in the national news.
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As a matter of fact, it was. I did say "my experience." I arrived in SF in October 2005, left in Dec. 2007. Rainclouds seem to have been following me around forever.
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Congratulations!

When we were expecting out first baby, everyone we met and talked to advised us to get as much sleep as possible, because it will be a bit difficult to get a good night sleep for the first few weeks/months after the baby arrives. I won't advise that to you guys, because I couldn't really understand how sleeping longer for a few weeks/months now will help you sleep less for a few weeks/months later on.
Why lock your door when your windows are made of easily breakable glass?
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Hard to say, because the number of deals with Boston investors has always been so small as to be statistically insignificant.

Boston VCs may actually be more interested in YC alumni lately, but I think that's because they only recently discovered YC.

With angels it's even harder to tell, because the Boston angel community is even weaker than the VCs. If I recall correctly, only one YC alum has been talking to a Boston angel lately, and he backed out of the deal in a pretty lame way. But with only one data point it's hard to say whether it's Boston, or the economy, or just that guy.
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This is basically why I enjoy Joss' work so much. I read the criticisms of Joss' work and to a certain extent I agree with all of them, but behind the sometimes too-clever wordplay (though I'll admit I usually enjoy it anyhow) and the girls-who-kick-ass fetish is one of the most solid stories you can find. I wanted to call out my favorite point or two here, but the truth is you walk into a theater and you're lucky to get competent execution of any of those points from what's up there on the screen. Even if you don't like his stories, he definitely knows storytelling like few others. (Brad Bird is one of the few others that leaps to mind.)

I particularly miss comedy movies that were written with these principles in mind, instead of being simply "‘This’ll lead to many fine set-pieces’" consisting of parodies with no love for their subject, nor anything interesting to say. Mike Myers was the last to do this (Austin Powers, at least the first one), and lately he's sucked pretty hard too, so...
Totally agreed. Code must always be Enterprise Ready™. How could anyone possibly post about some different/interesting/witty way to do something?
Keeping the office?
Early 2006 was extremely wet. I remember getting caught in some crazy downpours. There were a number of floods down in Santa Cruz county that took out roads and caused mudslides. In The City, March 2006 was a record setting rainfall.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/31/...
Because M&M is a tasty chocolate that is especially popular with children, the creators of X# want to send the message that their language is delicious toy suited for tots.
Most of the time you get non-scalable, unreadable, and/or untested code in a production system because you're not very good and you don't step back and look at interesting/different ways to do things. "Awesomer" isn't a good reason to do things, but it's probably the original source of some of the things we like about Python and Ruby and Lua and IO and Potion . . .
First thing to know is - there is no such thing as a "standard contract". It's always useful to have a lawyer look over a contract before you sign it.
Then - never be afraid to request changes. I've found employers are usually happy to make reasonable contract changes and clarifying things like termination notice periods can benefit both sides.

I've been freelancing since 2002. Some of the common "gotchas" I've seen in contracts to look out for:

1. Anti-competitive clauses (eg. After you work for us you can't work for a competitor for a certain amount of time).
I never agree to these and fortunately here in Australia they're illegal in most circumstances.

2. IP ownership
This relates to your question. I've found employers are most concerned about lock-in. They want to make sure any project work you deliver is their's to use and modify as they please when you're gone. Not unreasonable. It's when they ask for exclusive ownership that you need to be careful. I've often added a clause that distinguishes between project specific deliverables which can be exclusive and the tools and techniques you develop to deliver the project which you share but can also take with you. I've never had an employer refuse that.

3. Termination clauses
Make sure the timeframe for termination (by either party) is in reasonable proportion to the contract term. Eg. I had one contract with (initially) a 1 hour notice period for terminating a six month contract. I asked them if they'd mind extending it to 2 weeks and they were happy to do so. Remember, it's protection for both sides.
I built one years ago (2001ish) but never even tried to commercialise it as there are tons of patents on it, with relatively big players. Perhaps they all folded, I haven't kept up with it.
What?!? The "4k pocket full-of-gags web microframework" isn't the right choice for this financial transaction app I'm writing? I FEEL USED.
Yep. See, we were overrun by the PC nuts in the 80s, but there are good parts. In the case of "waitress," I agree with them that the elaboration is unnecessary and pointless. So I value some PC when it delivers precision (but the arguments that certain speech is sexist seems far-fetched; "waitress" is not sexist).
'grats!!
I think I've settled on desert at the moment. It's dark background, with very mellow highlight colors. Angry fruit salad it is not.
Apple Still Oblivious to Netbook Opportunity
Or more precisely, because they don't do anything users need. There are two ways that happens: by doing nothing, and by doing the wrong things.
you think you need a graphic designer when in reality you need a user experience/user interface expert.
The background color of the logo is gray in IE6 and the Add Game page is messed up in IE6 also. Although, I can't blame you if you aren't planning to support IE6.

Also the OpenID button does not load in Opera 9 and slows down the loading of the rest of the form greatly.
I don't know about never apply to California, but I think that the sudden lack of seed funders on the East Coast leaves a pretty severe gap. My cofounder and I are talking about this right now: California is pretty tough for him, and this coming in January means that there's less time to really discuss this. The fact that there's no seed funder over on this side means that it's going to be tough to figure out if things don't work - one-man start-ups just aren't a good idea.
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I still remember thinking - wow, they oversold me on the climate. And then it stopped raining at the end of March. For 8 months. Plus it seemed like the thermometer was pinned at 72 degrees every day.
Obama makes Bush's record public
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/
Somehow I expected a bigger beard.
You put the link in the wrong box...
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Do all new languages have to be built on top of existing popular VMs? If so (a) that's a new rule, because Ruby, Python, Perl, etc, weren't, and (b) the article could have a much bolder title: it could be about the future of programming languages, not just the future of Lisp.

And if it's not the case that this principle applies to all new languages, what's special about dialects of Lisp that makes it only apply to them? Why can you build a new language with infix syntax and Greenspun's-tenth-law semantics up from scratch, but not a new Lisp?
The question for me, the grad student:

Where do I sign up for grant money?
"Yes I know what you're thinking: Facebook is so completely over. It's yesterday's news. It's irrelevant. It's expired."

You know, I was actually thinking that about Twitter. Twitter has jumped the shark. Facebook has jumped the chasm.
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So it says they're oblivious, then it goes on to say that both Cook and Jobs have said specifically that they've considered it, they're not interested, but that they have a few interesting ideas? Come on.

John Gruber's been citing all the critics who said that Apple's raising their price point on laptops would lead to their collapsing this period; Apple did better this quarter than they ever have. I'd treat these articles with a grain of salt.
I think the key is how geographically widespread the entrants of online design contests are. Sure anyone can enter the painting competition at their local community college, but I doubt you'll have somebody across federal and state boundaries entering the same contest. This is just a really good example of the legal oversight startups often have.