skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually depends on your population of interest. I want to know what entrepreneurs think because they are experts in the field. If 3 year old girls have the best idea about pandas, then that is who you should ask.

The same questions about entrepreneurs could be asked of a general population of people, but this is more likely to be drawn from a stereotype or heuristic rather than actual experience.

If I went into the design of the study that will follow from this survey, then the reason why I picked entrepreneurs as my sample might be more clear.
I am not an expert on financials or the SEC, but from reading that story it is clear to me that there is more at play than the story directly states. Doing your SEC disclosures in XML is a good start but there's definitely the suggestion that much, much more should be available; for instance, it sounded an awful lot like they think securities should have some sort of scheme for indicating exactly what they contain, which, presumably, should then be something that could easily be looked up.

I don't know what's in the specific XML format (and I'm not looking it up right now), but I bet it's URI based, where the URI could back to a real document that further specifies the nature of that security. Then, the problem of determining exactly what is in a security reduces from today's effectively unsolvable problem (!) to, quite likely, a junior or senior level college homework problem. This seems like a valuable idea.

So I think there's more to this proposal than just annotating SEC disclosures; I believe the proposal is to convert the entire financial system to using publicly-available XML formats for pretty much everything they do.

I like it. I don't think it solves all problems, but it solves enough to be worthwhile. I also think we've got the technology to do it. There are many nuances I can think of (which would blow this message out too far), but I think it's a fundamentally sound idea.

Let's see if Obama's administration is half as tech savvy as they've been advertised as, and sees the merit of this proposal. It'll take time, but it should be done.

(My only criticism is that this really isn't the road to financial recovery, it's a road to make the next financial crisis of this nature that much harder to happen. If a magical switch could be flipped and this was suddenly implemented today, it would be just as likely to instantly crash the economy as the full truth comes out. As much as I don't like it, given our current situation, a bit of hobbling along may be necessary... although the risk of that approach is extremely high too, really. No easy way out. But, once we've opened up, staying open should be superior to returning to a closed economy.)
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You can create an open-source app and reap the benefits of it ... and still make money by:

- using the OSS to power, sell, etc a closed source application

Anybody can come download my shopping cart any time they want. It still earned me a few hundred dollars this week.

See also Rails (open source framework powers immensely profitable closed source applications), etc.
If you really care that much about dynamic range in music, learn to play a few instruments yourself. Quit whining about shrink wrapped commercial products, because they're never going to be up to the standards of a connoisseur.
Unix is much more than an operating system. It's also a time-tested philosophy of building software.
See here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html
this is why i like hacker news: anything about PHP gets downvoted into oblivion on reddit.
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Well, you wouldn't want an analog guitar effect pedal, but it's easy to get MIDI pedals. I don't know what you'd do with the MIDI, but the sky's the limit.
> Innumeracy is embraced by business people

A good businessman uses his numerical intuition far more than his numerical literacy - math is a way to prove intuition as it relates to business.

A good mathematician also operates in this way - a proof starts out as intuition. People with poor business/social/numerical intuition often point to this as a flaw, but it's really an advantage. That's why the best engineers eventually end up as business people. Look at the partner roster and board members of any top flight VC firm in the valley - a high proportion of them are former engineers.

You're not going to find many former accountants or statisticians in the bunch.
Your claim that putting AdSense on a domain without first publishing some content is against the Google TOS is unsubstantiated. In fact, Google actually advocates publisher to monetize their unused domains with the Adsense for Domains program.

http://www.google.com/domainpark/

Even if the step was against the TOS, Google should have communicated it clearly and set the record straight. The author doesn’t begrudge that Google disabled his account, rather that Google didn’t inform him the reason for disabling.
From the wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq, the "positive correlations" section you can expect IQ to be useful predicting the following:

• SAT score.

• Job performance of a new hire when the new hire does not have existing experience.

• Income, but being at the extreme high end doesn't help much more than just being high.

• Health. (Some diseases are negatively correlated.)

• Committing violent crimes. (negative correlation.)

Genius is not in the list. I would suggest that it is something else entirely.
Yes, this latest trend is pure craziness. Here is a relevant wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
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I thought Perl was supposed to be the king of really low char count code!

(Sorry for the alliteration.)
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This guy Ferriss is a crackpot.
> They are taking a side in the H1B controversy because he's an immigrant?

You must be new to racism.
To me, this mission has the greatest potential for truly advancing space science of anything we've seen in a while: direct measurements of extrasolar planets.

I'm really pumped about this launch. Let's keep our fingers crossed that everything goes okay. It could truly change at a gut level the average man's view of how he fits into the universe.
The US government is finally starting to look like the US population.
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PageRank is page specific.

Sub-domains are treated as a separate site in the eyes of search engines.
Netscape had a weird policy, giving away their browser free for academic and non-profit use, before finally giving it away for free to compete with MS. I actually remember bragging to a friend when I was in college, since I didn't have to pay for Netscape, but he did...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
One place where it's very easy to compete OSS is in the enterprise.

Another place is B2C. All of the following sell B2C software:

- User experience that doesn't hurt. (Have you ever put a non-technical user through getting software from sourceforge?)

- Marketing. (It isn't evil. Most of your customers know how to describe their pain to Google but they don't know how to conceive of the solution, and they probably don't know the computer can help them. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explain how the link between unhappy present and happy future is use of the appropriate software -- YOUR software.)

- Speaking the users language (hint: "GPL", "XML", and "multimedia engine" are three words that my B2C page does not share in common with my OSS competitor.)

- Design. ($25 of stock icons doubled my sales back in the day. Most OSS projects do not have anyone who would care enough to secure the equivalent.)

- Answering emails such as "I can't email the hard drive to the download" with respect and patience rather than that special brand of community the question would get on most OSS mailing lists.

- A web site that sells the product/download/etc. Rather few B2C OSS sites are written by someone who sounds like they actually WANT you to hit that download button. They're like sculptors adding navels to statutes: they know it has to have one but the task is boring and detracts from the interesting parts of the project, so it is completed in as perfunctory a manner as possible. You'll never hear an OSS developer saying "This is the 47th iteration of our Download Now button. Its 350% more effective at getting the click than v1.0"
Education aside, degrees are useful for determining if someone went to college. If you went to college too, you have something to talk about - 4 years of shared similar experiences during a very formative period in your life.

This is very useful in business and life. Only some kind of sociopath would not see the value in this.
Ask HN: How do you go about asking someone for ownership of their domain?
I have this absolutely amazing idea I am going to run with, but someone owns the domain already and I want to get it from them for exchange of services instead of money.

I don't have any money, but I am willing to exchange services or even include the organization in my start-up idea.

The domain is www.tracklete.com.

Got any ideas how I could present it to the organization?
Backtype clearly needs to use their $300,000 to make their product better.
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I also thought of TextMate when the subject of developer tools not making money came up.
Browser comparing is always a bit of a fan-fest, I wonder why.
For me, there is only one reason why I use mostly Opera:
It's the only browser that actually correctly resizes every page (including images and some videos). Which is pleasant when you're reading on a 30" screen.
It is more complicated, you will need a hardware connection which I think is a different licensing world. Perhaps you can pull it off through the headphone port without extra licensing since both audio in and out are there and a switch.

Beyond that, I think it's a great idea. For anything other than a single function pedal, the user interface becomes a tedious nightmare. With an iPhone you have room and flexibility to make a nice user interface.

Plenty of horsepower in the phone, but you'd probably run the battery down in a few hours at full processing, so you'd have to plan on power.

I would envision the iPhone up on a stand or amp where you can see it and a floor box with the audio interface and a stomp button (in place of the headphone clicker button).
I get the impression that tptacek hates everything that wasn't either invented in the 1950s, or that he didn't invent himself.

IPv6 is the future of IP, regardless of its flaws. It is much farther along than anything else, and I don't see that changing. (And I don't see anyone using IPv6 until IPv4 addresses become Really Expensive, which probably won't be for 10 or 15 more years.)
It seems to me that validation would be especially helpful when you're composing one Web page out of a bunch of smaller components; if, say, each component is in its own <div> and your validator confirms that it's a proper <div>, then you can have more assurance that your code will stitch them all together into proper <html>. If one of the components is invalid, you run a greater risk that when that component is included in a page with other stuff, the interaction among all the pieces will create an ugly surprise.
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Definite proof that we live in a simulation and those who attend to it save up some computational resources by computing only what can be seen, and also they have a bug where they used a signed int instead of an unsigned int ;P
IE6 is like vinyl, man. It's a timeless classic. The pages just look better through it, like they did when I was a kid!
Craigslist under fire
And Joel sells developer tools.
The graph is all vague and VC touchy-feely. If you re-label the axes revenue (which he discounts) and cost, you get something that the entrepreneur can use. Exponential or even quadratic growth is impossible over the long run. Linear growth in revenue where the slope is > 1 is the recipe for success. If you convert the graph to $ vs time, you see how long you have to hold on.
The Google Adsense TOS clearly states they can terminate accounts for any reason. And yes that includes having brown hair. You have no right to any of the money. They DON'T owe you ANYTHING! I don't understand why people can't realize this!
School makes eBay mistake, sells $60K trailer for $1
The market is changing from: create something and try to sell it, to: get paid to create something. This has always been the case for programmers that work for a product company. They agree to a price(their salary) before implementing the software. Of course, this is nothing new, consulting practices have always operated this way. The ony way open source hurts devs is that open source encourages reuse. Devs are paid over and over again to create the same thing. This is a much more efficient(in terms of effort) way to do things. Companies will always need new features and custom integrations. Obviously this does hurt "product comapnies", but do we really care? If we don't need something anymore, let's throw it away. It's wasteful not to.
For some reason that warning makes me want to build something with it even more!
I work on the Project Kenai (http://kenai.com/) team at Sun, and we provide hosted source code repositories, ticketing, wikis, and a variety of other tools for project management.

We're still in beta, so you'll need an invite in order to actually create a project. Hit me up via email (my HN username at gmail.com) and I can pass along an invite if you're interested.
To inject some UGA bashing into this discussion at the cost of sounding even more classist, at the very least Shotput is Georgia Tech. UGA is considered pejorative around here ;)
From looking at the current site, it seems "the organization" is one guy who never got any further than spending a saturday afternoon editing some html in notepad.

I would argue that most "absolutely amazing ideas" can exist on any domain, so there is no "the domain" in this case. There IS a domain currently registered that is probably more fitting to your idea than registering some iteration of "mydmnhsnvwls" or something.

If I were you, I'd probably start running with your idea and implement whatever you're going to implement. Petition the current owner of this domain to transfer it to you for a reasonable fee. Since the current domain appears to be setup as some kind of track and field scholarship/fundraiser site, maybe you could make an offer for $xxx.yy and a donation of $xxxxx.yy some time in the future when you reach a goal of profitability or sales or whatever. Appeal to what the current owner appeared to want to achieve, but never did.
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I think the biggest risk for MSFT is purely reputation. Their reputation has got worse and worse and I believe you're right, it's going to start damaging their ability to enter any market other than computers and games consoles (and only there because they actually have a good reputation).

I don't trust MSFT's reliability with products. I've even noticed some classic MSFT flaws in the Xbox 360, namely that it tells you somethings wrong with how you set up the Xbox when it cannot connect to Live, yet if you actually watch the connection steps it connects to the network, connects to the internet and gets 2/3 the way through connecting to MSFT's Live and then it fails, yet they blame you. This reminds me of Live Messenger, when the service goes down for everyone (including articles on ZDNet and places about the outage) you check the service and it always says that the Live systems are running without a problem. I still can't understand why MSFT simply never admits there's a problem; IMO it hurts their reputation a lot more that they don't than if they did.

Honestly, I find myself looking at the apple website, watching the prices of all their products. Because once there's a good enough deal, or I have enough cash to spare (whichever comes first) then I'm getting one. With my wifes' education discount some of the prices are dangerously close to a good deal as it pretty much becomes tax free, in fact I think some save more.
If you mean for private repos, unfuddle.com offers both.
Sorry if it was misleading. I just thought it was interesting to note, given your history of legal action. As for the link, it was one of the top hits on Google for whatever I searched for at the time.
I hope this doesn't fall back to Earth like the carbon observatory did.
I know for myself that a combination of recent years and getting over my Linux-fanboyness has caused me to move Microsoft from ultimate evil to just annoying big company. This lawsuit severly pushes that back.

It also makes the people who faught against things like the Novell-Microsoft Deal appear correct. This in turn does great damage to the Silverlight and C# OSS efforts. Which in turn does damage to Microsofts ability to say they are cross platform.
and Drupal:

http://groups.drupal.org/files/DrupalUsabilityResearchReport...
Proprietary software can be more open by providing an api and tools to allow others to create extensions and customizations without consuming your resources. Creating a community of developers may be more important than some specific set of features.
This makes no sense, actually. I incorporated my company in 1998, so if entrepreneurs always identify with other entrepreneurs, then...

Aaron
Letting things go
Yes, though I find that the process takes a bit more than an hour, mostly because a native speaker isn't conveniently placed in front of you and because language books are simply not organized in this manner. It's a shame that they aren't. Instead of giving you a basic overview of the language most tend to slowly build up in a manner children learn the language which isn't all that useful (to me, at least) if you're in college or learning it for fun; you just don't have the amount of time it would take to memorize a language in that manner.
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Agreed, this is the best project in a while that might not necessarily produce amazing scientific results (I think theres a lot more projects on earth that will reveal more about the universe, namely the LHC), however this will potentially change how everyone sees space science again.

I mean this has the potential to bring funding to space agencies like landing on the moon did. This could finally bring the money into the space agencies that they can do both science and manned missions, not one or the other.

IMO all the knowledge of the universe is useless if humanity is never going to get out of our dirt wallow and explore it. Not to mention, avoiding the whole cataclysmic failure of our planet will be a plus.
I'm definitely eating lunch there today, even though it isn't hacker news.
There's a sample chapter that you can read.

Link:http://www.inquisitr.com/19245/neil-strauss-emergency/
Taking advantage of a poor school district during a recession is pretty sketchy.
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Exactly right. It's not painful enough to bother yet. When it does get painful enough, maybe IPv6 will still be the frontrunner, or maybe something else will emerge, but we should not expect to figure this out for a few years.
You can't disable constitutional rights by TOS.
Its kind of scary to see how easily a mistake like that is made. Something very similar could happen while buying stocks for instance.
I work with a non-profit organization called Kate's Club (www.katesclub.org). Until recently, however, www.katesclub.com was owned by a guy who was using it for erotic images, and we received more than a few complaints about this. A friend of mine emailed the site owner and said he'd like to purchase the domain, and the guy responded with a relatively high price. The owner asked what he needed the domain for, and when he told him, the owner gave him the domain for 1/10th of what he originally asked.

I suggest you present your idea and motives to him, however you might not want to mention that you're planning on making a whole lot of money or he may hold that against you. Come at him with a price and see how he responds. It doesn't look like this site has been maintained nor does it appear to be making any money.
I have a very high IQ and wouldnt consider myself a genius!

Genius, IMO is about seeing things differently and sheer devotion to a cause. Einstein and Darwin would be examples of that. IQ tests do check for that (well not the devotion, but the thinking outside the box) but I dont think they represent it well.
Vint Cerf and others intimate full interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 (i.e. I can get to every site, regardless of my network) was beaten to death in the standards committees, but ultimately there was no technical consensus to be had. Unfortunately, it was a mandatory component to adoption. How did they convince themselves it would happen otherwise? They failed.

Now we'll have a clusterfuck of overlay technologies, dual-stack corner cases and last-minute crises. Yay, IETF.

How well Dan's article has stood up: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
Be that guy more often; HN needs all the help it can get to keep it in the environment we all came here for. Just like we clean up trash to keep our gardens clean, we have to clean up some titles and comments from time to time.
I was going to give you a lecture on why that's a ridiculously bad idea. Then I noticed your username. Then I went back and looked at the code. I see now.
Is there any relevance to that tidbit in this context?
... thought not. Ad-hominem ftw.
Resident registration is still required in at least some EU member states, even when one is a citizen of another EU member state. In Germany, all residents - including German nationals - have to register each change of address with the local authority/authorities.
How ugly can the chip business get?
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Her youthful, striking looks and dynamism, coupled with the fact that she understands what it means to be a working mother, juggling family life with a successful career, makes it easy for many women to relate to her.
Getting a judgment is one thing. Getting the money from the person you sue is not always easy even if you have a judgment.
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And that will matter when Google becomes part of the US government.
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It will be interesting to see if these sorts of techniques will become more useful in the future. The iPhone, Palm Pre, and all Android enabled phones come with good javascript support which means--depending on processing requirements--they could all support this sort of game out of the box. Does this mean that javascript based RIAs will be an increasingly attractive alternative to native apps?
Reality doesn't exist - "...But on the quantum level we do have to give up realism"