skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of it wouldn't depend on your level of coaching as much as your level of honesty. Most of the time when you start pitching you just need people to tell you how much of a 'tard you sound like and why nothing you're saying makes sense or is relevant.

One thing I could see being problematic is getting too nerdy of a slant on such a gathering since it's pretty easy to slip into pitching tech rather than pitching a business. I can remember seeing business folks' eyes rolling into the backs of their heads when I started by asking, "Do you know what a graph is?"
"So posting rules is just a way to insult the majority of the law-abiding citizens and it doesn't deter the morons who think their own poo smells delicious and nothing they post could possibly be against the rules."

I run a travel blog hosting site as a hobby, and that quote has always rung true for me (I built the social aspects of the site largely from that article and the Clay Shirkey one linked elsewhere in this thread.) I delete maybe a dozen blog entries by hand each day, most of which are obvious spam, but some of which are certainly borderline cases that could possibly just be somebody not knowing better. Regardless, in 4 years of running the site, I've never received a single complaint from a user about a deleted post.

People know when they're behaving badly, regardless of whether there are rules in place to tell them so.
I am another FreshBooks employee and I happen to regularly hang out with the lessaccounting guys which frequently results in bear hugs by the end of the night. So before they are enticed to believe we are starting the "we all hate lessaccounting" fan club I will say that I know this QuickBooks campaign has been awesome for them and it is classic positioning. That being said I kind of have a crush on QuickBooks too so I feel I am trapped in an uncomfortable love triangle. Awkward!!

-- Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker, FreshBooks

(Seriously though it is classic Al Ries and Jack Trout _Positioning_. Excellent book.)
Depending on how much work you plan on doing you might take a look at QuickBooks, which can do cool stuff like keep track of all the checks you are writing. If your on linux might want to try: http://www.gnucash.org/

If you want something simple, try: http://bambooinvoice.org/

I recommend against writing your own software. (Although we did write our own timekeeping application -- which we license to another local company)
I think it is more ironic that an article talking about how people like to read things online does not actually explain in words what it is that their tool does - you have to watch a video to get that info.
Kindle e-books come to the iPhone
Just type in "I hate quickbooks" into Google. We All Hate Quickbooks is #1. How is that a bad campaign? (We've used Quickbooks and didn't like it at all. 10 clicks to enter an expense, 20 clicks to enter a deposit. Awful.)

An effective way to sell a product is to sell on a pain point. Not to mention that everyone competes in business. Where do you think Coke and Pepsi would be if they loved each other and hugged all day? They'd be done. A new company called "Cokesi" would come in, kick their asses, declare that they are the best cola and take over.

Survival of the fittest. If people don't like Quickbooks, they will look for other alternatives. We All Hate Quickbooks just might lead them to Less Accounting. Good for them.
Interesting study that leads to a mundane/obvious conclusion. In the final paragraph it says:

These results go against some long held beliefs [...]
that societies require specialisation to be productive
and efficient. However, D'Orazio thinks that, at least
for biological purposes, the new model will set a
standard for future work.

In the cookie shop example -- wouldn't you say that an employee who can both make and sell cookies is still very specialized? Two specializations perhaps, but specialized nonetheless. Even if you don't take the second order benefits (that having several specializations leads to better insight/productivity in both tasks) into account any model that claims that specializing in one single thing is the optimal division of labor is clearly wrong.

In math-speak: the commonly held belief is that for any society without division of labor you can get to a better/more productive society by introducing some version of division of labor. The belief was never that for any society you can get a more productive society by increasing the division of labor. (Obviously false because specialization itself bears a cost [education, etc] and the marginal benefit of additional specialization decreases the more specialized somebody is, therefore there must be a point where additional specialization is actually harmful instead of beneficial. This contradicts the claim that specialization is unconditionally good.)

Mathematical model: nice.

New or counter intuitive results: not as far as I can tell.
Stanza and eReader apps (iPhone) can do over the air purchases from http://www.ereader.com/ and http://www.fictionwise.com (they're basically the same site now)
Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer
Echonest Remix - Open Source Python Audio Editing Package
Twinfluence measures the influence of a Twitter user based on their tweets and respective influence of their followers. The tool uses a mix of social analytics and academic theory by that "ranks" each user by their individual influence.

This blog post looks at the Top Twitterers: http://innovationinsight.com/blog/the-top-twitterers-network...

First I've seen of this.
Gvke - Ronaldo is dating Gabriela
Bay Area entrepreneurs that I’m following on Twitter
Inside Harvard Business School
I know this is a long video, but I submitted this thinking the discussion at HN would be really interesting.

Is a HBS MBA necessary to become a "true player?" Bill Gates didn't get one. Warren Buffett didn't get one. In fact, some of the people who DO have them have struggled far more than the people who haven't.

What do hackers think?
10 Creative Ways to Use the iPhone Accelerometer
English is a Germanic language. It's actually Germanic, Greek, and Latin, but...
> your level of honesty

I assure you, this won't be a problem.
Why is it better than printing to PDF? I just use Print and select Print to PDF as the printer (Firefox on Linux). That actually gives better results because it uses a print style sheet if it is available, whereas this site uses the screen style sheet.

It would be useful if you want to print it exactly as it appears on screen: say as an alternative to taking a screenshot of the site and printing that.
Officiated by the ISO-9001 Referee.
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I'm also wondering if this should be a review instead of a workshop.

I'll start looking for some space, I suppose.
Seeking advice: How to manage IP conflicts in a Startup?
I am teaming up with two other folks to create a software product. One of the person I am teaming up with runs a company already (legal consultancy). The product idea was originally his. His company will be the testing ground for the product and he will market it when we are ready to sell. He suggests that all the IP for the product we create be initially in the name of his existing company. When we are ready to sell, he says, he will transfer IP to the Startup. I am somewhat reluctant because I will be implementing the product (design, code) and would not be happy if I don't have equal stake from the beginning. Have you faced similar situations? How did you move forward?
I have no idea why you're being downmodded, that description is hilariously cynical.
Free lite version wins.
eh. Any time someone uses a phrase like "is in the best interests of the company" I think of the movie "Office Space".

You see, every company has a culture, and culture is much more than slogans. If from the very beginning the employee felt like he couldn't speak up "because it was not in his job description" then there's something deeply wrong about the culture, slogan or not.
I'm not sure I care for or would want a large audience.
> I can tell you that that was certainly not my experience- I could speak basic German at 6 months

So in other words, you learned German within 6 months.
These days, if you get NIH funding, then any publications have to be freely available within 12 months of publication:

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

It doesn't take care of these older studies, or work done without NIH funding... but its a step.

And, scholar.google.com is as good of a free, full text search tool as there is. Most journal sites give the googlebot open access to index their content, so it is a great way to find things instead of pubmed, which only searches abstracts.
WTF! Why would you post such a stupid link?
It's America's rights to protect it's land, but it's not America's right to be paranoid about Islam forever.

I regret that I have but 8 karma points to give.

Islam, like all religious faiths, is predicated on the notion that rational thought is to be subjugated to some holy book or higher power. As such, Islam, and all other faiths (including even every moderate branch of mainstream religions in the U.S.) are susceptible to radicalization and militarization. While abortion clinic bombers are currently a much smaller problem than Muslim suicide bombers on a pure numbers basis, the potential is still there.

That said, Islam has proven itself to be exceedingly prone to militarization. The subordination of the intellect is an explicit tenet of even the name of the religion. The intellects of Muslims are, by definition, enslaved to the Koran and, by common practice throughout the world, enslaved to two-bit Mullahs and the insipid fatwas they issue. Western secular civilization, by definition, has not only the right but the obligation to be paranoid about Islam for as long as it take Islam to prove itself benign.

The only reason the western secular civilization need not immediately take remedial action against other, more moderate, strains of religious belief is that, currently, their capacity for sheer mindless barbaric murderousness has been rendered latent by the secularizing force of modern technology and society. Specifically, for example, there is no danger that printing an image of the Christian god will result in mobs of anti-intellectual zealots rioting in the streets, overturning and burning vehicles while chanting, "Death to America!" There is that danger with Islam.

It is only radical and misguided political correctness to say that Islam is not the enemy of the west, when Islam itself is explicitly opposed to such shining examples of western rationality and moral values as: 1) The seeking of equality of opportunity for women, 2) The seeking of knowledge via the scientific method, even if (and especially if) it leads to the overthrow of current understanding or doctrine, 3) Due process and commensurate punishment for individuals accused and found guilty, respectively, of crimes, 4) The separation of religious entities from the government, and so on.

Any sect that explicitly and in its founding texts is opposed to virtues such as the ones listed above is not only an enemy of the West, but an enemy of the scientific method that has brought so much benefit to mankind and even an enemy of every great thinker since the Enlightenment. I am not ashamed of my hatred for Islam, nor of my dislike for other organized religions. We can thank Islam for shepherding rationalism through the Christian Dark Ages but, currently, its only other gift to mankind is showing us explicitly how severe the latent danger of the religious mind really is.
Yeah, I was hoping to find an article about giving your employees more autonomy and letting them work on projects that interest them. The title was slightly misleading to me.
DJB acknowledges vulnerability in djbdns; pays out the $1000 reward
Scroll down to the RDT entry:
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ruby

You're getting there Cuil... but not quite there yet. Not... quite... there.
I thought this post was information-dense to the point of being poetic.

(1) I wasn't around in the early 80's so I appreciate insight into what hacking was like back then.

(2) It's interesting how something as great as hacking really could be made ridiculous by those Principles that he cited, and that self-important educators did those kind of things, and I wonder if that happens a lot today.

(3) It's also true that hackers like getting close to the metal and having control over their machine, to the point of making disk actuators spin or indicator lights blink, etc. Surely it is right to lament the seldomness with which such things concern us today?

(4) I thought it was funny that ugly, all-caps names like MEMQ and ASSQ, were NOT the things that he complained about, since as an assembly programmer he wouldn't even notice. Nomenclatural conventions is a microcosm of hacking. The things people say about how names should be -- short, long, structured, typographically this way or that -- these are analogous to what people say hacking should be. It is telling that early lispers didn't give a shit about names that looked like opcodes.

(5) As profound as Lisp was, it probably did suffer from being taught by the same guys that came up with those Principles. Like Chaucer urged before, let us separate the wheat from the chaff.
That standard isn't going to work with blogs because they're putting out ten stories a day, where as NYT journalist might put three full days into a story.

Many "blogs" have multiple writers, and there's no rule that you have to post ten stories a day (or is there?). I don't think a more contemplative style is incompatible with the Web.
Is time an illusion?
7 cool projects from Yahoo Research
Spot on. Sometimes I get the feeling that China isn't one country, but a loose confederacy stitched together by military and propaganda. Taiwan might as well be another planet.

I've only spent a little bit of time in Shanghai, but I believe you. The unfortunate thing is that the top universities are mostly concentrated here in Beijing, and thanks to the hukou system, the best and brightest tend to stay here.
>> "And you know this because...."

> Because .. it's self evident and obviously true? What are you trying to say - that the hostile suspicion of foreigners at the US Border is not policy?

As I suspected, you're guessing - it's sort of like fundamental attribution error.

> Huh? We're talking about the US Border, specifically about foreigners trying to visit, many who have never been there before.

How does immigration/homeland security know that someone has never been to the US before? (Hint: their passport isn't reliable information.)

And, if the US isn't trading fingerprint info with everyone it can, it isn't doing its job.

BTW - The US does collect fingerprints overseas in certain countries. However, thanks to discrimination laws, it can't just check fingerprints of folks who look like they might be from those places.

If you argued that we're practicing "security theater", not security, you wouldn't get an argument from me.

> Anyway, I hope that with the new administration in charge and the memory of 9/11 receding, this horrible system will be turned off.

Be ready to be disappointed.
Or, 255 versions of it, including the original PDF:
http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=7...
Voltaire says that behind every fortune, there is a crime.

But I believe the opposite.

Assholes get very far, but rarely do they make it to the top. All the top people I know are actually great people.
What, Faustus, weepst though now?

Tis too late! Despair, alack, farewell!

Fools who laugh on earth must weep in hell!
Come on now, everyone knows that the One True Way(tm) to generate a humorous tech title, satire or otherwise, is with code similar to the following perl code:

$topic.(" considered harmful" x ((int rand 5)+1))
Wow, I believe this is the first-ever "security guarantee" payout by DJB? Not bad!, not bad at all!, considering how popular both qmail and djbdns are.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Although you admitted that you are an Islam hater, I really find it useless to make a debate with you. Do you know why? Because most of the information you listed above is wrong!

You have made the same mistake that many others do everyday... You judge on Islam just because of less than 0.000000001% of Muslims have declared the war against America.

Do you think that Islam agrees on bombs? If there is a religion that asks you to kill others, then it's not worth believing in it!

I am sure that when you will have the correct information about Islam, and about Muslims too, your point of view will be totally changed!

How many bombers are out there? Million bombers? Although million bombers is not realistic number, but even if it's truth, then there are more than 1.5 Billions muslims in the world!

Devide 1 million/1.5 billion and then * 100 , and look at the percentage!
Man, what's really cool about this, is how it's implemented. They use a flash application that sits where the link to "upload files" is, so when you click on the "link" your actually clicking on a flash application which launches a flash file browser. The flash then talks to javascript which creates the div for the file and draws the progress bar.

Really slick :-)
GPS Tracking Service Information Resources
What are GPS personal tracking systems? They can be used to track the whereabouts of just about anyone who wears the transmitter. Many people who have small children use GPS personal tracking systems as a way to keep track of their children.
And somehow, you managed to cause a bug in Twiddla I have never seen elsewhere. When you make the window smaller, some of your content actually goes off the edge:

http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Team_WhiteBoarding_with_...
tvrss.net is an RSS for eztv.it
For the Daily Show in particular I usually just watch on Hulu. The eztv link is http://eztv.it/shows/1/daily-show-the/, and the March 2nd episode looks like it was posted about an hour after the east-coast showing.
Yes. The main problem with the craigslist is that as long as it doesn't care about it's users there will always be other sites like http://www.craiglook.com which will steal it's audience by giving them same craigslist but with the new revamped interface

-Cheers, Josh
PG, is your site down? I cannot access the article.
I think so, unless you count the prize for "most interesting cryptanalysis of Salsa20" as a security guarantee. Also, someone discovered a bug in qmail a while back, but DJB disputed that it was security-related and didn't pay. Having seen the details, I'm inclined to side with DJB.
Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics
Why computer voices still don't sound human
Note: The fires at Centralia will be burning for 100 years -- they cause sink holes and other dangers.
:O I don't get how such a thing could have happened -- maybe a key collision or something??
1) Your search doesn't tell me anything when there are no results, Try searching for "DC" and you'll see what I mean

2) Auto-suggest would be really helpful in the search, to make it easier to make my location string well-formed.

3) Letting me just pick a state/city from a list craiglist style would be nice, although I can see how that would be a bit of UI clutter.

4) Some of your 'view this job posting' urls are broken, i see
@jobshouts

#jobs Territory Sales / MKTG / Consulting Positions - F/T - \"Leads and Pre-Set Appts\" - (OUTSIDE SALES) in Atlanta,Georgia ...

leads to http://jobs/
You also appear to be escaping quotes in a way that's showing up on the homepage =P.

That's just from a few minutes browsing. Looks like it could be a useful tool, keep up the good work!
I was dissatisfied with the time tracking options out there -- they're pretty much all built for managers -- so I (interaction designer) built my own:

http://letsfreckle.com

It doesn't have invoicing (yet) but it's coming.
Normal People Will Use Twitter In 5 Years (Founder on Charlie Rose)
His misconception is not believing that most Muslims are violent, but that most Muslims take their religion as seriously as the intellectual framework commands. Islam may have not had a reformation into conservative and non-conservative sects, but the great majority of Muslims do not feel an image of Muhammad is worth a riot.

Having said that, the proportion of orthodox, Koranic literalists to more liberal Muslims does seem to be significantly higher than the proportion of Christian biblical literalists to more liberal Christians I think this is the point mkn was trying to make, even if using that to justify hatred makes him look kind of dumb.
interesting... but results aren't so great relevancy wise and pictures don't go with the results they are linking to. (search postgres and postgresql. separately)
This just reads like an ad for Dell. As the pages (and banners) roll on, the tips get less entrepreneurial, and far less "must-read".
Amazon launches Kindle application for the iPhone
Philip Greenspun: http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/community
Cuil as a unit of measure: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raid...
The most interesting part is that it keeps your reading position from your Kindle.
I wonder if the entertainment industry is headed to a model comparable to venture capitalism.

Isn't it like this already? Shows like 30 Rock and The Late Show are created by production companies owned by Tina Fey and David Letterman. The shows are jointly owned by the production companies and the star's production companies. Even smaller potatoes productions are owned by production companies, not the networks. I.e. all that crap like "Rob and Big" on MTV is joint owned by MTV and a production company owned by some random dudes.

The finance and ownership issues relating to TV and Film are probably more sophisticated than high-tech venture capital.
Rechtsanspruch auf Girokonto einklagen
On the recent page at this moment (http://thepiratebay.org/recent) , 90% of the torrents are of copyrighted content not being distributed by the rights holders. Two of the legal ones, I believe, are the porn picture sets. They are used to promote pay porn content and I will give the uploader the benefit of the doubt here. The other one is someone's collection of recipe for Indian food. I'm similarly assuming that his collection of recipes is not copyrighted, but 15.9MB of recipes is a lot of personal recipes.

Look: I am not in favor of the current system of IP. I think it is ridiculous to artificially add some constraint of scarcity when the marginal cost of duplication has fallen to zero. But we're reasonable here, we're not in court. We don't need to defend TPB using legalistic arguments. We can just be happy that a group of high powered lawyers turned out to be completely incompetent.
I'm reaallly interested in a solid Quickbooks alternative given all the negative feedback on it. But I'm having trouble trusting LessAccounting coz 3 favorable-to-them comments here so far have been made by brand new users (chrisyour, redinger, joshuastreet). Any others used them?
It is vital to get these things properly resolved "up front" and to not rely upon promises of future action - it will all end in tears otherwise.

I would create a new legal entity to own the IP and divide the shares as seems appropriate to the founders. The new entity can enter into a license agreement (exclusive or otherwise) with the pre-existing business.