skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and how you judge if the patent office is doing it's job, again? If you're not "happy with the outcomes", which direction do you push the fence? Without a goal set we get nowhere.

What patent law should achieve is purposefully vague - it's the ultimate subversion of the legal system for capitalistic purposes. The state is supposed to give exclusive rights over "ideas", in effect granting the monopoly of anything to anyone. Then the patent office is handed over the hair ball of defining what are "ideas", which ideas are worth a patent (aka "trivial inventions", as if such thing exists), or even which ideas are original (a joke in itself).

In my mind, we're asking the patent office to solve a philosophical problem, in the hopes they will sort out a logical conundrum caused by a vague law.
The path to success is such a marathon that it's often easier to think about the smallest quantum first step. Hence the posts about YC and weekend projects. A few years ago it was how to raise a round or how to get on techcrunch. Same game, different name.

It's not unlike how we often fascinate about the gear we need to embark on a trip while we forget the hard/interesting part is the journey itself.
Self-hosting is great and it has better solutions to these problems than the alternative.

And you absolutely do have to hope.
I had forgotten that but that was actually a merger:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/10/softl...

In any case they never got the block changed at arin. We switched providers at one point within the last 6 mos. and the old colo already changed the arin block.
It's been done since the 90's at least but there's been active interest and development in the last 8 years or so. http://wiki.bme.com/index.php?title=Magnetic_Implant

However "Implant work isn't ready for prime time. While Huffman loves his implant, he discourages others from getting it. "Most people don't understand the risks, and implant work isn't appropriate for most people." Those risks include infection and breach of the magnet's silicone sheath. The procedure itself is painful, and the results vary from person to person for unknown and unstudied reasons. Huffman doesn't see it as a candidate for study." http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087
I'll believe it when Netcraft confirms it.
It seems more like a certificate or degree than anything else these days.
Isn't this, in the case of the soap, detergent, and containers just shifting the burden of dealing with packaging from waste management companies to the water system?

I hope I'm not being too much of a killjoy by bringing this concern in, because the products are, frankly, really beautifully designed, and eliminate a lot of packaging mass right off the bat.
10 minutes!? 10 minutes!?

oh gosh its okay, I'm just kidding :P
There isn't even a working exploit yet. As someone else mentioned, they include a kernel patch with their proof of concept to allow you to reproduce it.
Did centos 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6 address this on Feb 6th or is this something new?

Oh wait, nope, not addressed:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0223.html

I thought the responsible thing to do was not announce it until there was some headstart time?

Strangely it's not in the redhat db yet at all

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0871
Thanks for your reply Michael. I had a look at Ansible and your personal website and you definitely have been doing work with a fair bunch of serious systems in this space, so I really value your perspective. However, looking at the ansible news and documentation - "playbooks, configuration management, deployment, and orchestration" - I really couldn't see how it differs significantly in paradigm to puppet. Is it just the ability to converge on some defined configuration automatically? It's unclear to me. Would you be so kind as to summarise the differences in brief? Thanks.
Agree with @phasevar - you should put some contact info into your profile. HN does a monthly hiring/seeking for companies, freelancers, and such. Below is February's:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150843

PS - I'm currently freelancing :-)
Vivid Schemer: An Interactive Version of the Little Schemer
Makes me wonder what happened to all the S360 software.
you know this will tickle funny bones more than calm panicked ones right?
The article suggests, but doesn't explain why LLC / S-Corp is better if you are taking all the money out.

It feels to me that if you don't have to retain any money, then they both collapse to the same situation more or less. The only difference being C-Corp needing more expenses in accounting (and maybe legal) to just keep the books in order, but that is not a significant factor.
That's covered by the "backwards compatability" item.
I'd bet that if you wander inside a bank or insurance company that's been around since the 60's or 70's, you'll probably find plenty of it still running. :-)

Of course, it might be running on a nice, spiffy, new IBM zSeries now, instead of an S/360.
> Previously with Posterous we were very aggressive about that.

LOL. I remember that. http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/22/posterous-targets-ning-in-m...
These sort of shenanigans make me wary of using any service that has raised a considerable amount of external funding. Believe it or not, VCs (as opposed to angels) are only in it to get a good return. This frequently forces companies to sell out at the detriment to their customers (given the lack of IPOs as a viable exit option). I get that the founders are in it to make money as well, but don't expect anyone to use your service knowing well that you could just choose to sell out tomorrow.

I wonder if we studied funded start ups over the last 10 years, whether we'll see a pattern of selling out and then discontinuing service.
How about a caretaker running open source software on your own domain? Like ZippyKid, WordPress.com, page.ly...
the equation massively changes when technology enables police to track and profile your movements at all times with minimal costs.

Its easy to be lulled into the idea that "the police could always do this"

Computers from the 1950s aren't any fundamentally different than modern ones either.
You are correct. I never meant to imply that dashcams and savagery were correlated in any way. We have become separated from reality by the confined view into reality that mainstream media has provided. With google googles everywhere maybe we'll immerse back into reality through billions of hours of google glasses video passed through the hands of legions of expert editors.
That's good to hear. You would be surprised how many services (even new) don't have public APis. I didn't see it mentioned on the site which is why I assumed it didn't exist.

By custom domains I mean user supplied top level domains. Definitely have a read on how we view URL permanence [1]. I wish more sites thought about it and glad you already are.

[1] http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/10537443380/namespa...
Ah, sorry. I get it. Your language belies your real intent here.

You simply want to punish the "frat kids".
It's a little more complicated than that:

> An LLC with either a single member or more than one member can elect to be classified as a corporation rather than be classified as a partnership or disregarded entity under the default rules discussed earlier. File Form 8832, Entity Classification Election, to elect classification as a C corporation. File Form 2553, Election by a Small Business Corporation, to elect classification as an S corporation.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p3402/ar02.html
You can use your own domain with GitHub Pages, then you don't lose any 'Google juice' if you move to another hosting provider.
A Georgia LLC can choose to have some or all of its net income left in the company and taxed as C-Corp with the remainder distributed to shareholders as S-Corp. Its very flexible and there is no preset position. You look at your cash position come tax time and decide how best to deal with it.
"Internet Asperger's Syndrome" and "Austistic economics"
So much negativity for something that doesn't matter all that much. Does anyone believe that anything can truly be around forever? Will Posthaven be around in 5 years? Probably. 10? Looking dimmer. 20? No way.

I look at it like your favorite store. Every year the odds of something dramatic happening in which it will shut down are played against it. Everything is transient, it's life. I've bounced around a lot of blogging platforms, and personally it's not a huge deal at all. Sure, it's a bit of a pain to spend a day or so settling in and changing your DNS, but is it really that bad?

When someone says "it'll be around forever" my BS radar starts beeping like mad. And that's ok.
TIL: DTSTTCPW
That's why I'd love to hear from the founders of Posterous themselves and why they sold, and they state of their company/users when they sold. I'm interested in this field of blogging/self-publishing and want to know what business model can work.
I get what you're saying, but I think that you're placing way too much emphasis on the integrity of the body, in a way that folks that use wheelchairs to get around might not.

While we tend to think of our bodies as single, solid things, this has more to do with our conceptions of them and less to do with the actual situation. I say this as someone who spends 90% of his time behind glasses, so much so that without them my experience of the world would be so markedly different-- and different even from modding up my eyes via lasik surgery.

It's not metaphorical to think of some tools we have as being so ingrained to our selves that they are basically parts of our bodies, even if they are outside/removable/changeable.

You might find it primitive, but the fact that it would be a life altering experience for me to live without my glasses indicates to me, at least, that although this technology is external to my body it is every bit as important to my getting by in the world as my index fingers, and thus every bit as much of my being human as my body.
For those of you interested in purchasing one, DealExtreme has ~500 of them here:

http://dx.com/c/735

Features include GPS, SD card recording, auto loop recording, auto-record when powered, stop when unpowered, accelerometers, or compass. They tend to be about $100 shipped anywhere in the US.
It worked for Foursquare. If I recall correctly, they had sold Dodgeball to Google then turned around and created the exact same product.
Anyone have experience with them or another life cycle messaging app? Curious the amount of actual time/work needed to get setup...
1) WikiPEDIA

2) For a meteor so large that it needs to be broken into 1000 pieces to be safely dispersed, it might take a nuclear explosive. Detonating nukes over populated areas is at least as intolerable as letting objects like that impact. Altering their course before they enter the atmosphere is really the only solution.
Actually I'd never heard of pg or YC until they bubbled up into my consciousness from reading HN.
I didn't even know who pg was until I'd been using this site for years. So no.
I can sign up but submitting payment is still throwing errors. Is that normal right now? :/
There's no penalty for losing the race and trying again. It's not like it's making noise and filling up logs or anything like that. Maybe somebody would notice the CPU spinning if you're hammering it, but that's avoidable.
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Where will we ask "Is HN down?"
A foundation is one approach, and a valid one. You might end up with something like archive.org, except with a Wayback Machine that serves up actual historical content. (This would be an interesting direction for archive.org to take their Wayback Machine, if they could get sites like Posterus to donate the domain and data at shutdown.)

Another approach is to build a service where you make no promises about hosting content forever, but find ways to ensure that users own their data, and have full freedom of migration if you should close down.

Since 2010 I've been running http://branchable.com/ , which takes this approach. The same git clone of their site that users can make to edit it contains all their data and configuration. It's built on an open engine http://ikiwiki.info/ , so users can switch away at any time, with no conversion. Ikiwiki is a static site builder, so users can host on S3 or github, or anywhere if they decide to stop using Branchable. Even the management and business logic are open software, so if we folded tomorrow and someone wanted, they could recreate us using http://ikiwiki-hosting.branchable.com/

Branchable is not designed to have a fast burn, but we've had slow and steady growth, and happy users who continue paying the bills each month.

There's a lot of room in this space for sites serving different sets of users in ways that don't turn them into extruded VC product, so welcome to it!
I don't think it's "fanboyism", and it's obvious that there are other ways to succeed than going through YC.

Having been through it, YC is similar in a sense to a great university, except better. It's not a requirement to attend a great university to be successful, but it certainly helps.

It's an opportunity to meet amazing and ambitious people, be inspired by them, and seek your own success. By the end of the program you haven't just "done YC", but you are YC. It's an experience hard to describe .. like going through 4 years of undergrad in 4 months. I wish more people could experience something similar, it would lead to a better world.
Indeed! As you said, we were screwed either way!
This is correct, and worth pointing out, because the OP has this line:

>So now you owe an extra 10% on your $40K salary which is $4K. And you also owe 35% on that $50k which is around $18K.

Which is false. The extra 50k is taxed more than your first 40k. Your overall effective tax rate increases, but it's incremental. Your first 40k is taxed the same with or without the extra 50k, but the extra 50k is taxed at a higher rate because it's in a higher marginal rate.
Same thing happened to us, but with http://www.crashplan.com: out of the country for 2 weeks that happened to overlap with the expiry of our annual subscription. Because the credit card on file had expired, CrashPlan tried to contact us via email for a week and then deleted all of the backups!

This does seem like a key aspect of the "service" component of SaaS, in particular for cases where data is deleted or is otherwise difficult to restore (i.e. recovery involves more than just a new, valid credit card number). Maybe we need some sort of SaaS evaluation or ranking system that took these types of policies (grace periods, etc) into account...
Agreed, which is why when it comes to testing a legit setup, I usually do it on a virtual machine. Or of course one of those $5 Digital Ocean VPSes.
I'd rather have manually induced signals than a magnet, ideally something that could use low power bluetooth (or similar) to talk to my smartphone. Maybe a set of muscle-twitching electrodes to replace vibrate mode on my phone, or to poke me for anything else that I'd want to be notified of.

With enough outputs you even do things similar to the vibrating compass belt that's mentioned elsewhere in the comments. Or instead of a north-compass, it could point you toward any arbitrary destination via GPS.
An interesting term to look up when considering something like this is the cost to "endow a terabyte": To ensure that it's preserved continually, paid as an up-front cost.

IIRC archive.org manages this for somewhere around $2000 per terabyte. There's a lot of interesting research into predicting how changes in drive prices etc will play out and affect this number, that you can find by googleing the term.
> If you have already decided on your solution before you have analyzed the problem then there's nothing to discuss.

You can see how I arrived at that solution.

> My fundamental point is that puppet-esque solutions only describe certain aspects of the system state, ultimately failing here and resulting in 'configuration drift'.

Particularly with runtime / process supervision. One of my pet peeves.

> Entire system images are far more elegant.

Yes and no. It really depends on what your cost/benefit tradeoffs are. I like system images for startup, but systems still drift from their initial configuration no matter how that configuration is established (DAG or blob).

Even with system images you'll need to detect divergence from ... what, exactly? Doing a byte-for-byte comparison is going to suck.

Do you just kill and relaunch periodically? I can see that being stochastically effective.
Not really. Say you take $100 million in finance, so you are now $100 million in debt and you are probably not going to put the money in the bank, but spend it. When you spend (invest) the money, that is taken away from earnings and you can spend more than you earn thanks to the financing. Even if the company's valuation goes up because of these investments, they are still taking a loss now. You have to take a hit now to grow and earn more later.

I'm not an accountant, and this is just my uninformed understanding.
JSTOR had no legitimate right to withhold from a credentialed researcher with valid access

Did JSTOR or MIT know that's who they were blocking? To my knowledge, he made no effort to contact either party even after it was evident that they were trying to prevent what he was doing. Opinions may differ on whether he should have had to, but if you're going to invoke his credentials, bear in mind that "Gary Host, guy that hid his laptop in a closet after we blocked his access" doesn't carry the same weight as "Aaron Swartz, Harvard Fellow".
What isn't mentioned here is that an LLC is relatively straightforward to set up, an average Hacker News reader could set one up in their state with a few hundred dollars and no lawyer. S-Corps are more complicated (you will need a lawyer), and C-Corps are VERY complicated (you will want at least 2 lawyers). The amount of legal fees and time spent creating the different corporations varies immensely. It's not as simple a comparison as just "tax code". If you are not sure what kind of corporation you want to set up, I highly recommend you spend a few hundred dollars and consult a lawyer for advice. The internet is a terrible place for legal advice.

Source: I own an LLC, and consulted a lawyer about C-Corps and S-Corps.
> This was years ago, I don't know if it has improved, but it grated me greatly.

Well of course, OS X has heavily improved since the early days (I'd call 'early' everything below 10.4). The surge of developers wanting to use OS X has also increased the demand for package managers, and so they came. First fink, then macports and nowadays most use homebrew. You install them once using the standard OS X pkg installation facility and then you're good to go - the range of 'backend software' packages in brew is comparable to apt-get I'd say. For everything from linux that needs a GUI I have a VM, for everything Windows-only I have another VM. There's never even a question whether I can run something locally - once you have that it's hard to give it up again really.

That being said, the best OS X release is probably 10.6, since then I don't like the direction very much - but on macs you're basically forced to use the newest OS (XCode compatibility, hardware compatibility once you upgrade your macbook). The iOSification hasn't been a dealbreaker to me so far, it's IMO still a better all round experience than any other notebook, especially considering the service quality, which is bar none where I live. Friend of mine bought a $2.5k lenovo - the board went dead after 1 month, they picked it up and he hasn't seen it since the last six weeks, no replacement. I had a similar issue with my rMBP - got it back, fixed, after 2 days. Similar stories about Dell. HP might be better, but their hardware is crap IMO. I just can't trust any other laptop manufacturer at the moment, which makes me sad.
As Stalin once said "quantity has a quality all its own", oddly apt for this situation.

It's one thing when public observation by the authorities is sporadic and rare, it's another thing entirely when technology makes it possible to track, record, and collate every single second of your life spent outside private property.

Imagine for a second what this might look like. If every time you were "in public" there was a video record, an audio recording, and a voice transcript (carefully filtered so that it was only of conversations that could be overheard, for example). We expect that when we are in public there is some loss of privacy, but not to that degree, not utterly. Such complete surveillance could track people's movements and relationships which would make many details of otherwise private information a lot easier to determine.

This is not only disturbing, it's a massive explosion in police power. Imagine how difficult it would be to avoid police monitoring if every doorway in all of the major metro areas and major highways are tracked by drones. Even if you were able to be in disguise a combination of kinesthetic analysis of your walking gait and physical characteristics and sheer process of elimination would put you back in the spotlight quickly.

Now, this sort of scenario isn't overly likely in the US, yet, but we should be sensitive of the fact that there are phase changes and qualitative differences that accrue due to mere quantitative changes in capabilities.
I saw another similar but broader study a while back that singled out Japanese as the (low) outlier, and a claim that speakers of Japanese make up the shortcoming via facial expressions.
As a matter of common sense, imagine there's someone else, let's call him Bob. Bob has said he agrees with the 'Guerrila Open Access Manifesto'. Bob's written that he believes anyone with access to academic journal articles has the right and the ethical duty to upload them where they can be shared freely. Bob says, if he had such access, he would do his ethical duty.

If we were to then hand Bob some hard drives with the full JSTOR archive, what do you think Bob would do?

It's possible Aaron's interest was his own research, or that of some collaborators. The DoJ may not have been able to prove, to court standards, that he had any intent to distribute. They may not have even been able to prove he authored the 'manifesto'.

Bur we aren't in a court and spin can't help Aaron now. Putting the whole JSTOR archive in torrents would have been consistent with his stated goals, values, and the 'manifesto' call-to-action. (Also, consistent with his earlier writing at http://bits.are.notabug.com.)

The idea he planned to redistribute widely has plenty of merit. The criminal case is over; there's no need to water down Aaron's ideals, just to try to make the prosecutors look worse. The ideals still deserve accurate reporting.
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bank of america, t. rowe price, wall st on demand, ebay, aflac, adobe, ge, nielson, navy federal...do you want me to open my entire client archive? You should see what java devs try to shove into xml structures.
I'd recommend you post more about what you are looking for at the moment. HN can be a great place in itself to find someone.
Firstly, I am skeptical that the author uses the word 'thru' so much.

Secondly, if I were to take all the money personally, and then say, buy something useful for myself that my business could really use too, instead of retaining money on paper, does that not work?
SELinux wouldn't stop this, right?
That research work led to his position as Harvard Fellow continuing that specific work of analyzing large journal datasets to find corruption. That is why he downloaded the journals - to continue his research into analyzing large datasets to find connections that indicate corruption.

Then why not download the articles from his Harvard account?
I have a bad habit of checking hackers news to know when my wifi is up or down.. I'm more productive when wifi is down because I'm not tempted to read articles. Saturday will be productivity day!