skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a much better solution than trusting the Posterous founders not to mistreat their users again. They recently posted their new site trying to get $5/month out of people losing their content on their old site, lol.
O_O

A quick start guide definitely does not "go against" what we believe in. At EmberCamp, we had a slide dedicated to improvements we would like to make to the documentation. The first bullet was "Getting Started".

http://cl.ly/image/0i3i0X3Q0y3M/Image%202013.02.16%208:59:07...

We think we have significantly improved the documentation over the past few months, but know we still have a long way to go.
"I know it's not a popular opinion around here, but selling and supporting products The Right Way(TM) "

People who have more time then money are fine (or must) spend their time to duplicate the knowledge of others.

I would rather use the money that I have to solve problems because I have limited time.

I recently needed a firewall for a particular application. I would have loved to have had a 5 minute conversation with a knowledgeable salesperson who would say "this is the one that you want it's $895". Instead I spent what seemed like hours on the cisco site, the retailer sites and more and came to no conclusion.

And by the way anyone who thinks they can just "ask HN" or post a question doesn't understand that at the very least having someone who makes money off you and might have to take a return on a product if your unhappy is generally a better situation then anonymous internet advice. Advice depends on specifics and interaction which means taking the time to listen and reply to specifics of somebodies needs.

That said obviously there are salesmen who don't understand their product and are of no value.
California's $800 minimum corporate tax also applies to S-corps and C-corps. Also, to correct a common misconception I often hear (not in your particular post, but in general when I talk about this), registering your corporation in another state does not exempt you from the minimum tax. If you, the corporation's officer(s), live in California, you must register with the state of CA as a foreign corporation (foreign in this instance meaning out-of-state), and pay the $800 minimum tax.

Do not try to get around this--California will hunt you down.
I didn't say I hate Python, mind you; but I don't like its significant whitespace, like some don't like Lisp for its parentheses and Perl for its sigils.

I'm using Python from time to time, but I wouldn't spontaneously use it for my personal projects, I prefer Perl for that.

The only languages I really wouldn't want to work with is Java.
Presidents aren't dictators. All Obama can do is encourage public support for change, which is exactly what he's doing. The rest of the process is up to us, for example by demanding that congress write new laws.
Crashing your browser (which browser?) or actually crashing the entire OS. Both are worrying from a security perspective, but the latter is very worrying.
UGH.

People in the USA forget that we have TWO tax systems.

One is the regular tax system that everyone knows and loves to hate.

The other is the closest thing we have to a "flat tax" and it's called AMT. It has different rules and different rates.

When you do taxes, you compute your tax liability using BOTH systems and you pay the HIGHER amount. That's how it works.

I pay AMT and it sucks.
Singaporeans: "We have high quality of life!" "We have relative freedom of speech!" "We are modern!"

Rest of world: Singaporeans pay top dollar for tiny apartments, have no nature, no drugs (and thus little art), no real political freedom, are forced to military service (read: military brain washing on top of the social/education system serving) and self-censor routinely whilst claiming their government is really OK! On top of this, they are all kind of insecure because the way work is omnipresent, everyone competes all the time on appearances, the extreme financial burden of having a kid there (even though few do, because they are educated enough to know it's a death sentence of decades of mortgage, even with the government kickbacks) and the increasing immigration of younger, better Mandarin-speaking, less demanding workers from China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Thats actually a very important observation about human nature. Bottom quintile population in OECD countries, when observed in context of rest of the contemporary society, appears to be "deprived". But when same set of people are observed in the context of entire societies a few hundred years back (pre-industrial revolution?), they seem to be living a very decent life.
It's rather "simple" after you get over the social issues.
Socialism/Communism: in this case there is a LOT of mone.. eu resources to give away ! Or work very little :)

The biggest problem are going to be the 1% who will be screaming ... and reaping the benefits before revolution?

<cruel mode>Then again we would only need to kill 1% of the population.</cruel>
Two points.

1. GDP growth is a historical anomaly. Many post industrial peoples base today'financing decisions on tomorrow's expected income gains. In a world of low to no growth, you must save early and significantly for retirement, and retirement will still require working.

2. Technological advances will shift the jobs to those that can add value. That is precisely marketing and sales.
Great timing. Images etc in the posts are moved too? Can I choose a theme during migration?
you have a list , each time you remove elements on the list ,you want to fade out elements that are being removed for 0.5 secs. Explain me how you would do that.
Obviously the ability to start and do business is the only thing that's important! What? I'm only allowed to eat government-supplied food cubes? Who cares! </sarcasm>
Sounds like your not taking your meds - a us citizen who has joined terry taliban and in a war zone is not the same as having doubts about working for Huawei.

The obvious thing to do in such circumstances is to offer your services to the CIA as an inside source.
I do find it kinda amusing that someone taking the name of a Rand hero would cry "oh noes teh Marxism!" in response to an article with "If left-versus-right is the only lens through which you can view the world, then you really need to start thinking outside the box in which you have jailed yourself" in its closing paragraph.
Ouch, the worst of HN?

HN should pay attention to the narrative given to the tech community. Specially when it is routinely co-opted by people seeking to make some kind of point about economic inequality or gender. I identified this article as something seeking to make a political point rather than looking for any semblance of analysis.

Perhaps I should pick a new username to avoid it undercutting my comments. It's obviously enough by itself to be polarizing. I'm not here to prothelytize.
Yep. I'm not sure how I got people riled up, but I don't think I'm saying anything particularly controversial.

I agree strongly on the 70-hour weeks. I'm working on a book about startup misconceptions, and one of the chapters is titled, "Working lots of hours means you're making progress." Interested in being interviewed for it? Stories from actual founders are what will really persuade people.

Details here: https://www.quora.com/William-Pietri/Startup-Misconceptions-...
Great idea. Any similar services for wordpress?
Two possibilities: continuation of existing trends, leading to a hyper focus on education, or a sudden reversal, where we live in a post-technological world.

Some are speculating about needing to work less or not at all. I would argue that we WILL work less, only because we will have to spend more time in education. It seems like however much society & science advances, we still need people to sort things out and run the whole huge machine of society. For example, machines can't parse Mochizuki's conjectured proof of the ABC conjecture. That requires clever humans to wade through hundreds of pages of analysis, carefully inspecting for holes. It takes more clever humans to program clever machines.

The little work that we do becomes incredibly powerful, but most of our time is spent learning. We will learn as teams instead of as individuals, where each person takes a tiny wedge of the pie and learns to master it and learns to master the tools necessary to deal with the wedge. This already happens with scientific papers. New scientific papers are published by teams of old people, but almost never by young people. This pattern is going to spread from the hard sciences into every line of work, until everything operates like science. Construction, engineering, marketing design -- everything will be huge dollops of education to a small speck of actual application, but that speck will be incredibly powerful.

Now, if we eventually unlock a new frontier, like exploring other planets or underwater / underground cities, then we'll probably have a place for people who simply thirst for adventure. (So far information technology has been basically a place for adventure-seekers -- an immature discipline where you can get by without following the dictates of some elite, because even the elites do not fully understand this discipline yet.) The conditions those societies will experience will be extremely new and different, and may require new tools and new ways of making things happen. But for the most part, I see the (comfortable) person of the future on the one hand being a great generalist, able to switch directions when a position becomes unnecessary, and on the other hand a great specialist, learning everything there is to know about less and less, and that's what he actually lives off of.

What if there's a reversal? The whole thing may come crashing down, and we might have to start over. We would live in a bizarre world where life is about recycling all the astonishing things synthesized in a previous culture, instead of being about making new things at a blistering pace. We make more and more things that are better and better, and we're just throwing away astonishing amounts of stuff. Rummaging through garbage cans and land fills might be the work of the future, if the higher class (1%) were to collapse permanently. If there's no one to spearhead the increasingly difficult march to technology, it may become cheaper to reuse previous things instead of inventing new ones.
Shitty sensationalist title is sensationalist.

NB: Yes, I'm aware s/he copied it from the original article.
this is so damn cool!
A quote: "Although there are a few little gotchas with GPS positioning in China. There are mutterings online that GPS location services are out by about 40-100 meters in China. I don’t know if this is the case."

No, the GPS coordinates and the satellite pictures are correct (because the satellites taking the pictures use GPS positions to coordinate themselves). The problem is the geological coordinate datum used in Chinese road maps, which differs from that used in the U.S. and Europe:

http://www.eye4software.com/resources/datums/
> Wow, Cory's article is totally over the top...

What makes you think it's over the top? We have a public-interest organization pushing DRM, a technology that is decidedly against the public interest.

I'm surprised that this is upvoted to the top of the thread, when you haven't done anything except say "this is over the top" and given us a link that explains what DRM is---as if the DRM's detractors don't already know what it is or how it works.

> Sure, it'd be nice if the big media companies stopped insisting on using encryption to distribute their videos. But that's not likely to happen anytime soon.

That's only true because technologists continue to lie to media companies, telling them that DRM is feasible and not harmful to their interests (even though, in addition to being against the public interest, it tends to cause monopolization of their distribution chains---just ask the music industry happened with iTunes).

Look, these media companies are looking to us for advice; We're doing both them an ourselves a disservice by continuing to sell them DRM snake oil.
Nobody really seems to get that right.
This is ultimately about scalability. To achieve this kind of IOP rate, you need to be able to scale very large guests very well. KVM has always been exceptionally good at this and QEMU was really the bottle neck. We've now overcome this problem in QEMU (at least for block performance).

KVM is able to achieve this level of scalability because it leverages Linux which is already very good at scaling to large systems. I wouldn't expect this kind of scalability from other hypervisors any time soon.
I used to think this was a drawback. Then I started using Python full time four years ago. Significant white space encourages readability, and readability (IMHO) encourages maintainability.

There are a numbers of things to dislike about Python; however, after you used the language for a while, you realize significant white space isn't one of them. It is like saying lisp's parentheses are ugly: sure, you might not like them, but they are a huge reason the language (and, really, the way of thinking about code) is so powerful.
Well, I posted this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5231318 (Ask HN: My SaaS idea was bad, need alternative part time job) about me needing a job :)

Have a look.
And you expect them to stop there?
> * https://github.com/tigbro/jquery-mobile-angular-adapter * http://briantford.com/blog/angular-phonegap.html

that's what i'm saying i should not need an adapter for these libraries , i dont need them with Ember or Backbone
(you can find more info in the manpage for your shell)

$ cat foo | bar

ends up creating two processes and a pipe. The foo file is first read by cat and then written onto the pipe (which bar then reads).

$ <foo bar

is an input redirection: foo is opened for reading and bar's standard input fd is set to that open file (so the file's data is only read once)
We live in a world of government-granted monopolies given to companies like HBO. It is not terribly shocking that those monopolies lead to profits, and that companies that fail to take advantage of the copyright system would have trouble.

You are claiming, with no justification, that in the absence of copyright there would be no profit available for people who make entertainment. I am not really sure where you get that idea from. It is not too hard to imagine ways to monetize a TV show in the absence of copyright -- as a simple example, a studio could refuse to broadcast the next installment until enough people have paid.

There, you have a way to make money on TV without copyright. Now can we stop attacking the Internet and start embracing the reality of the 21st century?
I guess my real question is how many people actually use it. I know for a lot of people it has a tendency to sound a bit scamy when you first hear about it. I feel like for those people it might be a turn off. Feel free to prove me wrong though.
"After thinking long and hard about the problem at hand our Charles came to the conclusion that he knew two things"

Lol... long and hard.
None.

Backbone + underscore + jQuery.

Unless you really have to have a framework.

The combination of the above will have you writing in JS rather than in framework X.
I am talking about, for example, laundering money for the Burmese junta, who routinely censor, enslave, imprison, rape and kill their own citizens.

eg. "In 1991, the Junta laundered $400 million through a Singapore bank as down payment for Chinese weapons." - Jane's Intelligence Review ... or see http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2007/09/singapores-debt-of-h...
So you can write on the checklist of things html5.5 or 6 or whatever needs:

* Local config storage (doable in cookies or localstorage)

* Local save storage (probably too big to fit in 5MB of localstorage)

* Mouselook (mouse buttons work fine). I think you can already do this
though, I know you can at least track cursor position and you can implement mouselook off that.

* Mousewheel in firefox, at least, wasn't rebindable.

* I see problems in fullscreen browser games that take every single browser button and override it, so you would probably want a "you can't rebind this key" key. If there isn't already one.
C-corps are fairly uncommon nowadays and for good reason

This is a bit misleading for people looking to start your typical startup (using PG's definition of 'startup'). All those startups you read about raising money - want to know how many of them are C-corps? Just about 100%.

One thing that many people don't realize is that for many startups, those pass-through tax benefits of LLCs and S-corps are largely illusory, since they're not going to be profitable at that stage anyways.

Starting off as an LLC means you're going to introduce delay when you start raising money (unless you're really on top of things and convert in advance of fundraising), which introduces deal risk.

Yes, there is double taxation on income from C-corps, but most startup founders aren't in it for the salary / dividends, they're in it for the eventual acquisition / IPO (or these days, private market sales). Gains for QSB stock held more than 5 years are now tax-free under Section 1202.

There's a whole bunch of reasons why companies end up as corporations - not just the QSB stuff. Main street small businesses are often fine with LLCs or S-corps. Startups (as defined by PG) should really talk with an experienced startup attorney before going the route of an LLC or S-corp.
You're right, it was 7-10 thousand tons. I fixed it.
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those hours of time spent writing the code could have been saved by spending minutes learning the standard way of doing it (and given the ubiquity of nc, its utility would stretch far beyond this use case)

I dont begrudge people reinventing the wheel, but i fully suspect this wouldn't have been written if the author knew about nc.
I've heard leading lawyers at the Silicon Valley firms recommend that any start-up seriously seeking VC funding choose a Delaware C-Corp.

The main reason being that investors do not want to deal with the pass-through income associated with an LLC or S-Corp.

(Of course, this is not legal advice, and you should speak to your lawyer.)
> you haven't done anything except say "this is over the top" and given us a link that explains what DRM is

The link is the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) spec. EME is not DRM. It allows access to a decryption system outside of the browser.

That is different than what Cory and others are claiming.
If you have post with one Image its moved to Tumblr but for embedded images / media give us some time :)

Basically most of the users will have seamless move & for rest we are on it.
$ scp file host.example.com:
Well, currently birth rates are declining not because people have too little, but because they have too much. We only want as many children as we can have without degrading our quality of living or theirs. E.g., a typical family cannot have more than two children because they cannot afford to have the same quality of housing and give the child the same quality of education. Plus, having children gets in the way of people doing what they want to do.

The level of inefficiency and unused territory in the world is mindboggling. I think the national park system ties up one-third of land in the US -- land that's absolutely unused. If worst comes to worst, I'm guessing we will start cutting into that resource little by little. It would take many, many decades or centuries to exhaust all of that.
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That doesn't make much sense to me. Let's say if I were interviewed at some place using Java, Python, C and Go, why shouldn't I state my personal language preferences?

For most things as an hiring manager I'm OK with people working with their favourite language on whatever project I assign them to (as long as it isn't too esoteric; OCaml is OK, but Haskell is probably pushing it a bit too far, for instance), except when they have to work on an existing code base, in which case I wouldn't want to hire someone hating it; they'd be miserable and the resulting code would be awful.
Exactly. BTW are the fill-in PDF forms that prevalent? I've only been using them once a year to fill my tax declaration which sadly requires installation of Adobe Reader plugin in Poland. I feel the corpo world prefers Excel for that kind of things :)
Different ports? Might as well be different hosts.
I did use an app called iOnRoad they even sent me a free windshield mount for my phone. It doesn't record video but will take a picture when it's senses some danger such as a sudden stop i.e. trying to avoid the car in front of you stopping.

I thought about UStream but I am lucky to get a signal even here in the capital city; GPS or cell.

Maybe a RaspberryPi, a small webcam and solar panel.
Your dislike of patents does not make NWU a better venue for drug marketing.
The most annoying job posts (anywhere, not just on HN) to me are the ones that fail to say what your company will do for me.

It is a very tight market for talent right now, at least tell me your benefits. A job is a relationship, Tell me what you want me to bring to the table, but also tell me what you're bringing to the table.

A job post that is just a list of requirements and nothing else rubs me the wrong way.

One that I considered a good posting recently was http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/15424/problem-solving-pyth...
I don't see how NY is relevant at all. Perhaps this is relevant, though:

"With a population of 5 million, Singapore has one of the world's highest per capita execution rates. While official figures are not produced, according to Amnesty International there have been at least 400 executions over the past two decades." - The Guardian, 2010-11-16, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/...
Thanks. I read the spec and saw this regarding open source browsers:

"9.5. Can I ensure the content key is protected without working with a content protection provider?

"No. Protecting the content key would require that the browser's media stack have some secret that cannot easily be obtained. This is the type of thing DRM solutions provide. [...] In addition, it is not something that fully open source browsers could natively support."
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Good to know. Indeed I am on Windows.
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They aren't talking about using adobe's software. They want to do something similar for html5.
So "Photoshop doesn't work" because new-standards-compatible browsers can create animated content on the fly? Why not compare Photoshop to other ways to create pixel-based, fixed-size graphic images? After all, that's what it's designed for, not standing in for HTML5.
This reminds me of how you used to be able to disable the cypher on SSH and now you can't. I hate that.

http://serverfault.com/questions/116875/how-can-i-disable-en...
Until you realize they're sending a logical copy with no hash of the original.
Diversity is good not only for competition but also for security.

For more information, I would recommend to read the article from Dan Geer about diversity and security - Monopoly Considered Harmful:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~dblough/8813/geer.pdf