skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, you're missing my point.

Everything you said is 100% correct. It all makes complete sense. But I'll repeat my initial point just so we're clear about what my problem here is:

A website is not going to ask you questions about the special nature of your desired business structure. If you need something special, you're better off asking a lawyer to help you with that. A good one. Maybe the ones who did this.

That's my point. I was commenting on someone who was ready to have his lawyer "review" the document; which in my experience is one step away from "I'll make some adjustments myself and see what my lawyer says" which is one step away from "I'll make some adjustments myself" and FILE.

And once you've locked in a structure, it's way more troublesome and expensive to fix it after the fact. That's my point.
I use Scrollbar Search Highlighter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrollbar-sea... It does pretty good job.
This, this. Much of our Western culture is centered around the individual and their ideas which must be respected, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, if it's someone wearing hipster glasses.
I'm sick of SEO people pointing the finger at "evil" SEO people. SEO is basically gaming search engines instead of contributing anything of value. It's not a respectable business, it's a self-perpetuating protection racket. If there weren't any SEO people we wouldn't need any SEO people.

You only hire an SEO for one of two reasons: 1) too cheat Google, and 2) to compete with all the other sites that hire SEO's... There isn't an ethical element in this whole equation.
PredictionIO is an open source prediction server
Don't listen to people who tell you there's a fold on the web. ;-)
True, but if someone is going for low cost off the shelf 9 volt batteries it could be a temporary solution. Plus they would learn how to build an electrical heater, which is a useful skill to have for lots of applications.
L-Value and R-Value Expressions
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My buddy and I built this to see how we will be affected by all of the new tax rules. We think that the way Americans plan and file their taxes is too painful and completely broken. This first product makes sure that you aren't surprised by a bigger tax bill next year and suggests ways on how to lower your taxes. More to come soon!

We would love your feedback. Is this something that you would use?
instead of focusing on groups why not focus on individuals. women as a group maybe have specific characteristics, but when was the last time you had to deal with women as a group? you deal with individuals, so why not focus on individuals?

I'm sure i could find a woman that's stronger than you, in that circumstance, it doesn't matter that men as a group are on average stronger than women as a group.
I've always hated LinkedIn but recently it seems to actually have people talking to each other in forum-style threads, which actually makes it a bit more useful.
"you're asking for trouble if you don't really dig in with a knowledgeable attorney who knows your industry, your goals, and how to keep you out of court."

You sound like an expensive lawyer - or somebody who pays a lot of money to one. This simply isn't true for most people. However I grant you a lot of people feel the same way - and I'm sure their expensive lawyers love it.
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That's not the role of the dot in ordinary decimal expansions either. There its role is to mark where the sequence transitions from positive powers of ten (to its left) to negative powers of ten (to its right).
The Clerky founders have done what founders at their best will do when launching a venture: they have toiled at length in their field, identified key pain points bedeviling the user, and developed a service that deals with them not only effectively but, one might even say, brilliantly.

The short-term aim of Clerky appears to be to tame the process by which founders take the legal steps to traverse the path from launch to first funding by giving founders and their lawyers the tools to do it all more efficiently and cost-effectively. I would think that is a worthy goal and a worthy market to target. How many founders over the years have given up as much as a percent or two of their equity just to get fee deferrals from law firms that would enable them to get to first funding? And paid sizable fees to boot? Credible founders do not begrudge a lawyer his hire they also do not want the legal part to take more than its fair share of the budget or the equity.

Clerky offers as a first step a standardized Delaware C-corp approach to startup launch, and a skillfully done one at that. Its site suggests that it will targeting as well the remaining steps on the standardized path, right down to ones that will facilitate efficient and low-cost handling of all the important steps leading to first funding. This is not a modest goal - it is huge.

In law, there are strict limits to how far anything "standardized" can go - law is simply too big and complex to be reduced to simple recurring steps in any important area. For this reason, the role of the lawyer (even as to the standardized aspects) will not soon be displaced. Indeed, traps and issues abound for founders in setting up their companies, in funding them, and in dealing with a whole host of legal issues that will crop up. It always has been, and remains, foolhardy for founders to wing it in this area once they get beyond the very early positioning parts of their ventures. The beauty of what Clerky seeks to do, however, lies in providing ways to make it all easier both for founders and for lawyers and thereby setting up ways of doing collaborative relationships by which all concerned will benefit. I am a lawyer. I have done this stuff for years. But I have no stake in wanting to do any of this the clunky way if there is a simple and elegant way at hand. I welcome what Clerky is trying to do and look forward to its benefits as they roll out their services. The fact that founders can save on fees is not a threat but instead an opportunity for me to focus on the parts I do best rather than the repetitive parts.

The beauty of Clerky, as I see it, is that the founders, having worked extensively as superb startup lawyers in their own right, have a keen sense of how all this works and are aiming to develop a service that truly deals with the issues that have burdened clients and lawyers alike. It is a tall challenge but, if anyone can do it, this is the right team, especially working within the innovative framework provided by YC and the startup community. It will be fascinating to see how it all unfolds.
People you follow are highlighted orange, as the only orange is your own stuff, the logo and these people it makes sure they stand out :-)
However, these methods have been fundamentally limited by our computational abilities, and typically applied to small-sized problems.

Is this true? I think these kind of networks are more limited by our abilities to generate effective heuristics and ontologies. When I populate my Markov models I need states: and if I don't have any good, domain specific states, no amount of expectation matching will solve my problems. The more incorrect states the more noise I get, so it is immediately clear that simply increasing computing power is a no-go.
The cool part of the hack isn't that you do this for projects you're no longer maintaining - it's that you give others commit privilege for projects you _are_ maintaining. OP's point was this empowers others by giving them ownership of the project, and leads to better work.
This is where the physical waste really gets bad to me. I'm not weighing in on this discussion as far as more RAM vs better binaries because /I want both/.

But if you have to buy a whole new machine every two years when they only pieces of hardware that are getting better should be upgradeable (ram & display) it's pretty disheartening.
I could definitely provide this, if you wanted to open an issue i'll get round to it soon enough...
As Lessig (among others) has noted, "code is law", which makes politics and technology inseparable (case in point: PIPA/SOPA).

What worries me are technologists who not only don't understand this, but think it's appropriate to "flag" discussion about this reality. Seriously, this is like creationists sticking fingers in ears and saying "lalalalala" every time someone whispers "Darwin."
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Respectfully, I think this "special nature of your business" stuff is handwaving. Most tech startups are fundamentally the same company. I'm prepared to simply agree to disagree with you on this, though.
you can try to reset profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi... Also, AdBlock plus addon for faster and clutterless browsing.
Can anyone point me in the right direction regarding the tax implications of forming a DE C-corp while being based in a foreign country (Canada)? Does it make sense for a small consulting business to form a US-based corp, particularly if most clients are in the US.
Unless you have significantly stronger bathroom doors than the average person, locking yourself in the bathroom will buy you an extra 5 seconds, tops. Locked interior doors are very easy to open with even a little force. Not to mention most people leave the keys on the moulding above the doors...

Most home robberies occur when the occupant is not home. People who just want some cash or stuff do not want to risk a confrontation. If a person breaks in with you home you MUST assume they are out to do physical harm to you.
This is Not Your Mom and Dad’s Test Automation Software
Wouldn't it be better to set up an org, transfer the project to the org and add someone else? That way you can even transfer administrative jobs like commit access to others.
> At least something like PNaCL has a MUCH smaller surface area than something like the full HTML/DOM/CSS/JS stack

PNaCl, to interact with the world, uses Pepper. Pepper is a huge surface area, comparable with the web stack in size.
And what we're saying is that it's a bad demo. Demos are supposed to impress you enough to want to use the real thing. Your demo confused me and (apparently) a handful of other folks.

Instead of literally laughing off feedback and pretending there aren't any problems with your site, you may want to think a bit more critically about the presentation of your javascript plugin.
A lot of those websites scan your address book and show you people that are already on the site and then ask you to send emails to people who aren't. It's reasonable to not know that 11,000 people would be on linked in. Also Linkedin isn't exactly a website that he "wasn't sure about". Everyone knows what the site is and does. Also your Rule 1 is kinda silly. I guess as long as I keep the passwords to those to sites different then I should be safe?
Oh, look, we managed to work creationism into the thread! And this is what happens when the Obama administration does something good.
It's possible, but there are always competing goals - speed, security, reliability, features, memory usage. When capacity on one is growing quickly (and cheaply), it's not surprising it doesn't get the same priority as some of the others. In particular, I'm not sure how many extra users you'd get by reducing memory footprint versus adding features.
So then who is supposed to enforce violations of the constitution?
Not possible to add a web-app? How will the directory grow? I was planning to list my app http://makeplans.net
If someone is inside your house just lock yourself in the bathroom, head low in the bathtub, and call the police.

Great idea! My kids can fend for themselves!
I'm not sure what this has to do with HN, though, so I flagged it. Sorry, Bill! :|

HN Guidelines:

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Regardless of whether you're right or wrong, for an old hand, tptacek, not impressed...
Yes, let's be realistic here. Men are a lot more likely to end up in situations where they'll have to save someone from a giant gorilla. To put sexual dimorphism into question by suggesting that a woman could as well save a man from the giant gorilla is a slap in the face of biology! That would be unrealistic and unfair to men, women and giant gorillas alike.
IANAL. And you should apologize for calling me one.

But I have paid good money to lawyers and it was worth every cent.

Ask anyone who has ever had to fight a lawsuit (and won) if they thought they overpaid for legal advice. If you think the worst thing that can happen to you is you lose all of your money, BOY do I have news for you.
Ah yes. My early days in junior high school were spent trying to infect the school library computers so I could use free internet. Nostalgia.
I disagree: a larger memory footprint means that a smaller fraction of the data is cached.

Since caches are up to 100 times faster, it does impact the reactivity of your program, in fact quite a lot.
He's not really making any controversial claim here, he's just saying taking money isn't a guarantee of "making it".

Also, you don't always have to take investments at all (which the author may or may not have been alluding to). We bootstrapped Pathwright out of an existing consulting agency.
Where the heck do you live? Are you not able to move for some reason? Stories like this seem so foreign to me.
Ouch.

I can't help but think that somewhere at Facebook there's a huge fire-drill going on right now.
I am prepared to sacrifice 1000 karma points for every comment I write saying I flagged a story. Please feel free to petition Paul Graham to make that happen.
Your words:

> Seen this one a couple days ago and I honestly can't understand what the hype is all about.

> Change for the sake of change is pointless.

You are saying MUCH MORE than just "I don't see this used for classical music." You were giving an actual criticism to a product for which you are not the target audience. This sort of criticism makes zero sense, which is why I recommended (more gently than others I might add) to just move along.
I think you and I agree on most of the important points.

But we'll leave it there.
>Now it's somewhat better with post 16 stuff, but still it's slow. Chrome is much more responsive and fast.

This has not been my experience. Chrome used to be faster, but for the past year, Firefox's responsiveness have blown Chrome's out of the water for me personally on the PCs I use.
wow, amazingly simple/useful idea! Thanks!
ah, did not catch that - sorry :)
I really despise LinkedIn. A while back I got sick of their emails, so I attempted to unsubscribe, which failed (I got more emails), so I attempted to cancel my account, which also failed. When the news came out about their encrypted passwords getting leaked (and cracked), I took another stab at canceling my account, and that time appeared to be successful because I now seem to be rid of them once and for all.
Even if the infrigement is real the waiting period makes no sense. What difference are those 10 days going to make? Not to mention, the risk to the counter-noticer is quite high since they'd be commiting perjury if they filed a false counter notice.

It's totally skewed- a false counter notice has a high risk and a false notice a low risk. The damage due to a false counter notice is likely small (it can't disrupt the real owners own usage; it's probably been online quite a while anyhow; and the infriger(s) can find other ways to do so if he really wants to - notice the quick Flat UI resuscitation). But the damage due to a false notice is potentially quite large since it imples complete loss of service (not just someone else getting a few days of free reign), and potentially loss of momentum, and the issue with free speech - which isn't critical, perhaps, but all else being equal I'd prefer we err on the side of open.

So given the skewed potential for damage (much greater for a false notice), and the skewed risk to the fraudulent/mistaken party (much smaller for a false notice), it's utterly obvious there should not be such a waiting period.
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is only one day away.
If College Leads to Jobs, Why Are So Many Young College Grads Unemployed?
Good point. I should have explained.

Things like:

"Stop writing code"

"Don't worry about engineering"

"It's a marathon"

Won't sit well with technical people (mainly programmers, CTO co-founder, etc)
The best-informed speculation of today says that within the last 150,000 years (different methods give different dates, the Toba supervolcano is often fingered as a culprit) we went through a population bottleneck with as few as a thousand people alive.

This evolutionary episode would have been a period of rapid adaptation, and amusingly is suspected to have been when our ancestors acquired a tendency towards religious belief. (We are the only known hominid with things like burial rites.)
Chrome is working as intended: http://crbug.com/180007

Github serves pages from 'raw.github.com' with an "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" header, which specifically disallows browsers from trying to second-guess MIME types. FWIW, IE has supported this header for years, and Firefox is probably going to be adding it soon as well. So if you're serving your .js files with the wrong content type, they're going to break for more and more users as time goes on.
See my comments below. The way to add web apps at the moment is by signing up and adding the URL to the launcher. I'll add a proper app submission page soon though.

PS. MakePlans added: https://starthq.com/apps/makeplans
I fought a lawsuit with a paid lawyer and it was a huge waste of money. The process took years and ended as these things inevitably do when both sides aren't crazy litigious nutbags: with a settlement we could have worked out from the jump.
That doesn't seem to match what the semver.org site says.

Node's public API is not changing in a backward-incompatible way every day (or even every week, or every month). The software is widely used in production.

I think node 1.0.0 should have been some time ago, and this release should have bumped the major version again.
If you are not an expert in the field, it will be very hard if not impossible for you to judge a scientific article on its merits.

In that light, looking at where something was published makes total sense. It’s a completely valid mechanism for non-experts to separate the crap from the good stuff. (Even experts, given all the stuff that is published all the time, have no time to read and evaluate everything on its merits. Increasing efficiency by centralizing that task and not forcing every scientist to do it all the time is more or less the purpose of journals.)
How meetings should be short in order to be effective
WebClient's API is essentially buggy; it cannot support encoding properly since the order of operations of the API is different from in HTTP, and further the response headers aren't properly exposed to let you work around the limitation.

It's fine for a quick hack, it's useless for a reliable web client.
Facebook IM Roulette

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Our product is also clearly developer oriented (it's a SDK). Yes I mean friends, ex-colleges but also interesting people we have reached via an introduction.
Yeah, it makes perfect sense to hand your address and bitcoins to anyone with a half-finished Bootstrap website, zero contact information, and zero information about their payment/delivery process.
You're right, serving size should be the package unless it is likely not to be consumed all at once.

I have been mining the USDA nutrition database lately and have found some good things. However, I wish it was more specific and stringent.
Uh, if you're going to cite the guidelines, please make sure you're not opening the comment thread by violating them.

Specifically: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

More to the point, the story wasn't about politics per se (at least not about partisan disagreement). It was about a policy shift (not the same thing) that can have real implications for technology (i.e. Glass, which could be technically illegal in jurisdictions that have misapplied wiretapping laws to limit counter-survailence of the police).

More amusingly, this is a story about over-agressive policing and the push-back it's attracted. You respond with over-agressive policing and get angry with push-back it attracts. See the irony?
I see this as no different than President Johnson using the Alabama National Guards to protect the marchers in 1963, to protect their constitutional rights.
I'm sorry I made you angry. But leaving out versioning schemes in which 0.1 and 0.10 are in fact considered the same, and leaving out letters and stuff (which are trivially encoded in scheme you quote anyway), this is what a version number is, in its general sense.
Will you only target english?
Well then why didn't you? You could have just went into the courtroom Pro Se and hoped for the best.
It's hard to both target the leading edge of the market and also serve minimal-spec hardware targets. Seems like it would make more sense to have a different branch for those targets, being done by someone with a strong business interest in making it work.
You're trying to convince yourself, as buyers of all expensive things do, that you didn't waste your money. I'm sorry to inform you, you probably did. I've done it too. However, it's best to learn from our mistakes, not try to convince others to repeat them.
First, it's a very nice new streams interface. Second, the core functionality can't change that much at this point if people want their old code to work. Read the discussion of streams2 and see how much thought went into avoiding breakage. http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/12/20/streams2/
Happened to me a few months ago, didn't delete my linked in account, but pretty much stopped using it.
I think another huge trend worth noting is the use of anti-bacterial products. They do nothing other than killing a large portion of both good and bad bacteria indiscriminately and leaving a small, drug-resistant strain, which then does not have to compete for resources with all the non-resistant bacteria and reproduces freely to ultimately make people sick.
I've also been thinking the same thing recently. I have iPhoto but it sucks for a) big collections and b) sharing. For example, locally you can browse a collection on another local machine but it sends full res photos across the wire so it's completely unusable.
Hey all, yes, I am the author of the cheat sheet. You all spotted a ton of typos that I hadn't even noticed. Thank you! I have just been flooded with patches. I am trying to sort through them now. Thank you for all of your work.

I know it may seem odd to GPL a list of commands. My intention was to build up a minimal reference sheet covering just what people need to know to get started with Linux Dev, but also with a special attempt to include obscure and useful features that may benefit old-timers perusing this reference.

I have since attempted to address the Ubuntu/Debian centric perspective of the sheet. I also addressed the comments about "&&" and "ssh -X" I will also expand the section on "tar."

-William Hackmore
Guy takes shots at Spolsky and Atwood. Where's the HN furor?
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> Not perfectly: "If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0."

"Probably" is, ipso facto, not normative.