skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't want my name attached to someone's skills that I know nothing about.

The endorsements are a particularly bad move by linkedin. I've been endorsed for all sorts of things; Knowing what I've been endorsed for, I don't know why anyone would assign any credibility to those items on their website.
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That'd be fine as long as they're not reusing it everywhere.
I have 'ipython --profile pysh' in my terminal's custom command, on servers I'm a bit more cautious and have a 'pu' (power up, or python up) command which is basically the first thing I type. You have to watch out for the shell history not working quite the same and that newly installed programs won't be seen until you do a '%rehashx'. Other than that it's pretty much all gravy. Now I just need to get around to transitioning to that python tiling window manager.

While I've got you, and seeing you are not longer at Reddit, what do you think of jkl.io (launched today)?
To me the Start screen is just the start menu full-screen.

I rarely see it except on boot up, then I goto my desktop and everything is right there as I left it on windows 7.

I could understand my folks being confused by it but the number of techies who have been grinding their teeth really has me puzzled. Am I alone on this?
Harvard explains why it was snooping on deans.
Personally, I'd find Massachusetts very helpful. Just sayin. ;)
Thanks for the comment Larry!

Many founders feel comfortable doing things themselves on Clerky, but many also loop in their lawyers (for the reasons you describe). It just makes for efficient use of legal fees, since you are paying your attorney for what they do best (advice and review) instead of rote tasks like word processing, printing, scanning, faxing, etc.

I look at Clerky as kind of a stim pack for lawyers (except it doesn't reduce the health of the attorney).
I wonder what the statistics look like when taking into account injuries too.

You can't get very injured in a pool (I guess you can slip outside the pool - but you can slip anywhere playing so does that count?). But there are probably more firearms injuries than deaths.
The article claims to be about something other than woodsmoke, but as others have pointed out, it does a pretty poor job of being about that other thing and as a result is basically about woodsmoke.
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He was most likely referring to one of the many products that ineffectively use antibiotics instead of antiseptics. One such example is Neosporin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosporin#Efficacy
"That advantage is compounded when it's the structure that happens to be used by a whole bunch of YC companies, since YC has a lot of experience pounding corporations into a shape that is acceptable for next funding rounds."

There is nothing on clerky website that seems to indicate this "good for YC" so the issue I see is that they are selling the same package to anyone (YC company and a guy in Alabama wanting to do a startup who may or may not get funded or get funded differently).

As an aside I'm not seeing on the "about" page at Clerky exactly how long the 2 principles worked at Orrick either just that they were startup attorney's there.

Lastly I question how "in to the law" [1] someone who worked as a lawyer and then decided they would rather do a startup "clerky" is. I like to deal with people who really like what they do and are devoted to it (practically) 24/7 and don't have their mind elsewhere. I'm guessing you spend quite a bit of your time on security because you enjoy it any and all hours, right? That's why you are good at it.

[1] I'm reminded of a few Doctors that I know that work hard during the day but never pick up a journal and pick medical conferences based on the nice location they are held in. On the other hand I've met academic physicians who live and breathe what they do and are up on all the latest happenings.
I think it's important to note that this is a 3rd party offering that's compliant with what we assume to be the "steambox standards", and is not Valve's first party product.

From the article:

>This is not to be confused with Valve's own Steam Box hardware development efforts, which should result in a prototype in the next few months.
At its root, legitimate SEO means making your site easy for a search engine to understand. It's easy, if you're tech savvy, to forget that even the simple techniques that legitimate SEO comprises are beyond most business owners, and simply aren't performed by most web designers and developers. So there is a niche for decent people to do SEO. Unfortunately, competitive pressure drives a lot of unethical practices in the field.
Marvel unlimited looks interesting... but, sadly I can't even sign in so they're not getting any of my money.
Well said grellas. One of the things I have seen happen to most professions - and especially in markets that are not fully familiar with the startup space - is that when industry players, that have been making bank from the 'trivial' tasks, see a startup challenging them, they see it as a full frontal assault.

Rather than seeing it as a way to move themselves up the value-chain, they keep trying to defend the low-hanging fruit. That makes no sense.

The real value and real big bucks are further up the chain. I would think that all lawyers would welcome a service like this, which allows them to focus on M&As and much more complex deals and structures that can't be outsourced.

It just makes for a much better world overall.

I think it comes from an insecurity in them thinking they can't adequately compete for the higher-value-add (which may be true), but we are all better off if those professionals stop practicing anyway.
Why are jokes funny?
i mostly agree, I'm more of a linux guy, but right now i work in a dotnet shop, so i run several windows vm's to develop in. i really like windows 8(not enough to be running it as a default windows, but enough to say i like it more than previous windows version).

needless to say one of the first things i did was install start8, and then replace it with a free alternative once the trial ran out. sadly, none of the trials are on par with start8.

battery life savings only because of metro? I'm not sure about that. windows 8 added a whole bunch of acpi modes in conjunction with intel(i think ?). linux is struggling to catch up with that.

it's starting to seem like the best way to run linux on a modern machine is to run windows8 locked down and linux as a fullscreen vm

but saying sinofsky was responsible for replacing the start menu and start8 will "save" windows 8 seems a little far fetched. with microsofts hands all over the government, i don't see microsoft and windows 8 going away anytime soon. and with a whole bunch of hybrids coming up i can only see it getting more and more prominent
This seems to be 37 Signal's model case and point. It's been doing pretty well for them.
The tone here is "this is a big problem", which is the correct tone according to the CDC. Terrorism kills small numbers of people. Antibiotic resistant bacteria already kill more, and that's only going to go up if solutions aren't found.
I've never hired an SEO in my life, but if I ever do, you can bet I'll hire someone I was ABLE TO FIND BY SEARCHING.

And yet, I get contacted via email by at least one a day. What a waste of time.
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The GameCube was the cheapest console in the last generation and still had comparable hardware. Although it didn't have a DVD player, I'm not seeing why the Wii sold as much as it did if you're going off price alone.
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Likewise. I use it (rarely) as a way to keep a reference on a page and prevent it from getting garbage collected at a later point.
Amazon definitely cuts off even small affiliates who incorporate an Amazon trademark in their domain name.
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Why not just buy Start8? Surely you've already spent more than $4.99 of your time trying to work around buying it?
It doesn't take a SEO to 'game' Google. Case in point: "Santorum". No SEO was involved, just organic gaming of the system.
I think he was talking about threads that run on multiple processors.

Also, packaging is a whole different can of worms (but hopefully will be sorted by distutils2!).
Well, that was easy. Color me impressed.

"Success! Your Amazon.com gift code is ready. To redeem your gift code, go to www.amazon.com/giftcards and click on Redeem Amazon Gift Cards in the top bar. Thanks for being patient while we processed your order."
On a semi-related note, I always found print advertising to convert extremely poorly no matter what. If your goal is to acquire customers, never invest in offline media, because you may aswell throw the money directly into a trash can (if your goal is branding and image though, print may be fine)
On vaccines, there haven't been that many RCT's (with the notable exception of polio) so one could make the argument that causality hasn't been proven.

I probably wouldn't make the argument, but I know some well educated professionals who would.
"I look at Clerky as kind of a stim pack for the company-lawyer relationship"

If clerky is good and allows lawyers to focus on charging for the things they are good at while avoiding things that they make little money at then you should attempt to market the service to lawyers so they can refer that business to you that you are good at. Similar to what the "Company Corporation" and others do.

Generally when I quote prices to someone I am eager to offload anything that I can't make money on and have someone pay directly so it reduces the total amount of my bill and my pricing looks more reasonable.
I'm no expert on bitcoin, but I've read that you can have as many addresses as you want. You could generate a new address for each time you order through bitspend and never give them your "main" address. Overall it may or may not be a better option than just buying directly from a merchant because of other considerations.
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I keep seeing stories about how the broadband subscribers in the U.S. pay more for less service. We might pay more, but our service seems to fall close to the average for the companies shown here.

Does anyone have numbers for Korea (South), Japan, etc?
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> As long as an average Joe (who doesn't care about anonymity) can use this to spend bitcoins

My question is, why does Joe who doesn't care about anonymity, care about Bitcoin?
The blogger and his intended audience likely know the dangers of biologic and technologic pathogens. I don't buy the "but I didn't know it was not a good idea to practice safe contact(s)".

There is a wider implication when people who should know better about safe practices don't apply a little common sense. Claiming "virus" in this case removes personal responsibility.

If someone savvy enough to blog about technology voluntarily exposes their contacts, how will the general public ever be expected to act in a safe manner and thus limit social engineered privacy and security breaches?
>You are missing my point: if you think you need a lawyer to review a document you obtained elsewhere, you're gonna have a bad time.

I'm not sure why you keep saying this. I had my new lawyer review the botched up work done by the previous lawyer to determine what part to fix and what to throw away (part of the paperwork was already filed, so it had to be reviewed), and it wasn't a big deal at all. Sure it would be cheaper to use the paperwork from the new lawyer - he wouldn't have to read it, but your point of it being hard to do is not supported by my experience.

Clerky has advantage of scale - if everyone knows them except for your lawyer, you will pay your lawyer more to get acquainted with Clerky terms, but your partners/investors will end up moving quicker because they already know what it is. Time==money. Eventually, you will be able to shop for lawyer who already knows Clerky package, that's when it will be an even bigger win.
How is using this tool significantly different than bookmarking then closing all your currently open tabs, which you can easily do now?
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When I see ridiculous stuff like this 'Steam Box' it makes me really glad I joined the OUYA bandwagon early on ...

OUYA!
Yeah, more than half: (good de)sign/velop(ers)
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{
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}
Definitely - we're headed in that direction. It just turns out that attorneys need more features, since they manage a whole bunch of different clients. So we launched with just support for company-side accounts for now :)
The most interesting part of this..

"Whatever you do, don’t stand in front of investors and pitch them the 1% fallacy. It makes you look an idiot. I should know, because I’ve done it."

was the end, and not elaborated on... I for one would love to hear the story of how that turned out, with specifics!
Skipping over the pathetic whinging about tone, this is not simply an employer/employee relationship.

The President and Fellows were charged in 1650 with "the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences". That can be boiled down to: veritas. There is nothing to support selfish deans avoiding public scrutiny of their poor decisions.
Cool, why do you think religious people reject the arguments of atheism then?

I actually think he might be on to something here.
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financial hardship probably causes depression, but low-income does not necessarily cause financial hardship unless you live beyond your means (or make below the poverty line).
Would anyone actually do that? I run stuff on AWS using their excellent Java SDK and I'm quite happy about the flexibility that brings me.
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I think it is just someone using female for the generic pronoun. Of course maybe you realize and are poking fun, whatever.
How about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)

Powered by an external radio beam. Transmits by modifying that same beam and reflecting it back. No internal power source. No active transmission. Weighs 1.1 ounce and was built in 1945
Can I use it as an alternative to Google Music? I.e. can I set it to download a playlist to my phone when I come home?
This is true, but it isn't relevant for embedded devices (my ARM Chromebook has only 2 GB RAM), and DDR2 RAM isn't as cheap as DDR3 RAM (my motherboard is from 2007/2008).
Flagged as spam. This guy has submitted the same blog (but different posts) every day this year, and each and every single one of those posts was demonstrably and incredibly wrong.

Why do people keep falling for this?
That would be the summation of their blog posts. It's easier to search for and access blog posts that are around specific topics as opposed to longwinded novels covering several processes.
Well yeah I would not expect them to subsidize hardware that is not their own. This is not Valve's Steam Box this is just a third party Steam Box. That is the key difference between the Steam Box and consoles, there will be a Valve reference implementation but there will be many other options.
Got it... we'll look into that!
I use both Firefox and Chrome. But I prefer Firefox. Better addons and extensibility were already mentioned. But one thing that seems to be commonly overlooked is the superior typography of Firefox. Firefox even does stuff like ligatures. That makes reading longer text much more pleasant.

Firefox is also capable of handling large amounts of tabs. In Chrome the tab bar is of fixed length (length of the window) and thus the maximum number of tabs is limited by my screen width. In Firefox the tab bar can extend to the sides or even better you can use the TreeStyleTabs addon to organize tabs in a tree view.

I think the biggest problem for Firefox was the long wait before FF4 was released. That was the exact time many people moved to Chrome. FF3.6 wasn't bad but was clearly slower than Chrome and had a huge memory appetite. Later versions improved this dramatically and Firefox now feels lighter/faster than Chrome. But every time FF vs. Chrome there are people claiming otherwise who have stopped using FF at version 3.6...
I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 today as a reply to someone who commented about Go on a post about programming languages today. It seems that (at least so far) I was correct.
A good book also, despite its senselessly piled on militarism. Strangely quite the opposite of the film in that regard.
Does anyone have such an index for ISP's in respect to Youtube.com?

Idk whether its a routing issue or a bandwidth cap issue but with ATT Uverse youtube is constantly buffer with the video quality set to 720p. Regular speed tests show reliable 12Mb/3Mb bandwidth which should be well enough to stream a 720p video.
My guess is that the practice of corp law is littered with processes that could be automated and extracted from bespoke billable practice. Company formation seems like a great first candidate. Most of what lawyers do is thoroughly routine.

Nobody is arguing that startups like Clerky are going to put lawyers out of business. They're just taking something you don't need bespoke counsel for and making it simple to do.

The fact is, you're likely to end up in a better state having used Clerky than you are if you try to find your own lawyers and get them to do something customized. A huge number of lawyers suck at this. Different people specialize in different things, and the ones who specialize in company formation are just as likely to be expert in e.g. capitalizing and running a local restaurant as they are in setting up vesting schedules for a tech startup.
This is also known as failure to segment the market on the old-school list of entrepreneur mistakes.

Maybe there is a $100 B of revenue out there. But 40% of it is locked up in internal markets, and 40% of what's left is locked up in long-term contracts, and 40% of what's left is held in government contracts you can't get, etc etc etc and pretty soon you need to grab something like 25% of the market just to break in.
It would probably be best to target niches with relatively large companies who have very specific requirements.

Over the years I have built about 6 mini CRM systems for small companies. Usually these start off as contact form on a webpage and evolve into something that outputs excel spreadsheets.

Over time though, these things tend to get replaced by mass market packaged or SaaS CRM systems simply because even though they are not bespoke to that business they do the job well enough for the price.

The answer is probably not to make "A CRM for bakeries" but to make a "system to help with the unique problems of large bakeries that might happen to have CRM-like components"

If you want to build a product for a market as opposed to selling consulting by building a system for one specific bakery then the sweet spot is likely to be a very small target area.
I agree, although the real once-in-a-century attack that obviously concerns people for the next century is a nuclear attack, or a biological attack, that kills hundreds of thousands or millions (not to mention killing technology that is likely to exist in the next century that we can't imagine today). The prior century was extremely limiting for terrorists by comparison to what the next century is likely to make possible.
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As always, there is a thin line between cheating and being ethical.

You know... marketing by itself is not unethical, though when you use tricks to induce people to buy something even though you know it's not good for them, the line is crossed. Like when a large fast food restaurant starts giving toys away if you buy their food... inducing children to annoy their parents so they buy unhealthy food just to get the toys. Or when you show sports people smoking a cigarrete, linking the image of smoking with a healthy life.

Of course, if all that matters is making money, then cheating the search engines (or peoples perception, in the case of marketing) is fine.
From the frontpage:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356483
How is adblock much better?
>It's a first generation product

I'm not even sure how a later generation product could improve on this one. Maybe a nicer form factor, but components would largely be the same.
> You don’t look at a pie and just say, “I’ll take 1% of that”.

Exactly. Pretty much sums up everything that is there to say about the article.
It would be nice if I could browse the long-tail. I'd love to see how Sonic.net and MonkeyBrains compare to AT&T UVerse, for instance.
I think it's important to note that this actually isn't the Valve branded "Steam box", but actually a similar spec hardware platform to the one Valve is developing internally. It's unfortunate that a lot of the momentum and hype Valve can leverage with their name is being wasted on this particular platform which they have nothing to do with.
We're talking about a couple of hundred megabytes in a world where RAM is so cheap that it's easy for anyone to upgrade. Why does it even matter?
It stands for "doing business as" which allows you to sign up under a different entity.
I can almost never watch a Youtube video in the evening, even if all other bandwidth tests put me in the tens of megabits. Thought I was the only one.
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Great idea! We'll work on it!
Humm ... Thanks, and sorry for posting without searching. I don't understand most of the technologies discussed there unfortunately. All in all I believe for the end user it's a stupid thing to do, even if it is using some revolutionary world changing technology at the core - and thus should be fixed.
I think that's an optimistic interpretation. The "early adopter" tax people pay for the first version of something works for no-other-options devices (think the first HDTV's or Blu-Ray players). In this case however, just about can go to Microcenter and build a better-performing machine for significantly cheaper. The form factor or power consumption may not be as good, but I'm not entirely sure how much that matters compared to several hundred dollars of up-front savings?
This post is full of sloppy writing and sloppy thinking. The author doesn't even define SEO, or "scumbag SEOs." Are all SEOs scumbags? What should they be doing instead?

We can do a lot better than lazy, vague, completely meaningless rambling.
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I don't think it's fair to blame google in these situations -- they dev. their algorithms to expect that sort of stuff, but I imagine a lot of it is tweaked daily. Keep in mind Google hires very intelligent people to deal with these problems: we have to expect that they're giving it their all to resolve them day by day.

Every scenario is going to be different. As for slow, steady & honest winning the race? I certainly hope so, but it's up to you to define where the finish line is. Being honorable & operating a business that doesn't do nefarious stuff for short-term gain is one of my end-goals.. and it might hurt in the interim :)
> At reddit we solved the problem by writing the most often called parts in C and using c extensions.

I'm wondering if anyone has solved these sorts of problems with Cython in the real world. It looks like a great solution for a large set of problems in terms of Python performance, since it becomes a CPython extension, but I never hear anyone talk about it. Can anyone chime in?
In case somebody hasn't noticed, let me emphasize that the author of the previous post is Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript.