skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vietnam Travel Agents,Vietnam Holiday,Vietnam Tourism, Vietnam open tour
I feel like the axiom of choice can't be used here.

Let's say we have a infinitely long bit string, b. This equivalence class has an infinite number of elements in it! That is, there is an infinite number of strings with suffix b.

b, 0b, 1b, 00b, 01b, 10b, 11b, etc.

Can you use the axiom of choice in this case? I think it is required that each bin has a finite number of objects, even though there are infinite bins.
hiring duds also leads to hiring more duds once work ramps up and the current set of duds can't handle it. Rinse, lather, repeat...
This is the first implementation of SRP I've ever seen that remembered on the first try to check (A%n)!=0 instead of A!=0, so I give him props for diligence.

But SRP is totally irrelevant in a browser context, because any technique you can use to safely deliver SRP code to the browser can be used just as easily to safely exchange passwords directly. SRP will be relevant when browsers bake it in.
The "how other disciplines think" as tools for your mental toolbox approach is articulated very well by Charlie Munger. It's fair to say that it's worked well for him.

He's got a great talk on the topic which pg has posted (http://ycombinator.com/munger.html) he also sponsored Peter Bevelin to create a book called "Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger" which is all about this (http://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/seekingwisdom.html). Worth a read.
also, lisp is not in more widespread use for the same reason soap operas, and brittney spears are more popular than shakespeare, and beethoven.
Yeah, but remember that the 100.000 NOK only needs to be in the bank long enough for the auditor to verify its presence for Brønnøysund. It's not uncommon to set up a chain of companies, owning each other, using the same 100.000 for all of them, just transferring it along.
What is Arby's?
AFAIK, Lua has only one numeric data type, double-precision floating-point numbers. That kind of scares me -- I like my integers integer and not approximated. Does that, in your experience, cause problems in practice?

(Yes, I know that in principle, IEEE 754 Doubles can represent all 52-bit integers precisely (give or take a few bits), but still I don't feel comfortable).
I am glad you put "Europe" in quotes, because it's a diverse place etc.etc.
That said, European unification has made possible a few new options for startup companies. There is now a 'European Limited Company' form, and it is also possible to register a company in any country from another country. For that last option the UK Ltd. route is very popular. Here in Belgium there are certain restrictions to starting up a limited company (minimum starting capital, diploma or experience needed, no bankruptcy in last 10 years etc.) which don't apply to UK limited companies. Apparently it's possible to start a UK limited company and conduct business in a different country, paying taxes in that country etc., as long as you have a return filed with Companies House and pay the yearly fee.
EDIT: Just noticed the grandparent already mentioned this second option, oops.
funny that he didn't touch upon the REPL. for me, that's second only to macros. also for examples, just look at news.arc. the vars-form stuff, and the little template languages (trtd) etc ... is far superior than at least all of the django form and template stuff ... and it seems that it was not more than an afterthought; compare with the craziness of having a template language and the difficulty this sometimes presents. sure, adding a tag library in django is not the end of the world, but you can't beat the immediacy of arc's html macros (which you can find for CL on the ansi book). then add a REPL on top, and you are on another league of power and productivity. granted news was written by an expert, but i don't see the comparable power coming from django (and maybe rails) and it's safe to assume those guys know their python.

we have the need to create lots of web forms quickly for work (lots and lots). we used django which was a god-send in this regard, but it was still too time consuming (think deployment, styling, SQL databases). so taking a hint from the html chapter in the ansi book we wrote a system in which you define fields within sections within pages to the point where even the non-programmers can now do it ie:

(defpage page3)
(defsection section-x)
(definputfield blah :type text :section section-x :page page3)

this is enough to put the field up and tie it into storage (it uses page.section.fieldname as key which could be an issue if you want to move stuff around). you can also do this in the (production) REPL, and the field will show up right away (with an exception if you dup something). we don't do major releases this way, but if a researcher wants something right away and he/she is a big shot then it has to be done now. well, there you go. it's done as fast as we can type it in.

there's your example, and i'm sure there are more. try that with c++.
Of course you'll still be liable for the whole amount in case the company goes bankrupt...
Nokia Ovi - 25 Mistakes
Thanks to the amount of science fiction on exactly this topic, it's like we can see our future - but we're choosing to ignore it. What they're trying to do, they're doing for "good" reasons - of that I'm sure. It's just that they don't understand the larger consequences, none of us do. And we (the general population) will continue to not understand until it is ultimately too late.
Why underdogs should take more chances
Not only that, but bootstrapping, and building a v1.0 that's the smallest thing that's useful, and then iterating over that while listening to your customers.

Basically, use the product development process as a way to find out about the market. Basically, use it as a way to acquire what Eric Ries calls "Validated learning about customers": http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/04/validated-...
> The American Constitution is not a catechism but a hypothesis.

That is a very catchy line. I enjoyed reading this, even if at the start I was wishing for a bit more of a top down / newspaper style construction. But it works, once you get a bit further into it.
Apple probably felt that they got burned by the last time they allowed Mac clones and ended up losing a lot of money. (I don't think that was the cloners' fault, but I wouldn't bother trying to explain that to Jobs.)
Does anyone know what is the Canadian equivalent?
Line number three is the most likely culprit, I'd imagine. Not that there's anything wrong with this particular post, but it does seem like there are certain user accounts that have all their submissions [dead]-ed instantly. Like... spammer and troll accounts, for example.
I'm not sure what kind of stuff the submitter has been submitting, but I've often thought that this would be a fantastic way to discourage undesirable contributors. Kudos to Paul if he implemented it intentionally, as it sounds like it would have worked, to some extent.
Popego.com does something similar, but for a newsfeed instead of search.
Interesting idea. The last refuge of the anti-kindle crowd.
From what I've read, the HD video support is focused on external screen viewing. Microsoft will also be selling an optional Zune docking station with an HDMI output.

I think HD also refers to the built-in HD radio receiver.
Sounds like Viaweb, a generation later. Congratulations, guys.
Hacking the IRS with gold coins
Scalable/easy moderation is one of the [several] major problems preventing UGC from growing into a serious advertising medium. Moderation is a big part of the value we add over other technology providers.

So I would say the market is definitely there, but that the pricing model should better reflect the amount of time required to moderate images vs videos of various lengths.
Ideas I would like to see funded. What about you HN?
1- A Rearden Commerce Competitor. Rearden has a few thousand enterprise customers. A group of talented programmers could launch a light version for consumers as well as the small 5 to 10 person teams.

2- An Open Table competitor. If you take a quick look at OT you can come up with 20 ways to improve the service. The only problem would be to sign restaurants, but you can start with your cousin's fiance's mom's restaurant.

3- A Paypal for web content. Add this piece of code to your video, blog post, or webpage and force anyone to pay 5 cents to access it.

4- A Google competitor. Crawling 1 million pages cost $2.00. Why does every search startup need to crawl the same web. One startup could do this and license access for a fraction of a fraction of the cost. I do not think you can rely much on Google to create your own search engine.

5- A startup that fixes Email (Gist is a great start)

6- A startup that lets you switch cellphone companies without paying a penalty fee.

7- A startup that re-invets cable companies. These guys charge between 19.99 and a few hundreds per month.

8- A Plug and Play office.
Members pay a monthly fee and can make use of the office space/cafeteria/conference rooms 24/7 year round.

9- A plug and Play Mechanic shop.
A lot of people love to work on their cars, but lack the proper space to do. Give us a park with all sort of high end tools to lift cars, engines, power tools to change tires etc...

10- A startup that can produce high end and eco-friendly container homes for less than 25k, and a state the gives cheap land to people who buy these.

*Bonus- A startup that will force users to turn off their phones, and PC and mingle with real people.
a laser printer with a built in binder? Is that new? Our office photocopier/printer can do that. I can sent it a pdf print job and it produces bound 'books'.
Surprising that they would choose not to take a cut of sales, as it seems like a natural opportunity to earn some revenue. Then again it might make people more willing to get started and then find themselves needing the Pro features further down the line.
I think it is. To paraphrase a certain famous man,

" Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
'I know, I'll use Method Chaining.' Now they have many more problems."

If you read the article, you'll see those problem mount and mount and the proposed solutions are more and more hideous. Thus humor. Akin to this really: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....
Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site, CaféCourses
Mozilla Prism 1.0 beta released.
Google creates Web Elements for easy news feeds
Farmers, especially in the era when the tractor would've come about, were inventing things to use them, not to patent, attract VC investment, conduct publicity campaigns, and settle into the 4-hour work week.
How Not to Do Web Site User Registration
>> GPHR – Global Professional in Human Resources

If I worked with someone who gave themselves that suffix, I'd be forced to mock them by referring to them as "The Gopher" during meetings with a serious look on my face. "Yes, sir, I think we should have the Gopher get on that one right away!"

Seriously though - all too often people who get certifications wave their title around like mad, when they really aren't that useful.
Ha, good point! More accurately, I should have said that I know it's illegal, but it's unjust -- so I choose to battle it in various ways.
When you are a stockholder in a company -- LLC or subchapter S corp -- you prepare a K-1 for the owners in the firm, who each pay taxes on the passthrough income.

In order to calculate personal tax due, the form includes the percentage ownership, which is also reported to the IRS.

So the commenter is correct; I'm not sure why this wouldn't have been discovered earlier, unless he wasn't doing his taxes (even if there's a loss, taxes should be filed to claim carryover losses).
SMTP strikes me as one of those things where complying with the spec is probably relatively trivial, but accommodating existing, broken software requires significant investment.
This new style of manufacturing is great, but I wish I were more excited for it. While some books certainly require no presentation, I really like a solid book with a good, unique design and typography.

That being said, I'm very excited to see how it will improve education in the developing world. I see it being used mainly for highly specialized texts (like that one $7,000 book on Amazon), whereas projects like OLPC and devices like the Kindle will provice access to mainstream works and current events. You can't help but feel that paper's going to be gone soon though...
>> 3- A Paypal for web content. Add this piece of code to your video, blog post, or webpage and force anyone to pay 5 cents to access it.

That's not a bad idea - I'd pay 5c out of a prepaid account to see something on YouTube - and the music execs could stop whining.
Mapping Great Debates: Can Computers Think?
Section 2A of the Mac OS X Leopard licensing agreement:

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use. This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. You agree not to install, use
or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one
computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.

You may not be violating the DMCA, and chances are Apple isn't going to sue you anyway, but you are violating their software licensing agreement.

from http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx105.pdf
This article finally discloses the elephant in the room.

It's so true that very often, the VC just doesn't like you. But they can't tell you that. So you get frustrated...

I am realistic: for every entrepreneur who dreams of funding, how many really should get it? I have seen good friends pitch lousy plans. But for some, although they are friends, I just don't see them as successful CEOs. But who am I to tell them to stop dreaming?

Plus beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So you never know.
Doesn't say how much it costs to print a book.
LOL.

http://dante.dojotoolkit.org/taskspeed/report/charts.html

And those are samples chosen by the jQuery developers, specifically for this test.
Right -- the big question here is, What is the optimal amount of knowledge you should have about a problem / market? There are diminishing returns at some point.
It was "Ars Digita." And Kevin Rose doesn't really fit there, at least until there's an exit. And probably not even then (the others were CEOs, Kevin is not).
Tim O'Reilly: Google Bets Big on HTML 5
There have been a lot of stories saying the same thing recently, but it really just comes down to common sense - You're marketing your product, and yourself. It's human nature for an investor to put a lot of weight on how much they trust your abilities.
I'd say you haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. That much is clear.
When talking to Americans I don't distinguish between the continent and the isles, but I do when talking to anyone from Europe. The UK is also the one most similar to the US, for obvious reasons. Also I think class may play a big role in who's popular in the UK, I suspect the kids at Eaton don't feel the same way.
Weebly really seems to be kicking ass. Nice job guys.
Twitter Founders Say They're In for the Long Haul
I feel like the author has a different definition of "reputation" as myself.

It's almost a vector vs. scalar issue ... to me, reputation can be sizable but it can also be positive or negative. This (so far) sounds more like "popularity".

Just because someone [has 10k followers]/[gets re-tweeted 10x/day]/[has 5k FB friends] doesn't mean I'm going to loan you money or I want my daughter dating you ...
It's also not a new idea. Tons of people have thought about and worked on micropayment systems (myself included). See http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht... for a pretty good argument as to why micropayments won't work. Basically they overvalue cheap resources (like web content) and undervalue expensive ones (like users' time).

Think about it in some real-life contexts of your own. For instance, do you pay per text message, or do you have an unlimited texting plan?
"We're trying to do you a favor, man."

LOL. Don't do me any favors. Thanks!
Malware-fighting firewalls miss the mark
If it was so why did your dad even make you sign a paper which said his company owns 90% of all your hard work, intelligence, creativity and luck for a meagre $20000.

If this is really true and he truly loved his son, he wouldn't have advised you to distribute shares for the investment instead of taking it on debt or heck something like a convertible debt.
>> 10- A startup that can produce high end and eco-friendly container homes for less than 25k, and a state the gives cheap land to people who buy these.

Some states like Kansas will already give you free land if you move there for a certain length of time, I think it might be like 5 or 10 years.
So is it a moderation engine?

Too bad that there are HNers who down vote a comment that says a problem some one has. I said that the tour didn't help me because it really didn't. And I hope there should be other people who would have the same problem. The developer gets a chance to decide whether he needs to improve things.

Really proud of OH-SO-Intelligent portion of HN users who understand things at a glance. Sorry I'm not. So down vote if you wish.
Financial Collapse and Energy - Something Other than a NINJA Problem
I really hope they don't. Apple is able to spend far more resources on making a great experience because they aren't focusing on supporting unknown hardware of the week. For the most part, OS X is rock solid on Apple hardware as a result of not opening it up.

That said, I also don't see why they can't let the DIY crowd do it. Sell a version of OS X that is licensed to use on any hardware but not supported. I guess that would go against the perfect Apple experience, though.
Right. You don't buy software, you license it. This is no different than buying a poster of some sports star. You can hang it on your wall, but you don't have the legal right to photocopy and redistribute it.

I'm not arguing that one shouldn't build a Hackintosh, and I'm not making any moral arguments against piracy or the DMCA. I'm just pointing out that use of software outside the bounds of the license agreement is at least grounds for a civil suit.
It's clearly popular - perhaps you could supply an alternative that looks better, and find a way to monetize it.
You are right. But it was his dad advising him. If he saw that his kid's business is growing big - he would have advised him to buy back shares much earlier and probably give him a personal debt to buy back shares. Why should an accountant enlighten him on what he owns.

The only reason I can think of without blaming his investor dad is his dad wants to shelter his kid all the time and doesn't think of him fit to run independently or doesn't want him to take that risk at all.
http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/awk/smtpd.awk is one I did in a couple of hours, and although it dealt with 1,000s of emails in its time, I wouldn't put a price ticket on it!
GM Defends the Volt, Attacks Smaller Electric Car Start-Ups (Tesla, Fisker, etc)
Developers, analysts, have high expectations for Google I/O
Live from Google I/O 2009
My interpretation of it was the the $20,000 investment was small change to the company, and was most likely never given a legitimate second thought by his father.
Posterous is what a startup should be: simple enough that it really needs no hype to promote it. To wit: it's not even the new "currency" of anything! :)
Android, iPhone Dominate Mobile Browsing in April 2009
> "Perfect" practice makes perfect.

- Vince Lombardi
Being able to accurately get a feel for people and their character is a skill. From what I'm told, after a while, a few short interactions can tell you a lot. Apparently Jessica Livingston is extremely good at it. Women in general tend to be pretty perceptive, but I also know some men who are truly great at reading people.

In his Levels of Consciousness post [http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/levels-of-conscious...], Steve Pavlina points out that at higher levels of consciousness, your intuition becomes extremely strong.

You know they say that Statistics can lie? It's just hard to separate the signal from the noise. Intuition can be more powerful.
Lets say I am not the CEO type of guy and I know that. I find hard to approach a VC, pitch an idea and tell them: "BTW I don't have to be the CEO"
Impressive. It puts into perspective the ceremonious folly of making the gold and silver coins legal tender.
Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in 5 Years
Nope its not browser issue ...

yes, there are days (one in a while though) when i submitted more than usual amount of submission but only when i thought it would be worth for the HNers .. i dont know whether this could be the issue?
The article is skeptical and superficial, but if I were to assemble a research program to create real-world, operates-out-in-the-wild intelligence, my one page executive overview would look a lot like the Air Force requirements. This set of problems is going to be nibbled away a bit at a time. Some of them may be horrendously difficult and some may be low hanging fruit.

I think that this will be open research and not filed away in some secret warehouse a la Raiders of the Lost Ark.
How is this a hack? He failed. It would be a great article if he won, but it looks like he rather transparently ignored the rules on the IRS website, and got busted.

"Hacking the War on Drugs: I put weed in my sock drawer, which worked until my roommate called the cops on me as a prank."
This is commentary - original item linked to from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628724
Don't they (37signals) have a collabortive web-based word processor of their own? It was called writepad or writeboard or something...
"When you’re small and risking less, you don’t need a business plan. You don’t need a board of directors. You don’t need to study the techniques of Fortune 500 CEOs. You don’t need to know Six Sigma ideas. The strategy that’s right for heavyweights has nothing to do with how welterweights should fight."

Sounds like PG ...
big risk, big potential returns.

Kudos to them if they can do it - & I hope they do!
How Scouting For Pro Baseball Players Is Like Scouting For Top Business Execs
anyone have an extra ticket or id badge that will be available for some/all of the conference?
Isn't this what founders say just before an acquisition?
I wonder if I could build a clone Mac Pro? Something really giant with 2 processors, 16GB RAM, 4TB disk space, etc. The retail Mac Pro approached $4K for what I want and it'd be cool to do it for less.
I was struck with the idea of doing a dead-simple e-commerce app a few months ago. I can think of so many ways that a powerful and simple WYSIWYG can be turned into a revenue generator. Congrats on implementing something great!
Microsoft to Netbooks: Stay Tiny Or Pay the Price
It kinda was the cloner's fault, but also the fault of Apple. Apple licensed the clones with the hopes that "apple-certified" clones to grow the market. I.e. figure out new and exciting ways to market macs to windows users, and demographics where it was failing (families, because the PowerPC performas sucked.)

However, Apple failed to certify more powerful clones (i.e. clones that were better/faster/cheaper than their big iron) on a reasonable timeframe. Cloners also contended that Apple was opening up the boxes to steal their trade secrets.

And the cheaper models -- that were often equal or superior to Apple's offerings, were a no-brainer for Apple's customers.

The long and the short of it is: Apple makes something like 30% profit off direct retail of their hardware system. Even on a mini that's pretty good. Compare that to $115 for the sale of OS X, and you realize they couldn't afford to keep the cloners around.