skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like data is out of date. We were granted a trademark on "Bootstrappers Breakfast" that was granted June 23. http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2009/06/24/bootst...
A search here finds 11/12/2008 as the last action, so they are between three months and almost a year out of date. A more accurate search is available from http://www.uspto.gov/
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I want one...!

At first I thought that was the price of the unit. ;)
This is consistent with a story that's been submitted here but not very widely seen:

http://www.mint.com/blog/updates/why-mint-com-plus-intuit-is...

Of importance:

After the acquisition closes, the Mint.com team will be leading the development of both Mint.com and Intuit’s existing personal finance products, Quicken desktop and Quicken Online. The fact that Intuit has agreed to acquire Mint.com, and is leaving our team intact, is evidence that Intuit has been impressed by and wants to build upon the user experience that Mint.com offers. We’ll not only improve upon that experience for Mint.com but also bring our know-how to the Quicken product line. Destroying the Mint.com user experience does not make sense for Intuit, Mint.com or any of our users.
> I think that will be a terrific service to mankind

It will be a sad day when this becomes reality.
> One of the cardinal sins of fashion (at least for heterosexual men) is looking like you're trying too hard.

Yes but that's a case of sprezzatura: to stay in fashion (or create trends), you'll need to work hard. But you must make it appear completely natural and done without trying.
Probably the fact that building a service so user-friendly and easy to use that a child can enjoy it is the exact opposite of the crazy stuff that you have to do to build embedded and real-time systems...

I salute you guys! Without you the world as we know it would not turn. Now, I'm off to code in Ruby...
Hehe - I had a couple lessons in a 150 - makes even the smallest turbo-prop commercial flight feel pretty big in comparison, doesn't it?

Glad you're still alive.

I wonder if understanding the mechanics of it all helps with the fear thing too. I seem to remember there's a decent amount of basic aerodynamics and such before they let you take the stick...
i sold a .se domain that was registered with eurodns and even though it was a simple user-to-user intra-registrar transfer, it took forever and was a horrible experience. their US phone number never picked up, they didn't respond to support emails with any useful answers, and we ended up having to resort to pinging eurodns employees on twitter and domain name forums just to get an answer on why the transfer was taking so long. i think they even charged the buyer a fee for the transfer.
Were I an iPhone coder, I'd be asking what areas your software is aiming at (3D, geolocation, multiplayer, networking, games, medical, contract work...?) and what sort of partnership it would be (are you also a coder? What's your background? Have you started any apps? are you thinking internet-collaboration or small-office or shared-house?).

I would also be fearing you being an MBA/marketing/ideas person with planning for an 90/10 split on revenue sharing when the partner has done the simple bit of writing the ideas down in iPhonespeak. Yet you've found HN, so it can't be so bad...
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820097
Interesting announcement, given the comments Audi of America's president made recently that only idiots would buy a gas hybrid.

For the average person, a plain old diesel is probably the best value at the moment. Eventually, though, I suspect that hybrids will converge on a Volt-style drivetrain mated with a turbodiesel. The same arrangement has been used on diesel locomotives for years.
I think the writer didn't get it..
That people have the same legal rights as people is known as the "doctrine of corporate personhood." An indie film from a few years ago explored what _kind_ of person a corporation would be is here:

http://www.thecorporation.com/

(spoiler: a sociopath)
You just scroll half a screen down and you get a nice

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> ack is a grep-like tool tailored to working with large trees of source code.

Github is about code first and foremost. So it makes sense to have the code up front and center. Projects who want doc on github will fill in the wiki and link to that instead of the tree.
I was hoping it was a typo.
Its only for documents that are publicly published. If you don't want to share, don't publicly publish.
This is a problem. I tried calling them, but they never pick up.
The groups responsibilities include "machinima sequences", which I take to include most pre-scripted in-game sequences that have NPCs doing something; triggered, say, by ending a quest. I suspect there are a lot of those.

(I wanted to compare that number to the people writing the quests themselves -- it still does seem high -- but that group isn't explicitly mentioned. The keynote is definitely glossing over a lot, even at this level of detail.)
Both. Mint is by far the best known name in the segment, and now it has Intuit's name and dollars to push it.
Ask HN: What's your income worth to you?
(Note - Posting here with a new account that doesn't lead to my well-known online identity.)

I have a chance to join a small, well-established (10+ years) company as an employee. This is a company that doesn't hire very often - only every couple of years. It's run very conservatively but successfully. They aren't big money makers, but they get by and do it while doing what they love. After going through my share of startups, where self-hate (working to death with crazy deadlines) was mistaken for passion, this crew seems a very welcome relief.

The company isn't a software company by nature, but they create art assets for many software companies. They are looking to expand more directly into that market and have a lot of fun projects in mind - they just want a coder of their own. I've worked with them before, and the talent at the company is quite incredible. Many programmers I know (certainly myself included) would die to be working with a team of asset creators such as this on staff. (In my experience a lot of startups are run by tech people who hire other tech people and then contract out the creative bits - this situation is the reverse and it seems like it'd be awesome.)

The trouble is that the job offer is low - 60% of my previous job (which was itself a reduction from the job I had before that). I believe it's as much as 50% of the going rate for software engineers in that area, even.

I'm presently now between jobs (which is why the offer came in the first place - they knew I was now available). If I put out feelers, I would expect I can find other offers for considerably more than theirs - but I highly doubt the experience of this place could be matched so easily. What is that worth?

It's an added concern because they want me to relocate and work with them in the office. I actually would like to do that. I'd kind of like to work with people in person again. After 3+ years of remote work, it can get lonely. But it feels very hard to personally justify relocation away from family to a job that pays so much less!

And yet it seems clear that deep down inside, I would love to try it. If I didn't want it, I wouldn't be agonizing over it in the first place. I suppose I'm just looking for advice or encouragement or perhaps shared stories of others who have given up a much larger income in search of... stability/happiness/adventure/change.
Mark Bernstien is definitely a programmer: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
You're right about that fact that neither I nor the author of the article know everything (perhaps anything?) about the genuine motivation or inner-workings of Mint's owners and operators.

In my case I was referring to startups/founders in general which I thought I made clear by the terms I chose in my response, however if this was ambiguous to you I apologize.
If you don't mind paying for it, Postbox (http://www.postbox-inc.com/) does support this feature. That said, I find it quite annoying.

I know this sounds crazy, but the only non-Gmail chat client I like is the one that comes with Opera. It's every feature of Gmail except conversations--which, annoying, is the one that I also badly wish I had.
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Samsung M620 is the one and only presentation of the session which deserves the best handset among its lover with its multi features and tremendous look. Listen through a Bluetooth(R) wireless headset while you make calls, watch Sprint.
Why is this not bigger news?
Hey, here's a novel idea: how about we stop defining what is and isn't "something good" to use large-scale hardware for!

Your wife's comment wasn't funny; it was pompous, pretentious and shortsighted. I don't play WoW myself, but apparently it serves as entertainment for millions of people. There is value in that -- if there wasn't, Blizzard wouldn't need nor could they afford all that hardware to run such "wasteful" software. WoW may not be feeding the whales or saving the homeless, but it's fun for a lot of people and that is something.

And if you simply can't sleep at night thinking what a waste it is, remember all the people who are employed to run and develop it, not to mention the people who made all the goods and provide all the services it uses. And all the technological innovation required to make it possible, a large majority of which was funded by and first deployed to the gaming sector, due to its lucrative nature. There's a forest among all those trees, believe it or not.
It's not different in that respect from other websites. People on other sites appear to feel the same asinine sense of entitlement: that the site should be run transparently, that their feature requests should be considered carefully and implemented if possible, etc etc.

I'm not saying you're like that personally, but I think the trend is pretty hard to miss.
Thanks for bringing it up. I never had to do a transfer to someone else. However, I registered a lot of .eu when they came out and all the transactions went smoothly.
If corporations are only afforded business rights, what sort of organization could acquire freedom of speech? If a group of people would like to make a joint statement, do you think they should each have to sign the document? Do governments have the right to say what they like, or would every citizen have to sign each law, treaty, and declaration of war?
I'd rather have someone like Yodlee provide me with access to my transaction history via SSL in something like JSON until there is an industry standard (and then I'd aggregate them myself from each financial institution). I was waiting for someone else to come along and add a more folksinomical tagging system that you could visualize with something like flot: http://code.google.com/p/flot/wiki/FlotUsage
I honestly don't see sex robots taking off until after general purpose robots roll out.

Having a glorified sex doll that does nothing but help one get off is a rather steep investment of time, money, social cache, etc. Particularly when other masturbatory aids are so much more inexpensive, convenient, discrete, etc.

But a maid robot that can cook, clean, mow the lawn and just so happens to have a couple more discrete functions would be a much easier sell to the wider audience.
Amazon.com cracks down on LibraryThing over book data
RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability solution. RAID (with the exception or RAID 0 of course) helps you stay available and running in the event of a hardware failure. Raid is no more a "backup" mechanism then load balancing!
Most of your list either use fashion for status signaling or are alternate means of status signaling. Specifically, the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th; and the 3rd, 7th, and 9th can though not always. I think Robin tends to overemphasize signaling in various issues, but not this time.
Was that ever implemented?

Here's a fun response to that document, though:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi01/cse222/papers/savage-tra...
The Outliers: an advocate for information aesthetic visualisation
Doesn't sound as novel as they are tying to make it out to be. Certainly very cool, but neural nets have been around in this space for some time.
Cellular robotics and micro robotic systems, early book on SRCMR.
Cellular robotics and micro robotic systems Early book by Toshio Fukuda, Tsuyoshi Ueyama on Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics.
ICFP 2009 videos
If it's a unique opportunity, you should take it.

Something else I'll throw in... I've been known to successfully renegotiate my salary several times. Sometimes as frequently as two weeks after joining a new company. It can be very difficult for a company to properly value and compensate for technical talent, especially if they have not hired a lot of people "like you" in the past. It can be easier to come on board and prove your skillset and THEN work out a proper salary. If you choose to go this route, also keep in mind that you need to make sure your comp is "fair" in regards to other people in the company. If everyone else is at 60% of market rate, then it's not likely you're going to get 100+% of market rate for yourself. But if they understand the other jobs and pay scales better and just don't know how to properly comp you, that is a solvable problem...
You're right that it's a probabilistic prediction, so accuracy is a little subtle. If we give 10 people chances of 70% and 7 get in and 3 don't, internally we count that we were 'correct' for all of them. For right now, the website is showing simple thresholding above/below 50% to simplify the whole thing for end-users. We're working on ways to keep complexity down while exposing the nuances of the scoring.

Also, it looks like the server that computes Edge Score segfaulted this morning corrupting some of the data in memcached: I restarted it and batch re-generated scores for everyone in the system, and a lot of people that had been getting 310 / 387 scores now were showing higher scores, so that might apply to you. Just what you need when launching...
37signals is doing what they like to do . . . and Mint is completely justified in doing what they chose to do.

Once a company grows to a certain size, things change. Some entrepreneurs can grow with the change. Some can't or don't want to. Running "a big company" is different than launching a startup and requires a different set of skills and attitudes.

Neither is wrong/better.
eBay's a middleman. So's Google (for information). Being a middleman is fine - just add some value and efficiency in the process.
That works out to 0.00198412698 miles per gallon. I hope Homer left out a couple of zeros--but then again, given the car he built, my hope is likely misplaced.
Google disagrees with you:

http://www.google.com/search?q=20000%20watts%20to%20horsepow...
Sunir, CSRF challenges are embedded in forms. They're not just part of the cookie. The whole idea of a CSRF attack is that your browser can be coerced into laundering cookies for attackers.

At this point, we're "discussing" something on Hacker News that even Wikipedia has right (search for "XSRF"). But if you have to think about how to handle this problem, you're doing it wrong. Use your framework's builtin XSRF protection.

If your page is vulnerable to DOM injection, you have much bigger problems than XSRF.
This is cool. How much tinkering would it take to use this for Sinatra deployments to EC2?
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.
Google disagrees: http://www.google.com/search?q=20+kilowatts+to+horsepower
They're cooler because they so thoroughly document what they're doing, they have fun doing it, and they don't take shit from people in the process?

As a kid in high school, 37signals was one of the sites that changed how I thought about the Internet. I came across it, and suddenly here were some people who had pretty good taste in design, made some cool products for some cool people, who sounded like people when they talked. That's still how they come across. There are a shitton of people who think that the point of the Internet is fakery and deception and marketing—including half the people here—and I give props to the people who're willing to be professionals without handing in a part of their personality at the door.

The guys at 37signals like what they do, they're fairly successful, fairly famous, they do good work, and despite all that they sound like people that I know in person, they're willing to take risks and have unpopular opinions and sound stupid on occasion. Meanwhile, all respect to you, pclark, but ben says he thinks 37signals is cooler though they've both achieved wild success, and you come in here all determined to remind us that 37signals isn't unique and aren't cool and aren't innovative.

I guess what I'm saying is that the 37signals attitude of "We're people doing something" is the opposite of the common Hacker News attitude of Objectivist Manifest Destiny, and so they're cool for the clichéd reason that some people had to learn from them that it's okay to be yourself and not somebody else.
Being fashionable also advertises that you are something of a worthless shit who doesn't have any better use for his time; see PG's essay "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
More I think about it - those that can't do, pontificate. Just build s__t that creates value or efficiency - whether you're a middleman or not.

Reading these articles is like peeing in the wind. You get wet and you stink. Instead, go in the cave and just....build....s__t!
Maybe, but man. Once you start saying seemingly nice things about Hitler people just tune you out.
Perl regexes, highlighted search terms, also serves as a find replacement, ignores VCS files by default.

It was built with programmers in mind.
Thanks for the input! I believe that everyone is paid below their respective market rates. I've discussed this a bit with a few of the people I've gotten to know that work there, and while avoiding talking about actual numbers, they all feel they could make quite a bit more money elsewhere - but choose not to. And that, to me, speaks very highly to the quality of the opportunity here from a non-financial point of view.
See, here's an article that is clearly about the politics of corporate law, and not about corporate law. It spends more time reading tea leaves about what one question could mean for the balance of the court re corporate standing than it does talking about the impact of that re-balancing one way or the other.

Flagged.
Vodafone-Australia offers free facebook and 3G network upgrade
ars has more with some follow up from apple... this seems to be some in-the-middle hand wringing... they haven't "rejected" it, but they haven't approved it, either... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/fcc-releases...
Don't think of it like it's judgmental. Think of it more as an indicator. If I'm reviewing a student's essay, and he's writing in a five-paragraph thesis model, then I know his effort is based largely on somebody else's idea of what makes a good essay. I don't think it's a sin to do that, but I also think that somebody writing like that hasn't found his own style.
Accept with an if. If you willing to up the offer to ..., we got a deal. Propose something reasonable. Also examine the reasons why your salary has been decreasing between jobs. Is it the market?
What groups? None.

The whole point is that people are people, whereas their organizations are not them, nor are they free willed individuals on their own.

There's no need for an organization to be immune from censure or regulation when its constituents are all themselves immune.

If the government decides corporations shouldn't be able to pay for political advertising or host fund-raisers, then the corporation's constituents are free to speak out such measures, vote against them, run against the incumbent politicians, etc.

The rights of sovereign governments is a red herring. They have an implicit ability to do whatever they like, either because:they are democratically elected and their actions subject to review and reversal by their citizens' votes; or they rule by force and the will of their citizens is irrelevant.
The problem with fit is only that mass market clothing is cut for fat asses, as the mass market is now obese. But it's not like you have to go for some high-end brand to get properly sized clothing not cut for fat asses. I mean, LL Bean sells reasonable quality "trim fit" stuff cheaply.
Because we all know that Americans are the only people on earth who buy cars.
Ask HN: Is it time for Craigslist to improve? 
I have been consumed lately with Craigslist in terms of how it has a stranglehold on the online classified marketplace, how many millions of people they serve, and how they have done little to improve the experience, in terms of protections, from that of the newspaper. Regularly, people are defrauded, products are misrepresented, and gigs/jobs turn out to be bogus.

Do these type of interactions have to occur in the existing anonymous, buyer beware, as-represented kind of world, or could craigslist still serve its invaluable purpose while protecting its users at the same time?

(I am only considering the housing, for sale, services, jobs, and gig sections in this inquiry. It’s probable that most, if not all, of the allure in the personals section is the uncertainty and anonymity of the interaction. However, I don’t think this is true of the sections to be considered above.)
Their support is brilliant too.
Well, if the cost of living at the new location is less than where you are now, that offsets the pay loss some.

I guess my advice would also depend on if you're married, have kids, and what your lifestyle is like. If you're used to living at your previous means, then taking a 40% pay cut would require a bit of a lifestyle change. Most people wouldn't choose to make such a change.

I guess it also depends on your preference between working for someone and having your own startup. I think you can do a startup without killing yourself.

Another thought: A 10 year old company probably isn't going to give you equity. But, with their first in-house coder, they might get the web-app/product bug. Maybe you can negotiate equity rights to any product/spin-off that results from your work.
um... you pay THEM to do that? something doesn't add up here
"I want simple, good-looking apparel that covers my nakedness and maybe even makes me look attractive."

That's like saying "I want to read a simple, good-looking book that entertains me and even makes me look intelligent." You can't be that simplistic without appealing to the lowest common denominator. Past a certain point, you've got to make an effort or else it doesn't really matter to you.
Even more surprising to me was this:

"Brack went on to talk about the customer support staff, a group with 2,056 game masters, 340 billing managers, and a host of other background staffers."

Programming, art and design, and cinematics adds up to maybe ~250 people. Supporting and monetizing what they make requires about 10x the manpower. Is that normal among all mega-corporations/projects, or is that something unique to MMO staffings?
My point is that you don't necessarily need to argue against a particular theory at all.

The entire rest of the post is pretty good; it's just that one particular part can be misleading if taken in isolation.
On the one hand, I feel like Apple can probably hide behind the terms of its app store and be sufficiently safe from any consequences. In the short term.

Especially given the "duplicating dialer functionality" argument, this sounds a lot like AT&T has something to do with the rejection, even though Apple and AT&T adamantly deny that.

So, for the slightly-less-short-term, it sounds like Apple has an (anti-)competition issue here... and if the FCC doesn't care about it (and they might) then the FTC surely will. After all, isn't "duplicate functionality" just a secret code for "competing with our features?"